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Cal-Trans Awards $35.5 Million to El Dorado County Project

May 26, 2009

MISSOURI FLAT ROAD INTERCHANGE AND WEBER CREEK BRIDGES

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The California Transportation Commission Awards $35.5 Million to Missouri Flat Interchange Project The California Transportation Commission recently allocated $35,456,000 to the Missouri Flat Interchange Project, including $5 million in federal economic stimulus funding.

“This is the largest amount of money ever awarded to a transportation project in El Dorado County. We’re putting people back to work and improving safety” said District 3 Supervisor Jack Sweeney.

The project includes seismic retrofits of the eastbound and westbound Weber Creek Bridges, widening each bridge to three lanes, construction of auxiliary lanes between Missouri Flat Road and Placerville Drive, and a bicycle/pedestrian facility cantilevered off the eastbound bridge. The seismic retrofit of the Weber Creek bridges will bring the bridges into compliance with current seismic standards and auxiliary lanes will improve safety and traffic operations on US 50 and the Missouri Flat and Placerville Drive interchanges. The bicycle/pedestrian facility, funded in part by the $5 million in federal economic stimulus funds, will provide a non-motorized connection between Missouri Flat Road and Placerville Drive.

El Dorado County Parks and Recreation Commissioner Bob Smart said “the bike/pedestrian facility will make it possible to bicycle or walk between the communities of Placerville and Diamond Springs / El Dorado. Students will be able to walk or ride their bikes across the bridge to Herbert Green School. What a wonderful legacy we will be leaving to our children and grandchildren.”

The El Dorado County Department of Transportation is the lead agency for construction of all phases of the Missouri Flat Interchange Project. Construction is scheduled to begin in the Fall of 2009 and be complete in the Fall of 2011.

For more information about the Missouri Flat Interchange Project, please contact Dan Bolster at (530) 642-5262

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