CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – Caltrans will hold a public meeting this week to offer the community information on a proposed roundabout project at the intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 53 east of Clearlake Oaks.
The meeting will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Clearlake Oaks Moose Lodge, 15900 E. Highway 20, which is located near the project site.
The drop-in style meeting will have displays of the proposed project, and Caltrans staff will be on hand to answer questions, according to Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie.
Frisbie said installing a roundabout at the Highway 20 and Highway 53 intersection is meant to improve the intersection's safety and operation.
The roundabout project currently is scheduled to go to construction in 2018. Frisbie said the current estimated total cost at completion is about $9.8 million.
This would be the fourth roundabout on the state highways in Lake County, and the fifth in the county overall, counting the first that was completed in Lakeport more than a decade ago at Lakeport Boulevard and Parallel Drive.
Previous roundabout projects overseen by Caltrans have been completed at the intersection of Highway 20 and the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff in Nice and the intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 29 in Upper Lake.
A third roundabout at Highway 29 and Hartmann Road in Middletown is just ahead of the Clearlake Oaks project. Frisbie said the Middletown roundabout is still on schedule for construction in 2018.
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