Pleasanton's Annual Street Resurfacing Will Likely Start In August

From The City of Pleasanton: The City Council last night awarded a construction contract for almost $5.5 million to Bay Cities Paving and Grading, Inc., for the City’s annual street resurfacing and preventative maintenance project. Work is expected to begin later this summer.

“Preventative maintenance is key to keeping our streets and roads in the outstanding condition they are in,” said director of engineering, Steve Kirkpatrick, adding “even though we realize there will be inconveniences, we also know that the long-term gain will be worth the short-term disruptions.”

The City’s street resurfacing program comprises two distinct elements: street resurfacing and slurry sealing. Street resurfacing involves overlaying old pavement with a new layer of asphalt; slurry sealing is done on roads in better condition and acts as preventative maintenance to extend the life of a good road.

Street repairs and improvements are ongoing and usually occur annually, but the effort was deferred in 2016 due to other significant public projects underway, most notably the purple pipes infrastructure project. As a result, crews will be working on catching up a year, performing maintenance on more than 4.5 million sq. ft. of pavement throughout the City, including several residential streets.

An entire grading and inspection system for streets is used to prioritize road improvements in Pleasanton. Created by the Army Corps of Engineers and adopted by the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Pavement Condition Index (PCI), is the system the City uses to inspect all of the City’s 1,311 roadways every two years. Roadways are assigned a numerical rating up to 100, and Pleasanton’s inspection data rates have been consistently high, with an overall PCI rating of 80, the third highest ranking in Alameda County.

To learn more about the condition of City streets overall, and to find out which streets will be receiving which treatment, visit the City’s Roadwork and Infrastructure Maintenance page on the City’s website at www.cityofpleasantonca.gov

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