Argus Courier » Money from the $4.5 billion measure is earmarked for Bay Area transportation projects including $120 million to widen Highway 101 from the Sonoma-Marin county line to Novato and $100 million to improve Highway 37, although officials are unclear on those projects’ timelines.
Noozhawk » Caltrans will improve and extend the service life of two bridges on Highway 101 at the Refugio Road undercrossing in Santa Barbara County due to funding by Senate Bill 1. More than 33,000 vehicles per day cross the bridges to reach their destination. The $1.4 million project has been awarded to Truesdale Corp.
Ventura County Star » Adding carpool lanes to help relieve congestion on Highway 101 is one of the Ventura County Transportation Commission’s highest-priority projects. So even though the estimated $750 million to $2 billion in funds to build the lanes haven’t been identified yet, the commission on Friday took the first significant step toward possibly making them […]
Daily Post » A plan that calls for expanding a nine-mile stretch from Palo Alto to Redwood City would make four lanes available to all cars and a fifth lane for carpoolers and single-occupant drivers who pay a toll. To accomplish the expansion, Caltrans would have to seize DMV property, narrow some frontage roads and move sound […]
Thousand Oaks Acorn » A reader writes: “The diversity can be achieved inexpensively and with zero impact on the human population simply by tranquilizing and relocating these animals.”