As it turns out, the city thinks it is right on top of the condition of our local streets. They have a web page that lets us see how the city has rated each street. They assign a “pavement condition index (PCI)” to give us an idea of what the relative condition of each street. This is a screenshot of the page:
Low priority
As you can see from reading the text, the city places a low priority on monitoring our street conditions. According to the web page “Data for the PCI {pavement condition index} is collected periodically and is updated in phases, the first phase occurring in 2003 and the most recent in 2008.”
Evidently they have stopped monitoring our street conditions. I guess they have been busy with downtown.
We can’t afford this
The web site might explain why the city has not been maintaining our streets. It looks like they think it will be too expensive. Using Stanton street to explore what they have, I got this screen shot:
They rated Stanton at 71.41 (it appears that they used a scale of 1-100 with 100 being the best). The cost to repave the street is estimated to be $402,200.00. The also note that “The funding allotment required today to resurface this street is estimated to be $307,120,000.00”.
Wow! Talk about overhead!
Feel free to lookup your street here.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
The streets around Southwest University Park are in top condition. Stop yer belly aching’!
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Thanks for taking the time to find this information, but unfortunately, you are preaching to the choir, and they have neglected our streets for much too long. Do you suppose the figures showing the “funding allotment” and the estimated cost to repave means that, even though we supposedly passed their huge quality of life bonds specifically to include some street improvements, there still will not be enough money to make up for the years of neglect? So, somebody tell me again, why do we need a City Manager?
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You looked at Stanton near downtown, which is just part of the picture. If you use the little cursor doodad on the interactive map and move on up Stanton heading north, the condition index drops dramatically to a rating of about 54, which validates your belief that the downtown area is top priority. Estimated resurfacing cost for the upper part of Stanton is nearly $600,000 and the funding allotment required to resurface that area today is $120 mil. It then has an asterisk that says the 2014 resurfacing allocation is $8.5 mil, which is tiny fraction of $120 mil. So hell will freeze over before the people in that area see any improvements.
Now I know why the homeless people want to stay near downtown.
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“Now I know why the homeless people want to stay near downtown.”
That was hilarious!!!!!! You win the internet today!
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Stating fact and info is not a waste of time, especially if some helpful tips are included. The streets, it seems, are intentionally neglected to force us to not drive. The lights are extremely untimed, so that people would be frustrated enough to use the bus system or not drive. The cost for bike lanes is very expensive, but the city CONcil still is going to pay for the lanes, to force people to use bikes. This CityConcil and County have an agenda against the will of the people and pro UN Agenda 21.
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If the funding allotment for each street is public then doesn’t that defeat the purpose of competitive bidding?
IMHO, across the board, City staff has consistently proven themselves to be spectacularly incompetent at both cost and benefit projections as well as planning.
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Resurfacing is nothing more than a bandaid. Railroad (southbound) just north of McCombs is currently being resurfaced. Due to the failed underlying foundation all of the potholes and cracks will return within 18 months. Spend the money now to do it the right way.
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