This project will widen a section of Avenue 280 from Road 140 (Lovers Lane) to Road 160 (Virginia Avenue), which is a significant transportation corridor in the Visalia and Farmersville area. The existing two-lane roadway will be widened to a four-lane divided roadway with median turn lanes, multimodal accommodations, drainage improvements, and utility relocations.
What Inspired Us:
Agricultural trucking and commodity movement account for a large portion of road system degradation. The creation of a robust transportation network is critical to meeting future demands.
This project will install a sidewalk and 21 Americans with Disabilities Act ramps around Jefferson Elementary School to provide pedestrians with a safe mode of transportation. This project will enhance the safety and well-being of children while addressing equity concerns and promoting active transportation.
What Inspired Us:
Safe Routes to School projects create safer environments for walking and biking, encourage active commuting, and offer numerous benefits for students, communities, and the environment.
The West Valley Connector Project is a two phase, 35-mile-long bus rapid transit project located in San Bernardino County. BRI is responsible for Segment 2, consisting of thirty-eight (38) partial acquisitions and temporary construction easements. The impacts are predominantly to commercial properties, including commercial shopping centers, two (2) shopping malls, used car lots, office buildings, restaurants and two (2) hotels.
What Inspired Us:
Ontario is an area in transition in terms of development. We were inspired by the opportunity to make way for better public transportation access, which will allow the area to continue its revitalization.
The project is a partial cloverleaf interchange within the jurisdictional limits of both the City of Manteca and San Joaquin County. BRI is providing right of way services for the 28 impacted parcels, including relocation services for 11 residential households and one business, a veterinary office.
What Inspired Us:
BRI has always been passionate about understanding the needs of the agricultural community and we are excited to see this project move forward, as it will allow for a freer movement of goods and help them get their products to market more efficiently.
BRI provides On-Call right of way services as needed. BRI currently has 7 project task orders open with SANDAG, the largest of which is for the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project, which is an 11-mile extension of the existing San Diego Trolley from north of the Old Town Transit Center to University City. Participation in this project has enhanced the opportunities to work with multiple agencies in the Region. This project is currently under construction and is the largest infrastructure project in Southern California.
What Inspired Us:
Transportation models indicate that the new trolley service will attract 20,000 new transit riders a day and is a step toward a cleaner, greener world.
This project includes the installation of an advanced signal system and the electrification of the rail line meeting current and future transportation demand between San Jose and San Francisco, modernizing the Caltrain service. BRI has provided full-service right of way support beginning with the Real Estate Acquisition Management Plan and continuing through appraisal and acquisition services, all under FTA guidelines.
What Inspired Us:
We are always excited about the opportunity to make mass transit in urban communities more sustainable and appealing to the population at large. If Caltrain becomes more user-friendly in terms of on-time arrivals and general reliability, more people will continue to ride the rails, reducing our carbon footprint and freeway congestion.