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With crumbling roads across Honolulu a hot topic recently, City Council members were briefed Wednesday on the latest efforts to get a handle on all the work needed to fix city streets.
Last fall the Department of Facility Maintenance, which is responsible for city road repairs, completed a survey of Honolulu’s roads using new photographic technology similar to the Street View function of Google Maps.
But that photo survey of Honolulu road conditions is only a first step, DFM officials told members of the Public Works Committee on Wednesday. It will take at least nine months before DFM has the data it needs to put a better paving strategy into action for Honolulu, they said.
With the photo survey "we see the surface of the road," but DFM needs to know more about conditions below the surface and study how quickly different roads degrade based on the traffic they handle, said Cyndy Aylett, a DFM management analyst.
The presentation was part of DFM’s 2012 "Pavement Condition Report" — the first such study to be released since a new citywide policy went into effect last year to set standards for better road conditions.
The survey last fall found nearly 57 percent of Oahu city roads were in "good or "adequate" condition, while nearly 16 percent were in "degraded" condition and nearly 28 percent fell in the worst category, an "unsatisfactory" condition.
