TO: TRANSPORTATION AND FROM: Bicycle and Pedestrian
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE Advisory Committee
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: 1/26/26
______________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Citywide Pavement Conditions, Funding, and Maintenance Program Delivery Strategy Status Report
Honorable City Councilmembers:
The San José Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) thanks you for using repaving as an opportunity to create safer streets and acknowledges the difficulty in reformatting older streets which are car centric to create pathways for multimodality use.
At the same time, we must encourage efforts to create the safest possible streets in alignment with San José city stated goals of safe streets for all.
Given Measure T will expire in 2028, we have recommendations for priorities before our City’s pavement improvement funding significantly diminishes. Please make sure that our Measure T money is being used for the greatest impact; not just to maintain a status quo—use it for improvements that will achieve both street safety and our City’s Climate Smart, Climate Action, Vision Zero and mode shift goals.
We request more attention to the degeneration of pavement that affects pedestrian and bicycle safety in between routine scheduled maintenance.
Street repaving is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to restripe our roads for maximum safety. Please ensure that our city’s repaving standards employ the best practices:
daylighting, narrowest-allowed-width, crosswalk and crossbike markings, and multimodal expansion including protected bike lanes. Again, please align this department’s paving and repaving with our city’s climate action goals.
These comments were appoved unanimously at the Janaury 26th, 2026 BPAC meeting.
Sincerely,
Jordan Moldow, Chairperson