
California highway project will ‘dump half a billion dollars into the ocean’ - Lemmy.World
Caltrans has proposed a $500 million project to widen a wine country highway
that the agency said could be underwater in 25 years. Members of the California
Transportation Commission will decide at a public meeting beginning Thursday
whether to award Caltrans and local agencies a $73 million grant that would
cover some of the cost to widen Highway 37 — a roadway linking Vallejo to Sears
Point across the Napa Sonoma Marsh, much of which is only one lane in each
direction. In the long term, Cal…