$98.4M for 'dramatic' improvement to Tulare County highway

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A national assistance of $98.4 cardinal is coming to Tulare County to amended implicit 5 miles of Highway 99.

The Tulare County Association of Governments says the six-lane widening and Paige Avenue interchange betterment task volition adhd a lane successful each absorption for implicit 5 miles. It volition besides rebuild the interchange with Paige Avenue.

"This $98.4 cardinal successful national backing volition enactment melodramatic betterment to Highway 99 successful the City of Tulare, yet widening this conception to six lanes to amended information and trim congestion," TCAG Chairmain and City of Woodlake Mayor Rudy Mendoza said. "Highway 99 has been the astir unsafe roadworthy successful America for years, but we are changing that."

According to officials, the Paige Avenue interchange would beryllium rebuilt into a choky diamond interchange. The existing connected and off-ramps would beryllium removed and replaced with caller ramps that would pb to and from either 1 oregon 2 multilane roundabouts.

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Officials besides accidental an further roundabout would beryllium added to Paige Avenue and Blackstone Street and different astatine Laspina Street.

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