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The city of Pleasanton will begin conducting its yearly pavement management program this month during which workers will improve several stretches of roads in the area surrounding Foothill High School.
The work will be broken up into two phases: the first will focus on resurfacing full patches of roads along Foothill Road, West Las Positas Boulevard and in the Del Prado Park neighborhood while the second phase, set to begin in the fall, will focus on lighter repairs on roads inside Foothill High and in the Valley Trails Drive neighborhood.
“Investing in road maintenance is one of the most visible and essential ways the City supports our community’s daily quality of life,” Pleasanton Mayor Jack Balch said in a statement to the Weekly.
“We know it can be frustrating to travel on worn-out roads,” Balch added. “That’s why this year’s Pavement Management Program is so important — it reflects our commitment to reinvesting in Pleasanton’s neighborhoods and making everyday travel safer and more comfortable for residents.”
Each year, the city manages a street resurfacing project and a slurry sealing project. Both projects are part of the city’s overall pavement management program.
According to the Pleasanton Public Works Department, the goal of the program is to keep the city’s streets up to par with the pavement condition index, which is used by the city to assess its 518 lane miles of paved roads — the roads are inspected and assigned a numerical rating between zero and 100 under the PCI.
A PCI rating of 100 means the street was newly paved, anything above 75 is considered to be in good condition and streets above 50 on the PCI are considered fair. Streets marked above 25 on the PCI are labeled as poor and anything below 25 is considered to be in very poor or in failing condition, according to the Public Works Department.
Pleasanton’s streets were last inspected in December 2024, according to the Public Works Department.
Following inspection, the city then uses a software developed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission called Street Saver, which relies on the PCI ratings to prioritize road surface maintenance. Streets with a PCI rating of or under 60 are generally considered to be candidates for the annual street resurfacing project.
“Regular resurfacing and maintenance help us extend the life of our roads and avoid more costly, disruptive repairs down the line,” assistant director of public works Adam Nelkie said in a statement to the Weekly. “Our goal with the Pavement Management Program is to make smart, timely investments that keep Pleasanton’s streets in good shape for as long as possible.”
The full street resurfacing work will take place on a number of roads in the Del Prado Park area along Paseo Santa Cruz as well as a couple stretches of road on Valley Avenue and Black Avenue.
But, most notably, the city will be focusing on resurfacing a large strip of road on Foothill Road between Bernal Avenue and Racoon Hollow Court. It will also resurface a smaller stretch of road on West Las Positas Boulevard starting from Foothill Road, which is notoriously riddled with deep pot holes and cracks at the top of that hill.
The city will also conduct smaller resurfacing projects on roads in the new Costco parking lot on Johnson Drive and along Gibraltar Drive between Hopyard Road and Hacienda Drive.
The second phase of this year’s pavement program will focus on lighter roadway repairs including slurry seal work, which involves applying a thin seal coat of liquid asphalt and sand to the road surface.
Those less intense improvements for roads that don’t need full resurfacing will take place on roads inside Foothill High School and along north and south Valley Trails Drive.
According to the city, Pleasanton uses a variety of revenue sources to fund both the street resurfacing and slurry sealing projects. The state of California Gas Tax is the largest contributor followed by Alameda County Sales Tax Measures B and BB, Measure F and California Senate Bill 1.
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Please tell me that (a) the city isn’t just using a slurry process, and (b) please do not use Doolittle! For the first, the streets recently done needed to be steamrolled (?) and the cracks in the road reappeared and are bigger. The slurry is shedding bits everywhere. And for the second, Doolittle: the name should have been a warning.