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A new San Diego Project of the Border Station and the road Got an increase of April 15 with a dowry $ 150 million grant. The $ 1.3 billion Otay Bureau Port of Entrance to the east The work involves the creation of a new toll road to the SR-11 and a port of entrance to the border near Tijuana, Mexico, to facilitate the movement of goods and reduce waiting times to cross in the area, on the project’s website.
The dollar 10.9 billion infra scholarship program, created through the Investment and Infrastructure Job Law of 2021, provides competitive funding for multimodal merchandise projects and national or regional significance roads.
The new Dot Agreement eliminated the environmental requirements of the Biden era, including a provision of zero emission vehicles. Previously, the General Services Administration was planning to do Update 38 federal entry ports With sustainable American manufacturing technologies, such as low carbon materials to increase domestic net manufacture.
The new junction for the region of San Diego-Baja California is more than 20 years. It will be built to the east of the existing Otay Mesa port, with additional goals to improve border safety, manage traffic through dynamic tolls and increase inspection efficiency, according to the statement. It will manire personal and commercial vehicles.
Seven bridges and three exchanges are also part of the project. The design has a total of 12 lanes, but two would be closed at one point. The vehicles will be charged a dynamically price that will mean the average waiting time to cross the border for 30 minutes.
The new installation will provide an alternative to the nearly 3,600 trucks that cross the existing stations of Bureau and Technical Borders daily, which work at the capacity, according to the point. It will facilitate the transport of goods through the borders in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the distribution centers of the inner empire of the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.
The San Diego Governments Association and the California Dowry sponsor the project and currently collaborate with federal partners Final design of the projectSandag said in a statement on April 16.
In January the two agencies granted $ 3.5 million Pre -construction services contract To a joint company formed by Bethesda, based in Maryland, Clark and Atkinson, a Clark subsidiary, based in Washington, based on the Union of San Diego-Tribune.
The preparations for the site began in August 2022, according to Sandag. Swedish builder Skanska finished $ 3.3 million Utility Infrastructure Extension Project To prepare the place for construction in May 2024. The Mexican side of the project is almost complete, the Union of San Diego reported, but it cannot be completed until Otay Bureau East is built.
It is expected that the commercial vehicle facilities of the project will be broken this fall, according to Sandag. It can open the project in phases, with the aim of completely opening the installation by the end of 2027.
