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For years, the county of San Mateo has been deferring 4 million dollars a year in roadway work because of insufficient funding. The county dipped into reserves to help pay for roadwork, but those...

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...

The city of San Jose has a backlog of hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance for its 2400 miles of roadway. Because of a lack of funding, residential streets in San Jose haven’t been...

Usually the city of Fremont repaves about 20 miles a year. The city actually has 500 miles of roads so 20 miles a year has meant many streets haven't been repaved in decades because of insufficient...

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...

Sonoma County's road system, if laid out in a line, would stretch to Oklahoma City and back. Deferred maintenance has left the county with a huge backlog of work. This year's transportation 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. A big chance to catch up with road repair came...

For years, insufficient funding has caused fewer streets to be repaved in California, and what limited funding that does exist, has been spent mostly on pothole repair. In the City of Santa Rosa...

Prop 6, if passed by voters in November, would reduce the City of Petaluma's ability to complete safe and smooth streets. Known for its pothole problem, caused by decades of deferred maintenance due...

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...