The state’s new dedicated transportation funding, SB1, has contributed 26 million dollars to San Francisco street repaving this year. That equates to 245 blocks, many of them residential, that are being repaved this year because of that funding.
Sonoma County has more roads than any other Bay Area county. Decades of insufficient funding led to tens of millions of dollars in delayed road repairs.
Deferred maintenance of Sonoma County's road system has left the county with a huge backlog of work. This year's transportation funding from the state has made a huge improvement in repaving roads.
California restored long-lost funding for road repair this year. Massive reconstruction has been going on in virtually every city this summer as a result. Prop 6 in November would overturn that funding.
Like other big cities in the Bay Area, the City of Concord has a massive backlog of street repair work. Years of underfunding have caused an 80- to 100-million dollar problem for its 300 miles of streets.
Known for its pothole problem, caused by decades of deferred maintenance due to insufficient funding, Petaluma has made major improvements this year because of the state-passed gas tax.
In the City of Santa Rosa, which has one of the most extensive street systems in Northern California, there is a backlog of 200 to 250 million dollars in needed street repair.
MTC celebrated the completion of the 18th year of its summer high school internship program on August 10 at the Bay Area Metro Center. The students worked in agencies across the Bay Area’s nine counties this summer, funded by MTC.
