In the latest Highway 1 news, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) recently announced that they have taken over the role of Construction Manager for the Highway 1 Auxiliary Lanes Project, the project that will add an auxiliary lane (a ramp connecting the off ramp to the next on ramp) between Morrissey Boulevard and the Soquel interchange, “thereby extending the Highway 1/17 Interchange Merge Lanes project to the north side of Soquel Avenue,” said the RTC in an Aug. 19 release. They will work in conjunction with Caltrans, which owns the state highway system. Construction is set to begin next summer.
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