As part of the City’s annual street preservation program, contractors will begin paving some busy streets around the community starting June 30 and this work will continue through July. With paving, old asphalt is ground out and replaced or a new layer of asphalt is paved on top of the existing roadway. The process can take a couple of days in each location. Roads will be marked with signs prior to closing for paving.
Paving is just one of several types of street preservation treatments. This year, the City of Bend is doing about $4.85 million worth of street preservation contract work that will improve approximately 67 lane miles in Bend. This includes about 16 miles of paving, 28 miles of chipseal, and 23 miles of slurry treatments. To minimize impacts on traffic on busier roads, most of the paving work will occur at night, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Night work will occur on Galveston Avenue, Simpson Avenue, Purcell Boulevard, NE 8th Street, Cooley Road, Hunnel Road and Jamison Street.
When the City paves residential roads, the work will occur during daytime hours due to noise and lights that could be disruptive to homes in neighborhoods. Visit bendoregon.gov/streetpreservation for more information and maps.
Because these projects can impact the traveling public, the City works to ensure everyone is notified and prepared ahead of time, through postcards to adjacent properties, signage on the roads, and the weekly road and traffic report.
Sign up for the weekly road and traffic report at bendoregon.gov/traffic.
This work is supported by the Transportation Fee.
“The City’s ’Keep Good Roads Good’ philosophy means we maintain and preserve streets with the most cost-effective treatment for the road condition — the right treatment at the right time,” said Streets & Operations Supervisor Paul Neiswonger.
