For immediate release: January 5, 2026
Contact: Rachel Gordon, rachel.gordon@sfdpw.org
SAN FRANCISCO MAINTAINS A ROADWAY PAVEMENT CONDITION RATING OF “GOOD”
Annual Evaluation Keeps the City’s Ranking Above the Bay Area Average
SAN FRANCISCO – An end-of-the-year assessment of San Francisco roads found that the City maintained a Pavement Condition Index score of 75 in 2025, a rating deemed “good” and tops among big Bay Area cities.
Findings from the annual evaluation are released Dec. 31 of every year and are tracked by the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The data looks at the condition of each block and assigns a cumulative score.
The score represents an overall rating of road conditions on a scale from 0-100, with zero being a pothole-riddled, crumbling street and 100 signifying a freshly paved road. The average score in the region is 67. San Jose’s latest reported score is 73; Oakland’s is 58.
In San Francisco, crews paved 581 City-maintained blocks in 2025.
San Francisco Public Works oversees the City’s Street Resurfacing Program and uses both in-house and contractor crews to complete the work.
San Francisco’s PCI score sat in the mid-60s during the early 2000s. But the City’s commitment to fund roadway maintenance over the last 15-plus years has yielded a steady rise in the pavement condition score. The $979 million investment over that period resulted in more than 9,000 – or two-thirds – of San Francisco’s nearly 13,000 City-maintained blocks being resurfaced.
Any dip in funding will likely lead to worsening roadway conditions.
“Our resurfacing program follows industry best practices by preserving streets in good condition instead of letting them deteriorate. This approach is the most cost-effective,” said Public Works Director Carla Short. “Our driving philosophy is to treat the right road with the right treatment at the right time for the right price.”
Extending the life of a block in San Francisco that is in good condition can cost as little as $50,000. By comparison, the price to completely reconstruct a block in very poor condition is $500,000 or more.
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