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Presentation on the City's Pavement Management Program
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This report is provided for information only and no action is required.
BACKGROUND
Streets are a critical component of our infrastructure and an important factor in the quality of life for our residents and the vitality of our businesses. Good pavement increases the efficiency of transporting goods, improves bicycle safety and makes walking more appealing which all leads to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Each day, residents are dependent upon safe, reliable local streets and roads. Police, fire and emergency medical services all need safe, reliable roads to react quickly to calls.
Street pavement improvement is one of those "pay now or pay more later" situations. A dollar spent this year will save two to ten dollars in the future. Once the system is in a state of good repair, the need for maintenance will be reduced. Repairs to local roadways are more than just fixing potholes; they include improvements for sidewalks, stormwater control, gutters, curb ramps, traffic signs and medians, all of which make our roads safer.
San Leandro has 4,000,000 square yards of street pavement spread over 175 centerline miles of streets. For tracking purposes the streets are divided into 1,100 road segments with an average length of around 1,000 feet. Each road segment is inspected and rated on a scale of 1 (bad) to 100 (good) every other year; this rating is known as the Pavement Condition Index (PCI).
The City uses a computer program developed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) called Street Saver to manage the maintenance of San Leandro's street system. Street inspection results are entered into this database and over time, staff has collected enough data points to create a specific lifecycle curve for each road and can run queries in the database to predict the condition of the roads. Street Saver calculates that the cost to repair all ro...
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