Meet Your Local Road Professionals

The Bay County Road Commission has a variety of responsibilities.  The Road Commission oversees maintenance and improvements to over 1022 miles of road; of that 655 miles are primary and 357 miles are from the local road system. The Road Commission provides maintenance activities to the 14 townships within Bay County.

The primary road system is comprised of those roads, which have the higher traffic volumes and are considered as the main arteries within the county.  Roads such as Wilder, Wheeler, Beaver, Garfield, Knight, Cass, and Pinconning are examples of the primary road system.

The local road systems include roads that feed into the primary system; neighborhood streets, subdivisions, urban areas including such roads as Brown, Russell, Ridge, Amelith, Fraser, Nine Mile, Flajole, Kitchen, and River.

In addition to the above, the Bay County Road Commission is currently a MDOT contract agency; which means that we maintain 202 miles of State Highway within Bay County.  This includes I-75, M-25, M-15, M-13, M-138, and M-247.  The MDOT work is limited to that which is budgeted for and allowed by and through MDOT.

Our responsibilities are 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.  Listed below are just some of the typical road commission duties:
 

• surface maintenance
• shoulder maintenance
• chip and sealing
• cracksealing
• snow removal, plowing, salting, and sanding
• blacktopping
• street painting and marking
• maintain road signage
• mowing and brush cutting
• road and bridge construction and repair
• ensuring steady and safe traffic patterns
• road side ditch and drainage preservation
• gravel road up keep
• dust control

The Road Commission currently maintains a fleet of nine motor graders, fourteen tandems, and nine single axle dump trucks for all routine work.  In addition, the Road Commission has specialty equipment, such as excavators, loaders, jet machines, distributors, chip spreaders, catch basin cleaners, aerial buckets, sign trucks, 4 x 4 pick ups with plows, crew leader trucks, pumps, mowers, trailers, dozers, backhoes and street sweepers.  This equipment is needed to provide the services that have become our responsibility.  The Road Commission is aware that through our efforts, we can provide a better quality of life for our residents and we strive for this goal.