{"id":57616,"date":"2025-06-17T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/can-new-highway-lanes-end-los-gatos-beach-traffic-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:42:44","slug":"can-new-highway-lanes-end-los-gatos-beach-traffic-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/can-new-highway-lanes-end-los-gatos-beach-traffic-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Can new highway lanes end Los Gatos\u2019 beach traffic nightmare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited project\u00a0to alleviate Los Gatos beach traffic has received funding \u2014 but it\u2019s a drop in the bucket compared to the money needed to address bumper-to-bumper gridlock on summer weekends. The VTA board of directors has allocated $11.3 million for the State Route 17 Corridor Congestion Relief Project as part of its budgets for fiscal year 2025-26 and 2026-27. The project aims to solve one of Los Gatos\u2019 biggest challenges plaguing the town for decades \u2014 beach traffic jamming streets to escape the Highway 17 bottleneck between Lark Avenue and the Highway 9 interchange at Saratoga\u2013Los Gatos Road. The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/can-new-highway-lanes-end-los-gatos-beach-traffic-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited project\u00a0to alleviate Los Gatos beach traffic has received funding \u2014 but it\u2019s a drop in the bucket compared to the money needed to address bumper-to-bumper gridlock on summer weekends. The VTA board of directors has allocated $11.3 million for the State Route 17 Corridor Congestion Relief Project as part of its budgets for &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}