Transportation -
Street Maintenance
The Field Operations
staff is responsible for maintaining city streets. This
includes repairing street infrastructure, sidewalks,
curbs and ADA ramps, performing street sweeping
services, maintaining alleys, shoulders,
streetlights, street signage and striping, and
providing street patching and overlay service.
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Contract Administration
The Contract Services Group monitors service contracts with private vendors for
landscape maintenance, mainline street sweeping, asphalt and concrete repair,
and bus shelter cleaning. Outside vendors competitively bid for City of Mesa
contracts, allowing the Department to cost-effectively supplement City staff operations.
Pavement Management System
 One of the street
maintenance functions of the Field Operations group is to preserve the condition
of paved streets in the best possible state. Pavement Management is the key to developing preventative
maintenance strategies and operational activities. The
Pavement Management Program is an Information Management System, which allows
staff to track the changing inventory levels, history, surface condition and
distresses of every street in the City.Pavement condition surveys are performed
each year on
over 1,200 miles of streets by our Pavement Management
technicians. Information from the annual surveys identifies specific areas where
various types of preventive maintenance treatment, such as slurry seal, acrylic
seal or other sealcoats, can be applied. The surveys also identify areas
requiring more aggressive rehabilitation projects like a rubberized asphalt
overlay or partial reconstruction. Each year over 6,000,000 square yards of
needed work is identified, prioritized and delegated. One goal of the Pavement
Management group is to establish a balanced treatment forecast plan for the
street repair and preventive maintenance program that will help to maintain targeted pavement condition levels.
These levels are based on a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of 0 to 100, with 100
being excellent and 0 being failed. The PCI is calculated from data collected
during the annual pavement condition survey. The
Pavement Management Group has been collecting
pavement condition, inventory, and maintenance
history information on Mesa streets for over 18
years with details and quality of data improving
with each year.
Learn more
about our various pavement maintenance programs.
Right-of-Way Maintenance
 City right-of-ways are also maintained by Field Operations crews. Maintenance of rights-of-way includes landscaping, storm drainage, and graffiti
abatement. An emergency response crew is always on duty to keep the streets and
right-of-ways clear and safe throughout Mesa.
Street Sweeping
Field Operations staff also provides street sweeping
services to the City of Mesa. Clean streets provide safer driving conditions for
all modes of transportation, and improve air and storm water runoff quality for
everyone. Currently, residential streets are swept approximately every ten weeks
and arterial streets are swept every two weeks. Street sweeping services are
provided by a combination of both City employees and contracts with private
vendors.
Streetlights
The City maintains more than 37,000 streetlights. Not all streetlights
in Mesa are maintained by the City of Mesa. The City does
not repair private lights in trailer parks, apartment complexes, private parking
lots, private subdivisions, gated communities, or on private property. The above mentioned
lights are usually the responsibility of the owners of the property or are
maintained by Salt River Project. There are some areas that have a City of Mesa mailing address but are not incorporated into the
City. The City does not maintain the lights in these areas (examples of these
are Dreamland Villa, Leisure World, Thunder Mountain). These lights are private
or are maintained by Salt River Project. There are also some Special Improvement
Districts (agreements between Maricopa County and Salt River Project before
the areas were annexed into the City) in the City that have their
streetlights repaired by Salt River Project. Some examples of these are: Apache
Wells, Desert Sands, Arizona Skies, Golden Hills, Fountain of the Sun and Twin
Knolls. For Salt River Project Outages, call 602-236-8888.
For a City of Mesa streetlight, it normally takes our crews up to 4 weeks to repair a streetlight.
Some circumstances, such as stolen wire, a loss of power, or vehicle damage,
could delay the repair further.
For more information on renting
lighting for private property, contact Salt River
Project at 602-236-8888 or check here
Dusk to Dawn Lighting, if your electric service is
provided by the City of Mesa.
Learn more about the City's streetlights
Signing
Traffic Operations staff in the signing group fabricate, install, repair, and maintain the traffic control
and street name signs in Mesa. There are over 91,000 of these signs located
throughout the City. The destruction or theft of traffic signs is a tremendous
safety hazard. Some signs are essential for public safety and are handled as
emergencies and replaced within 24 hours. These would include Stop, Yield,
Do-Not-Enter, One Way, Detour, many warning signs and School Crossing signs.
Striping
 Traffic Operations staff in the striping group is responsible for installing and maintaining
traffic pavement markings in the City of Mesa. An example are the yellow lines
that separate traffic that flows in opposite directions. This Group paints about
1,200 miles of lines per year! The Striping Group also paints crosswalks, stop
bars, traffic symbols and curbs.
Concrete
 Sidewalks
provide the infrastructure for pedestrian traffic. Our Concrete team is
responsible for sidewalk reconstruction to insure they are safe for pedestrians
and help prevent injuries caused by defective sidewalks and ramps.
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