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Tagged: Freeway

Valley Edition
12:53 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

On Valley Edition: Bakersfield, Centennial Corridor Project; Slumlords, Fresno's Lowell Community

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Victor and Mary Jones moved into the Westpark community four years ago. They love the neighborhood and are sad they will be forced to move.
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Transportation
10:04 am
Tue March 26, 2013

Centennial Corridor Freeway Project Divides Bakersfield, Neighborhood

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Amy Richardson, co-chair of the Westpark Home Owners Association, points to a homemade map of the area that will be taken by the freeway project.
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Stephen Milton, Caltrans project manager for the Centennial Corridor Project examines a map of the planned freeway route.
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This quiet neighborhood known as Westpark may soon be home to a new freeway.
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Margaret Smith has lived in Westpark for more than 40 years. She has witnessed the community grow from the ground up.
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A map shows the three options for the Centennial Corridor freeway project.
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The freeway portion of State Route 58 currently dead-ends into a shopping center at Real Road just west of Highway 99
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Victor and Mary Jones moved into the Westpark community four years ago. They love the neighborhood and are sad they will be forced to move.
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West of Highway 99, travellers on State Route 58 today must travel the busy surface street that is Rosedale Highway.
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Isabelle Boyd, a high school teacher in Bakersfield, will lose half her front yard to the freeway. Leaving her with a view of an on-ramp.
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The freeway portion of State Route 58 currently dead-ends into a shopping center at Real Road just west of Highway 99.
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Highway 58, comes to a hault at an existing shopping complex.
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Construction equipment is seen working on a new freeway bridge north of the Kern River, as part of the Thomas Roads Improvement Program (April 2012)
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The freeway connector project will take out more thatn 300 homes in central Bakersfield.
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The future of a well-established neighborhood in Bakersfield is on the rocks. The reason: a three decade old freeway project with intentions to connect Bakersfield with the rest of the state. Valley Public Radio's Ezra Romero visits the community, speaks with community leaders and reports on the future of what some call a better connected Bakersfield and California.

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Transportation
7:04 pm
Thu November 15, 2012

Caltrans Picks Preferred Route For Centennial Corridor Freeway in Bakersfield

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A map from Caltrans depicting three options for the Centennial Corridor route
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A map depicting the proposed "Option B" route of the Centennial Corridor freeway, connecting the Westside Parkway with SR-58 in Bakersfield
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Plans to connect Bakersfield's Westside Parkway across Highway 99 to Highway 58 are becoming clearer today, as Caltrans has selected what it calls a "preferred alternative" for the proposed Centennial Corridor freeway.

The alignment, known as "Option B" would travel west from the current Highway 58 interchange across Highway 99 though the West Park neighborhood. The freeway's path would then turn northwest, crossing both Stockdale Highway and Truxtun, in order to connect with the Westside Parkway near Mohawk Street.

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