Amador County – The California Transportation Commission recently allocated $58 million for 56 highway, transit, and rail projects statewide, including $1.3 million for two projects in Sacramento.

Matt Rocco of the California Department of Transportation announced the allocations May 12, saying they are intended “to support jobs and upgrade the state’s vital transportation system.”

Caltrans Director Cindy McKim said: “We are putting transportation dollars to work creating jobs and making transportation improvements that will benefit Californians today and for decades to come.”

The project allocations included $90,000 for a “STIP” planning, programming and monitoring project for the Calaveras Council of Governments.

Sacramento was allocated $336,000 “to purchase a new neighborhood ride hybrid bus and make repairs and improvements to various light rail stations,” McKim said. Sacramento also received $1 million for Del Paso Boulevard Streetscape Improvements, between State Highway 160 and Arden Way, including a pedestrian plaza, sidewalks and traffic signals.

It also allocated $1.3 million for work in El Dorado, Nevada and Placer counties, to “install 11 Intelligent Transportation Systems and Transportation Operation Systems to enhance safety, reduce accidents and maximize the efficient use of the highway system.”

It also allocated $10 million to build two carpool lanes on Interstate 680 from Milpitas to Highway 84. Los Angeles received $1.8 million to “seismically retrofit the Century Bridge and to repair 20 bridges in the San Fernando Valley between I-5 and Big Tujunga Wash.” Orange County received $2.5 million to “install electronic highway message signs at seven locations.”

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