Pavement Management Plan

The City of Pittsburg is developing a long-term pavement management plan based on best practices and with the goal of raising the City’s Pavement Condition Index (PCI). The pavement management plan is in the early stages of development and will be adjusted and improved upon once the City has completed more residential pavement projects. The City’s strategy is to rehabilitate roads before they fail and preserve them, while pursuing additional funding for roads that have already failed.

Every two years the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) offers a grant to local agencies to help them get accurate pavement condition data. The City of Pittsburg will continue to use this grant to keep a current inventory.

The City of Pittsburg was awarded PTAP Round 24 grant. As a part of the grant MTC provided a consultant to survey Pittsburg roads for the 23/24 fiscal year. All 175.4 centerline miles of paved streets maintained by the City were evaluated in accordance with MTC standards and the Streetsaver Online 9.0 database was updated with the inspection data. Field inspections were completed in December, 2023. The current PCI score of the City is 58 (on a scale of 1 to 100).

The City was awarded PTAP Round 25 and will begin surveying the condition of Pittsburg roads for fiscal year 24/25.

In order to create a systematic approach to maintaining Pittsburg streets, the City of Pittsburg has been divided into 10 Pavement Zones. The City estimates that one pavement zone will be completed in 1-2 years. The goal is to pave or resurface the local/residential streets in these pavement zones once every 10 years. See the map below for the zone locations and approximate paving timeline.

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Zone 10: June 19, 2025

Explaining how the City selects Pavement Zones for rehab is the most difficult part of the City's pavement program to explain. Consider a simple example. Imagine you have a network of streets to maintain, and you have a budget of $1,000. Your choices of streets to spend your maintenance budget on are:

1. One street that is in poor condition will take $1,000 to restore to good condition.
2. Three streets that are in fair condition that will take $300 apiece to restore to good condition.
3. Seven streets that are in good shape. If you spend $100 on each of them, they will remain in good condition for the next 10 years.
4. If you delay in treating the good and fair roads they will become poor roads and will be more expensive to treat later. You do not have enough funds to fix all the poor roads without neglecting the good and fair roads for a long period of time. If you neglect the good and fair roads, more Pittsburg streets will be in poor condition.

With your fixed budget and having a goal of keeping the most streets in good condition for as long as possible, how do you spend your money? For the City of Pittsburg the best answer is to spend $400 on the good streets to prevent them from deteriorating to the fair condition, and spend $600 on two fair-condition streets to prevent them from deteriorating to the poor condition. Without taking this systematic, long-term approach, the City's street network condition will continue to decline. That is why in the near future the City will focus on maintaining good/fair roads, and pursue additional funding for roads that are in poor condition.

As time passes sunlight oxidizes the oils in asphalt, causing the asphalt to become brittle and develop cracks. Cracks allow moisture into the road and leads to more deterioration. Crack sealing is the most cost effective way to preserve paved streets.

This method is necessary in places where smaller areas of pavement have failed. The distressed area is removed and replaced with new hot mix asphalt. These repairs are completed before a scheduled resurfacing. 

This method preserves the road by placing a thin surface containing polymer modified emulsion and graded aggregate. micro-surfacing can extend the life of a street by 7-10 years. Cost $0.55 / sq.ft.

This method preserves the road by placing two layers of treatment surfaces. The first layer is a chip seal, which is the application of liquid asphalt, followed by placement of small rock “chips”. The second is a layer of micro-surfacing. Cape sealing can extend the life of a street by 10-14 years. Cost $0.75 / sq.ft.

This method preserves the road by placing three layers of treatment surfaces. The first layer is mirco-surfacing. The second layer is a chip seal, which is the application of liquid asphalt, followed by placement of small rock “chips”. The third layer is the final micro-surfacing layer. Three-layer treatment can extend the life of a street by 10-14 years. Cost $1.30 / sq.ft.

The highest form of street maintenance overlay involves the placement of a new layer of asphalt. The new hot mix asphalt (HMA) layer ranges from approximately one and a half to three and a half inches thick. Properly maintained, an overlay can extend the life of the street by 20-25 years. Cost $4.50 / sq.ft. (three to eight times more expensive than the other treatments).

Project 2029, Zone 4 Pavement Management

In Design

• This project will rehabilitate Pavement Zone 4 using various pavement treatments including: crack seal, base repair, micro-surfacing, cape seal, three-layer treatment, and mill & overlay.
• This project is funded in part by Measure M, SB-1 (RMRA) state funding, and the CalRecycle Grant.

Project 2040, 2023/24 Pavement Management

This project repaved and resurfaced local streets in Pavement Management Zone 3. Construction work was completed November 2024.

This project will milled & overlayed Loveridge Road, North of Pittsburg-Antioch Highway, West Leland Road from Railroad to Crestview, and West Leland Road from Bailey to John Henry Johnson Parkway. Construction was completed October 2024.

Project 2241, East Leland Road Pavement Maintenance

This project rehabilitated East Leland Road from Railroad Ave to Antioch City Limits. Construction work was completed December 2023.

Project 2033, Loveridge Road Maintenance Project

This project rehabilitated Loveridge Road from East Leland Road to Buchanan Road. Construction work was completed December 2023.

Project 2232, Three City Pavement Preservation Project

This project resurfaced Sugartree Drive, Lislin Court, El Seco Way, Baja Ct, Peachtree Circle, Jacqueline Drive, Rancho Way, Oaktree Court, Rosewood Court, Cypress Way, Roundhill Drive, Woodland Drive, Peppertree Place, and Rollingwood Place. Construction work was completed July 2022.

If you have questions regarding the City’s pavement management program or the priorities for pavement rehabilitation, contact the Public Works Administration office at (925) 252-4930.