Antlers Bridge Replacement

In Shasta Co on Interstate 5, near the town of Lakehead, this project is currently in its second year of construction and will eventually replace the existing Antlers Bridge over the Sacramento River arm of Shasta Lake.  The existing bridge is well past its design life and was requiring frequent and expensive maintenance work.  The new bridge will consist of a 1900’ long 5 span concrete structure and is scheduled to be complete in 2015. ...more

Burney Creek Bridge

Bridge replacement on State Route 299 in Shasta County at the Burney Creek Bridge. Bids open in November of 2011 with construction to begin in 2012.

Canyonero

Asphalt concrete resurfacing in Shasta County on Interstate 5 near Lakehead from 1.5 miles south of Dog Creek Bridge to 0.6 miles north of the Sims Road Undercrossing. Mercer Fraser is the contractor on the $30 million construction contract. The work is anticipated to complete by the fall of 2012. The contractor is setting up a temporary asphalt concrete plant adjacent to the freeway, at the south end of the project.

Dana to Downtown Landscaping

Auburn Gardening and Landscape has recently been awarded the $500,000 project to install landscaping and irrigation within the limits of the recently completed Dana to Downtown project. Anticipated completion is by the end of this summer.

Fiber Optic Cable / Traffic Management System Elements

Roadway engineering Works Incorporated has started construction on a project that will install fiber optic cable for Transportation Management System (TMS) field elements, such as cameras, changeable message signs, highway advisory radios, traffic monitoring stations and traffic signals. This $5 million dollar project will install fiber optic cable from Anderson to north of the I-5/SR44 interchange and will be followed by a future project to connect fiber optic cable to the Caltrans District Office on Riverside Drive. The project is part of a long-term communications plan and will begin to establish the basic communications infrastructure needed to allow for better management of traffic through the Redding area now and into the future. Once completed, the fiber optic cable will provide a faster and more reliable communications network for relaying traffic information to the users. This project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2012.

I-5 Cable Median Barrier

Construction of a safety project to install cable median barrier, which will reduce cross median accidents has began on a four mile section of I-5 from 1.3 miles south of Knighton Road to 0.5 miles north of Smith Road. This project is similar to the two sections of barrier previously installed on I-5 and also includes earthwork to flatten the existing median and improvements to drainage. The $1.4 million project is anticipated to be completed by spring 2012.

Metal Beam Guardrail

A project to re-construct, upgrade, adjust, and install new metal beam guard rail at various locations on Interstate 5 from Cottonwood to just south of Dunsmuir has just recently started and will continue through the fall of 2012. The approximately $6 million construction project was awarded to Coral Construction of Wilsonville, Oregon. A similar project will also be completed in Tehama County.

Middle of Buckhorn- Project Information

The California Department of Transportation has awarded the Middle of Buckhorn project to Mercer Fraser of Eureka, Ca.  Construction has started on this first in a series of projects which will straighten curves and add a truck climbing lane on State Route 299 west of Redding. Vegetation removal is complete for this project east of Buckhorn Summit between post miles 2.5 and 4.3. This two season project will run through the fall, going into “winter suspension” around November, 2011, and resume in the spring of 2012. Completion is anticipated in the fall of 2013.

The Middle of Buckhorn, an estimated $13 million safety project funded through the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP), is designed to reduce the number and severity of accidents and includes improvements to 17 curves in this almost two mile stretch of State Route 299. The project will:

• Entirely eliminate seven of the 17 curves
• Add a continuous two-mile, straighter truck climbing lane that will allow for safer passing opportunities
• Add a four-foot wide “soft median” between opposing lanes of traffic
• Add shoulders and improve the clear recovery zone
• Increase the advisory curve speed limit from 25 mph to 35 mph

Shasta Many Bridges

In Shasta County at various locations on State Routes 299, 44 and 273. This project will perform necessary deck rehabilitation work to increase longevity and ride quality.  The project is currently under construction with American Civil Cponstructors performing the work at a cost of $1.3 million.

