Tell Caltrans what you think about widening the 55 Freeway

Dec. 9, 2015 4:08 PM PT

State officials are accepting comments about a proposal to widen a portion of the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway.

The California Department of Transportation is considering adding additional lanes along a roughly 4-mile stretch of the 55 from where it meets the San Diego (405) Freeway, near the edge of the Costa Mesa city limits, to where it connects with the 5 Freeway in Tustin.

Expansion plans include adding new general-purpose lanes and constructing a new carpool lane. Another option is doing nothing at all.

An open-house meeting about the proposals is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday from at the Boys Scouts of America Orange County Council building, 1211 E. Dyer Road, Santa Ana.

Written comments can be sent until 5 p.m. Jan. 8 to Charles Baker, Caltrans District 12 senior environmental planner, at 3347 Michelson Drive, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612-1692.

Emails can also be sent to [email protected].

The full environmental impact report is available online at Caltrans District 12’s website, and in paper form at the district’s office in Irvine.

The report is also available at Orange County Transportation Authority’s headquarters in Orange, the Santa Ana Public Library, Irvine City Hall and Tustin’s library.

Bradley Zint

Bradley Zint left Times Community News in 2018. He was a general assignment reporter for the Daily Pilot, where he worked since 2010. At the Pilot, he also was a copy editor, classical music columnist and reporter covering Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. He previously worked in Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Alaska and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, where he served as editor-in-chief of its campus newspaper, the Daily 49er.