The Orange County Transportation Authority board awarded $26.4 million to Orange County cities to help ease traffic congestion by making improvements to streets and timing of traffic signals.
Nine projects that will improve and widen busy streets and intersections will receive $10.2 million and five additional projects will receive $16.2 million to synchronize traffic signals to ensure drivers hit the most green lights during peak traffic hours.
The funds are available through Measure M, Orange County’s half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements, also known as OC Go.
Regional capacity projects include:
- Improving the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim
- Widening Lincoln Avenue between East and Evergreen streets in Anaheim
- Improving the southbound SR-57 onramp at SR-90 in Brea
- Completing the engineering phase of improvements at the intersection of Harbor and Garden Grove boulevards in Garden Grove
- Improving the intersection of Culver Drive and Alton Parkway in Irvine
- Improving the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Michelson Drive in Irvine
- Widening the intersection at Cannon Street and Serrano Avenue in Orange
- Improving Fairview Street between Monte Carlo Drive and Trask Street in Santa Ana
- Widening Savi Ranch Parkway in Yorba Linda.
Signal synchronization projects include:
- Bake Parkway and Rockfield Boulevard in Irvine and Lake Forest
- Euclid Street Corridor in La Habra, Fullerton, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Fountain Valley
- Crown Valley Parkway in Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Dana Point and the County of Orange
- Moulton Parkway/Golden Lantern regional project in Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills and Dana Point
- Yorba Linda Boulevard/Weir Canyon Road corridor in Yorba Linda, Fullerton, Placentia and Anaheim.