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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Heavy postulation and congested intersections are not uncommon connected Lovers Lane successful Visalia.
“It’s unsafe to conscionable thrust done there,” Visalia nonmigratory Robert Castro said.
As the colonisation grows and postulation increases, immoderate drivers accidental they debar the country altogether.
“I effort to debar the area. I unrecorded connected the different broadside of the freeway here. So a batch of times I'll spell each the mode to astir the Ivanhoe exit to debar this postulation and the red-light-runners, each the assertive drivers and the congestion,” Castro said.
Heavy postulation isn’t the lone occupation though.
“The pavement successful this country has been deteriorating extensively and has reached an unacceptable thrust prime for our travelers,” Visalia Mayor Brett Taylor said.
Taylor says each of these issues person go excessively large to ignore.
Caltrans held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, celebrating the opening of its ‘Lovers Lane Operational Improvements and Rehabilitation Project.’
They program to widen the freeway off-ramp, repave the roads and upgrade the postulation lights.
“I was elected to the City Council successful 2007 and we were talking astir this task backmost then. So it's ever bully to unrecorded agelong capable to spot a task really travel to fruition,” Vice Chair of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors Amy Shuklian said.
The task volition agelong from McAuliffe Street to Lovers Lane and past Lovers Lane to Noble Avenue.
“Once completed, the enactment present is slated to let a creaseless postulation flow, reduced congestion and exigency effect times are expected to improve,” Taylor said.
They accidental the task volition wrapper up successful the summertime of 2026 and volition outgo a full of $45 million.
Castro says it’s worthy each penny.
“$45 million? I'm a taxpayer. I'm each for it. It has to get better, it's conscionable congested. We request it,” Castro said.
