Road Repair Projects Continue in Downtown, North Park, Bankers Hill, Southcrest, City Heights and Rolando Village
Several more communities in the City of San Diego will soon have improved street conditions thanks to the continued efforts of the Transportation Department’s slurry seal program, part of an overall effort to repair and resurface roads citywide.
Slurry seal is used to slow street deterioration, which is vital to improving the overall condition of San Diego’s network of roads. By maintaining streets earlier in their lifecycle, slurry seal helps reduce the need for a more costly asphalt overlay and reconstruction in the future.
Last fiscal year, the City applied slurry seal to more than 380 lane miles of roadway, or approximately 6% of San Diego’s road network.
Seven slurry seal projects are scheduled to be completed within this current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2026. Slurry seal is often completed in phases over several days or weeks. Multiple projects are happening across the city simultaneously and are often coupled with other infrastructure upgrades to increase safety and mobility for all modes of transportation.
Construction on the latest project, Slurry Seal Project 2623, starts Saturday, Feb. 7, weather permitting, and will continue through the month of February in the communities of Downtown, North Park, Bankers Hill, Southcrest, City Heights and Rolando Village.
Through the first three weeks of the project, the following roads will be resurfaced:
Market Street 10th Avenue W. Ash Street Ash Street 1st Avenue Front Street Brookes Avenue Upas Street Thorn Street W. Thorn Street Spruce Street W. Spruce Street Redwood Street 7th Avenue Island Avenue 31st Street Martin Avenue Newton Avenue J Street Broadway Front Street Richmond Street Villa Terrace Sumac Drive Dwight Street Lenore Drive Alamo Drive Amherst Street 67th Street Polk Avenue
| Logan Avenue 2nd Avenue 13th Street Louisiana Street Hamilton Street 29th Street Arnold Avenue Jacaranda Place Herbert Street 32nd Street McKinley Street Boundary Street Marcy Avenue S. 28th Street S. 29th Street G Street 22nd Street Island Avenue K Street Ash Street Vancouver Avenue Herbert Street Centre Street Wilson Avenue Van Dyke Avenue Patria Drive Aragon Way 58th Street 69th Street Euclid Avenue
| Montclair Street Cooper Street Vancouver Avenue Kalmia Street Commonwealth Avenue Juniper Street Felton Street Hawthorn Street Bancroft Street High View Drive Elm Street Gregory Street Beech Street Beardsley Street Julian Avenue 41st Street 39th Street Gamma Street Birch Street Valle Avenue Kearney Avenue Palm Street Myrtle Avenue Menlo Avenue Alamo Way Aragon Drive Bates Street Meade Avenue Bates Street
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Slurry seal is a cost-effective pavement preservation method consisting of asphalt emulsion, sand and rock. This mixture is applied to the street surface at an average thickness of a quarter inch and extends the life of streets that are already in good condition. Information about different types of street repair can be found on the City’s Transportation webpage.
Streets are selected for resurfacing through a pavement management system that helps determine when to schedule streets for repair. Each street segment is assigned a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) score based on the pavement’s roughness and cracks.
The PCI score is one of many factors the City uses to schedule road repair. Other factors include traffic volume, mobility and transit connections, maintenance history, other construction projects and available funding. Residents can view the PCI scores for their neighborhood streets and maps of planned street repair by visiting StreetsSD.
The City’s Pavement Management Plan relies on the 2023 Pavement Condition Assessment and summarizes current street conditions in San Diego, while also identifying the funding needs to improve the overall street network.