Wet Crossing takes the “Express” out of FedEx

Jeane Kennedy writes,

Yep…that’s the Stagecoach wet-crossing.  When Bob Toynbee’s not peering under the front bumper of a van trying to figure out how to attach his tow chain, he’s working with Public Works on the new bridge crossing.

Preliminary engineering for this long-awaited project is scheduled to begin this summer with actual crossing completion expected by summer of 2012. Sometime during bridge construction, road closure will have to occur, however, our hardy neighbors living beyond the wet-crossing deal with driving the long way around every time the creek gets high.  Soon this detour will come to an end.

Total cost of building the bridge is estimated to be less than $900,000. Our community has kept in reserve $92,000 to cover the “matching funds” requirement of the CalTrans grant that will pay for the bridge.