The city of San Diego began Monday with street- resurfacing and repair projects in Ocean Beach and Point Loma, as well as Clairemont Mesa and Rancho Penasquitos, officials said.
The following local streets will be resurfaced:
- Voltaire Street
- Udall Street
- Narragansett Avenue
- Guizot Street
Weather permitting, Slurry Seal Projects 2325 and 2326 will be finished through March and April.
The project will involve the use of slurry seal “to prevent the deterioration of streets, which is vital to improving the overall condition of San Diego’s network of roads,” the city said in a news release. Officials added that slurry seal also reduces the need “for a more costly asphalt overlay and reconstruction for badly deteriorated streets.”
According to the city, slurry seal is “a cost-effective pavement preservation method” made up of asphalt emulsion, sand and rock. Crews apply the mixture to street surfaces at an average quarter-inch thickness, extending the use of streets already in good condition.
The city uses a management system that helps it choose when to schedule projects, based on a condition index score based on the street’s roughness and cracks. Earlier this year, the city Transportation Department announced the results of a comprehensive survey of pavement conditions in San Diego. To prioritize street paving, the city uses recent index scores along with other factors, including climate resiliency, equity, funding, mobility and road type. The city often groups repairs within a neighborhood to include streets in similar conditions or undertake them after other projects, officials said.
A map of neighborhood street repairs is available at streets.sandiego.gov/. (Beforewarned: it’s not an easy site to figure out.)
Slurry seal IS NOT Paving! The city’s announcement was full of shit.
“Officials added that slurry seal also reduces the need “for a more costly asphalt overlay and reconstruction for badly deteriorated streets.”
That is a lie. Slurry seal does nothing for badly deteriorated streets. The city even contradicts this statement with the truth later when they said, “Crews apply the mixture to street surfaces at an average quarter-inch thickness, extending the use of streets already in good condition.” It is effective on “streets already in good condition.”
The city is using slurry seal to trick the public into thinking it is repaving. They brag about miles of “paving” that only consists of painting the streets with black slurry seal. Slurry seal is very cheap compared to actual paving involving a thickness of asphalt concrete.
Meanwhile, we have streets that look like third world streets like Barnard Street or Worden Street that need reconstruction and repaving badly.
Thank you for the post. This is something I did not know and I suspect many others don’t know as well.
/s/ Chris Kennedy
I just drove on the “resurfaced” Voltaire Ave. It was not even a very good job of slurry sealing.
Layer upon layer, year after year now the curbs are disappearing. What a waste to continue slurry year after year. They should have installed the overdue flashing beacon crosswalk before the sloppy sealing.
A TOTAL band-aid approach. It covers up cracks and small holes until the next hard rain, then they’ll all be back and the money for the slurry will be a waste. The mayor and council reps are trying to get something done to please the public they’ve infuriated and ignored for 3.5 yrs to gain their vote in the general election. And the City HOPEs it will last until after the election in Nov. Don’t vote for the same incumbent politicians that have done nothing FOR the people, and did plenty TO the people. Three and a half years of obvious incompetence and failures.
I had the same reaction. Hmm, the timing…must be an election coming.
The city knows that many people in Ocean Beach recognize what a raw deal they get, and have gotten, from the city. As compared to, say, La Jolla (check out the roads up there)!
Larry Turner is looking like a pretty good bet at this point.
Must be an election looming!
Narragansett from Chatsworth to Catalina needed nothing, meanwhile Narragansett from Chatsworth to Nimitz is all potholes thanks to the city bus traffic.
And Barnard (Barnyard as my kids call it) looks like a street in Tijuana, it’s dangerously potholy.
Who the hell designates the streets to be sealed????
It is surprising how few streets are funded on that map for the Peninsula area. They just slurry-sealed Orma Dr, which is not on the map. Using the Filter on the map, you’ll see the vast majority are not funded.
Barnard which is awful continues to have no project schedule in the next 5 years. Has anyone else driven on Ingraham on Crown Point?
I was in Kearney Mesa today looking at cars. I’m wondering what happened to the Convoy bike lanes. All the markings are blacked out – There were no parking spaces on or near Convoy by the car dealerships. I wonder how much cash was wasted to set up these unnecessary bike lanes that are now painted over for parking again. The businesses would have seen a huge drop in customers with bike lanes. I drove on Daggat, which is scheduled for some type of work – worse than Barnard. Lots of other streets in Kearney Mesa are lousy.
They resurfaced Catalina several years ago but never returned to finish the intersections from Silvergate School toward Naragannesset. They are all really bad and one has a massive chuckhole that would ruin a tire and rim.