ALISO VIEJO : Pacific Park Drive Bridge to Be Dedicated
The now complete Pacific Park Drive bridge over Aliso Creek and Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park will be dedicated and opened to through traffic Tuesday.
The 9 a.m. ceremony will begin with Orange County Supervisor Thomas F. Riley and Aliso Viejo Community Assn. President Bob Fisher taking the first car--an antique--across the bridge.
“It is the primary entryway to the Aliso Viejo community and the primary entrance to Pacific Park, a 900-acre business park in the middle of Aliso Viejo,” said Wendy Harder, a spokeswoman for the Mission Viejo Co., which developed the Aliso Viejo planned community.
It took about three years and $3 million to complete the Pacific Park Drive extension between Alicia Parkway and Aliso Creek Road, she said.
The bridge will provide Aliso Viejo residents easier access to Laguna Niguel and Laguna Hills as well as to Interstate 5 and the San Diego Freeway.
Parents impatient for the road’s opening have already been seen testing the asphalt with their children’s strollers.
Harder said that with the bridge’s completion Aliso Viejo’s arterial roads are about 95% complete.
The dedication ceremony also will include music by the Aliso Niguel High School band.
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