"The right treatment, on the right road, at the right time, with the right contractor, for the right price."
The City of Glendale’s Transportation Department is continuously working to improve and maintain its roadway network. Maintaining a strong network of streets is beneficial to everyone at the regional and local level for connectivity, safety and economic growth.
The current roadway network is comprised of approximately 748 centerline miles of roadway which is just over 17 million square yards of asphalt and concrete surfacing. It is estimated that the average complete replacement cost for a major roadway is between $3.2-$3.5 million per mile. This indicates a very large amount of funding invested in pavement roadway networks nationwide and specifically within the City of Glendale. Given the high costs of reconstruction, it is imperative to maintain and extend the life of the existing pavement surface to the maximum extent possible.
The city has developed a Pavement Management Program (PMP) to best address street pavement needs. The American Public Works Association defines pavement management as a systematic method for routinely collecting, storing, and retrieving data and information needed to make maximum use of limited resources. The benefits of pavement management are numerous, including rational resource allocation, optimal use of funds, pavement rehabilitation cost reductions, pavement treatment selections, and pavement life extensions. A PMP will ultimately enable best practices for pavement needs that emerge over time.
Properly maintaining our City streets is a major task. As such, the PMP consists of the rehabilitation of poor and deteriorating streets within the City of Glendale with the application of common treatments as well as other innovative pavement preservation methods. The City of Glendale regularly evaluates the condition of roads and streets to assess the need for maintenance or repair, in addition to prioritizing and scheduling how this takes place. The plan to extend the overall life-expectancy of the City of Glendale’s streets through the most efficient and cost-saving measures is carried out through a series of pavement preservation strategies.
The PMP goal with currently available resources is to touch between 100-115 miles of Glendale streets per year in perpetuity.
Our PMP toolbox includes:
-Crack Seal
-Asphalt Rejuvenator
-Sealcoats (such as Polymer Modified Surface Seal)
-Slurry Seal
-Micro Seal
-Fractured Aggregate Surface Treatment (FAST)
-Cape Seal (FAST + Slurry or Micro Seal)
-Thin Overlay (1" to 1.5")
-Mill & Overlay (1.5" plus)
For more information on the City of Glendale’s Pavement Management Program, please contact our project hotline at 602.532.6250.