How does RCOC select the gravel road paving projects that receive the $1.5 million per year?
RCOC has established a set of criteria for selecting the few gravel road paving projects that it is able to do. The criteria include: – whether or not the road is “federal-aid eligible” (it must be officially designated as such), – traffic volumes, – accident rates, – the continuity of the route, – the amount of unpaved road in the route (with those where there is only a small gap in an otherwise paved major route being top priorities), – whether or not the community has made paving the road a priority, – the ability of the community to fund part of the local match for the project, and – the number of complaints about the condition of the road that RCOC receives.
