The quality of pavement on Bay Area roads held steady in 2018, with a minor improvement to the regional average attributed to projects funded by the recent hike to the state’s fuel tax, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
There are 43,500 “lane miles” of local streets and roads, which achieved an average pavement condition index (PCI) of 68 out of 100. In 2017 and 2016, the regional average was 67, according to the MTC, which is the
transportation planning and financing agency for the nine-county Bay Area.
There are a few outliers, however. The East Bay city of Dublin achieved an average of 86 from 2016 to 2018, earning a ranking of “very good.” Clayton (84), El Cerrito, Brentwood, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Foster City, Daly City, Colma, San Ramon and Union City also ranked as “very good.”
The city of Concord has a PCI of 60, which is down 18 points since 2009. Walnut Creek has a PCI of 73, while Pleasant Hill received a 66, and Martinez a 55.
Readers can find details about the pavement conditions in their own city, such as historical data reaching back to 2003, using the commission’s Vital Signs website at www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/street-pavement-condition.
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Concord seems to prefer painting the roads rather than fixing them.
The road looks great but still rides like a poorly maintained wagon trail.
Wow a fluff story about how the gas tax is legit
Anyone see anyone fixing roads and I don’t mean a slurry seal that looks good but wears off in a couple of years
I mean actually tearing out the 30-40 year old garbage and laying actual asphalt ….denkinger comes to mind
Still can’t believe these voters are hi keep voting for stuff when the politicians have shown no sign of doing anything with the money but flooding in illegals and bums and criminals oh and tax hikes
So question
How does the budget get passed when the road maintenance is not sufficient enough as they claim
Why does measure Q and toll hikes of 300% and raised taxes and now a gas tax not lead to a flood of roads being fixed
Every politicians words after anything they say is
This will ensure prompt and or progress towards or promote road maintenance
Even the tv news is saying this
And yet nothing
Well accept bums and illegals are still increasing as well as crime
It at least the dreaded straw has been ostracized as well as the formidable manhole cover wiped from existence like a Painting of the past that a group wants to banish from existence of the world
The few are ruling the world while the hard working common sense people are slammed with lame duck political laws and rules and even firing people for not identifying people sorry not people …non denomination of existence as a carbon based living entity here nor there nor anything unless they deem so or allow you to or not allow or change their mind or not or anything or exercise or not exercise their existence at all …..
And should you not address them properly as to what they have decided at that moment …you are fired or released or reprimanded or slandered or effigied into a hateful existence of non conformity or vision or lol diversity as if everyone sees everyone as the same now anyways lol
Pause
The only place they have repaired/replaced the road is in front of Kaiser Hospital, Walnut Creek. Everywhere else has been filling in holes or slurry.
What BS!!!
Wait, we have to wait some more. Right…
This is indeed fluff issued by the MTC intended to put lipstick on a pig (CA gas tax). It’s a CA tax, so I don’t even care about roads in other CA regions. The only information I would find useful would be how CA roads compare to those in other states using the same criteria.
Just got back from N. Carolina. A much smaller budget than CA I’m sure, yet all their roads are smooth as silk. We know how to tax and spend, we just can’t get anything done properly.
Very slightly.
Meanwhile Gaff ’em Gavin wants to steal road tax money for rail projects to nowhere.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235925402.html
Recently, the city paid to have Whitman Rd. between Detroit and Oak Grove repaved and re-striped. This is the 2ND TIME this stretch has been repaved, the first time they removed the 2 lanes in one direction and made it only 1 lane with a middle turning lane. It was not in bad shape at all when they recently repaved it, and cannot by any stretch be considered a highly travelled roadway, with both Detroit and Oak Grove at each end with massive issues. Oak Grove between Monument and the city limits is a complete joke of a roadway, yet they spend how many tens of thousands on Whitman…..again!?
If you click on the link for Contra Costa county, you’ll see that Concord has declined the most in the last 10 years; and it’s not even close.
Welcome to socialist communism
Hope you enjoy it
As well as all the tax increase going to fund and house illegals
Did that sensus say how many illegals are on the street
Yeah see none
They are all housed in affordable housing keeping citizens out and on the street
Now liberal 1%ers are building more low income housing on your dime and paying no taxes to do so
All for illegals and maybe a few citizens to keep the ratio in check for the books
But if anyone can tell us where those 15 million. Illegals are living it would answer lots of questions as well as where are the accountants for all this housing expense
As far as the high speed rail scam bond of 5 billion.
You Get nothing from it
It’s exactly what you get for believing a politician and not reading the fine print
Where the bond goes to general fund if not applied to the rail
So lol you voted to screw yourselves
Must be nice because you keep doing it
This is why we don’t want Sacramento to run PGE!
Sorry. I don’t see it! Given what we pay in taxes specifically “earmarked” for road maintenance and repair, our roads should be pristine. NOT!!
Oh my god, we voted for a tax and then didn’t see any of the benefits? Well I never!
Just keep voting to put the same morons in the Sludgislature in Excramento. Not to mention our unemployed congress critters.
Besides car traffic, some of these roads look like endless patch jobs for sewer or utilities. Can the city somehow offer incentives to people and utilities who work in tandem then repair the road as needed? Oak Grove/Treat is a nightmare and needs to be poured concrete at the intersections to get more years out of the repair. The repair work on Farm Bureau needs to be a model for the rest of the city.
BFF Out!
Will never happen. Look at that garbage Pleasant hill rd between Gregory & Taylor.
The main roads up in the gold country are smooth and quiet. It shows that it CAN be done.
I prefer they NOT fixed the bumpy roads in Concord. Who needs to spend money on speed bumps to slow people down when a nice pothole will do the trick. A few signs that say city road not maintained would cover the liability side.
This fuel tax was only being partially used for the roads. I think it was around 40%. The rest was going to transportation projects. This was something signed in by Governor Moon Beam, Jerry Brown and when the voters had a chance to repeal it, it failed. The general public does not pay attention to the actual bill and where money is spent. Instead they watch a commercial on television telling them the roads will be fixed with this tax.
How much is being spent on Kirker Pass Rd.?? Looks like a new lane is being added. Why?? It’s 2 lanes in both directions. Bailey Rd is a nightmare roller coaster with whiplash. I’ve been using Bailey Rd for 25 years and have only seen a couple of patch jobs that don’t last. My brother came out from Joplin Missouri and first thing he said was “jeez your roads suck “.
They are adding a truck lane to peak the hill in both directions. Waste of time and money. The trucks will have to merge right back into the right lane anyway.
Californians use about 15 billion gallons of gasoline per year. According to the sticker on the gas pump at a local station, $.47 of every gallon sold goes to California, not including your local sales tax. That comes out to a little more than $7 billion a year. Why do we even have a pothole left?
Just watch. The dumb liberal citizens of California will continue to vote for and approve more and more taxes. And, the lying corrupt democrat California government will rake in more and more money for their personal agendas.
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