The city of Larkspur in Marin County has the best pavement conditions in the Bay Area, according to data released Wednesday by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on the conditions of the region’s roads.
The annual pavement condition index report released by the MTC — the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county Bay Area — graded the region’s overall 44,000 miles of local streets and roads in 2024 as “fair” with a score of 67 out of a maximum 100 points.
Larkspur had the best PCI score in the region at 87 on both a one-year index and a three-year moving average. The MTC noted that Larkspur as recently as 2017 had one-year scores in the “poor” range below 50, but voters approved two sales tax measures to rehabilitate the city’s 65 miles of streets.
Other top jurisdictions in the 2024 index included Palo Alto, Cupertino, Orinda, Hillsborough, and Los Altos Hills. MTC officials said St. Helena in Napa County had the biggest improvement of any Bay Area jurisdiction, going from a PCI score of 52 to 63. The region’s three major cities — San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose — each saw minor improvements in their three-year scores.
The only jurisdiction in the “poor” range in the most recent report is Vallejo with a three-year moving average of 44. The region’s overall score of 67 has now stayed the same for 10 straight years.
MTC chair and Pleasant Hill Mayor Sue Noack said in a statement that the report released Wednesday shows that “our cities and counties are continuing to hold the line against major deterioration” but noted that for the overall score, “the sheer size of the Bay Area’s local streets and roads network makes this a hard needle to move.”
The full report with a list of scores by jurisdiction can be found on the MTC website.