Will your street get repaved? Check out this week’s resurfacing list

Every Friday, the Philadelphia Streets Department releases a list of roads it plans to resurface starting the next week. Usually, PlanPhilly tries to come up with some sort of lighthearted and clever lede. Not today. It’s too nice out today for that. We’re going to go read outside.  

As this Streetsplainer describes, to repave a street, it must first be milled, meaning the top layers of asphalt will be stripped off, and after a few weeks the milled street will be repaved. Following repaving the surface will be striped with traffic lanes. Some streets can take up to 5 weeks to be resurfaced; so far this year, according to Interim Streets Commissioner Mike Carroll, the wait has been about 8 days. During street reconstruction curb ramps will be upgraded and installed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In his budget proposal, Mayor Jim Kenney requested $23.8 million to resurface 55 miles of streets across the city. Last year’s budget of $20.4 million paid for around 85 miles of street resurfacing.  As of 2014, 900 miles of Philadelphia’s 2,575 miles of city-maintained streets were on the Streets Department’s paving backlog.

STREETS SCHEDULE TO BEGIN REPAVING MONDAY

Street:

From:

To:

Dana Ave

Edison Ave

Whitney St

Ferndale St

Waring St

Hendrix St

Forest Hills Ave

Erwin St

Napier St

Forest Hills Ave

Napier St

Overhill Ave

Gifford Ave

Foster St

Tomlinson Rd

Gifford Ave

Jeanes St

Foster St

Gifford Ave

Bustleton Ave

Jeanes St

Greiner Rd

Rennard St

Hendrix St

Hendrix St

Lockart Rd

Audubon Ave

Hendrix St

Audubon Ave

Halstead St

Hendrix St

Halstead St

Jeanes St

Hendrix St

Jeanes St

Ferndale St

Hendrix St

Ferndale St

Gifford Ave

Hendrix St

Gifford Ave

Banes St

Hendrix St

Banes St

Bustleton Ave

Herschel Rd

Edison Ave

Kelvin Ave

Larkspur St

Ferndale St

Gifford Ave

Larkspur St

Gifford Ave

Bustleton Ave

Lindenhurst St

Depue Ave

Bustleton Ave

Lockart Rd

Rennard St

Regina St

Lockart Rd

Regina St

Lockart Pl

Lockart Rd

Lockart Pl

Hendrix St

Rennard St

Ferndale St

Depue Ave

Rennard St

Depue Ave

Heather St

Rennard St

Heather St

Gifford Ave

Rennard St

Gifford Ave

Gifford Ave

Rennard St

Gifford Ave

Banes St

Rennard St

Banes St

Bustleton Ave

Somerton Ave

Depue Ave

Bustleton Ave

Trevose Rd

Edison Ave

Whitney St

Trevose Rd

Whitney St

Southampton Rd

Whitney St

Dana Ave

Trevose Rd

For more information about Streets Department repaving projects, visit their website here. For PennDOT’s interactive map of active construction projects, go here.

 

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