Carson City Public Works provided this slide showing the city’s five performance districts for road work and the year assigned to each through 2028.
The Carson City Regional Transportation Commission meets Wednesday in the community center and will select road projects for the city’s performance district 3.
The meeting will take place in the board room of the community center, 851 E. William St., after the adjournment of the Carson Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, which meets at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
In Carson City, road projects rotate each year between five performance districts.
“The project prioritization process consists of a multi-step evaluation process considering pavement condition index; pavement treatment type; work history including on-going projects; at-risk infrastructure; road functional classification; project size and continuity; cost; constructability; and utility needs,” reads a staff report.
Staff is recommending six projects be funded in fiscal year 2026: four regional road projects and two local road projects.
“The total estimated available funding from local gasoline and diesel fuel taxes and the V&T infrastructure sales tax in FY 2026 is $4,633,807 for projects in performance district 3,” says the staff report. “The total estimated cost of the four recommended regional road projects is $3,602,000, and the total estimated cost of the two local road projects is $954,000.”
Presentation materials for the hearing show segments of north Fairview Drive, Butti Way and Airport Road, Clear Creek Avenue, and South Edmonds Drive as the recommended regional road projects.
Recommended local road projects include segments of Hells Bells and Marsh Road and Race Track Road.
Design could begin this fall, with construction to commence in 2026 and 2027 depending on project type.
More information is available at https://d2kbkoa27fdvtw.cloudfront.net/carsoncity/f602a70ef732cd7a4b6dfbc6f569ab260.pdf.
In other action, RTC members will review, for discussion only, a technical memo on the city’s updated pavement performance model.
The presentation follows the results of a pavement survey performed by Applied Pavement Technology, which also authored the memo.
“The average city-wide PCI (pavement condition index) is 60,” according to a staff report. “The condition of the regional roads has improved slightly over the past few years. The current condition of Carson City’s regional roads is 69; however, the condition of Carson City’s local roads is declining at a rapid rate. As of 2024, Carson City’s local streets have a pavement condition classification of ‘poor,’ with a PCI score of 55 out of a possible 100.”
The city uses PAVER software to model pavement performance, and the program has been updated with the recent data.
“Based on the survey and updates to the model, the projected city-wide PCI will be 35 in the year 2050,” reads the staff report.
The technical memo itself states, “An annual budget between $20 and $25 million is required to maintain the current area-weighted condition of 60 or meet the area-weighted target condition of 62.”
“The condition of Carson City’s roadway network has reached the point that the rate of decline is greater than current funding levels can sustain,” the memo says.
Current available funding for road maintenance is about $4.5 million a year.
More information: https://d2kbkoa27fdvtw.cloudfront.net/carsoncity/8707c1764c3d212a8eb1cf1d4dfc67e10.pdf.