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Crumbling pavement, potholes and faded lane markings are not an uncommon sight on Mountain View’s roads. That could change soon though as the city is planning to invest in a street maintenance project that seeks to repair and repave nearly 1 million square feet of roadway.
The City Council is scheduled to vote on the street maintenance project at its Tuesday meeting, which includes a city staff recommendation to appropriate $500,000 in additional funding for the $5-million project. The item is part of the council’s consent agenda, which is a collection of routine items meant to be approved in a single vote.
The project covers more than a dozen city streets, targeting downtown trouble spots and roads that connect to major thoroughfares. Those connecting streets include Mariposa Avenue, Sierra Vista Avenue, Farley Avenue and Rock Street.
The project’s scope focuses on repair work, repaving and restriping as well as installing new high-visibility crosswalks. Other improvements include bicycle pavement markings on Rock Street and Victory Avenue, according to the May 12 city staff report.
“In total, the project will rehabilitate approximately 992,000 square feet of pavement and provide or refresh approximately 45,000 linear feet of pavement marking on the streets,” the staff report said.
The roads currently are in worse shape than city staff previously thought, costing the city more than originally anticipated to fix, according to the report. A slurry seal pavement treatment, which can improve a road’s condition and appearance, is not enough to address underlying structural problems.
“Without addressing base failures the roadway would continue to degrade,” the report said. City staff also noted that delaying the work could lead to more costly future repairs.
The city plans to cover the $500,000 shortfall with additional sales tax revenue from Measure B, which Santa Clara County voters passed in 2016 to support transportation projects, including street upgrades. Other sources of funding for the project include state gas taxes and regional community taxes, according to the report.
Last month, the city repaved more than a dozen streets with state funding from the 2017 Road Repair and Accountability Act.
