The recent announcement of nearly $300 million in highway safety improvement funding across California raises an important question about resource distribution. While the governor’s most recent press release proudly declares improvements will stretch from “Del Norte County in the north to San Diego County in the south and communities everywhere in between,” a closer examination of the project list reveals a notable gap: Siskiyou County.
Siskiyou County, California’s fifth-largest county by land area, sits along the Oregon border, home to Mount Shasta and over 44,000 residents spread across its rural expanse. Yet in this cycle of transportation safety funding, Siskiyou appears completely absent from the 288 approved projects.
