The annual update of the County of San Diego’s TransNet Local Street Improvement Program added $50,000 of TransNet funding for the Alpine Boulevard improvements.
A 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote May 22 approved the updated list of projects which will be funded by TransNet local streets and road revenue over the next five years. The $50,000 will be spent during Fiscal Year 2019-20 and will cover the removal of a groundwater monitoring well which was used during the design and construction of the Alpine Boulevard improvements.
In 2004 the county’s voters passed an extension of the half-cent TransNet sales tax which is divided between highways, transit, and local streets and roads. The County of San Diego expects to receive $98.7 million of TransNet revenue during the five-year period from Fiscal Year 2018-19 to Fiscal Year 2022-23. The Regional Transportation Improvement Plan is coordinated by the San Diego Association of Governments, which administers the TransNet funding, and the RTIP includes the Local Street Improvement Program. The RTIP is updated every other year – the most recent SANDAG update was approved in September 2018 – but amended on a quarterly basis. The county updates its Local Street Improvement Program annually.
The projects which had been funded through the Local Street Improvement Program included the widening of San Vicente Road in Ramona between Warnock Drive and Wildcat Canyon Road. The project was completed and not all of the funding, including contingency, was used. The most recent Local Street Improvement Program uses $50,000 of that balance for the Alpine Boulevard work. Alpine Boulevard was not in the 2018 Local Street Improvement Program.
The county is now including road maintenance in its Local Street Improvement Program appropriations, and a five-year total of $25 million for roadway maintenance and overlay will fund road sealing, asphalt concrete overlays, sidewalk repairs, and other pavement re¬surfacing or rehabilitation. The total amount includes $13,889,640 for roads in the Second Supervisorial District which will cover $1,320,000 during 2018-19 and $3,142,410 each year from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
The county’s annual cost share of $12,500 for the regional traffic signal management program is also included in the Local Street Improvement Program.
