Eight years ago Fullerton residents received this mailer urging them to renew Measure M, the county-wide half cent sales tax adopted by voters in 1990. Funds from Measure M, and M2, as the renewal became known after voters passed it in 2006, have been mostly used for widening streets. But some funding was steered toward mass transit and at least one project was supposed to have been built to benefit cyclists and pedestrians.
At the bottom of the lengthy list of promised projects to benefit Fullerton residents is a bicycle and pedestrian bridge across the 57 Freeway next to Cal State Fullerton. The bridge would provide a direct transportation path to the school for numerous students and others living to the east on the other side of the busy freeway. Bicycle paths at the school currently run north and south, but riding east or west on Nutwood Ave on the south side of CSUF or Yorba Linda Blvd. on the north side can be dangerous because of the onramps and off ramps of the freeway itself on both streets.
Voters a approved “Measure M-2,” but we never got our bridge…
Boy that sucks. The people of Fullerton and the University should go to a council meeting and a OCTA and find out why.
Didn’t a lot of those funds go to build that big glass Train Station, a few miles south? The one that will sit there waiting for passengers from the Bullet Train? whenever it gets extended from,er…..Bakersfield???