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U.S-Mexico freeway to get funds

A 3-mile stretch of a United States-Mexico freeway that will cost $76.8 million to build is one of the first transportation projects to benefit from the federal recovery act.

On May 27, California began on a new phase of the SR-905, which will build the six-lane freeway segment from Britannia Boulevard to Interstate 805, an interchange at Caliente Avenue, and new off-ramps at Britannia Boulevard.

Border ports of entry process more than two million trucks each year, a figure expected to double within the next decade.

The entire SR-905 project will cost $620 million and create 8 miles of a new six-lane freeway alignment from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to I-805.

Through the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, California will receive nearly $2.6 billion in stimulus funding for roads and $1 billion for transit projects.