Followup:  Half Moon Bay is improving its roads

Mike Ferreira took me to task for yesterday’s story about Half Moon Bay’s roads.  He’s pretty proud of the work that the city council has done to improve the streets of the city, which have moved up in 2003 from dead last in 2002. And they have good reason to think they did even better in 2004.

According to City Engineer Paul Nagengast, the city council has authorized spending $1.4 million on capital improvements to Half Moon Bay’s roads since 2002, after years of patching, but no capital expenditure at all.  Paul also sent me a list of 44 stretches of road—23,100 feet of street—that have been improved since October 2003. In other words, this process began about the time the MTC study ended.

Finally, I have my own doubts about the MTC’s numbers, since the unincorporated areas of San Mateo County scored better than Half Moon Bay.  But sometimes I wonder whether the County even knows they have roads in Montara.