Over $80M will help improve roads in Tulare and Kings counties

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Road enactment successful Tulare and Kings counties has been underway for months and adjacent much plans to assistance amended portions of section highways are besides successful the works.

On Friday, Caltrans announced implicit $80 cardinal going towards projects successful the coming months.

Funding includes $52 cardinal for portions connected road 190 successful Tulare County and a cardinal dollars for parts of I-5 successful Kings County- adjacent Lost Hills.

$27.5 Million volition spell towards The City of Tulare Rehab Project- which volition assistance amended the roadway from Paige to Prosperity Avenues.

"You're looking astatine roadworthy rehabilitation. So getting to enactment connected the roadway itself. Upgraded lighting. Some of the signage is going to beryllium removed and replaced. There's gonna beryllium drainage systems worked on," said Christian Lukens with Caltrans District 6.

This is 1 of galore projects the metropolis is looking guardant to.

More recently, roadwork is successful advancement for a caller interchange headed to the Agri-center.

And, improvements on Highway 99 see the exit connected Jaye Street.

Plus, plans to grow the four-lane road to six lanes successful Tulare.

"Streets are being made from nothing, and it's truly amusive to spot wow the surveying is being done, the grading is being done, they are really laying the roadway present and we are gonna person a beforehand enactment spot to beryllium capable to ticker this large project. Going each the mode from 0-100," mentioned Josh McDonnell, the Assistant City Manager of Tulare.

He says improvements volition assistance boost the section economy, and accommodate the increasing colonisation by providing much section jobs.

"Tulare is already increasing by leaps and bounds, but it's conscionable different feather successful Tulare's headdress for enlargement and for creating caller jobs that are going to assistance our graduates erstwhile they postgraduate precocious school, erstwhile they postgraduate college, they tin enactment here, unrecorded here, enactment here, play here, commune here, you got it," explained Josh.

These projects aren't expected to beryllium done for different 2 years.

For a database connected the latest and existent Caltrans projects crossed the Central Valley, sojourn here.

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