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News Home Trade Corridor Improvement Funds Awarded On April 10, 2008, the California Transportation Commission adopted a program of projects for the state’s $3 billion Proposition 1B Trade Corridor Improvement Fund. Among the projects included was the western extension of the Highway 4 Stockton Crosstown Freeway from east of Fresno Ave. to Navy Drive. The TCIF grant will provide $96,820,000 of the total cost of the project, estimated at $193,640,000. The SJCOG project must go through environmental and other studies and the scheduled construction start date is June 2013. Currently, trucks must leave the highway and travel through Boggs Tract roads and city streets to reach their destinations at the Port of Stockton. The extension would remove the heavy traffic from the neighborhood and provide significantly better access to the port. Fourteen North State projects received TCIF funding, including a Port of Stockton dredging project. SJCOG Teams With Center for Land-Based Learning for Another Successful Restoration Project Two dozen high school students left a legacy for San Joaquin County’s environment this year - a riparian hedgerow on a habitat preservation easement at the Wing Levee Road Preserve near Tracy. The students met regularly at the site all year, braving fall winds, winter fog and spring rains to plant native species that will become natural habitat for nesting and foraging song birds, the Swainsons Hawk and other raptors. They worked the soil, established ditch irrigation systems to maintain their plants, and planted a number of shrubs, including the Blue Elderberry shrubs for the Valley Elderberry beetle. The students, from VISTA High School Academy in Stockton, worked under direction of the Student and Landowner Education Watershed Stewardship program, or SLEWS. They learned about native species and the value of eco-systems to preserve them, studied farming techniques and got hands-on experience out in the fields!
During their final field day at the end of April, the students
installed wooden birdhouses and protective plant cages to further
develop habitat for natural species in the area. This program was
organized by SJCOG Habitat, which oversees a voluntary habitat land
use program running throughout San Joaquin County.
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