Officials to Tackle Growing Traffic Woes
City leaders are looking to fix some traffic problems in 1998.
Councilman John M. Gullixson said the city plans to apply for more state funds to build an overpass where Imperial Highway meets the railroad tracks just past Esperanza Road. The $42-million project is urgently needed, he said, because traffic backs up every time a train passes and the number of trains passing through town is on the rise.
Last year, the city secured funding to build a similar bridge over the railroad tracks at Fairmont Boulevard. Construction on that overpass will begin in January and is expected to be finished by fall.
The future of a third road project, to widen Imperial Highway, will be put to voters this year.
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