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San Bernardino has received nearly $10 million from the Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program, money it plans to use to improve safety and traffic management at intersections.
Two hundred and twenty four intersections with signals will be upgraded at cost of $5.5 million, making them safer for vehicles and pedestrian traffic, according to a statement.
Another $5.4 million will be spent to install detection systems along three of San Bernardino’s most dangerous corridors.
Those systems – along Baseline Street from California Street to Del Rosa Avenue, Highland Avenue from Medical Center Drive to Victoria Avenue and Mt. Vernon Avenue from Highland Avenue to Johnston Street – will make it easier for drivers to decide whether to stop or keep driving as they approach a yellow light.
Work on each project is expected to start in October – four month after bids go out – and be completed the following June.
Four hundred and seventy two accidents happened along those thoroughfares between 2013 and 2017, according to the statement.
