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OCTA Board Unanimously Approves Additions to 22 Project Scope, Budget
The OCTA Board of Directors unanimously approved amending the budget for the Garden Grove Freeway Improvement Project by $54.6 million to cover additional costs related to updated seismic requirements, city-requested project improvements and increased right-of-way costs.
The budget adjustment will be used to fund a variety of project improvements, including:
- Redesigning 28 of the 35 bridges along SR-22 to ensure they meet updated Caltrans seismic requirements, which were changed after the project began due to an increase in the magnitude of a nearby earthquake fault
- Reinforcing overhead sign structures and increasing shoulder widths on several freeway ramps
- Making additional improvements to ramps at The City Drive, Town and Country and Tustin Avenue
- Rebuilding the Magnolia Street bridge to allow for future street improvements planned by the City of Garden Grove
- Building additional soundwalls at several locations
- Placing rubberized asphalt along westbound SR-22 between Euclid Street and Magnolia Street, and along Trask Avenue between Brookhurst Street and Magnolia Street
- Replacing the connector from eastbound SR-22 to the northbound Santa Ana (I-5) and Orange (SR-57) freeways rather than widening it
- Covering increased costs for right-of-way acquisition
The budget amendment also includes a net reduction of $76 million in Measure M funds that were to be spent on the project thanks to a reimbursement of $123.7 million in state funds back to the project budget.
The SR-22 improvement project is still on schedule to be completed by November 2006, on an 800-day schedule, thanks to the flexibility offered by the design-build construction method.
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