Concrete Repair/Rehabilitation
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The Streets Division manages concrete repairs to City crosspans, curb and gutter, sidewalks and pedestrian ramps. During spring, summer, and fall, City and City-contracted PPRTA crews make repairs based on citizen requests and as preparation for overlay street resurfacing. For decades, sidewalk repairs have been the responsibility of adjacent property owners. The City began to receiving PPRTA funding in 2005 to assist citizens with these repairs, but many of the City's sidewalks have been poorly maintained over the years and the backlog of needed work is extensive. Click here for additional information about maintenance responsibility and liability. From 2004 to mid-2011, the City has spent $40.9 million dollars, largely thanks to PPRTA funding, making repairs to over:
Between 2007 and the fall of 2011 alone, the City and PPRTA crews were able to make badly needed concrete repairs to over 12,937 addresses.
Citizen Request (On-Call) Concrete Repair Program |
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Though it is more expensive to set up crews for smaller repairs, the City also makes concrete repairs based on citizen requests. The City's On-Call program is designed to be as systematic as possible in repairing the most damaged locations first rather than responding first-come, first-served to citizen requests. The majority of this program's limited resources are used in addressing the high priority repair requests located in one grid per year. Grid 2 has been selected as the focus of the 2012 On-Call Program. Grid 12 was the focus of the 2010 On-Call program and Grid 13 was chosen for 2011. Currently, the City's On-Call program is only able to respond to Priority 1 and Priority 2 repair needs.
