$61 Million to Repair Roads
Orange County transportation officials approved $61 million Monday to repair bumpy county thoroughfares, part of a three-year effort to reduce a backlog of such work.
The funds, approved unanimously by the Orange County Transportation Authority, will be combined with more than $80 million in local matching funds for work on arterials that serve regional, as opposed to municipal, traffic.
“These repairs are important to everybody,” OCTA Director Miguel Pulido said. “At the end of the day, a pothole hurts everyone, no matter what city you’re from.”
Monday’s appropriation was the second of three funding installments planned for this year and is aimed at correcting deterioration along 6,000 miles of pavement.
The problems were identified in a 1998 study that cited a maintenance backlog on arterials that exceeded $340 million.
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