A Century Ago Paving City Streets Was Controversial

A Century Ago in Santa Clara, the plan for paving streets was controversial with the community. In the early 1900s, it wasn't so popular.

Santa Clara takes great pride in the quality of its streets. And rightly so. The City is consistently “Good” or “Very Good” in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Pavement Condition Index. But this wasn’t always the case. A century ago, there was significant opposition to paving city streets — some for the perennial objection to civic projects … Read more