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萨城这条老道将改高速！十年时间！5亿预算！
（SACBEE）Why a new ‘freeway’ is being built to connect three rapidly growing Sacramento suburbs
为什么新建一条“高速公路”来连接萨克拉门托三个快速发展的郊区，你知道吗？
In eastern Sacramento County, there’s a narrow, sometimes lumpy and twisty back road that goes by a couple of old-fashioned names: White Rock Road and Grant Line Road. Those names recall the days when this once quiet corridor carried little more than farm and ranch vehicles, dump trucks and country teens out on rabbit shoots.
在萨克拉门托县东部，有一条狭窄的、有时崎岖曲折的小路，有几个古老的名字:白石路(White Rock road)和格兰特线路(Grant Line road)。这些名字让人想到过去，这条曾经安静的小道上载着的都是农用汽车、自卸卡车和乡村少年，他们出去打兔子。
Today, as traffic snarls on Highway 50 and Highway 99, and subdivisions replace oak-studded grassland in Folsom, Rancho Cordova and Elk Grove, that trio of cities is racing to turn this hidden corridor into a high-speed beltway to serve eastern Sacramento County’s population boom, and to pave the way for plenty more in the decades to come.
今天，随着50号公路和99号公路上交通拥堵，福尔松、兰乔·科尔多瓦和埃尔克·格罗夫，这三个城市正在争先把这条隐蔽的小道改成高速环城公路，以满足东部萨克拉门托县的人口激增，并为未来几十年更多的高速公路铺平道路。
Officials this spring have launched construction of three segments of the road, one near Folsom and two in Elk Grove, marking the biggest step forward yet for the $500 million mega-project called the Sacramento Capital SouthEast Connector Expressway.
今年春天，官员们已经启动了这条公路的三段建设，一段在福尔松附近，另两段在埃尔克格罗夫，这标志着萨克拉门托首都东南高速公路(Sacramento Capital SouthEast Connector Expressway)这个耗资5亿美元的巨型项目向前迈出了最大的一步。
Rancho Cordova Mayor Garrett Gatewood said the road, which will take a decade or more to finish, is key to turning the Sacramento metropolitan area’s east flank into a regional powerhouse in the next generation.
兰乔·科尔多瓦市市长加勒特·盖特伍德说，这条公路将花费十年甚至更长的时间来完成，它是将萨克拉门托大都会区东部变成下一代地区中心的关键。
“This is what Roseville was like 25 years ago,” Gatewood said, standing amid tractors turning turf at White Rock Road and East Bidwell Street. “If we could complete this ‘freeway,’ it would be such a boon. It allows us to build out this area.”
“这是25年前的Roseville，”盖特伍德说，他站在白石路和东比德韦尔街的拖拉机中间。“如果我们能完成这条‘高速公路’，那将是一个福音。它允许我们扩建这个地区。”
A housing construction boom is already well underway in southeast Sacramento County, resurgent in the last two years after years of post-Great Recession doldrums. Some of it is aimed at local millennials starting families, and some at the flow of emigres from the Bay Area, a recent trend that has both encouraged and challenged regional planners who must figure out where and how to accommodate new arrivals.
萨克拉门托东南部的房屋建设热潮已经开始，在经历了大萧条后的两年低迷之后，在过去的两年里又复苏了。其中一些是针对本地的千禧一代组建家庭，另一些是针对来自旧金山湾区(Bay Area)的移民。最近的这种趋势既鼓励了地区规划者，也给他们带来了挑战，他们必须弄清楚在哪里以及如何容纳新来者。
New state data from the Department of Finance last week show that the three cities grew by nearly 5,000 residents in 2020, accounting for most of the growth in the county.
上周来自财政部的新州数据显示，2020年这三个城市的居民增加了近5000人，占该县人口增长的大部分。
SACRAMENTO COUNTY HOUSING BOOM
萨克拉门托县房地产繁荣
In the last two-plus years, more than 1,000 homes have been built on the hills between Highway 50 and White Rock Road in the newly expanded city limits of Folsom, with 10,000 more to come. As of this month, Folsom officials estimate 1,700 new residents now live next to that corridor, some of them already packing onto the old farm road for commutes into Rancho Cordova.
