The California Transportation Commission postponed a vote Thursday to provide $105 million in funding to widen a portion of Interstate 80 in Yolo County, amid pushback from other state regulators and environmental groups.
CTC Chair Carl Guardino announced at the commission’s meeting in San Jose that a vote on the proposal, which would greenlight funding from the state’s Trade Corridor Enhancement Program, is being moved to May. That program provides grants to projects designed to improve freight movement in high volume corridors.
The decision comes a day after the California Air Resources Board sent a letter to CTC Executive Director Tanisha Taylor slamming the project’s TCEP application and draft environmental impact report as being fundamentally flawed.
The opposition from CARB is an extraordinary rebuke of the controversial project from a fellow state agency, and could imperil nearly $86 million in federal funding that’s set to expire in September if a contractor hasn’t been hired to start construction.
