City council authorizes plan for accelerated street repairs
Improvements to include slurry sealing, hot spot repairs and more
–The Paso Robles City Council, in an effort to increase repairs to city streets and sidewalks, authorized an accelerated plan to move supplemental sales tax projects forward, and added a number of other projects funded by gas tax.
The projects approved include:
- A traffic signal at Creston Road and Lana
- A protected left turn on the signal at Creston Road turning north onto Golden Hill
- Union Road construction from Golden Hill to the Hwy 46 right-of-way
- Spring Street, 1st to 10th (which is already underway)
- A grant-funded study for adding pedestrian crossing to the 24th Street bridge over the railroad
- Hot Spot repairs to Creston Road to prepare for a full street improvement in a few years
- Completing design for Sherwood Road so it can be built in 2017
- Airport road improvements at the box culvert near Huer Huero Creek
- Annual slurry sealing & chip sealing
- Annual crack filling and sealing
- Annual hot spot repairs
- Annual sidewalk & curb ramp repairs and replacement.
- Annual pavement striping and markings
- Annual street tree trimming
Crack filling & sealing are some of the least expensive but most important parts of street repair and maintenance. Keeping water from getting under the road is very important to preserving the condition of the base and preventing potholes.
Slurry sealing and chip sealing are ways to put a new surface on a road that is otherwise in good condition. This can extend the life of a road by about ten years and put off more expensive maintenance.
Hot spot repairs are focused on areas that are known problems (like the intersection of Ramada Drive and Hwy 46W at the south end of the city) and typically consist of digging up, repairing, and repaving a rectangular section of pavement in a specific spot rather than rebuilding an entire section of roadway.
It's funny that we are always told the benefit of big box stores and large developments is bringing in money to help pay for all these projects. But it never does, sigh.
I hope the City Council will consider adding more speed limit signs. People regularly FLY up and down Creston Road at great speeds and with impunity. Also, I hope they realize that many, many huge and heavy trucks use this road hourly. I wish big trucks would be diverted to a less populated route – not past schools and homes. Creston Road is not a freeway or an expressway but it's turning into one.
Thank you for speeding up the proposed street repairs as promised in the tax increase that we voted for. I would like to see you complete the rest of Spring Street from 24th northward.
It's funny that we are always told the benefit of big box stores and large developments is bringing in money to help pay for all these projects. But it never does, sigh.
I hope the City Council will consider adding more speed limit signs. People regularly FLY up and down Creston Road at great speeds and with impunity. Also, I hope they realize that many, many huge and heavy trucks use this road hourly. I wish big trucks would be diverted to a less populated route – not past schools and homes. Creston Road is not a freeway or an expressway but it's turning into one.
Thank you for speeding up the proposed street repairs as promised in the tax increase that we voted for. I would like to see you complete the rest of Spring Street from 24th northward.