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Bay Area cities and counties largely managed to prevent further deterioration of their local street and road networks in 2017. Data released today by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)...

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MTC’s commissioners have taken an “oppose” stance on Proposition 6, a measure on November ballots across California that would repeal a state gas tax increase and other transportation fees enacted by...

SB1 dollars fix potholes and rebuild streets all over California. SB1 also contributes tens of millions of dollars to Transit Agencies. The amounts to Bay Area transit agencies are substantial.

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...

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...

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...