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Highway 101 Widening South of Santa
Barbara: Measure A funding - $140
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This project will widen Highway 101 from
4 to 6 lanes between the city of
Carpinteria and the city of Santa
Barbara to improve safety, reduce
traffic congestion and match the 6 lane
highway south of Carpinteria and north
of Santa Barbara. Funding will be
used in combination with $285 million in
state and federal gas taxes to
accelerate the project schedule by an
estimated 10 years. |
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Construction will begin this summer on
the first phase of the long awaited
Highway 101
freeway widening south of Santa Barbara.
As anyone who drives this highway knows,
this section of freeway is one the most
congested state highways between Los
Angeles County and Monterey.
The 101 freeway will be widened to three
lanes southbound from Milpas Street to
the Hot Springs/Cabrillo intersection in
Montecito. Northbound, a new
auxiliary lane will be added from the
Hot Springs/Cabrillo onramp and the
Salinas offramp and a new third lane
will be added from Salinas past Milpas
Street. Construction will take
four years and two lanes in both
directions will remain open during
construction. The project is
funded by a combination of Santa Barbara
County Association of Governments
regional Measure D funds and state gas
tax funds.
The second phase of the 101 widening
project is also now fully funded and
will begin construction in 2011.
This $151 million project will widen the
freeway to three lanes in both
directions from La Conchita in Ventura
County north to Carpinteria.
Widening of the remaining two lane
gap from Montecito to Carpinteria is
currently being designed and $140
million dollars is earmarked as the
highest regional transportation priority
in the new Measure D. |
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Visual simulation of possible widening
looking North beyond Olive Mill Road |
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| Visual simulation of possible
widening looking North approaching San
Ysidro Road |
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| Visual simulation of possible
widening looking south approaching
Carpinteria |
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| For more
information on the Highway 101 Widening,
please visit
www.101inmotion.com. |
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