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Hot Mix Asphalt Right Choice for Miller Road

For both the short term and the long haul, hot mix asphalt saves money on construction and maintenance.

Miller Road is a very busy Genesee County road that runs through the highly commercialized west end of Flint. John Daly, Genesee County Manager-Director stated “The Miller Road concrete was way beyond its useful life and was in terrible shape. The road had been widened in piecemeal fashion since 1926 and was last resurfaced in 1989.”

“We considered several pavement types and chose hot mix asphalt because it allows flexibility in construction and maintenance activities, thus minimizing the impact on motorist and businesses in this corridor that supports more concentrated traffic and vital economic activity than any other in Genesee County. Concrete construction would have required closing access to merchant driveways for three to seven days at a time.”

That’s the conclusion of highway engineers and departments of transportation across the country. The “life-cycle costs”—money spent on road construction and maintenance over its lifetime—are significantly lower with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) than with concrete.

“The new hot mix asphalt roadway has been specifically designed for the expected traffic and is equivalent to its concrete counterpart. It should last at least 20 years with routine maintenance. When maintenance is necessary in the future, it will be much less disruptive than concrete repair would be.”

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