PIRU : Road Work to Start on California 126
Workers are scheduled Monday to begin a $6.4-million highway widening project on three miles of California 126 near Piru.
The project will upgrade the highway from two to four lanes from Powell Road to just east of Center Street and also calls for widening Piru Creek Bridge.
Caltrans officials estimate that the improvement project will be completed by spring, 1994.
Ventura County Supervisor Maggie Erickson Kildee said she is glad to see work begin again on the highway, known locally as “Blood Alley” because several accidents occurred on the road before improvements were made in earlier projects.
The road work near Piru is the third of six projects that will eventually widen the road from a two-lane highway to an all-paved four-lane divided highway from Santa Paula to Interstate 5, said Jerry B. Baxter, a Caltrans spokesman.
The cost of the entire project is estimated at $79.7 million.
Baxter said another $54 million in state highway improvement funds has recently been earmarked for the final three phases of the project.
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