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Source: The Bakersfield CalifornianAug.存倉 10--With the Westside Parkway open for business, city transportation officials are embarking on a $43.5 million, two-year rebuilding of the Morning Drive intersection with Highway 178 in northeast Bakersfield."The idea had always been to continue progressing eastward," said TRIP Program Manager Ted Wright. "(Development) was going humongous out there, and then it slowed down like the rest of the country, but now it's picked up again."Actual work will begin in mid-September with the construction of new on- and off-ramps to the highway at Morning Drive. Highway traffic then will be diverted onto these ramps while the actual freeway portion of the 178 is widened to four lanes and extended two miles eastward to Canteria Drive.Both roadways are one lane in either direction where they cross, approximately one mile past the Fairfax Road exit, where signs currently warn eastbound motorists on Highway 178 that the freeway is ending. Once the project is complete, the freeway will become highway and be reduced back to two lanes, at Canteria Drive.The northern segment of Morning Drive is a two-lane, paved road that dead-ends at Highway 178. During the project, it will be connected to the southern segment of Morning Drive south of 178, and widened to six lanes from Highway 178 north to Auburn Street, and to four lanes from Auburn Street n自存倉rth to Morningstar Avenue.Because the area remains largely undeveloped and roadwork has been planned for more than a decade, the city was able to purchase all the land it needs to expand the highway interchange, and no homes or businesses have had to be torn down.Any improvements to hilly, two-lane Morning Drive would be appreciated, an area coffeehouse barista said."I definitely think so," said Travis Anglim, a barista at Summit Coffee on Auburn Street. "We get a lot of traffic from people coming out from the opposite side, the north side of the freeway. I bet if they opened it up, it would be even better."City officials hope construction crews' hard work will translate into increased development in this part of the northeast -- but the area isn't entirely devoid of investment.Next month, Fresno-based developer G.L. Bruno Associates, which specializes in health care developments, will begin construction of a $150 million medical complex initially planned more than two years ago.It will include a cancer treatment and imaging center, as well as an out-patient surgery facility and medical offices, on 14 acres of land southwest of the Highway 178-Morning Drive intersection.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, Calif.) Visit The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, Calif.) at .bakersfield.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉新蒲崗