Highway Update: Major project to begin on Orange County’s 91 Freeway to reduce bumper-to-bumper traffic
While not affecting local motorists, except those who commute to work in Orange County and the beach cities, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) announced this week a $779 million project soon to take place on the 91 Freeway between Riverside and Orange County.The major project will be rebuilding the bridges along that highway, adding new connector roads and adding more lanes in a five-mile stretch between the 55 and 57 freeways, a major construction area, according to Orange County news media and Press Enterprise.OCTA officials said the improvement should make the commute easier and reduce the many bottlenecks on the 91.OCTA estimates about 321,000 vehicles travel that section of the highway each day, many of them from Riverside and the southwest Riverside County