For Immediate Release

January 13, 2010

Contact: Gloria Chan, 554-5926

Capital Planning Committee to Establish Working Group to Identify Long Term Strategy to Keep Roads Smooth

San Francisco, CA– All across the nation, cities and counties are scrambling to secure funding to fix the road infrastructure. According to a January 2010 California Statewide Local Streets and Roads Assessment, the first study of its kind, the condition of streets and roads will rapidly deteriorate without significant state investment in local roadways.

Cities and counties own and operate more than 81% of the road mileage in California, where every trip begins and ends. In San Francisco, the average Pavement Condition Index score is 63 of out a possible 100. Without adequate investments, the PCI will drop to 57 over the next five years and to 53 over the next ten years. A viable and stable funding sources is needed now because the more a street deteriorates, the more costly they become to repair later.

In an effort to determine a solution, the Mayor and the President of the Board of Supervisors directed the City's Capital Planning Committee to establish a three-month Street Resurfacing Finance Working Group to identify a long term, sustainable and viable plan to fund the City's road infrastructure.