Padilla Announces Over $200 Million for Highway Improvements in Bay Area and Central Valley
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) 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. The project will replace all ramps at the SR 84-U.S. 101 interchange, widen Woodside Road to six lanes between Bay Road and the northbound U.S. 101 off-ramp at Seaport Boulevard, lower Woodside Road to increase the vertical clearance on the U.S. 101 highway, and eliminate the five-leg intersection at Broadway/Woodside Road. The funding will also be used to construct traffic signals at ramp intersections, add turn lanes, and construct flyover ramps between Veterans Boulevard and the U.S. 101 highway with sidewalks and bicycle paths.
$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.
“The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues to deliver for California communities, creating a faster and safer commute for millions of Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley residents,” said Senator Padilla. “This critical funding for the 101 and State Route 84 interchange in Redwood City and the section of State Route 99 in Tulare will help reconstruct heavily trafficked highways to reduce traffic collisions, build new pathways for bikers and pedestrians, and improve air quality, all while producing good-paying construction jobs.”
“This federal grant will allow Caltrans and its local partners to reduce travel times and improve goods movement in the Central Valley and Bay Area,” said Caltrans Director Tony Tavares. “These projects will help meet our goals to increase safety, efficiency, and resiliency of California’s multimodal freight transportation system.”
“We are incredibly grateful to U.S. Senator Alex Padilla for his steadfast support in securing this critical grant,” said San Mateo County Transportation Authority Board of Directors Chair Carlos Romero. “This funding, which leverages our San Mateo County Measure A transportation sales taxes, brings us closer to realizing a project that will increase safety, improve traffic flow, and set a new standard for multimodal access. We’re excited to deliver these long-awaited benefits to our community.”
INFRA awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas. More information on the program is available here. Senator Padilla has secured billions for California infrastructure improvements from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Last month, Padilla announced that the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and Caltrans will receive a combined $220.6 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to improve mobility along the Interstate 680 corridor and to construct a high-speed rail station in Madera. Earlier this year, Padilla announced hundreds of millions from the INFRA grant program for a pair of California infrastructure projects, including $426.7 million to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind infrastructure and $53.9 million to the North County Transit District for improvements to the San Dieguito River Railway Bridge.
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