Streets that work for everyone

Our roads are what everybody complains about and nobody talks about straight.

Where things actually stand

In November 2024 we voted 62 percent against an $18 million road bond. That's a real answer, and any honest conversation about Fairfax roads has to start from it. The money isn't sitting there waiting.

PCI 53 doesn't become PCI 70 in one four year term. It isn't close, and the money isn't there. Anyone promising to fix the roads without telling you where the money comes from is either not serious or not being straight with you.

What a council member can actually do is smaller. Sequence the worst segments honestly. Publish the list. Stop repaving the streets that generate the loudest complaints ahead of the streets in the worst condition. And chase outside money instead of waiting for it to arrive.

There's also a version of this problem that never shows up in a pavement score. A curb ramp that stops at a lip, a crossing with no audible signal, a push button nobody can find. Those are cheap to fix while a street is already torn up, and expensive to come back for.

Cones and a gravel pile

Also what progress looks like.

What I would do

1. Ask, in public and in writing, whether the Town has a current ADA transition plan, and publish the answer whatever it turns out to be. That's a question, not an accusation.
2. Put the curb ramps at both ends of every repaving job into the same contract as the paving. Not onto a separate list that never gets funded.
3. Publish the street by street pavement condition list on the Town site, so residents can see exactly where their street ranks instead of guessing and resenting.
4. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan reaches the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee on September 21 and the council around October 7, 2026. Read it before voting on it, and post what's in it.

1. September 21, 2026Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan goes to BPAC for recommendation
2. October 7, 2026Council is expected to adopt the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan

What I don't know yet

Three different Town and Transportation Authority of Marin documents report Fairfax's annual share of Measure AA money three different ways. I've written to ask which one is right.

I also don't know how much of the backlog could be paid for by somebody else's money rather than ours. That's the first question I would put to staff.

Last updated August 26, 2026. Corrections