By David Garrick / Pt Loma – OB Monthly / Jan.17, 2024
A comprehensive new survey indicates the quality of San Diego’s streets has dropped sharply since a similar survey in 2016, with the City Council district that includes Point Loma and Ocean Beach recording the region’s lowest rating.
The new survey drops the overall pavement rating for San Diego’s streets from a score of 71, which placed them near the bottom of the “satisfactory” category, to the middle of the “fair” category with a score of 63. They now rank well below streets in comparable cities such as San Francisco, San Jose and Phoenix.
Many roads in San Diego’s 2,800-mile network of streets, especially larger ones that carry more vehicles, are rated much lower. More than a third are rated “poor,” “very poor,” “serious” or “failed.”
Pavement quality across San Diego’s nine council districts now ranges from 57 in District 2 — which includes Point Loma, Ocean Beach and Clairemont — to 69 in District 5, including Rancho Peñasquitos, Rancho Bernardo and San Pasqual. All the other districts got scores between 61 and 67.
The biggest drops since the previous survey were in District 1 — including La Jolla, Pacific Beach and Carmel Valley — which fell from 75 to 65, and District 6, which includes University City, Kearny Mesa and Mira Mesa and fell from 74 to 62. The smallest drop — from 70 to 69 — was in District 5.
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The Pt Loma-OB Monthly is a publication of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
HA! Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could walk down University from the Georgia St. Bridge to 805 and question WHY that was not on the list of streets of terrible streets. Or, did the people doing the study, have vision problems??? Unbelievable.
OddTodd’s Sexy Streets Program!
Wonder if this anything to do with the grotesquely large vehicles people increasingly buy. I love our EV but I recognize its heavy weight is also part of this problem. The Rivian trucks are 7000 lbs+ and the Hummer EV is over 9000 lbs. Why analyze our actions when we can blame Todd Gloria?
Not likely because places with even more large SUVs have nicer road conditions than around here. It has more to do with slurry seal being pretty crappy overall for long term quality and then you have streets like Bacon North of Cape May which was promised paving over a decade ago and remains a road I liken to my trips in Northern Africa
It doesn’t help that those “big, ugly vehicles” are parked on already terribly congested Newport Avenue….creating blind spots galore. But you could blame him (or who?) for the restaurants that are now built out right onto that narrow street for making it even more impossible to drive.
And, of course, you could blame yourself for buying one of those monster cars/trucks – that pollute the world way quicker than a small little Toyota Yaris or Scion xA , or Honda Fit. Or an eqivalent American small car.
Plenty of blame to go around. And yes, the streets are awful – kind of third world for “America’s Finest City”, in my opinion.
They’re all under water today.
Four city workers in two city trucks just pulled up to Santa Barbara Street and Niagara Avenue (01.26.24).
They dumped a single bag of dry asphalt mix into a single pot hole (there were several pot holes in the immediate vicinity), lightly tamped the dry mix down with their square nosed shovels, got into their city trucks and attempted to drive over the “repair” with their right front tires… one almost nailed it, the other missed by two feet.
Todd Gloria’s Sexy Streets Program! FAIL!