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Butte County Association of Governments
Priorities for Stimulus Funds
BCAG Agenda Feb 26, 2009
Stimulus Projects by City
Highway 149 Expansion
The following are articles and letters that will hopefully provide some balance to the often-lopsided arguments presented
in the mainstream local press on the Highway 149 expansion project.
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Hog Wild: Hwy. 149 Expansion - Your Tax Money for Urban Sprawl or Safety? (Spring 2006)
Through twelve years analyzing and promoting the dangers of the intersection at Highways 70 and 149, Butte County Association
of Governments (BCAG) and California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) failed to keep the public safe from the dangers
there.
Hwy. 149 Expansion: Do We Really Need an L.A. Freeway Near a Cow Pasture? (January 2006)
This project will turn a 4.6 mile highway between highway/freeway 70 and highway/freeway 99 into a four-lane freeway with
two clover-leaf intersections. All this is occurring in the middle of grazing land. Is this really what we want? There are
some timely, cheaper and safe alternatives.
CalTrans: Save Lives Immediately! (Winter 2005)
BEC has repeatedly suggested over three years that the Butte County Association of Governments, Butte County Supervisors,
and CalTrans should prioritize public safety right now instead of waiting for their expensive, unfunded, sprawl inducing Highway
149 expansion and cloverleaf interchanges with Highways 70 and 99.
Beavers or Meadowfoam, Widening Highway 149 (March 2001)
The question of whether to protect beavers or meadowfoam when widening Highway 149 took center stage at a recent meeting between
the Butte County Association of Governors (BCAG) and CalTrans. County Supervisor Jane Dolan spoke for protection of the beavers,
inhabiting a nearby lake; CalTrans project engineer, Winder Bajwa, reminded association members that, unlike the beaver, meadowfoam
is an endangered species in need of protection. All were trying to grapple with the soaring costs of expanding the highway,
costs that have doubled from a 1991 estimate of $41.5 million to a current estimate of $80.9 million.
Hwy 149 Expansion Project FAQs
This is a set of FAQs intended to illuminate the issues regarding the Highway 149 Expansion that will turn Hwy. 149 into a
four-lane freeway, complete with a Los Angeles-style clover-leaf interchange at the intersections with Highways 99 and 70.
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