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.
Futures planning is a new way of looking at long-range planning, focused on exploring divergent “what if” scenarios to identify strategies that are effective in a variety of circumstances. Learn about the three futures to be analyzed as part of Horizon.
MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) hosted the inaugural Expand Your Horizon: Talks on the Future of the Bay Area event on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, where the topic was the future of autonomous vehicles.
