CA 91 Gets new lane!

[Riverside Frwy]

CA 91 between CA 241 and CA 71 gets a brand new lane. Upgrades also include exit only lanes on the off ramp to Green River road and CA 71. Now that construction is over, the left two lanes are now dedicated HOV lanes after the 91 Express Lanes end up-through CA 71.

[Chris]

A general purpose lane or one of those HOV/HOT lanes they love so much again?

[Riverside Frwy]

A general purpose lane was added, but the left two lanes now continue as HOV lanes even after the Express lanes end at the county line. Basically, before and during the construction, all the lanes were mixed flow lanes up until CA 71 after the express lanes. Now that there's a new lane, the left two lanes were converted as a standard HOV continuation from express lanes until it reaches CA 71, where it becomes a single lane HOV again. Does that make sense?


Edited for spelling. --roadfro

[Desert Man]

Good for them (or make that "us" in Southern Cal.), the Riverside freeway needed some expansion from the two-decade long increase in commuter traffic. I still hadn't heard of the results of CalTrans' decision to construct a 10-mile subterranean auto-and-train tunnel under Santiago Mountain from Tustin or Irvine to Corona or Lake Elsinore, in order to accomodate future increases in traffic volume.

[nexus73]

91 (Riverside Freeway) seemed like such a quiet little freeway back in the 1970's.  Back then it seemed like the I-10 San Bernardino Freeway was THE main east-west route for traffic count while 91 and 60 (which was not completed all the way as freeway to Riverside in those days) made great alternate routes to avoid the traffic crunch.

Now it's 91 being so busy that a 10 mile tunnel is needed!  Oh how have the times changed.

Rick