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Outreach Team Highlights SR-57 Project at Anaheim Farmers' Market

Community member at the Anaheim Farmers market ask about work taking place near the Honda Center. The Orange Freeway (SR-57) outreach team participated Thursday, July 18 in the Anaheim farmers' market, a weekly event in downtown Anaheim that draws thousands of residents.

More than 20 people visited the OCTA booth where the project team shared information about the bridge work taking place at Katella Avenue and Douglass Road in Anaheim as part of the SR-57 Northbound Widening Project.

Residents inquired about construction work near the Honda Center and other project details.

When completed in 2014, the SR-57 project will add an eight-mile, northbound general-purpose lane from Katella Aveneue to Lambert Road. It also will include several operational improvements including new striping, lighting and realigned ramps.

The outreach team also shared information on other projects currently under way in central and northern Orange County, including the O.C. Bridges program and the widening of the westbound Riverside Freeway (SR-91).