Amador County – The California Transportation Commission announced last week that Sutter Creek has been allocated $885,000 for its realignment of Prospect Drive.

Public Information Officer Chris Mayfield of Caltrans District 10 in Stockton announced the allocation as part of $784 million in allocations the CTC has administered for 61 projects, when CTC authorized a bond sale for the projects.

Mayfield said the bond sales “allowed projects that were delayed or at risk of delay due to lack of funding to move forward to construction.” He said “bond proceeds will also fund more than 300 ongoing projects through June 2012.” The “newly allocated projects leverage around $11 billion in non-state funds.”

Sutter Creek will realign Prospect Drive with Bowers Drive in Sutter Creek, and build a new intersection across Highway 104 and Lower Ridge Road. The new alignment will take part of the Italian Benevolent Society’s undeveloped grounds at the corner of Prospect and 104, and take out the existing intersection of Prospect Drive with 104/Ridge Road.

The new alignment will be two-tenths of a mile west of Prospect Drive, to two-tenths of a mile east of Bowers Drive. The project will construct left turn lanes and install a traffic signal. Sutter Creek and Amador County Transportation Commission are heading the project, which uses funds from the county-wide Regional Traffic Mitigation Fee program.

The allocations include $7.2 million to the “South Sacramento Corridor” project’s second phase, to build a five-level parking structure at the Cosumnes River College campus. The project will add 2,000 new parking spaces. Another $20 million is going to Placer County for a two-lane segment of its four-lane State Route 65 Lincoln Bypass.

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