Howe Avenue roadway construction is expected to end this month after almost a year of causing traffic delays.

The construction from the Howe Avenue/Highway 50 interchange improvement project stretches south on Howe Avenue, from College Town Dr. to Folsom Boulevard. An area that covers east entrances to campus and the entire freeway interchange.

Sacramento State junior and geology major, Dave Barnard, said that the project is unavoidable when he takes the freeway to campus.”It seems like it’s been going on forever, as long as I can remember,” Barnard said.

Mehrdad Nazeri, the Howe Avenue project manager for the Sacramento City Department of Public Works, said that the project has not been going on forever, but is reaching the “year-long” point of being under construction.

“Howe is subjected to a tremendous amount of traffic, and most of our construction has been done at night, but some complaints are unavoidable,”

Nazeri said. “But this is an improvement project, and Howe will be expanded in the end.”

Nazeri said the current congestion on Howe Avenue tends to make construction seem slow and improvements all the more necessary.

The project will expand the existing Howe Avenue from two to three lanes each direction, and will also widen and meter each entrance to U.S. Highway 50.

Nazeri said that the project and subsequent delays should end by late this month.

Who is Responsible:

Mehrdad Nazeri – Project Manager – Sacramento City Department of Public Works – (916) 808-7460.