Monterey Street not on list for road repairs
There is a lot of
”
minor
”
work to be done throughout Hollister’s side streets and even
many of its more well-traveled roads. One of those local, or
residential, roads that needs a lot of improvements is Monterey
Street, and one particular intersection that takes drivers for an
inevitably bumpy ride is at Hawkins Street.
Monterey Street not on list for road repairs
There is a lot of “minor” work to be done throughout Hollister’s side streets and even many of its more well-traveled roads. One of those local, or residential, roads that needs a lot of improvements is Monterey Street, and one particular intersection that takes drivers for an inevitably bumpy ride is at Hawkins Street.
The jagged turn with pothole peaks and valleys, however, is among the many areas, it turns out, which will have to wait because funding is scarce and the $900,000-plus in federal stimulus dollars must go toward bigger roads known as “major collectors,” explained David Rubcic, a city engineer who oversees street maintenance.
Local drivers who like to avoid the busier roads will have to continue putting up with that intersection and many others for a while. Rubcic noted how the city follows a Pavement Management Program that outlines streets to be fixed over several years. That program, however, has been delayed somewhat in recent years due to a lack of funds to fix the roads.
He said although the Monterey-Hawkins intersection is not on the list of potential projects down the pipeline, the city staff have completed much of the preliminary planning work for Phases 2 and 3 of the PMP and merely awaits having the available funding to get them done. Phase 2 includes mostly industrial areas, while Phase 3 mostly encompasses the city’s redevelopment agency boundaries.
