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Alexandria concrete street reconstruction wins award. June 25, 2015. At this week’s League of Minnesota Cities conference, Alexandria’s concrete street reconstruction won the 2015 City of Excellence Award Winner in the 5,000-19,999 population category. Specifically, the city and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) reconstructed Broadway/Hwy 29 in downtown Alexandria from 3rd Avenue to 8th Avenue. MnDOT and the city coordinated efforts to ensure the road was updated with concrete to mak...

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Budgeting and benefits of life cycle cost analysis | Bye Bye Potholes

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Budgeting and benefits of life cycle cost analysis. August 19, 2016. Rochester is struggling to find a way to fix its streets; so is Hackensack. They are just two among the hundreds of cities in Minnesota discussing their 2017 city budgets. Nearly a third of Rochester’s 467 miles of city streets have reached or surpassed their 50-year life expectancies and are in need of work, according an editorial in the Post Bulletin. And the city’s annual street budget of $9 million isn’t enough to do the work. Ultim...

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Free concrete street design service for cities kicks off | Bye Bye Potholes

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Free concrete street design service for cities kicks off. July 19, 2016. City council members and engineers who want to improve the bidding process for street projects by seeking both asphalt and concrete bids can now tap into the concrete design service ARM offers in partnership with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association. What would it hurt to take a look at concrete as a viable option for your next street or parking lot project? What to know about this design service. We need, at a minimum, geo...

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Cities face their own road funding gap | Bye Bye Potholes

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Cities face their own road funding gap. November 1, 2016. Faced with a road funding gap? Well, don’t expect a lot of help from the state. Fact is: Most roads in Minnesota do not qualify for state funding. So now we know the real reason for your town’s road funding gap! It has to be paid for with local revenue. And like the state, the report notes that these local government entities are experiencing a road funding gap caused by their own aging transportation infrastructure, rising costs for labor and roa...

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Local road stories for media | Bye Bye Potholes

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Minnesota’s media cover an endless number of local road stories. Topics include potholes, road construction, traffic, closed and re-opened routes, funding, taxes and assessments. How about going beyond the same old-same old reporting? Below, we’ve got some fresh story ideas, facts and more to assist you with your street stories. New stories with a bit of research. Which costs more to maintain: Asphalt or concrete streets? What is the bidding process your city uses for capital expenditures? Elected offici...

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Ready mix concrete members rarely asked to bid | Bye Bye Potholes

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Ready mix concrete members rarely asked to bid. April 22, 2016. One of the reasons engineers and city councils say they don’t pave streets with concrete is that it’s too expensive. How do they know? Our ready mix concrete members say they rarely get to bid. This is akin to a city declaring it’s purchasing new Ford trucks because GM trucks are too expensive and yet they never checked GM truck prices. We discussed in a previous blog post how asphalt prices have more than doubled since 1999. Note how the in...

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Infographic makes it easy to see the cost of roads. March 8, 2017. In a previous post, we described how using everyday consumer saavy can assist with choosing the right pavement. Creating a visual of the comparison is very helpful, too. Here’s an infographic of an actual cost projection for a one-mile county road construction project. Scribd id=341296448 key=key-zOsdhXLwi0XievuSPYVe mode=scroll]. Best 2016 posts about city projects and road repairs. December 26, 2016. Six-year old Osseo concrete street.

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Best 2016 posts about city projects and road repairs | Bye Bye Potholes

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Best 2016 posts about city projects and road repairs. December 26, 2016. Six-year old Osseo concrete street. The evidence is mounting. Minnesotans are spending more than necessary on road repairs and reconstructions because of their cities’ weaknesses in the bidding process. Cities face their own funding gap. Budgeting and the benefits of life cycle analysis. The life cycle cost analysis itself factors in the pavement’s initial cost, as well as the projected maintenance and reconstruction costs over the ...