City Will Resurface 10 Miles of Road

The South San Francisco City Council met Wednesday night to unanimously approve two resolutions that will resurface 10 miles of streets in South City.

The resolutions will contract Gallagher & Burk, Inc. for the 2011 Street Resurfacing Project at a cost of $1.5 million and Graham Contractors, Inc. to contract the 2011 Street Scrub Seal and Micro-Surfacing Project for approximately $600,000, including an amended $400,000 for the 2011-2012 Capital Improvement Program Budget.

“I believe we’re about a B in the Bay Area for the overall conditions of our streets,” said Public Works Director Terry White.

The council agreed that though resurfacing needs to be done, it should be monitored.

“The real challenge of this project is the clean-up,” said Councilmember Mark Addiego.

Addiego said in the past small pellets of sticky asphalt left over from the asphalt overlay process have made their way onto the bottom of shoes, into cars and into homes.

“It strikes me as something you wouldn’t want in storm drains,” Addiego said.

White said the city has learned from that mistake in the past.

“I would hate to lose this process for that purpose,” White said.

However, along with the asphalt overlay process, the city will also be implementing another strategy for resurfacing the streets.

Cold in-place recycling allows the city to reuse the asphalt from the streets by grinding up the asphalt and laying down an improved layer.

“Essentially, you’re rejuvenating that asphalt,” White said. “It’s considered a bit greener of a process.”

The process is fairly new, White said.

“The process sounds pretty reasonable,” he said. “As long as you don’t get down into the original base of the material.”

For a list of the streets that will be resurfaced, click on the PDFs on the upper right hand side of this article.