3.3 million {dollars} awarded to Metropolis Heights for bike, pedestrian infrastructure

SAN DIEGO — Metropolis Heights is receiving $3.3 million {dollars} to spend on creating bike paths and pedestrian infrastructure, due to a grant from the California Air and Assets Board.

“We’ve by no means been the precedence for these investments and when this state funding is coming to the group it means a lot trigger that implies that our communities are lastly being heard,” mentioned Rosa Olascoaga, who works for the Metropolis Heights Neighborhood Improvement Company (CDC).

The nonprofit was the lead applicant for one of many statewide Sustainable Transportation Fairness Venture (STEP) grants.

The cash shall be used to reinforce a SANDAG undertaking that’s at present underway alongside College Avenue by including issues like lighting to the world.

Incoming bike and pedestrian lanes will join the Cuatro reasonably priced housing complexes which might be at present beneath building to close by transit.

“It is already form of scary driving on the street, so having some form of infrastructure set in stone for a bike owner will certainly carry extra confidence,” mentioned John Cooper, the proprietor of Keep True Cyclworks, a motorcycle store down the road from the Metropolis Heights Transit Heart.

Olascoaga says the following step shall be to conduct a group wants evaluation earlier than progress begins.