About two and a half years after it began, including some pandemic delays, Caltrans has announced the completion of the Highway 49 rehabilitation and complete streets project in Auburn. It’s a four-and-a-half mile stretch between Interstate 80 and Dry Creek Road. Public Information Officer Raquel Borrayo says it’s now a smoother ride for the 42-thousand motorists who travel this corridor daily between there and Grass Valley, among other improvements…

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And Borrayo says they want to make sure that all the traffic lights along that stretch are well-timed…

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The 47-point-four million dollar project also includes four-point-seven million dollars in funding from Senate Bill One. That’s the 12-cent a gallon gas tax increase passed by state lawmakers, in 2017, to help clear the huge backlog of infrastructure work in California.