在过去两年多的时间里，在福尔松市新扩建的城市边界上，50号高速公路和白石路之间的山上建起了1000多座房屋，还有10000多座即将建成。截至本月，福尔松的官员估计，现在有1700名新居民住在这条走廊附近，其中一些人已经挤到了旧的农场道路上，准备去科尔多瓦牧场上班。
Rancho Cordova and Elk Grove, similarly, are welcoming new subdivisions. Elk Grove saw nearly 700 new single-family homes pop up in 2020, according to the new Department of Finance numbers.
兰乔·科尔多瓦和埃尔克·格罗夫也同样欢迎新的分区。根据财政部的最新数据，埃尔克格罗夫市在2020年出现了近700套新的独户住宅。
The expressway, when completed, would run from El Dorado Hills in El Dorado County, along the back side of Folsom, Rancho Cordova and Elk Grove, and then westward to Interstate 5 in south Sacramento County.
高速公路建成后，将从多拉多县的埃尔多拉多山，沿着福尔索姆、兰乔科尔多瓦和埃尔克格罗夫的后侧延伸，然后向西延伸到南萨克拉门托县的5号州际公路。
Key sections in Folsom and Elk Grove could be done in the next few years. Other sections, including around Rancho Cordova and the extension westward to I-5, may be more than a decade in the future, depending on the flow of federal, state and local transportation funding.
福尔松和埃尔克格罗夫的关键部分可能在未来几年完成。其他路段，包括兰乔·科尔多瓦附近和向西延伸至I-5的路段，可能需要十年以上的时间，这取决于联邦、州和地方交通资金的流向。
PLANNED EXPRESSWAY
高速公路计划
Sacramento County governments are slowing expanding Grant Line and White Rock roads into a four-lane expressway with a center median, to be called Capital SouthEast Connector.
萨克拉门托县政府正在放慢将格兰特线(Grant Line)和白石(White Rock)公路扩建为一条四车道高速公路的步伐，并将其命名为首都东南连接线(Capital SouthEast Connector)。
The expressway would not be a true freeway, at least not initially.
这条高速公路不是真正的高速公路，至少一开始不是。
The current 20-year plan is to straighten and widen the corridor to four lanes with limited intersections, making it a high-speed commute corridor, offering an alternative for tens of thousands of commuters who would otherwise use Highway 50, Highway 99 and Interstate 5.
目前的20年计划是将这条通道拉直并拓宽为四车道，路口有限，使其成为高速通勤通道，为成千上万原本使用50号公路、99号公路和5号州际公路的通勤者提供另一种选择。
But, like Highway 65 in south Placer County, it could potentially be upgraded in increments over years into a full freeway.
但是，就像南部普莱瑟县的65号高速公路一样，它有可能在未来几年逐步升级为一条完整的高速公路。
A short early section of the connector expressway was built a few years ago on a section of White Rock Road, as well as two freeway interchanges, although progress had been slow over the years because of limited money.
几年前，连接高速公路的一小段早期路段在白石路(White Rock Road)的一段路段上修建，还有两条高速公路立交桥，尽管由于资金有限，多年来进展缓慢。
This spring marks the first major multi-pronged construction effort.
今年春天是首个多管齐下的重大建设工程。
Three sections of the road now represent the biggest burst of segment construction in the decade-plus that the project has been in the works.
目前，这条公路的三个路段代表了该项目十多年来最大规模的路段建设。
Ami Bera, a Democratic congressman representing Elk Grove, said the connector is the most significant road project in the Sacramento region. He has requested money be earmarked to include broadband internet service and bike trails along the corridor.
代表Elk Grove的民主党国会议员贝拉说，这条公路是萨克拉门托地区最重要的公路项目。他要求拨款用于修建宽带互联网服务和走廊沿线的自行车道。
Standing along White Rock Road last week, he pointed up the hill to street after street of new houses going up in Folsom. “Just look at the construction.” he said. “President Biden has asked us to go big.”
上周，他站在白石路(White Rock Road)旁，指着山上的福尔松(Folsom)新建房屋的一条街道。“看看建筑就知道了。”他说。“拜登总统要求我们做大。”
Minnema said the next section of the roadway likely up for construction after the current three segments is a 2.5 mile section of Grant Line Road from the intersection with White Rock to Douglas Road in Rancho Cordova.
明尼马表示，在目前的三段道路之后，下一段道路可能会进行建设，这段道路是格兰特线路(Grant Line Road)的2.5英里路段，从白石路口到兰彻科尔多瓦的道格拉斯路(Douglas Road)。
“It’s momentum,” Minnema said. “We’re excited about the momentum.”
“这是一种趋势，”明尼玛说。“我们对这种趋势感到兴奋。”
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