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I-35, St. Louis Count Road 405

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Metro District LCCA Comments

SP 1929-50, MN 77, Letting date 3/27/2026

SP 1926-23, MN 316, Letting date 12/6/2024

SP 2713-129, US 12, US 12, Letting date 9/26/2025

SP 0208-169, MN 65, Letting date 2/1/2026

Comment from Dan Labo, P.E., Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota (CPAM), djlabo@cpamn.com, 10/8/2024

This is within 10% on the LCCA (even with 6” concrete shoulders vs 4” asphalt shoulders). I know the locals tend to prefer concrete, so I’m hoping the final pavement selection is the concrete option? Please confirm, and if nothing else, we definitely want alternate bid if not concrete pavement outright.

Pavement Design Engineer response

pending

SP 1923-48, MN 50, Letting date 12/5/2025

Comment from Dan Labo, P.E., Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota (CPAM), djlabo@cpamn.com, 10/8/2024

It looks like the ‘whitetopping’ option is 7” for a 20-year concrete design. 4” of bituminous get’s 20-years too, so this LCCA is obviously wrong. I’d imagine a true 20-year concrete whitetopping would come in about 5-5.5” thick, and the 7” is at least a 35-year design (it should get credit for that at least). This job highlights the bigger issue I’ve mentioned before of the new MnPAVE rigid only outputting 7” minimum pavements. Please let me know when a corrected LCCA will be issued, as this one is pretty egregious.

Pavement Design Engineer response

pending

SP 1002-124, MN 5, Letting date 6/30/2025