Pavements

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News Release

Overall pavement conditions on the Bay Area’s 44,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads landed once again in fair territory last year, with the typical stretch of roadway showing serious wear and...

News Release

Overall pavement conditions on the Bay Area’s nearly 44,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads landed once again in fair territory last year, with the typical stretch of roadway showing serious...

News Release

Overall pavement conditions on the Bay Area’s nearly 44,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads landed once again in fair territory last year, with the typical stretch of roadway showing serious...

In order to be eligible to receive regional discretionary funds for pavement upkeep — and participate in MTC’s technical assistance and funding program — cities and counties are required to have their...

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, especially when it comes to funding local streets and roads. MTC’s Pavement Management Technical Assistance Program (P-TAP) uses federal dollars to...

The Pavement Conditions Index (PCI) provides a snapshot of the pavement health of a road. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 100 (where 100 means a newly paved road), and many factors affect a city’s...

Contra Costa County is using SB1 funding to repair roads, rebuild highway interchanges and to add Express Lanes. Locally elected officials say this year’s State Transportation funding of SB1 is...

SB1 funding has improved streets and roads in Marin County this year, helping to overcome more than a decade of deferred maintenance caused by insufficient funding.

In Solano County, SB1 money is being used to pave a street that hasn’t been paved in half a century. SB1 funds are also replacing dozens of antiquated curbs to make them safe and ADA compliant, and...

The City of Oakland has had a $440 million dollar backlog of pothole and street repairs. That was caused by years of insufficient funding from a gas tax that hadn’t been raised in decades. This year...