San Joaquin County

Amount Appropriated?

$2.5M

FFID tracks stages 1–2 — stages 3–5 vary by agency, assistance type, and earmark structure.

Project Description

The Project strikes an important balance between supporting goods movement and economic development and maintaining the rural community of Banta. Housing varies from older homes in the southern portion of the community to newer ranch-style homes on larger parcels north of Grant Line Road. The community's land use pattern has been heavily influenced by the railroad, which bisects the community. Commercial uses are clustered around the Grant Line Road crossing of the UPRR tracks. There is a church and an elementary school accessible from Grant Line Road (Figure 6). It is expected that Banta will remain a rural community, providing limited services for the residents and adjacent agricultural areas.\nEarly during the environmental process, the local community expressed a strong desire to reroute traffic around their community rather than simply widen the existing roadway to provide the needed capacity. Residents wanted to maintain their rural way of life and not become a suburb for the growing City of Tracy. Residents also wanted to reduce potential cut through traffic into Banta from the realignment by limiting access points into the community.\nThe roadway realignment greatly preserves the community\u2019s way of life. The vast majority of traffic will bypass Banta to the south. As shown in the Project\u2019s traffic study, this reduces traffic volumes from 20,900 ADT in Banta and 18,900 ADT in the Stoneridge neighborhood in 2035 without the Project to 1,900 in Banta and 2,000 in Stoneridge in 2035 with the construction of the bypass. This is a 90.9 percent traffic decrease in Banta and 89.4 percent in Stoneridge. \nAdditionally, the Project will provide safety and active transportation enhancements in Banta. The Project will close the at-grade crossings of the UPRR tracks at 6th Street and Banta Road. The Project will construct safety enhancements at the G Street and Grant Line Road Intersection to provide vehicular and pedestrian access.