Sweetbrier / Tunnel Gulch

This project is a seismic retrofit of the bridges near Shasta Lake City at the Tunnel Gulch Viaduct and near Castella at Sweetbrier Overcrossing. Construction costs are anticipated at $1.48 million and work is expected complete in fall of 2012..

Twin Gulches & Buckhorn Finale

The next project on State Route 299 Buckhorn Grade is the Twin Gulches, will begin immediately following the Middle of Buckhorn project at the end of the 2012 construction season. Twin Gulches will address two hairpin turns between post miles 4.3 and 5.5. Beginning in 2013, the Buckhorn Finale project will realign the remaining curves between a section completed in 2009 and the Middle of Buckhorn project.

Redding Downtown Improvement-2 (RDI-2) -Public Open House

The RDI-2 project will extend the left turn pocket (lane) on eastbound State Route 299 in downtown Redding, also know as Eureka Way. The project will also improve pedestrian travel at various intersections, add the option to turn left or right at SR 273 and Tehama Street in the far right lane in downtown Redding, and take out the cement island currently at that location. This project is expected to begin construction in July 2012.

Completed Projects

Hilltop / I-5 Overcrossing Pedestrian Improvements
(City of Redding Project with cooperation from Caltrans)

This project will construct overcrossing pedestrian fencing on both the north and south sides of Hilltop Drive as it crosses over Interstate 5. Additional work will include widening the existing concrete sidewalk, ADA improvements, traffic stripe revisions, and replacement of the bridge approach guard railing. The project is to be completed by summer 2012.

South Redding Six-Lane - Fact Sheet

This project proposes adding a 12-ft lane and a 10-ft shoulder in the median in both the southbound (SB) and northbound (NB) directions on Interstate 5 (I-5) in Shasta County from the Bonnyview Road Interchange north to the I-5/SR 44 freeway to freeway interchange. 

Interstate 5 was completed in the early 1960’s in the Redding area of Shasta County.  Over the past 40 years, Interstate 5 has served as the main North-South corridor in California providing goods movement and interregional travel up and down the State and the Pacific Northwest.  Almost all of Interstate 5 between Red Bluff and Redding has two lanes in each direction and is nearing its capacity.  The section of I-5 from the Bonnyview Rd Interchange north to the I-5/SR 44 freeway to freeway interchange has the highest traffic volumes and the highest levels of congestion on Interstate 5 north of Woodland to the Oregon State line.  This project proposes to add a lane in each direction to improve operations, add capacity and reduce congestion.  The current Level of Service (LOS) on mainline is D.  Without these improvements, this segment will operate at a Level of Service F in the next 5-10 years.  With the proposed improvements the LOS will improve to C and approach the C/D threshold by the year 2032. ...more

• Proposition 1B Transportation Bond Provides $22.9 Million for Interstate 5 Project in Shasta County - May 27, 2010

Central Redding Collector - Fact Sheet

High merging on-ramp traffic volumes combined with high through traffic and weaving traffic volumes at the Central Redding Interchange (Interstate 5 and State Route 44) presents operational problems, increased congestion and safety concerns. Traffic is already heavy at this critical interchange with the weaving problems expected to magnify as peak hour traffic is projected to increase more than fifty percent by the year 2023 based on historical growth trends plus new accelerated growth.

To address this need Caltrans will widen southbound Interstate 5 (I-5) toward the median, making room for two additional southbound lanes from approximately one half mile north of Cypress Avenue to the Hilltop Drive overcrossing.  One of the additional lanes will allow traffic to flow from one loop ramp to the other without having to merge with southbound I-5 through traffic. The other additional lane will act as a weaving section, providing additional width for southbound I-5 through traffic to safely merge with on-ramp traffic or to safely exit the Interstate.

A weaving section is a length of one-way roadway where vehicles are crossing paths, changing lanes or merging with through traffic as they enter or exit a freeway or collector-distributor road.