Highway 1 Auxiliary Lanes -- State Park Drive to Bay Avenue/Porter Street

proposed

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), in association with the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC), the County of Santa Cruz, and the City of Capitola, proposes to widen State Route 1 to include auxiliary lanes and to accommodate bus-on-shoulder (BOS) operations between the State Park Drive and Bay Avenue/Porter Street interchanges, replace the Capitola Avenue overcrossing, and construct a new pedestrian and bicycle overcrossing at Mar Vista Drive. The project is subject to federal and state environmental review requirements. Caltrans, as assigned by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), is the lead agency under the National Environmental Policy Act. Caltrans is the lead agency under California Environmental Quality Act.