County Transportation Planning Agency Launches New Web Site

10/14/05

The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency has launched a new Web site aimed at commuters to help address their concerns. Called www.fixplacertransit.org, the site includes information regarding transit projects, news about upcoming events, a frequently asked-question page and a forum for commuters to e-mail their frustrations, concerns and suggestions. The Web site is a way for people to express their frustrations regarding transit issues and participate in solutions.

 

MAC Recommends Re-Phasing Auburn-Folsom Rd. Work 

10/6/05

The MAC recommended the County abandon the present phasing plan for the Auburn-Folsom Road Widening Project that would have started construction near Douglas Blvd. to approximately 1500 feet' south of Eureka Rd. Instead, they recommended installing a signal at Fuller Dr., continuing efforts to acquire right of way, and to begin design of what had initially been phase 2, from the County line on the south to Oak Leaf Way.

The MAC and the public alike rejected the idea of paying $1.6 million more than the County was offering for a narrow strip of right of way just south of Fuller Dr. Ironically, the owner of those parcels was cited by the County in June 2004 for removal of 75 trees and significant disturbance to the Linda Creek corridor that is yet to be resolved. 

 

MAC Does Not Recommend Approval of Auburn-Folsom Road Widening

9/4/04

Placer County Public Works presented MAC with the proposal for the design of their Auburn-Folsom Rd. widening project Wednesday evening.  The highlight of the proposal was the fact that the total cost of the project is proposed to be paid for by Granite Bay funds.  No State, Federal or Regional funds are planned to be used even though 70% of the traffic will be from regional sources.  The County indicated plans to borrow between $9 and $14 million from other sources but to be repaid with interest from Granite Bay's future traffic mitigation funds.  It was suggested that if that happens, no other road improvement projects could ever be funded by the mitigation funds.  The MAC basically supported the recommendations made earlier by their Transportation Committee when they voted to deny a recommendation for approval unless the funding issue could be resolved.

 

Transportation Committee Submits Report on Auburn-Folsom Rd. 

8/28/04

The MAC Transportation committee report to the MAC regarding the proposed design for the Auburn-Folsom Rd. widening project indicates extreme displeasure with the fact the Community's Traffic Mitigation Fund will be depleted and that no State, Federal or regional funds are proposed in the funding of the project. In addition, a long list of specific design criteria is presented.  The MAC will hear the project at 7 pm, 3 Sep. at the Eureka School District office to take formal action and a make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. 

 

Here is why Auburn Folsom Rd. must be improved!

 

But, who is creating the need for improvements?

 

And, who is benefiting from the improvements?

 

And, who is absorbing the impacts?

 

So, who should be paying for 70% of the improvements?