Allocations for improvements of community roads keep rolling in.
The annual update of the County of San Diego’s TransNet Local Street Improvement Program added $264,616 of TransNet funding for the Bradley Avenue overcrossing of State Route 67.
A 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote May 22 approved the updated list of projects which will be funded by TransNet local streets and road revenue over the next five years.
The five-year amount for the Bradley Avenue overcrossing was increased from $14,463,954 to $14,728,570.
In 2004 the county’s voters passed an extension of the half-cent TransNet sales tax which is divided between highways, transit and local streets and roads.
The County of San Diego expects to receive $98.7 million of TransNet revenue during the five-year period from Fiscal Year 2018-19 to Fiscal Year 2022-23.
The Regional Transportation Improvement Plan is coordinated by the San Diego Association of Governments, which administers the TransNet funding, and the RTIP includes the Local Street Improvement Program.
The RTIP is updated every other year – the most recent SANDAG update was approved in September 2018 – but amended on a quarterly basis.
The county updates its Local Street Improvement Program annually.
The projects which had been funded through the Local Street Improvement Program included two Ramona projects which were completed with funding remaining.
Funding for the widening of San Vicente Road in Ramona between Warnock Drive and Wildcat Canyon Road and for turn lanes and other improvements to the intersection of State Route 67 with Highland Valley Road and Dye Road was reallocated for the Bradley Avenue overcrossing and for closeout work related to improvements to Alpine Boulevard in Alpine.
In the county’s 2018 update the planned TransNet money for the Bradley Avenue overcrossing was $2,294,000 during 2018-19, $6,669,000 in 2019-20, $2,583,000 during 2020-21, $2,667,954 for 2021-22, and $250,000 in 2022-23.
The 2019 update calls for TransNet spending of $2,294,000 in 2018-19, $8,633,616 during 2019-20, $883,000 in 2020-21, $2,667,954 during 2021-22, and $250,000 in 2022-23.
TransNet funding will also be used for principal and interest repayment of money the county borrows for the Bradley Road overcrossing work.
The $5,750,880 total consists of $1,962,240 during 2020-21, $1,916,960 in 2021-22, and $1,871,680 for 2022-23. The amounts were not changed from the 2018 plan.
The county will use $19,503,000 of TransNet funding for the Ashwood Street corridor in Lakeside. In both the 2018 and 2019 versions of the expenditure plan TransNet will fund $3,100,000 in 2018-19, $2,969,000 during 2019-20, $3,949,000 in 2020-21, $4,894,000 during 2021-22, and $4,591,000 in 2022-23.
Road maintenance is now included in the county’s Local Street Improvement Program appropriations, and a five-year total of $25 million for roadway maintenance and overlay will fund road sealing, asphalt concrete overlays, sidewalk repairs, and other pavement resurfacing or rehabilitation.
The total amount includes $13,889,640 for roads in the Second Supervisorial District which will cover $1,320,000 during 2018-19 and $3,142,410 each year from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
The county’s annual cost share of $12,500 for the regional traffic signal management program is also included in the Local Street Improvement Program.
