Council Trying to Speed New Freeway Interchange
The city is taking steps to build an $18-million freeway interchange to ease traffic expected once 6,000 homes are built in the Marblehead, Forster Ranch and Talega Valley planned communities.
On Wednesday, City Council members approved initial negotiations with an engineering firm to design plans for onramps at Avenida Vista Hermosa to Interstate 5.
Developers will pay for most of the project; the city will contribute a $2.5-million Measure M grant. Another $3 million has been requested by Rep. Ron Packard (R-Oceanside) under the 1991 federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
The design and construction of the project could take about four years.
Several residents urged the council to speed up plans to build the interchange or face a potential traffic nightmare on outlying streets.
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