Personally, I have seen that happening on freeways around me. Less in side streets, but still, I've noticed an uptick in roadwork

The tourist street in Playa del Carmen, Mexico got tore up right at the start.

They've been doing this by me. LA Metro actually finished digging up the street for a subway station about 7 months ahead of schedule (which I think is practically unheard of)

https://thesource.metro.net/2020/06/15/metro-completes-decki...

Unfortunately, I think this is countered by municipalities losing funding from sales taxes.

California has gotten a windfall in sales taxes from Amazon and Ebay in recent years when sales tax collection was forced. The money is always poorly spent.

I don't know in detail what California's budget is like (other than they've been in the whole lately?) But I personally view a lot of the issues with local and state government spending as being associated with bidding processes and the cost of e.g., infrastructure. I think California generally has the right priorities (roughly, education, healthcare, safety (although this could perhaps be reshuffled, see zeitgeist), and infrastructure). If anything I think they probably need to work to reduce costs in higher education especially and spend more on infrastructure (or reduce costs, but I think that'll be harder than in ed).