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[Voyager]

October blogs and media

California

Atwater-Merced Expressway
https://www.gribblenation.org/2025/10/atwater-merced-expressway.html?m=1

This one is kind of crazy, I am always happy to see new alignments but this one...doesn't seem very necessary? Especially when 99 still hasn't even been fully expanded yet through the area. Much rather see the 108 freeway "North County Corridor" get finished.

The problem is the UC Merced campus is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere by Yosemite Lake.  The existing Merced city street grid is overwhelmed by school traffic and recent population booms.  On the eastern side of the city Campus Parkway is probably a closer analog for how the larger Loop of Merced will eventually look. 

Right now the "best" way to get through downtown Merced is on G Street.  That corridor has a heavy amount of traffic pretty much of all times of the day. 

That's true, isn't that kind of the main reason Santa Barbara/Goleta has the 217 freeway? I know only part of it was ever built, but makes sense in that regard.

[Max Rockatansky]

October blogs and media

California

Atwater-Merced Expressway
https://www.gribblenation.org/2025/10/atwater-merced-expressway.html?m=1

This one is kind of crazy, I am always happy to see new alignments but this one...doesn't seem very necessary? Especially when 99 still hasn't even been fully expanded yet through the area. Much rather see the 108 freeway "North County Corridor" get finished.

The problem is the UC Merced campus is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere by Yosemite Lake.  The existing Merced city street grid is overwhelmed by school traffic and recent population booms.  On the eastern side of the city Campus Parkway is probably a closer analog for how the larger Loop of Merced will eventually look. 

Right now the "best" way to get through downtown Merced is on G Street.  That corridor has a heavy amount of traffic pretty much of all times of the day. 

That's true, isn't that kind of the main reason Santa Barbara/Goleta has the 217 freeway? I know only part of it was ever built, but makes sense in that regard.

Yes, also similar to the concepts for CA 100 in Santa Cruz related to the University of California campus.  I think Merced County will get there eventually with the full Campus Loop but will be a slog given it is a local project.