91 Freeway Getting Wider

6 miles of the 91 Freeway are getting wider

By SCOTT WEBER
Updated 10:45 AM PST, Tue, Nov 3, 2009

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6 miles of the 91 Freeway are getting wider and for many motorists, it couldn't come soon enough. Officials will break ground on a $59.5 million project to ease congestion on one of the worse bottlenecks in the nation.

The project will expand the eastbound lanes from four to five between the 241 Freeway and 71 Freeways.

"The whole Inland Empire-Orange County connection, that's the 91 corridor, that's been one of the toughest puzzles to solve," Peter Buffa, chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, told the LA Times. "There's 300,000 cars traveling that route each day."

The narrow canyon that the 91 runs through makes it difficult expand but officials hope to eventually widen the freeway in both directions from the 55 Freeway to the 241 Toll Road.

Orange County officials said the bulk of the 91 widening project is being funded with federal stimulus dollars.
 

First Published: Nov 3, 2009 10:31 AM PST

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