Amador County – The California Department of Transportation’s District 10 is ceremonially breaking ground on a $122 million dollar highway project on Stockton’s leg of the Interstate 5 today, and will come to Amador County later this month for a workshop on the top two alternates for the Pine Grove Corridor Improvement Project.
Caltrans District 10 Director Carrie L. Bowen announced the ceremony Friday, saying the department will break ground on the Interstate 5 North Stockton Improvement Project at 10 a.m. today (Monday, Sept. 12) at the Karl Ross American Legion Post Number 16, at 2020 Plymouth Road in Stockton.
Bowen said the $122.1 million Stockton I-5 project will add “High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes,” auxiliary lanes and sound-walls from south of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard and Charter Way to Hammer Lane. “The project also reconstructs the existing six-lane freeway with continuously reinforced concrete pavement between Country Club Boulevard and Hammer Lane.” She said: “This project will improve safety, reduce traffic congestion and delays.”
Speakers were to include Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston; Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty; San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors Chairman Larry Ruhstaller; and Andrew Chesley, the Executive Director, San Joaquin Council of Governments.
Later this month in Amador County, Caltrans will host a public workshop on the Pine Grove Corridor Improvement project, with the Amador County Transportation Commission. The Sept. 21 workshop will look at the top two alternatives for a Pine Grove Corridor Improvement, and it starts with an open house 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Pine Grove Elementary School. A presentation is at 6 p.m., and the workshop is at 6:45 p.m.
ACTC’s Stakeholders’ Work Group recommended moving forward with two different alternates. One Pine Grove Corridor alternate is to fix the existing Highway 88 through Pine Grove, with a three-lane, through-town, improvement, estimated to cost $16.7 million to $27.4 million. It would include streetscape design, traffic calming, pedestrian crossings, access control, safety enhancements, and operational improvements such as beneficial side-streets.
The second Pine Grove Corridor alternate to be discussed is a Southern Bypass route, from Climax Road to Mount Zion Road, estimated to cost $43.3 million to $71 million. It would need another $50 million from Caltrans added to the funds expected to be available.
The workshop likely will touch on the list of 13 or so other alternates that were assessed and discarded by the Stakeholders’ Work Group, over a series of a dozen or more meetings. This will be the first look for the public at the two finalists.
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