Road crews have repaved 269 lane miles of crumbling city-owned streets so far in 2014 — not as many as they repaired around this time last year, but work that nonetheless includes some of the more difficult roads across the island to fix, officials say.

The tally, from a list of ongoing and completed road jobs provided by the city Department of Design and Construction, brings the total lane miles repaved on Oahu to 667 since January 2013. That’s when Hono­lulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell set a goal to repave 1,500 lane miles in five years.

The city’s repaving push does not include state-controlled roads such as the H-1 freeway and Kalanianaole and Kame­ha­meha highways, which were similarly neglected before crews launched efforts in the past couple of years to finally fix those thoroughfares and bring some relief to the vehicle owners who drive on them.

"We will hit 300 and probably exceed 300," Caldwell said Friday, referring to the annual average of lane miles needed to keep pace with the city’s repaving goal. "We are going gangbusters. We are now doing more difficult streets."

This year saw one of Hono­­lulu’s busiest and most degraded arteries, Wai­alae Avenue in Kai­muki, repaved for the first time in 24 years. And earlier this fall, crews finally started repairs on Bere­ta­nia Street from University Avenue to Ala­pai Street, through the heart of town. That work is expected to last through November 2015.

Last year crews were able to repave a record 398 lane miles as the city looked to dig its way out of a road-repair hole created years ago, when both the city and state put off necessary routine work for more than a decade.

Drivers — and their wallets — have felt the pain of neglected roads and deferred repairs. A report released last year by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit transportation TRIP ranked Hono­­lulu’s roads the 13th worst in the country, estimating the average local driver spends nearly $600 a year due to the poor condition of streets.

Despite the race to pave as many miles as possible, Caldwell and road officials say the repairs meet their quality standards. City inspectors monitor the work, and the four primary firms handling it are required to test the asphalt mix to ensure that "what’s coming out of the truck is up to spec," Department of Facility Maintenance Director Ross Sasa­mura said Friday.

"The quality of asphalt is still the same as everywhere else," Sasa­mura added, referring to other mainland cities. Nonetheless, the city in the past couple of years has encountered a couple of instances where it had to ask a contractor to redo some street repaving due to substandard work, he said.

Caldwell encouraged the public to alert the city to any work that might need a second look. "We do get complaints. We welcome complaints" because it’s another way to inspect, he said.

The city budgeted $120 million in fiscal year 2014 and $130 million in 2015 for road repaving. Caldwell said it’s so far spent about half of the 2014 amount. However, the remaining funds signal to the four main contractors doing the work that they can securely invest in the equipment they’ll need to continue the repaving, Caldwell added.