Amador County – The Amador County Transportation Commission was awarded nearly $200,000 in highway funding, including $141,000 for the Kennedy Mine Tailing Wheel building project.

ACTC received two allocations from the California Transportation Commission last week, which announced $401 million were being allocated state wide for 39 different projects. ACTC’s two project funding allocations included $57,000 for planning, programming and monitoring, through the State Transportation Improvement Project, with the funds to be used on the Highway 88 Corridor Improvement project.

ACTC also received the allocation of $141,000 for the Kennedy Gold Mine Tailing Wheel build project, which will erect a building similar in shape and size to the original building that housed one of several Kennedy Mine tailing wheels.

CTC in announcing the award last week said the Kennedy Tailing Wheel Building project “enhances the opportunity for all who travel along State Route 49/88 to experience the unique grandeur of the remaining tailing wheel, and the lore of hard rock mining and the area’s rich history.”

Acting Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty said the 39 projects included $327 million in funding through the Proposition 1B of 2006, a voter-approved transportation bond. The $327 million will fund 10 projects, “including $42 million toward the purchase of 42 new passenger rail cars,” which “will be put into service on all three state-supported Amtrak California routes, the Capitol Corridor, San Joaquin and Pacific Surfliner.”

San Joaquin County received $50 million in funding for phase one of a widening project on State Route 99. It will widen the highway from four to six lanes over 8 miles between Arch Road and SR-120.

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