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With the help of a $47 million federal grant for the 5 Freeway, Congressman Steve Knight, R-Santa Clarita, is confident that fixing the major freeway running through the Santa Clarita Valley will help traffic flow more smoothly through the city.
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Knight originally announced that he had obtained the grant June 6, after securing a spot in the November election. The congressman spoke on-air with KHTS Senior Reporter Caleb Lunetta about the election and what the I-5 grant means to the Santa Clarita community. Watch that video here.
The $47 million federal grant will pay for part of the ongoing $540 million project to fix damaged roads and add lanes to Interstate 5. The rest of the money is coming from California tax dollars through sales tax measures on a variety of products, including gasoline.
The 16-mile section of the 5 freeway being repaired is between the 5/14 split and Lake Hughes Road in Castaic, according to officials.
With Santa Clarita’s population growing, Knight said he is confident that fixing damaged lanes, adding a carpool lane and extending truck lanes can improve the flow of traffic on freeways going through Santa Clarita.
“A lot of the goods that come from San Pedro come north through Santa Clarita,” Knight said. “This is one of the biggest transportation accomplishments we could have in California.”
The project is being conducted in two different phases, according to officials.
Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or drop us a line at community@hometownstation.com.“The first phase of the project is repaving the damaged lanes,” said Victor Lindenheim, executive director for the Golden State Gateway Coalition, a nonprofit working to improve roadway transportation in Los Angeles County.
The first phase of the project is scheduled to end sometime around summer 2019, he said.
“The second phase of the project is where they will be adding a carpool lane between the 14 (freeway) and Lake Hughes, and extending the truck lanes,” Lindenheim said.
Once this project is completed, Knight expects drivers to see the benefits from the repairs and extensions made.
“Santa Clarita and the entire region will benefit enormously from this grant, which will address the endless traffic backups on Interstate 5,” Knight said. “Anyone who lives or travels through the Santa Clarita Valley deals with this congestion on a daily basis. It impacts every vehicle traveling through or around Santa Clarita and throughout Southern California.”
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Wow! Amazing. I fail to see the good and or “new” news in this story. The “47 Million Grant” is to be used to help pay for something already started that we were informed of months ago and will be continuing for years into the future. And, might I add, mostly paid for by our tax dollars, and gas tax. There is no good news in this article.
Forget the people traveling through Santa Clarita, what about the people just trying to get home every night. The people who live out here and want some relief. So far all we have gotten is more traffic, more delays and now exits closed so you have to travel further (3 miles past your exit) just to get home. Poor planning making these exits closed during the summer.
Yes, GM, POOR planning and perhaps intentional poor planning in order to burn through millions of dollars. Now another 47 million dollars to spend….woo-hoo!! It’s the tax that never ends, it goes on and on my friends, some people started paying, not knowing what it was…..
Or is this to compensate for all the additional traffic of the thousands that will be moving into the housing tracts planned off the 126 and further back into the Castaic foothills?