Our street (on the east side) is in poor condition, like so many others. I have a few questions:
1. Is it good to pull up weeds growing through the asphalt, or should you just leave them??
2. Is is helpful (or harmful) to sweep up buckets of gravel every week? I do this so the kids don't slip and slide while riding their bikes.
3. When a piece of "the jigsaw puzzle" comes out of the asphalt, is it better to leave it, or try to put it back in its place?
4. Is there any way to see some sort of a schedule as to which streets are designated for repair, and what possible year that will happen?
5. Is is OK to bemoan things like "the road diet" when you are falling into potholes in front of your own house?
Thanks for your advice.....

Side streets, such as Putnam Way off of Weaverly, don't have enough traffic to merit quick fixing. That street is so broken up in places that it looks like a dirt road.

Weaverly, on the other hand, has lots of traffic so it got the royal treatment a couple of years ago, including super wide bicycle lanes. That Councilman Mike O'Brien happens to live on that street probably had nothing to do with it.

Here is how you get the city's attention. Take some digital photos of the street condition. Take copies of the photos along with a letter requesting that the street be fixed and hand deliver it to the Director of Public Works. That serves as notification of problem to the appropriate city authority. Then everytime a car or bicycle is damaged or someone gets hurt because of the street's condition, file a claim for monetary damages to repair / replace the loss or pay the medical bill against the city.

Liability is what gets the attention of every bureaucrat.....

The terrible surface condition is the only thing that slows the traffic on Post Street. May all the streets suffer the same deterioration and be neglected.

If it is a a few potholes or cracks that need attention, the City now has a cold patching truck. Not must use if you are talking about the entire road bed--such as East Madison. Someone asked if there was a schedule of sorts as to where and when major repairs would take place. I may look into that!

Some of our main streets....Maria Drive....East Madison....etc. What a "holey" mess! Yet they are going through with the road diet/roundabout plan for S. McDowell. What a WASTE OF MONEY.

Parts of Maria Drive, near Northstar and Big Bend. Some potholes already, after the first rain. Large chunks of asphalt ready to dislodge. This is a main thoroughfare that has never had much maintenance. It's pitiful.

Some of the potholes on Maria have been filled. It just takes a few telephone calls. Unfortunately there will be a lot more potholes because of the poor condition of the asphalt. Some areas of Sonoma Mtn. Parkway are prone to potholes, even on the smooth sections.

It's too bad they don't have the funds or resources to do preventative work on some of our aging streets. Maybe a thin covering of some kind of slurry seal would protect some of the "jigsaw-cracked" asphalt BEFORE it becomes big gaping potholes. The area near Sonoma Mtn. School was fortunate enough to have this done a few years ago.