The years-long effort to find consensus on fixing Fresno County’s roads has taken a new turn.
A diverse coalition of mayors, city councilmembers and advocates from Fresno, Clovis and the county’s west side gathered Wednesday morning along a fractured road behind Bulldog Stadium to announce their intentions to collect thousands of signatures from residents over the coming months to qualify a renewal of the county’s transportation sales tax, Measure C, for the November ballot.
“In the next week, we intend to formally file a citizen-led effort to qualify a transportation measure on the November 2026 ballot,” said Veronica Garibay, a leader with the Transportation for All community coalition working toward Measure C’s renewal. “Once we qualify the measure, a transportation plan that was created by all of us — by the people standing behind me and the people that aren’t here today — will be brought directly to the voters.”…