Wide freeways and fast lanes for high demand

Traffic will again flow.

 

Chair Lori Holt Pfeiler said, "These bond funds will put people to work building important infrastructure, improving both our economy and our quality of life."

 

The bonds are Series A Build America Bonds, available from the federal government until the end of December, and Series B tax-exempt bonds. The funds add to the $14 billion expected from the TransNet half-cent sales tax during its 40 years.

 

Construction projects on SR 76, SR 52, and Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo coastal rail run are also scheduled to receive shares from the bond revenues.

 

The time was right for SANDAG. Interest rates are at a historical low and construction costs declining.

 

Average travel times will go down, as the congestion eases up along the distance between La Jolla Village Drive and Harbor Drive in Oceanside, Camp Pendleton. On the 27 miles on I-5 North, project workers will build wider connections by adding general purpose lanes each direction, and HOV lanes drivers can use to travel to work centers and the Del Mar fair grounds. During congested travel times, lone drivers can join the carpoolers in the fast lanes on direct access ramps at Voigt Drive and Oceanside Boulevard, for free.

 

Planners are preparing for an increase in the 200,000 vehicles a day to 300,000 by 2030. Loads go up, but the traffic flow shapes up.

 

Adversity and lane struggles will calm down on I-805 and I-15. Two express lane projects, history making works made from concrete and asphalt, are underway.

 

On the I-805 backbone, between the SR 905, just north of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry that takes in trucks carrying 28 billion worth in goods between the U. S. and Mexico in a year, and I-5, work is underway on 4 express lanes on the median, 28 miles for man made production.

 

The 11 mile construction in the South Bay will cost $1.3 billion

 

One hundred retaining walls will stand along the sides of a long and wide North and South path. Construction begins in 2013.

 

Eastern Chula Vista residents will have easy access to downtown on a new South Bay bus rapid transit (BRT) that rides down the HOV lane that also takes on lone drivers willing to pay a FasTrak fee.

 

Twenty miles of express lanes, four HOVs and a movable barrier like on the Coronado Bridge, will stretch up and down I-15 from SR 163 to SR 78 in Escondido.

 

The line under construction, from north of the 164 connection to SR 78, will take a lot of funding before the oil stains can turn the new smooth surfaces into well ridden dirt covered roads. Three segments long, the project can last a little shorter now that more dollars are coming in. The middle segment is done. Four hundred and seventy one million dollars spent.

 

The north segment, from Del Lago to the northern end, set to cost $215 million, and 65 percent done on July 30 this year, ends in Fall 2011. The south segment, from Sabre Springs to the southern end, will line the border passageway in Fall 2012, at a cost of $363 million.