Caltrans to Receive Over $200 Million for Highway Improvements in Bay Area and Central Valley

On October 17, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) announced that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will receive over $203 million for two highway infrastructure projects in Redwood City and Tulare, California. The federal investments will fund critical infrastructure upgrades for the State Route (SR) 84-U.S. 101 interchange and support roadway improvements for SR 99 and the Paige Avenue multimodal interchange. The grants come from the Department of Transportation’s Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA) grant program, which received a substantial funding increase through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

$105 million will go to the SR 84-U.S. 101 Interchange Reimagined Project to help alleviate traffic and roadway safety issues along the interchange, which led to 195 collisions between 2018 and 2022. Details of the project are available here.

$98 million will improve Tulare’s SR 99 Corridor and Paige Avenue multimodal interchange. Along SR 99, the project will convert approximately 5.4 miles of four-lane freeway into a six-lane freeway, with one lane constructed in each direction. The project will also reconstruct four ramps into a consolidated multimodal interchange with sequential roundabouts at the ramp termini and adjacent local street intersections. In addition, the funding will support the construction of 10-foot-wide shared-use paths along both sides of Paige Avenue to create an east-west multimodal corridor.

For additional information, contact RCRC Policy Advocate Sidd Nag.