| The Port of Long Beach completed construction in early January of a multi-million dollar overpass, allowing trucks and cars to pass unimpeded over the main railroad tracks.
Funded by the Port of Long Beach, and to a lesser extent, Cal Trans and the MTA, the $41.6 million Anaheim Street Grade Separation Project, near Ninth Street in West Long Beach, includes a 1,450-foot bridge.
The new bridge provides three lanes in each direction and is the last of six grade separation projects designed to ease traffic congestion at railroad crossings in and around the port. The port has spent $135 million on the decade-long grade separation program.
"The port's truck trips are expected to increase to 27,000 trips in the near future and the train traffic into the port is projected to multiply considerably," said Mike Bogner, the port's project manager. "The benefits are that the trucks won't have to wait because they'll be shooting over the traffic," he said, adding, "If we had not done the grade separation program, we would not have been able to keep up with the economic growth within the region."
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