Bailey Road interchange opens
San Jose
– The first piece of the Coyote Valley development puzzle will
be in place later today with the opening of the Bailey Avenue
interchange off U.S. Highway 101.
Bailey Road interchange opens
San Jose – The first piece of the Coyote Valley development puzzle will be in place later today with the opening of the Bailey Avenue interchange off U.S. Highway 101.
The project is a holdover from the high-tech boom. It was expected to be the entrance way for a new Cisco Systems corporate campus that was scrapped when the economy fizzled.
San Jose planners now envision Bailey Avenue as the main entry to their proposed development that they hope will bring 25,000 jobs and 80,000 people to Coyote Valley.
“It will be the gateway to all of Coyote Valley,” said Nanci Klein, corporate outreach manager for San Jose “It adds tremendous capacity from 101 and the ability to develop the area.”
The interchange cost $23.6 million, with $19.3 million in funding coming from Caltrans.
The city will host a ceremony at 9:30am and the off-ramp will open later in the day.
An overpass that will extend to Monterey Road is scheduled to open in November, 2005.
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