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Street Stories: Contra Costa County

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 helping to overcome years of deferred maintenance.
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SB 1 Funds Accelerate Caltrans’ Highway Repair Program

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Southbound 680 Express Lane

The Southbound Express Lane in Contra Costa County is going to be expanded. Construction is underway now to give southbound commuters continuous access to Express Lanes from the Benicia Bridge, all the way to the Alameda County line by 2021.
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Street Stories: Marin County

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.
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Street Stories: Vallejo

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 Slurry seal a busy street near the Ferry Terminal.
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Street Stories: Oakland

The City of Oakland has had a $440 million dollar backlog of pothole and street repairs. This year, California’s Senate Bill 1, or SB1, has led to a “Summer of Paving” for Oakland.
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Trail Blazing in Western Contra Costa County

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Street Stories: San Mateo County

For years, the county of San Mateo has been deferring 4 million dollars a year in roadway work because of insufficient funding. In 2018, because of new transportation funding approved by the State Legislature, they county has begun to catch up.
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Street Stories: San Jose

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 paved since 2011.
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Street Stories: San Francisco

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.
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Street Stories: Fremont

This year, with help from SB1 funding, the city of Fremont has repaved nearly 40 miles — double the rate of previous years.
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Supervisor David Rabbitt on Sonoma County Roads

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.
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ABAG President David Rabbitt on the Gas Tax & How Prop 6 Would Overturn Funding for Road Repair

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.
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Street Stories: Sonoma County

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.
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Local Affiliates Amplify Global Climate Action Summit, September 10 – 16, 2018

Main Summit to Be Live Streamed; Ford GoBike Offers Free Rides on Thursday, September 13
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