$1 million in PG&E credits are going to this Fresno block

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Fresno artifact slated for millions of dollars successful renovations conscionable got much bully quality - the metropolis announced Tuesday the region supervisor has decided to allocate credits from PG&E to make "a safer, much charismatic corridor for the residents and businesses of Southwest Fresno."

Every year, nether PG&E's Rule 20A program, the inferior provides section governments with credits to person overhead inferior lines to underground work successful areas that conscionable circumstantial nationalist involvement criteria. On Tuesday, the City of Fresno announced that $1 cardinal successful unassigned credits volition spell toward the Martin Luther King Jr. Active Transportation Project.

The metropolis says the undergrounding volition not lone heighten visibility, and information but besides amended the wide streetscape on Church Avenue betwixt Walnut Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Boulevard and a information of Walnut Avenue from Church Avenue to conscionable southbound of the assemblage college.

The metropolis broke crushed connected the MLK Active Transportation Project past Monday.

Once complete, the corridors astir Church, Jensen, Walnut, and MLK Boulevard volition spot improvements, including widened roadways to see Class II motorcycle lanes, caller sidewalks, curbs, gutters and ADA-compliant ramps, enhanced thoroughfare lighting, upgraded postulation signals and pavement reconstruction.

Phase 1 of the task focuses connected the northbound broadside of Jensen betwixt Knight Avenue and MLK Boulevard. Phase 2 is acceptable for operation successful 2026 and volition code the southbound broadside of Church Avenue betwixt Walnut Avenue and MLK Boulevard. Phase 3, volition statesman successful 2027 and dwell of a caller postulation awesome and intersection improvements astatine Church and Walnut avenues.