San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and City Councilman Henry L. Foster III Monday joined city crews as they paved the 30th mile of street resurfacing this fiscal year, a new record for the city’s Mill-and-Pave Program.<\/p>\n
The city leaders met on 51st Street in the Emerald Hills neighborhood, a road which previously had a Pavement Condition Index score of just 3.56 on a scale of 100. The city maintains around 6,600 lane miles of streets and uses the PCI to “evaluate roadway conditions and prioritize repairs.”<\/p>\n
“Residents don’t experience government through reports — they experience it through the condition of their streets, sidewalks, parks, and neighborhoods,” Gloria said. “That’s why fixing roads remains one of my top priorities. By investing in our in-house paving crews, we’re able to repair some of San Diego’s worst streets faster, stretch taxpayer dollars further, and deliver visible improvements in neighborhoods across our city. Reaching this record-setting milestone shows what sustained investment and a commitment to infrastructure can accomplish.”<\/p>\n
According to the city, Fiscal Year 2026 marks the third consecutive year of growth for San Diego’s in-house paving operation. The city’s Transportation Department crews completed close to 20 lane miles in FY 2024 and 24 lane miles in FY 2025.<\/p>\n
“The last pavement treatment on this stretch of 51st Street was 40 years ago, and it has been more than 50 years since the street received a full asphalt overlay,” Foster III said. “This is why I continue pushing for greater maintenance and investment in District 4 streets. This project is a meaningful and long-overdue accomplishment for the residents who rely on 51st Street every day. I am thankful to our hardworking crews for getting this work done, and I look forward to finding opportunities to grow the city’s in-house Mill-and-Pave capacity because this is how we lower costs and get more work done.”<\/p>\n
The Mill-and-Pave Program was established to “complement contractor-delivered resurfacing projects and provide the city with greater flexibility to address streets in poor condition that might otherwise wait years for rehabilitation,” a city statement read. It focuses on smaller street segments and “severely deteriorated” surfaces that can be completed efficiently by city crews.<\/p>\n
A recently published report by TRIP, a transportation research non-profit, did find that more than half of San Diego\u2019s major roads are in what they said is poor or mediocre condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and City Councilman Henry L. Foster III Monday joined city crews as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[66938,23,100,3160,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-371349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-roads","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}