Bradley Road Bridge fully funded and on track; city cites October opening
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Acting Mayor Bob Carwin said Menifee’s $17 million Bradley Road Bridge is fully funded after a $5 million federal allocation and is on schedule for an October opening, adding walking and biking trails to reduce flooding and improve access.
Acting Mayor Bob Carwin said the long-planned Bradley Road Bridge is now underway and expected to open in October after the city secured the final funding needed.
The project, which Carwin described as a $17 million capital-improvement that entered the city’s list in 2013, received $5 million from the federal government added to the recent federal budget “through Congressman Ken Calvert,” Carwin said. “It’s now underway. It’s scheduled to be done in October,” he said.
Carwin said the bridge will include walking and biking trails and is intended to prevent future flooding at the site. He said inspections are ongoing and that construction is proceeding according to schedule. “We talk to them. And it's going according to schedule,” he added.
City staff said the project is fully funded and that scheduling risks would chiefly come from extraordinary weather or similar delays. The mayor framed the bridge as part of a multi-project approach to ease congestion and improve connectivity across Menifee.
Next steps include continued site inspections, coordination with contractors on final details and preparing the approaches and pedestrian amenities ahead of the planned opening in October. No formal vote or new funding request was announced at the town-hall session.
