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California 70 Marysville Improvements
andy3175:
Four years ago in late 2010, there were the much-heralded completion of Highway 70 improvements south of Marysville:
http://www.yuba.org/eNotes/attachments/Yuba%20County%20eNote%20Fall%202010%209212010.pdf
--- Quote ---The completion of the highway 70 expansion project will mark the first time Sacramento regional traffic going to and from Marysville will flow freely on separate, dual lanes ... major components during construction included a new bridge over the Bear River, several highway overpasses, and a bypass around the town of East Nicolaus.
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Fast forward to October 2014, and we find this article about California 70 and its entry into downtown Marysville:
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/no-easy-fix-for-traffic-jams/article_14939b48-4eb3-11e4-ad17-0017a43b2370.html
--- Quote ---Now that Caltrans is mostly finished with its $46.5 million Marysville roadway project, motorists can see for themselves how smooth the highway is ... as they wait their turn to move.
Nobody was saying the two-year project to rebuild state highways in Marysville was going to help with the 50,000 vehicles a day that enter the city from Sacramento. It wasn't supposed to provide relief from backups resulting from the 25,000 to 30,000 motorists that enter each day from the 10th Street bridge.
That fix is more complicated than tearing out roadway and replacing it with new concrete.
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--- Quote ---Traffic signals can be tweaked and an undermanned Marysville Police Department might find funding to restore its traffic enforcement division to help keep intersections clear. But until a third bridge is constructed or a bypass is built, a massive number of vehicles will continue to flow through the city.
"In a way, that is what it is," said David Lamon, Marysville city services director. "Unfortunately, it's not like that a great deal of the traffic is going to be diverted. ... Lamon noted especially severe gridlock at 10th and E streets and Ninth and B streets, where state highways intersect. "A big part of it is signal coordination," he said. "But the problem is that at different times of the day, different sequences work better than others."
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--- Quote ---For almost all the calls we do, we end up going on the back roads," Marysville Battalion Chief Mike Demé said. "If something is across town, instead of going straight up Highway 20, we go up side streets." Demé said he doesn't see a short-term solution to the traffic issue. "The guys have been working at this station so long, they know all the back roads," he said. "At this point, the way the city is constituted, it is what it is."
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I have not heard any recent updates on progress toward building the third bridge over the Feather River, nor about constructing a bypass of California 70 to the east of Marysville. Further, I've not heard of progress toward connecting the California 99 expressway/freeway segments together into a continuous, seamless fashion, although quite a bit has been completed in the past decade.
jrouse:
I don't know if the third bridge is going to happen. Caltrans has been selling or may have already sold the parcels it purchased for right of way for the new bridge.
A bypass to the east of Marysville running up to Oroville is also no longer in the works. Instead, there are 2 new proposals. The first is what is called Goldfields Parkway. It follows what would have been the proposed alignment of the Marysville Bypass, from the CA-65/CA-70 junction, north across the Yuba River, and terminating at CA-20. It would not extend beyond that. This would be a four-lane, at-grade facility, built and owned by Yuba County. Funding is the main issue.
The second project being studied is to relocate CA-70 onto the Yuba River levee and the Feather River levee, bypassing Marysville to the west and then, IIRC, rejoining the existing highway north of town. Again, funding is the issue here.
TheStranger:
--- Quote from: jrouse on October 29, 2014, 12:16:30 AM ---I don't know if the third bridge is going to happen. Caltrans has been selling or may have already sold the parcels it purchased for right of way for the new bridge.
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I remember that project being revived (a Route 65 extension essentially) a few years ago, but not beyond the planning stage.
--- Quote from: jrouse on October 29, 2014, 12:16:30 AM ---The second project being studied is to relocate CA-70 onto the Yuba River levee and the Feather River levee, bypassing Marysville to the west and then, IIRC, rejoining the existing highway north of town. Again, funding is the issue here.
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Do you have any more info on this? Kinda intriguing as I had figured that with the eastern bypass being nixed, I didn't know that there was available right of way west of town!
Also...will Route 99 ever bypass Yuba City (or have an upgrade of the at-grades south of Route 20)? I know bypasses north of there (particularly Live Oak and Gridley) have been canceled over the years.
jrouse:
For more info on the proposed improvements for Highway 70, I would direct you to the Transportation Concept Report developed by District 3 for their segment of the route. It can be found at
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/planning/tcr/tcr70.pdf
I'm not aware of any significant upgrades to 99 in Yuba City other than eventually replacing the signalized intersection at 20 with an interchange. North of there the volumes are too low to justify additional improvements (I know this from driving it frequently to Gridley and Biggs)
andy3175:
AARoads Contributor Dominic offers the following observations on Route 70; he also mentions the recently updated corridor report:
--- Quote ---I saw your comment on Routes 70 & 99 in/around Marysville & Yuba City so I thought I'd weigh in with some info.
There is a possible rerouting of 70 in Marysville - see page 45 of the TOC (http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/planning/tcr/tcr70.pdf) for Route 70 that talks about the Feather River Expressway. While it doesn't say specifically that Route 70 would use the new expressway, I think it could. The same page also talks about the Yuba River Parkway that would be the eastern bypass of Marysville. Note that this TOC is dated Aug. 2014 so the information is fresh.
As for Route 99, haven't heard much other than a new interchange at Pease Rd (between Queens Ave & Eager Rd).
And there is no political will for a 3rd bridge across the Feather River right now. I've heard talk about upgrades to the 5th Street bridge but that is it.
More updates:
Riego Road interchange on Hwy 99 is getting close to being completed - maybe by end of the year.
Feather River interchange on Hwy 70, just north of Bear River - broke ground a month or so ago
Whitney Oaks interchange on Hwy 65 (eastern terminus of Placer Pkwy) - broke ground during summer
Cosumnes River interchange on I-5 - I think this one will be done in the Spring
Watt/U.S 50 interchange - reconfig. is almost done
Silva Valley Pkwy/U.S. 50 interchange (NE terminus of Sacto. SE connector) - construction continues
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