Pavement Management Plan 2025-2027

The City of Littleton owns and maintains approximately 161 centerline-miles of roadway. Street maintenance can take many forms, from something as minor as fixing a pothole to a total street reconstruction with sewer relocation, bike lanes and changes in roadway width and elevation.

The city’s 3-year Pavement Management Plan for construction years 2025-2027(PDF, 1MB) has been updated to ensure the most effective methods are being used and project sizes are scaled correctly to ensure the most competitive prices. As with any plan, priorities change, so some streets have shifted from one year to the next, some have been added to the 5-year plan, and others have been postponed.

The city’s Pavement Management Plan emphasizes pavement preservation as a proactive approach to maintaining streets while they are still in good condition. The most cost-effective strategy in pavement preservation is applying the right treatment to the right road at the right time, thereby maximizing the life of the pavement. It is very important to protect the massive investment the city has in the street system, and maintain the good streets before they deteriorate beyond repair. Streets which have deteriorated so badly that they must be completely reconstructed are extremely expensive.

The Pavement Management Plan lays out a schedule for future improvements needed to keep the city's infrastructure in optimal operating condition. Some milestones of 2025’s plan include Reconstruction of Euclid Avenue and adjacent streets from Windermere Street to Gallup Street and milling and overlay activities in the Bow Mar south, and Hamlet neighborhoods.

To help inform the Pavement Management Plan, the city collects pavement condition along streets every few years. A consultant is hired to drive a unique vehicle equipped with data collection equipment including scanners and cameras to collect pavement condition data. The data and imagery collected is used to calculate a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) rating along streets, alleyways and in parking lots. To calculate a PCI rating, the technology collects and evaluates the concrete and asphalt conditions of streets and parking lots by looking at distresses including cracking, potholes, rutting, and weathering. The PCI has a rating scale of 0 to 100, with the higher number indicating ideal pavement conditions, whereas a lower rating indicates very poor pavement conditions. Currently (as of January 2025), Littleton’s street network has an average PCI rating of 57, indicating several streets within the street network require some level of repair to bring them to an ideal condition.  

PCI data helps the city determine which streets, alleyways, and parking lots that are in need of repair and what type of repair is needed such as maintenance, resurfacing, major or minor rehabilitation, or reconstruction. The data also helps inform the city as to what resources including staffing, pavement materials, and funding are needed to complete pavement repairs and forecast future years’ work.