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.
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.
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.
On September 26, 2018, MTC and ABAG staff hosted an event at WeWork Valley Towers in San Jose to discuss strategies to support a future Bay Area where transportation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
