What is the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22) Improvement Project?
The SR-22 Improvement Project will enhance traffic flow and remove bottlenecks along the 12-mile stretch of the Garden Grove Freeway. The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is improving the SR-22 using the design-build method, where a single contract is executed for both design work and construction services.
The project, which spans the cities of Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Orange, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach and Stanton, will help accommodate the 200,000 motorists who travel the corridor daily. That number is expected to climb to more than 350,000 cars a day by 2020.
The SR-22 improvements will include:
• A reconfigured connector from southbound Orange Freeway (SR-57) to
westbound SR-22. The City Drive on- and off-ramps will be relocated to pass
underneath the reconfigured connector. This will eliminate the weaving and
lane changing that motorists currently encounter while exiting and entering
at The City Drive or merging from southbound SR-57 to westbound SR-22.
• A high occupancy vehicle (HOV) or carpool lane in each direction between
the Tustin Avenue and Valley View Street.
• A new auxiliary lane in each direction between The City Drive and
Beach Boulevard.
• Auxiliary lanes between interchanges at various locations.
• A new collector/distributor road system between The City Drive and the
I-5 interchange that separates and improves entering and exiting traffic
from eastbound SR-22.
• Signal upgrades on all ramps.
• Soundwalls and landscaping improvements along the project limits.
