Precinct Reporter Group News Sidewalks for Muscoy Project to Become Reality Share:
Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes and the County of San Bernardino announced that the California Transportation Commission has voted to approve funding for the Muscoy Area Safe Routes to School Pedestrian Improvements Project. The funding will come from the state’s Active Transportation Program (ATP) Cycle 5 and will provide the project with a $1.88 million grant. The grant will be matched with funding from the County of San Bernardino.
The approval of the funding for the project represents the culmination of several years’ worth of collaborative efforts to improve the area. The project was first conceived at the “DREAM BIG IE” Youth Empowerment Summit hosted by Majority Leader Reyes in 2017. At the summit, parents and students from Muscoy advocated for improved sidewalks and safer route infrastructu
One funding door is closing for a key, proposed Napa Valley Vine Trail segment through the heart of scenic wine country, but others are possibly opening.
Local transportation officials had hoped to secure a $10 million state Active Transportation Program grant toward the $16 million extension of the trail between Yountville and St. Helena. Then bikers and walkers might have been able to use the new path as soon as 2026.
But the project, covering 8.2 miles, failed in February to secure the grant with round one of the funding. Now it looks like the same negative result for round two.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) staff is recommending eight projects receive a total of $37 million and the Vine Trail isnât one of them. Itâs not even on the contingency list.
The project has been a top priority for SLO County and the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG) for over two decades and has received an immense amount of public support over the years.
–The California Transportation Commission recently approved funding recommendations for Cycle 5 of the Active Transportation Program, including $18.25 million for the Bob Jones Trail extension project.
The Bob Jones “City to Sea” Trail extension project will construct 4.5-miles of multi-use trail, separated from motor vehicles, and will connect the existing trail in Avila to the Octagon Barn at the South end of San Luis Obispo. This trail fills an essential link in the region’s north-south bicycle network and constructs facilities suitable for people of all ages and abilities, providing an option to safely bicycle or walk to work, school, and other critical services and access to nature and agricultural areas for recreation and exercise. The project has been a top priority for SLO
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In the last two months, grants have been awarded to just over two dozen planned walk/bike projects in various places throughout L.A. County. In January, Metro approved its first tranche of Measure M sales tax funded Active Transportation grants. In February, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) announced staff recommendations for the 2021 Active Transportation Program grants, though these still need to be approved by the CTC.