This is a statewide study that will help answer the following questions:
What are the conditions of local streets and roads and non-pavement assets?
What will it cost to bring them up to good condition?
How much will it cost to maintain them in good condition for the next 25 years?
Is there a funding shortfall? If so, what is it?
Our goal is to contact all 536 cities and counties in California to get this information.
Why Is This Study Needed?
There is no comprehensive and systematic statewide approach to quantify local streets and roads needs statewide. Only 10% of the recent $20 billion transportation bond measure (Prop. 1B) went to cities and counties, despite the fact that local streets and roads comprise 83% of the State’s publicly maintained miles.
Who Is Sponsoring this Project?
Many cities and counties contributed funding to this study, including the County of Los Angeles. The agencies listed below have accepted the leadership responsibility of completing this study on behalf of the cities and counties in California.
California State Association of Counties (CSAC)
League of California Cities (LOCC)
County Engineers Association of California (CEAC)
County of Los Angeles
California Regional Transportation Planning Agencies (RTPA)
California Rural Counties Task Force (RCTF)
The Oversight Committee is composed of representatives from each organization, with the County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works acting as the Project Manager.
How Is This Information Going to be Used?
The results will be used to assist local and regional agencies in securing funding for their streets and roads infrastructure needs. It will also provide, for the first time, an analysis of the streets and roads infrastructure needs for all local agencies in California. Also, the standard needs assessment approach developed from this study will enable quicker and more efficient reporting of statewide needs in the future.
The results will be presented to the Governor and State Legislature as part of a plan to secure additional infrastructure funding for Cities and Counties.
How Can Cities and Counties Help?
We need information from your agency! Do you have a current needs assessment report that includes the following:
Number of road and street miles
Pavement condition ratings
Pavement maintenance treatments used by your agency and the corresponding trigger levels for each treatment
Type of pavement management system used for analysis and prioritization
Data on non-pavement assets (e.g. sidewalks, street lights, signals etc)
Available revenues to maintain both pavements and non-pavement assets
Funding shortfalls
Please provide us with the contact person who is responsible for both pavement and non-pavement assets in your agency. We will be in touch with them soon to obtain this information.
Who Will Perform This Study?
Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd. has been selected to perform this study. The Project Manager is Ms. Margot Yapp,
and her email address is
myapp@nce.reno.nv.us.
