SIMI VALLEY : $4.5 Million Allotted to Repave Freeway
The California Transportation Commission has allocated $4.5 million to repave a stretch of the Simi Valley Freeway straddling Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
The commission awarded funds for the freeway improvement project Feb. 18, said Pat Reid, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation. The money comes from state and federal tax revenues generated from the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel.
Caltrans will use the funds to resurface a 4.8-mile section of the six-lane freeway between Kuehner Drive in Simi Valley and De Soto Avenue in Chatsworth, Reid said. This stretch, which handles more than 100,000 vehicles trips a day, has deteriorated at various points over the years and is badly in need of repair, she said.
Work is expected to begin in June and should be completed in late January.
Also last week, the commission allocated $478,000 to the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District to build a two-mile extension of a bike path that runs along 4.2 miles of the Arroyo Simi flood control channel.
Dmitri Hunt, an official with the park district, said the bike path will be extended from Royal Avenue just east of Sequoia Avenue to Stearns Street at Los Angeles Avenue. The extension will enable bike riders to travel to the new commuter train station that will be at Stearns Street, Hunt said.
Money for the bike path project will come from Proposition 116, a statewide bond measure approved in June, 1990.
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