A reader asks:

Dear Road Warrior, maybe you can help clarify something for me.

Last week, city workers were doing paving work on various streets in Rohnert Park, including Southwest Blvd, State Farm Drive, and Enterprise Drive. My question for you to find out is why they did this? These streets were repaved (or whatever the term for placing an oil-based surface on the roadway is) and are in good shape.

There are other streets in Rohnert Park (Snyder Lane by the high school where it’s not uncommon to dodge many 6 in. diamater potholes or Rohnert Park Expressway between Country Club and State Farm Drive). These streets are in horrible shape.

At at time when all you hear about in the news is “budget cut this,” and “lack of funding that.” It seems rather lame of the city to pay to resurface/pave streets that already have been worked on within a year’s time.

Brian

The answer: Pat Barnes, deputy city engineer for Rohnert Park, said the city did pay for those streets to be chip sealed and slurry sealed last year, but the slurry seal was put down late in the fall and the weather didn’t allow it to completely cure. Unhappy with the results, the city asked the contractor to fix the work and that’s why the streets were slurry sealed again last week and this week — at no additional cost to the city, Barnes said. He said the redo is finished, except for some minor road stripping.

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