SD's Highways to Benefit from Passage of Infrastructure Bonds

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published November 7, 2006 at 10:56 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

San Diego County highways will get some much needed money following the passage of the multi-billion-dollar California infrastructure bond package. Propositions 1A through 1E provide money for schools

San Diego County highways will get some much needed money following the passage of the multi-billion-dollar California infrastructure bond package. Propositions 1A through 1E provide money for schools, roads, levees and housing. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has more.

Prop. 1B sells nearly $20 billion worth of bonds to pay for highway construction, road improvements and transit lines. Voters agreed that the state’s aging roads are worth the price tag. San Diego Association of Governments Director Gary Gallegos says the money will benefit several projects in San Diego County.

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Gallegos: It’s going to mean faster improvements on the big interstates, I-5, I-805, finishing a little quicker on the I-15, improving our trolley system.

Prop. 1A would restrict the use of existing gasoline taxes for projects not related to transportation. But the tax funds could be tapped for other uses in the case of severe state fiscal hardship. It was expected to pass since it didn’t involve raising new funds. Prop 1C provides nearly $3 billion to fund new housing programs such as shelters for battered women and children. Prop.1E was also passed by voters. It directs $4 billion to repair levees and flood control systems. Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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