FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2012 

Press Contact: Greg Crump, greg.crump@sfdpw.org, (415) 519-4400

50 CITY BLOCKS PAVED NOW WITH ROAD REPAVING AND STREET SAFETY PROGRAM

Public Works On Pace to Coordinate Treatment of 800 City Blocks by Spring 2013 as part of Three-Year Voter-Approved Program

San Francisco, Ca. – At a rate three times the standard pace of paving in San Francisco, the Department of Public Works (DPW) continues to implement the voter-approved $248 million three-year Road Repaving and Street Safety Program (Streets Bond) program, reaching a total of fifty freshly paved street segments after paving #50 and #51 along Beach Street over the weekend. Crews will be out paving today in the Excelsior/Ingleside neighborhoods at Cayuga, Seneca to Navajo Avenue with PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES until 12:00pm.

Ten contracts have been either advertised or awarded to local paving contractors for projects that will amount to another 160 blocks being resurfaced over the next six months. By spring of 2013, DPW projects the first year paving objectives to be at around 800 completed blocks through bond and non-bond funding sources. Over the next three years, the bond will also repair sidewalks, build curb ramps, make repairs to bridges, enhance and improve the streetscape, and make transit signal upgrades in neighborhoods throughout San Francisco.

“The amount of coordination for this quantity of work is unprecedented,” said Mohammed Nuru, Director of the Department of Public Works. “The complexity and timing for scheduling all of this work requires careful and deliberate interdepartmental cooperation and planning, which in the end is saving the City money. The quantity of resurfacing also involves a great deal of communication with the residents and businesses of San Francisco as we ask for their patience during these large scale improvement projects throughout the City.”

One third of the Streets Bond blocks paved will be done in-house by DPW street repair crews. The remainder are being completed by local paving businesses and managed by DPW construction management staff. All contracts follow Local Hiring Ordinance requirements that include for this year 25% of all project hours be performed by local residents, and 50% of apprentice work be performed by local residents.

$44.1 million has been allocated for the road repaving of over 350 city blocks, and another 500 blocks will be completed with non-bond funded resources bringing the total amount of streets to over 800 in the first year of the Streets Bond program which began in March 2012. The number of blocks resurfaced will increase at an accelerated pace as the contracted paving ramps up. 

The newest batch of paved blocks includes segments in the Nob Hill, Mission, Bayview, Portola, North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Marina neighborhoods:

26) Jones, Bernard to Broadway 

27) Jones, Filbert to Valparaiso 

28) Green, Montgomery to end 

29-32) 15th Street, S. Van Ness to Mission 

33) Leidesdorff, Commercial to Clay 

34-35) Phelan, Judson to Flood 

36) Burke, 3rd Street to end 

37) Indiana, Tubbs to 23rd Street 

38) Indiana, 25th Street to 26th Street 

39) Jennings, Quesada to Revere 

40) Jennings, Underwood to Van Dyke 

41) Arkansas, 22nd Street to Madera 

42) 20th Street, Shotwell to S. Van Ness 

43) Alameda, De Haro to Rhode Island 

44) Washington, Octavia to Laguna 

45) Cervantes, Fillmore to Alhambra 

46) Kearny, Francisco to Bay 

47) Olive, Van Ness to Franklin 

48) Vicksburg, 24th Street to Elizabeth 

49-50) Beach, Grant to Powell 

51) Felton, Gambier Street to Madison 

  

The 52nd block paved is set for today at Cayuga, Seneca to Navajo Avenues.

Along with the milestone of 51 blocks paved, the Streets Bonds recently completed the public process of selecting the Streetscape Improvement Projects, which compromises $50 million of the funding. After months of reviewing potential, much needed projects in each neighborhood of the City, 91 projects were approved as a part of the bond’s scope and San Francisco’s Ten-Year Capital Plan.

When streetscape designs are finalized and projects completed, the upgrades will provide necessary pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements as well as aesthetic enhancements at locations throughout the City. Key projects include improvements in locations along the Great Highway, Polk Street, Irving and Taraval, improvements at Fell and Oak, Castro at 17th Street, and along Palou Street.

"SF Beautiful and other community partners applaud this important investment, which marks a milestone in making our city's sidewalks and streets cleaner, safer, and more beautiful," said Kearstin Krehbiel, Executive Director of San Francisco Beautiful.

A complete list of streetscape projects and more information about the work scope can be found at sfdpw.org/streetsbond.

The City’s Ten-Year Capital Plan recommended the Streets Bond as part of a citywide finance strategy to address critical capital improvement needs. The Ten‐Year Capital Plan is a constrained expenditure plan for city‐owned facilities and infrastructure. Developed biennially, it enables policymakers to make strategic decisions about how to fund the maintenance, the expansion and the replacement of capital assets. The Ten‐Year Capital Plan also prioritizes critical capital projects that impact the public’s safety and well being; places strong emphasis on accountability and transparency; and most importantly demonstrates the highest levels of fiscal restraint and responsibility. For more information, visit onesanfrancisco.org.

DPW is responsible for the care and maintenance of San Francisco’s streets and much of its infrastructure. The department cleans and resurfaces streets; plants and maintains city street trees; designs, constructs and maintains city-owned facilities; inspects streets and sidewalks; constructs curb ramps; removes graffiti from public property; and partners with the diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco to provide stellar cleaning and greening services.

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