Streets Maintenance
Program
Streets Maintenance
 The
Streets Maintenance crew is
responsible for the maintenance of the City's streets and ensures that the
roadways we use have acceptable riding surfaces. In order to accomplish this task,
streets maintenance staff are responsible for providing street striping, sidewalk repair
services, street patching, and pot hole patching. In addition, staff is
responsible for traffic signs, curb painting, and median painting.
The crew is responsible for the maintenance of 608,976
linear feet of street striping on arterial and collector streets. Although
the City of San Ramon has contracted for this maintenance in the past,
during Fiscal Year 2002, the City will maintain approximately 115 miles of striping
in-house. Maintenance includes repainting all striping throughout the
City each year, including pavement markings such as crosswalks, stop
legends, and school crossings.
There are over
292 miles of sidewalks in the City of San Ramon. Sidewalk maintenance
is performed on an "as needed" basis. Maintenance crews
repair raised, cracked, or broken sidewalks located within the City's right of way.
When the need for repair is discovered by staff or a resident, the location
is inspected and, if needed, the location is temporarily repaired either by
grinding or with a
patching compound. The City of San Ramon conducts an annual sidewalk
repair project which is contracted out by the City's Engineering Services and provides permanent repairs for our community's sidewalks. If you see
a sidewalk that needs repair, please contact
the Public Services at (925) 973-2800 or
complete a
CRM service
request.
 Potholes mysteriously appear
on our roadways and are rough on us and our vehicles. Potholes can be
caused by many different things, the most common cause is water. Water
seeps into cracks in the surface of the roadway and either by vibration
of vehicle tires in a cracked area or stresses to the pavement by the
weight of trucks and buses, the pavement sinks, resulting in a pothole. Streets
maintenance crews provide temporary repairs to potholes and irregularities in the pavement on a
continual basis. Initial repair of a pothole is considered only a
patch until more complete re-surfacing overlay is completed.
Since
potholes can appear overnight, we appreciate any information the community
can provide regarding the location of potholes. If you would like to
report a pothole, please contact the Public Services at (925)
973-2800 or complete a
CRM service
request
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