This response is from City of Rio Rancho administration as a follow-up to a previous post.

The city’s Public Works Department engineering staff has reviewed Oakmount Drive and your striping request. Using national and state criteria for striping the city adheres to in conjunction with the posted speed and amount of traffic on the roadway, Oakmount Drive does not qualify for striping.

Oakmount Drive from Eastlake Drive to Country Club Drive received pavement maintenance work (micro-surfacing) following the passage of a $25 million voter-approved road bond in 2009.

The work done with bond funds has been a mixture of new road construction, road rehabilitation, and road reconstruction, and was determined using city engineering staff data, citizen input and Governing Body feedback.

Rio Rancho is no different from nearly every other community in that existing and future road needs outweigh the funding that is consistently available, and decisions have to be made using available data and input that is gathered on what is the best and most appropriate use of funds.

For more information regarding the 2009 road bond and what projects have been completed, please using the following link http://www.ci.rio-rancho.nm.us/index.aspx?NID=1279
For more information regarding the city’s pavement preservation program and how it is used to determine which roads receive what type of maintenance, please see below.

During the last several years, licensed professional engineers from the city's Public Works Department have personally inspected every roadway in Rio Rancho to analyze and measure road distresses, which are flaws in the road such as cracking, weathering and other problems that downgrade roadway surface conditions.

The data collected by the engineers has been input into software developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to create a rating for each road using a scale from 0 to 100. A road that rates 100 is essentially a new, well-constructed road. A rating of 0 does not mean that the road can't be driven on, but it's certainly an indication that the roadway is in need of improvement.
Following the creation of a rating index for all Rio Rancho roads, a plan that establishes the appropriate pavement treatment for each road - so as not to waste taxpayer funds on ineffective work - is developed. There are three main recommended pavement treatment types that are utilized: maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Pavement maintenance is generally micro-surfacing, which is a surface treatment. Micro-surfacing is applied to roads with little to moderate distress in order to extend the longevity of the road between three to five years, improve driving conditions and skid resistance, and protect the surface from additional weather deterioration.

When a road's condition has passed beyond pavement maintenance treatment being effective, the next option is pavement rehabilitation, which is mill and inlay work and is more costly than micro-surfacing. Mill and inlay is when approximately one to two inches of the existing asphalt is removed and replaced. This type of work adds, by approximately five to 10 years, longevity to the life of a road.

It is important to note that pavement maintenance and rehabilitation treatments do not eliminate all existing roadway distresses. These treatments only seek to improve and extend the useful life of a road, and delay the more costly need of the final type of treatment - pavement reconstruction.

Reconstruction involves removing all existing asphalt to native raw dirt and building the section correctly based on roadway classification.

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