California’s highways and roadways are currently getting a shot in the arm with infrastructure stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but a number of high-profile road projects also broke ground last year despite a freefalling economy and with little or no extra federal money.
Among them are the Interstate 15 south and north segment projects and another phase of the U.S. 101 widening project in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties.