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OC Board of Supervisors and Rancho Mission Viejo Seem to be Planning for Life Without the 241 Tesoro Extension

It looks as though Orange County and Rancho Mission Viejo are ready to move forward with the alternative road plan, and appear to be concluding that the Tesoro Extension of the 241 will not be built. Back in April, we wrote in this article about how the 241 to the 5 connector was likely dead, [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/4350

OCTA Seeking Comments on its Draft Long Range Transportation Plan at Public Meeting Tonight

There is a ton of construction going on in South County right now. For the next few years, South County residents will need to deal with construction on I-5 at Avenida Pico, Ortega Highway and El Toro just for starters. We will also watch as the Rancho Mission Viejo transportation infrastructure is built out over [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/4207

Toll Roads Scrap I-5 Connector; Refocus on Tesoro Extension

The under-resourced and under-staffed Patch is still able to break some local news, such as this story:

Officials overseeing the 241 Toll Road in Orange County said today they have moved to scrap federal environmental reviews of an extension of the major arterial to San Diego County because they have languished for about a decade. [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/3293

Good News and Bad News for Toll Road

The Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) entered into an agreement with Caltrans that will permit the TCA to extend the amount if time it can collect tolls on the 241 Toll Road until 2053, a twelve year increase. This extension may help the TCA avoid a credit downgrade in the near future. On the other [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/1736

Huevos, Jamon and a Bottle of Chardonnay: Having Fun with Street Names

For half a century, Rancho Mission Viejo Company (and its predecessors) has been building communities in South Orange County. With residential development comes the responsible to name the thousands of new streets built on Rancho Mission Viejo land. At the outset, developers used simple Spanish words for the streets of Mission Viejo. Many of those [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/1493

OCR Article: Ranch Plan Creates South County Mountain to Sea Trail

The Orange County Register has published an article titled “Ranch development creates South County’s first mountain to sea trail” describing some of the trail linkages that are coming as a result of the Rancho Mission Viejo development. We’ve previously written about opening a Rancho Mission Viejo trail system and how the Ranch Plan promises new [...]

http://www.ranchoortega.com/blog/archives/1479

Construction of the 241 Tesoro Extension May Begin This Summer

In 2008, the California Coastal Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce rejected the proposed alignment of the 241 Toll Road that would have connected it to I-5 south of San Clemente. The Transportation Corridor Agencies have now proposed to complete the 241 in segments, with the first segment extending the 241 from its current end-point [...]