Agenda Item Wording:
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Consider the Tulare six-lane and Paige Avenue Interchange Caltrans mitigation agreement - Approve Caltrans funding agreement for operation of the Mooney Avenue bus rapid transit segment of the Cross Valley Corridor project.
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Agenda Date: 07/20/2026
Prepared by:
Angelina Baker, Transit Manager, Angelina.Baker@visalia.gov, (559)713-4591
John Lollis, Assistant City Manager, John.Lollis@visalia.gov, (559)713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to enter into a mitigation agreement with Caltrans to receive funding in the amount of $4,682,000 from the Tulare six-l and Paige Avenue Interchange project for of the Mooney Boulevard bus rapid transit (BRT) portion of the Cross Valley Corridor project.
Summary:
The Cross Valley Corridor project, which Visalia has been designated as the project lead, has many aspects to it with State grant funding that have already been awarded and future grant funding requests that are yet to be determined.
The Regional Express Transit Service Project is comprised of two (2) separate but intersecting express transit services in the region, including the Cross Valley Express (CVX) project connecting communities of Tulare and Kings Counties primarily along the State Route 198 corridor, and a complimentary bus rapid transit (BRT) system on the Mooney Boulevard (State Route 63) corridor between the Visalia and Tulare transit centers, with stops serving commercial retail destinations as well as the College of the Sequoias campus in Visalia.
Caltrans has initiated a draft mitigation funds agreement with the City of Visalia to fund part of the BRT operations as an environmental vehicle mile travelled (VMT) mitigation for the Tulare six-lane and Paige Avenue Interchange project. While the City and the Caltrans legal department are still fine-tuning the wording, City staff is asking Council to grant authorization to the City Manager to sig...
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