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North Kern projects in the local transportation measure
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Safe Roads for Kern
Measure "I" Expenditure Plan
| Capital Projects |
| Sub-Total |
$75,248,380 |
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| Local Street Reconstruction |
| City of Delano |
$14,829,102 |
| City of McFarland |
$3,673,663 |
| City of Shafter |
$4,864,606 |
| City of Wasco |
$8,121,554 |
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| County |
$32,508,863 |
| Sub-Total |
$63,997,788 |
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| Transit, Transportation Enhancements & Air Quality |
| Sub-Total |
$18,236,911 |
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| Area Total |
$157,483,079 |
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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 the northern Kern region,
$75.2 million in measure funds will
help four major capital improvement
projects see completion.
Roughly $20.8 million has been
budgeted to widen State Route 46
from the San Luis Obispo County Line
to Interstate 5, while another $30.8
million will be dedicated for SR 46
from I-5 to Wasco. About $10.8
million will go toward improving the
interchange at SR 99 and Woollomes
Avenue, and another $12.8 million to
widen Santa Fe Way from Hageman
Road to Los Angeles Avenue.
An additional $18.2 million is
budgeted for transit, transportation
enhancement and air quality
projects, such as paving dirt roads or
purchasing natural gas buses. Cities, county facing $500 million backlog in road maintenance
The Safe Roads for Kern measure
would bring the northern Kern region
$64.3 million for road maintenance over its
20-year lifespan, or about $3.21 million
annually, in addition to what the cities and
county are spending already. Roughly $14.8
million would go to Delano; $3.67 million to
McFarland; Shafter $8.1 million and Wasco
$4.8 million.
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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