Earlier this week, the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee and Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee #2 held a joint informational hearing on the State and Local Transportation Maintenance Backlog. Members of the Committees heard presentations from State and local agency representatives outlining the transportation maintenance backlog funding shortfalls. RCRC submitted comments to Committee members in advance of the hearing outlining findings in the Rural Counties Task Force’s recently completed 2015 Rural Counties Pavement Needs Assessment, the importance of interregional travel for California’s rural communities, and general rural county transportation funding issues. The 2015 Rural Counties Pavement Needs Assessment – which, among other things, found a $9.8 billion deferred maintenance funding shortfall over the next 20 years for the rural transportation system – will be released in the coming weeks. RCRC’s letter to the members of the joint Senate informational hearing can be accessed here.
