Transportation news

Thanks to new funding allocation from the California Transportation Commission, several infrastructure improvements are coming to the Inland Empire. The commission last month allocated $1.1 billion for projects to repair and improve California’s transportation infrastructure.

This includes $323 million from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and over $115 million from Senate Bill 1, the Road Repair and Accountability

Act of 2017.

Projects tabbed for the Inland Empire include:

• $40 million for 215 Freeway near Perris to rehabilitate and repair pavement, upgrading facilities to Americans with Disabilities Act standards, upgrading guardrails, and installing slope stabilization and erosion control measures. Construction is expected to start this summer and continue through 2028. The work boundaries begin in South Perris, north of Romoland to just north of the Ramona Expressway.

• $15.6 million near Ontario at the southbound 15 and eastbound 10 freeways’ interchange to upgrade bridge rail, improve bridge decks, install a ramp meter and maintenance vehicle pullout, and upgrade drainage.

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