District: Headquarters
Contact: Edward Barrera
SACRAMENTO – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $1 billion for projects aimed at solving mobility challenges and aiding California’s continued effort to make the highway system more resilient to climate change.
“These investments will harden the transportation system against the devastating results of extreme weather events. The allocations made today will add to the electric charging infrastructure, increase mobility options for people who walk and bicycle and enhance our goal to improve safety and economic equity for all users.”
Of the total investment allocated this month, nearly $623 million comes from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and another $295 million via Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
Among the projects approved:
- $15 million for the installation of electric charging infrastructure to power electric buses at San Mateo County’s SamTrans system.
- $9.5 million to help pay for new bike lanes, crosswalks, pedestrian push buttons, signal heads and other safety upgrades on an 8-mile segment of SR-82 in Santa Clara County.
- $6 million for the city of Sacramento to help build a new light rail station serving Sacramento City College.
- $114,000 for the construction of service bays needed to maintain a new fleet of fuel cell electric buses to serve Humboldt County.