Long Beach is set to receive $6.7 million for new sidewalks and pedestrian improvements in the downtown area as part of more than $540 million in statewide transportation and infrastructure investments announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n
The funding, approved by the California Transportation Commission during Infrastructure Week, is intended to improve safety, accessibility and connectivity for pedestrians in downtown Long Beach.<\/p>\n
State officials said the broader package will support highway repairs, bridge upgrades, school safety improvements and transit projects across California.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalifornia is undertaking one of the largest transportation modernization efforts in the nation \u2014 repairing aging roads and bridges, building world-class transit and freight, expanding public transit, and leading the technological future,\u201d Newsom said in a statement. \u201cInvestments like these drive our economic growth and create thousands of good-paying jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the governor\u2019s office, the statewide funding package includes support from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Senate Bill 1 transportation revenues and other state and federal transportation programs.<\/p>\n
Officials said the investments are expected to improve mobility, modernize aging infrastructure and create nearly 6,000 jobs statewide.<\/p>\n
Among the other projects highlighted were $117.8 million in Bay Bridge safety upgrades, $70 million for weather-related highway repairs statewide and $53 million for a new train control system for Bay Area Rapid Transit, the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s rail system, ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach is set to receive $6.7 million for new sidewalks and pedestrian improvements in the downtown area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[135761,5186,174,818,131,133,132,8189,61000,225,31563],"class_list":["post-326430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-6-7","tag-approves","tag-beach","tag-downtown","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-million","tag-sidewalk","tag-state","tag-upgrades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}