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San Bernardino will receive a $2.9 million grant from the California Department of Transportation that it will use to build medians along a 3.5-mile stretch of of E Street between Fairway Drive and 10th Street.
The grant, which the city will receive in partnership with Omnitrans, is part of the State’s Local Highway Safety Improvement Program, according to a statement on the city’s website.
A construction schedule has not been determined.
Between March 2019 and March 2024, the E Street Corridor between Fairway Drive and 10th Street recorded 110 accidents, two of them fatalities. That was enough to get that stretch of highway classified as high-risk by the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System.
The Federal Highway Administration has determined that raised medians can reduce automobile accidents by 25 percent, and pedestrian-related crashes up to 36 percent.
Raised medians separate opposing directions of traffic, and make it more difficult to execute dangerous turns, both of which are factors on E Street, according to the statement.
