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Bakersfield projects in the local transportation measure
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Safe Roads for Kern
Measure "I" Expenditure Plan
| Capital Projects |
| Sub-Total |
$232,500,000 |
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| Local Street Reconstruction |
| City |
$158,961,750 |
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| Transit |
| Sub-Total |
$40,000,000 |
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| Transportation Enhancements |
$5,000,000 |
| Air Quality |
$20,000,000 |
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| Sub-Total |
$65,000,000 |
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| Area Total |
$48,464,946 |
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Funding moves up
timeline on projects
The Safe Roads For Kern
measure expenditure plan contains
an ambitious blueprint of roadway
corridor improvements designed to
keep the regional economy moving
over the next 26 years.
Many of the proposed projects
already have funding dedicated to
early phases, such as planning or
engineering.
The measure includes projects
in every area of the county, with
capital improvements from
metropolitan Bakersfield to
Maricopa, Mojave and Wasco to
Tehachapi, Rosamond and
Ridgecrest.
In Bakersfield, work will
continue on Alternative 15 of
the Bakersfield Systems Study, which is designed to help solve
congestion. The measure anticipates
$60 million for a beltway
system; $91.7 million for the
Centennial Corridor Loop;
$32.8 million for
improvements to the Rosedale
Highway/24th Street corridor;
and $48 million for SR 178 to
the east.
Cities, county facing $500 million backlog in road maintenance
The Safe Roads measure would bring the
City of Bakersfield $159 million for road
maintenance over its 20-year lifespan, or almost
$8 million annually. The unincorporated area
around the city limits would be eligible for
another $28 million. Deferred road maintenance
throughout Kern County is rapidly approaching
a $500 million backlog, according to Kern COG’s
preliminary estimates.
Kern COG estimates a cost of more than
$500 million for the 11 cities and the county
itself to bring all roads up to standards. That
figure grows by approximately $73 million
each year the maintenance is deferred.
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