After hearing this information, Jackson Council Member Andy Rodriguez had the discussion agenized because he had heard the casino gets as many as 12,000 car trips a day and did not want the added traffic in the already traffic impacted intersection of Hwy. 49 and 88. It was pointed out that through an extensive set of meetings previously held by the Board of Supervisors, the Community and Casino representatives; there was an agreement that Casino traffic would be directed to the use Dalton Road off of Hwy 88. City Manager Mike Daly pointed out that the citizens in attendance at those community meetings were overwhelmingly Ridge Road residents who said that Ridge road was not designed for the amount of traffic that it was carrying, nor could it accommodate traffic from a business the size of the casino.

At that time it was noted that Hwy. 88 would be a more appropriate route as it is a state highway. The Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk funded the $6 million dollar road project to give the casino direct access to Highway 88, which would take casino traffic off of county roads, like Ridge Rd. The new road, Dalton Drive travels over 1,000 acres the tribe bought six years ago. The land and the road through it will become a commercial corridor for the tribe to develop.