California invests $1 billion in transportation infrastructure

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California Construction News staff writer

The California Transportation Commission (CTC) has allocated $1 billion for projects aimed at solving mobility challenges and aiding California’s continued effort to make the highway system more resilient to climate change.

“These investments will harden the transportation system against the devastating results of extreme weather events. The allocations made today will add to the electric charging infrastructure, increase mobility options for people who walk and bicycle and enhance our goal to improve safety and economic equity for all users,” said Tony Tavares, Caltrans Director.

About $623 million comes from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and another $295 million via Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

Projects include:

  • $15 million for the installation of electric charging infrastructure to power electric buses at San Mateo County’s SamTrans system.
  • $9.5 million to help pay for new bike lanes, crosswalks, pedestrian push buttons, signal heads and other safety upgrades on an 8-mile segment of SR-82 in Santa Clara County.
  • $6 million for the city of Sacramento to help build a new light rail station serving Sacramento City College.
  • $114,000 for the construction of service bays needed to maintain a new fleet of fuel cell electric buses to serve Humboldt County.

Click the links to learn more about projects in each area.

District 1 – Eureka (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino counties)

District 2 – Redding (Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties)

District 4 – Bay Area / Oakland (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma counties)

District 6 – Fresno / Bakersfield (Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Madera and Kern counties)

District 9 – Bishop (Inyo, Kern and Mono counties)

District 12 – Orange County

IIJA is a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure to improve the sustainability and resiliency of the energy, water, broadband and transportation systems. California has received nearly $62 billion in federal infrastructure funding since its passage. This includes investments to upgrade the state’s roads, bridges, rail, public transit, airports, ports, waterways and the electric vehicle charging network. The funding alone has already created more than 170,000 jobs in California.

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