Looking at the northbound on-ramp of the construction site of the Scott Road Interstate 215 Interchange Project in September. Shane Gibson photo
Riverside County is one of the fastest-growing counties in the country, and the continual construction and improvement that comes with that growth will continue into the new year. Now that it’s officially in the 2020s, here are some construction projects to watch in the southwest Riverside region:I-15/I-215 improvementsIn November, the city of Temecula received a $50 million grant from the federal government to pay for the second phase of the French Valley Parkway/Interstate 15 interchange project. The second phase won’t actually make any progress on the interchange itself – it will be years before that happens – but it will add a collector/distributor lane system on I-15 north of Winchester to the I-215 interchange, which is expected to ease problems with traffic cutting a
