Tulare County is receiving nearly $100 million to improve its highways.
Sen. Alex Padilla announced that Tulare County is receiving nearly half of a $203 million allocation for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
The big picture: Tulare County is receiving $98 million in funding from the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA) grant program.
- Funding will go to improve Highway 99 through Tulare County and the Paige Ave. multimodal interchange.
- Around 5.4 miles of four-lane freeway along Highway 99 will be expanded to six lanes.
- There will also be four ramps reconstructed into a consolidated multimodal interchange with sequential roundabouts at the ramp termini and adjacent local street interceptions.
- Further, the funding will go toward constructing 10-foot-wide shared-use paths along Paige Ave. to create an east-west multimodal corridor.
Zoom out: The other part of the grant funding is going toward highway improvements in Redwood City, specifically to alleviate traffic and roadway safety issues at the Highway 84 and Highway 101 interchange.
What they’re saying: “This $98.4 million in federal funding will support dramatic improvement to Highway 99 in the City of Tulare, finally widening this section to six lanes to improve safety and reduce congestion,” said Tulare County Association of Governments Chairman Rudy Mendoza said. “Highway 99 has been the most dangerous road in America for years, but we are changing that.”
