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Article: How Do You Spell Commuter Relief? 'Middle 56'.(highway construction in San Diego, CA)(Brief Article)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 31, 2000
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The "freeway without a middle" is $25 million closer to getting a center. State Route 56 will connect Interstate 5 and Interstate 15 by the year 2004.
Local officials hailed the news that Gov. Gray Davis approved a spending bill earlier this month. The bill releases an additional $25 million in state funds toward the completion of the long stalled Highway 56 project.
The city of San Diego must negotiate prices with the owners of almost two dozen parcels, and that could push up the cost of the road by an unspecified amount, Ross said.
With that money added to the $115 million already raised for the project, that might or might not be enough to ...