The American Society of Civil Engineers says there’s one major problem with Kern County’s ambitious freeway projects this past decade. Chairman Daniel Cronquist told Supervisors this week we have 64-hundred miles of roads and will need a lot of money to fix them. “More than half of them have unsuitable pavement conditions and require rehabilitation, which is estimated at $375-million to repair all of the roads.” Cronquist says one-time grants paid for several major projects here and the county will need to figure out how to pay for maintaining them.
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