City gearing up for road study
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This article was published 04/07/2022 (1331 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The City of Brandon is currently searching for a contractor to scan and prepare a report on the condition of municipal roads.
On June 28, the city posted a tender on its website asking for contractors to submit bids for the use of scanning lasers to assess the surface conditions and roughness of 276 kilometres worth of streets (550 kilometres when taking lanes into account).
That represents 26 kilometres worth of arterial roads, 68 kilometres worth of collector streets and 182 kilometres of local streets.
The process is supposed to identify and assess the seriousness of potholes, rutting, distortions, cracks on a scale from 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best) and place them on a map of the city using geographical information systems.
Once the assessments have been completed, the contractor will be asked to create a strategy to rehabilitate the roads back into good condition and determine their likely useful life span. The data will also be compared against previous condition assessments.
Only city-owned roads will be included in the process, with highways running through the city the responsibility of Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure.
That means that 18th Street — which is part of Highway 10 and was featured as Manitoba’s fifth-worst road by CAA Manitoba in its annual list of the top 10 worst roads in the province — will not be included.
The Trans-Canada Highway — also run by a higher level of government — as it goes through Brandon was named southern Manitoba’s seventh-worst road and the second-worst road in the city.
Highway 1A, which runs from Brandon’s western border along Victoria Avenue until turning north at First Street and running to the Trans-Canada Highway, is also not city-owned.
Applications for the project tender close on July 13 at 5 p.m. In its tender documents, the city states that it hopes to award the project within four weeks of the closing date and requests the final report be submitted by Dec. 31, 2022.
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