The worst high profile streets in Manteca?

*Lathrop Road from Union Road to Highway 99.
*Louise Avenue from Main Street to the Highway 99.

*Shasta Park neighborhood streets.

*Yosemite Avenue from the railroad tracks to Airport Way.

*Industrial Park Drive/Spreckels Avenue from Main Street to Yosemite Avenue.

*Woodward Avenue from Main Street to Pillsbury Road.

They are among the needed road work identified in the pavement maintenance plan update being presented to the Manteca City Council.

The council meets tonight at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.

The 10-year maintenance plan provides city leaders with a snapshot of current pavement conditions. As such, it allows the city to use available resources to maximize results.

It also identifies what streets are in need of major work, such as those listed above, before they deteriorate and completely fail requiring a complete reconstruction.

It also lists streets where preventative maintenance such as sealcoats or chip and seal is needed to prolong the useful life of the existing pavement to avoid the need for major repair work.

The city needs an estimated $50 million to do the needed work over the next 10 years

If the work can be done it will prevent streets from deteriorating to the point they will need significantly more expenditures to bring up to acceptable driving standards.

Based on gas tax and Measure K — the countywide half cent road and transit tax — the city is getting less than 50 percent of the $5 million a year that is needed annually over the next 10 years to do what work has been identified in the plan.

The city can go after pots of state and Measure K funds as they have in the past to fund needed work. But the money they are seeking is also being sought by  every other city in the state and county depending upon the funding source.

Demand — even with increased gas taxes— exceeds the identified needs throughout the state.

It should be noted the city’s street maintenance needs is a moving target.

That’s because streets that were in good to excellent shape based on the pavement condition survey and not in need to of some type of attention to prevent pavement from getting worse will age.

That means even in  the 10-year horizon the street maintenance plan covers they could be a need to perform work due to unanticipated wear and tear such as from shifting traffic patterns.

And even in the best case scenario if the city knocks down all $50 million of identified work over the next 10 years, other streets will be in need of work a decade from now.
The  city now has 264.70 center lane miles of work. If stretched end-to-end that represents pavement that would extend from Manteca along Highway 99 to a point 17 miles south of the Tehachapi Pass after merging with Interstate 5.

Seventy-two percent of the city’s streets — or 190.4 miles — are classified as residential or local streets. There are 86.8 miles of collector streets and 83.6 miles of arterial streets.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com