The SR-22 Improvement Project is enhancing traffic flow and removing bottlenecks along the 12-mile stretch of the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22). 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.
SR-22 is a vital east-west route linking five major freeways in central Orange County. The freeway has had no major improvements since it was built in the 1960s. At that time, Orange County's population was 700,000. Today, the population is nearly 3 million. Accordingly, the number of vehicles using the SR-22 has grown and it does not have sufficient capacity to meet current and future demand. The improvements will ease traffic flow, remove bottlenecks and enhance safety.
