Officials from the Orange County Transportation Authority and Riverside County Transportation Commission last week signed a cooperative agreement to construct and operate a long-planned 8-mi extension of the State Route 91 express lanes system.
The officials had also just received word that the project would receive a $20 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant that will support a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan financing up to one-third of the cost of the $1.3-billion project.