Nearly two dozen La Jolla streets are planned for slurry seal through January

Almost two dozen La Jolla streets, including many lesser-traveled ones, will get a coat of slurry seal during coming weeks as part of an effort by the city of San Diego to extend the life of local roads. 

Such work often is completed in phases over several days or weeks, and the phase of slurry seal application in La Jolla began Jan. 14 and is expected to continue through the end of the month. The affected roads will be closed to vehicle traffic while the seal is being applied.

Slurry seal, consisting of asphalt emulsion, sand and rock, is applied to a street surface at an average thickness of a quarter-inch. It is intended to slow the deterioration of streets that currently are in good condition, which is considered vital to improving the overall condition of San Diego’s network of roads, according to the city.

“By maintaining streets earlier in their life cycle, slurry seal helps reduce the need for a more costly asphalt overlay and reconstruction in the future,” a city statement said. 

La Jolla streets getting slurry seal include the following, though the start and end points of the work on each street were not provided:

• John Jay Hopkins Drive 

• Fay Avenue 

• La Jolla Boulevard 

• Prospect Place 

• Exchange Place 

• Olivet Street  

• Paseo Dorado 

• High Avenue 

• Rutgers Road 

• Candlelight Drive 

• Germaine Lane 

• Hidden Valley Road 

• La Jolla Rancho Road 

• Corral Way 

• Van Nuys Street 

• Vickie Drive 

• Cottontail Lane 

• Via Siena 

• Via Viesta 

• Via Maria 

• Winamar Avenue 

• Ladybird Lane

Streets are selected for resurfacing through a pavement management system that helps determine when to schedule streets for repair, according to the city. Each street segment is assigned a Pavement Condition Index score based on roughness and cracks.  

The PCI is one of many factors the city uses to schedule road repair. Others include traffic volume, mobility and transit connections, maintenance history, other construction projects and available funding.

Residents can view the PCI scores for their neighborhood streets along with maps of planned street repairs by visiting streets.sandiego.gov.