State budget gives $4.5M to reconnect San Diego communities divided by freeways

San Diego freeway reconnection funded

California's state budget includes $4.5 million to help reconnect National City and Southeast San Diego communities that were divided by freeway construction.

Key points San Diego freeway reconnection funded
  1. California's state budget includes $4.5 million to help reconnect National City and Southeast San Diego communities that were divided by freeway construction.
  2. The money will pay for community outreach, planning and technical studies for redeveloping the 43rd Street on and off-ramps to Interstate 805.
  3. The ramps were once planned as the start of Highway 252, a project Caltrans abandoned in the 1980s after community opposition.
  4. Actually redeveloping the roughly 57 acres is still years away and depends on future construction funding.
Read the full story San Diego freeway reconnection funded
Reported by

KPBS

kpbs.org

San Diego County, CA

Finding more…