You paid for a pavement management plan. It’s sitting in a folder somewhere.
Meanwhile, a water main repair rerouted traffic on one of your collector roads. A grant came through for chip seal, not the reconstruction that was planned. Two new streets were dedicated by a developer last spring.
The plan doesn’t know any of that.
This is how good plans become expensive guesses. And it happens to agencies everywhere, not because of bad planning, but because pavement management plans aren’t built to maintain themselves.
We wrote a whitepaper about it — and more importantly, about how to fix it.