Engineering and Public Works 2025 Annual Report

2025 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

2025 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS The City's Pavement Management Plan is a proactive approach to preserve the City's roadways, extend their useful life, and maintain high quality pavement conditions around the entire city. The City’s 2025 pavement projects encompassed roadway maintenance and reconstruction in areas throughout the city. Maintenance projects included full-depth reconstruction, mill and overlay, pavement rejuvenation, patching, crack sealing, seal coating, trail reconstruction, and parking lot reconstruction. These various maintenance techniques are spaced out throughout the full life cycle of a road to proactively preserve the pavement, minimize life cycle maintenance costs, and delay the need for a whole new road (full replacement). The mill and overlay areas also received small safety upgrades, such as reducing pedestrian crossing distances, constructing pedestrian island refuges, and updating crosswalks and signage. Pavement rejuvenation is a new addition to the City’s pavement management tactics that is designed to maintain designed to maintain the pavement’s flexibility and durability, reducing pressure and cracking over time. Pavement rejuvenation helps prevent signs of aging in the pavement by restoring the asphalt binder components that degrade through asphalt production and by oxidation

through exposure to the natural environment. This restoration is proven to add up to seven years of service life to a road, thereby delaying the need for other pavement maintenance such as full replacement. In 2025, the City began applying this treatment to roads that were paved within the last one to three years. This process involves spraying an application of a maltene based asphalt emulsion on recently paved roadways, followed by placement of a light layer of sand. Once the sand application is placed, vehicles may drive on the treated roadways.

STAGECOACH ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND PEDESTRIAN ENHANCEMENTS

The Stagecoach Road Improvement Project included a full-depth pavement reclamation, construction of curb and gutter along the north and east sides of the roadway, storm sewer improvements, construction of an off-street pedestrian trail along the north and east sides of the roadway, construction of ADA compliant pedestrian curb ramps, upgrades to the railroad crossing and bridge, replacement of driveway aprons, and paving a new bituminous pavement section on Stagecoach Road. The project was completed while maintaining vehicle access to area businesses throughout construction. Stagecoach Road was converted to a one-way road for the majority of the project to allow the contractor a safe location to construct the improvements while maintaining access, which was critical for the heavy trucking operations located along the roadway. The trail improvements filled a critical gap in the City’s pedestrian network. This new trail connects the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority’s (MVTA) park-and-ride facility and high density housing to the existing Minnesota Valley State Trail.

An aerial view of Stagecoach Road after construction was completed.

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