$9.5 million grant to help build Eastvale’s Limonite Avenue bridge

There is a gap in Eastvale’s primary east-west thoroughfare, Limonite Avenue.

But the city is poised to close it within a couple years by building a bridge over Cucamonga Creek, after snaring a nearly $9.5 million state grant this month.

City Manager Bryan Jones said the award from the California Transportation Commission will go a long way toward financing the $22 million bridge that will complete the road across the city, in conjunction with a planned extension across nearby Dyt Dairy.

Ike Bootsma, a longtime resident who was recently reelected to the Eastvale City Council after four years off the council, said the last cows were taken off Dyt Dairy a couple weeks ago.

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