Ft Worth Times

Recently, staff with Fort Worth’s Transportation & Public Works Department provided City Council with insights into the City’s street maintenance program. The City owns and operates more than 8,100 miles of streets, and TPW maintains this extensive network.

Why it matters: This amount of street mileage equals the distance it takes to travel three times from Miami to Seattle. To keep commuters moving, TPW crews are either paving, repairing or reconstructing streets all year long.

By the numbers: How does the City pay for this? There are two ways to pay for street maintenance. Bond funds are general obligation debt that residents vote on, while PayGo funds come from property taxes.

Bond-funded projects include the major repairs and total reconstruction of streets.

• In 2022, the Bond program included 49 miles of street reconstruction.
• The price to completely redo one mile of road is approximately $1 million per lane mile.

PayGo funds are used for street overlays and minor repairs with a price tag of about $300,000 per lane mile. For FY23, the PayGo budget is $21.5 million, which provided repairs for 62 miles of roads.

Go deeper: Who decides what roads are fixed?

Every four years TPW contracts with experts to perform a pavement condition survey; each street segment is assigned a score from 0 to 100. As is evident from the price variance, it is more cost-effective to prevent a street from reaching the critical point where it needs a total redo.

The City is invested in maintaining its infrastructure, making Fort Worth a great place to live, work and play. With more people moving to the area, maintenance of current infrastructure — and the preparations to add more — is necessary to meet service demands.

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