I-10 Express Lanes Project

Expanding Critical Transportation Capacity in the Inland Empire

Few infrastructure challenges are as visible to the public as highway congestion.

California's Inland Empire has experienced substantial population growth, placing increasing demands on a transportation network that serves not only local residents and commuters, but regional commerce, interstate travelers, and a tremendous volume of goods movement.

The I-10 Corridor is a critical component of that network.

To address current congestion and prepare for continued regional growth, the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority I-10 Project was developed to increase roadway capacity, improve travel-time reliability, and provide long-term congestion management along the corridor.

Contract 1: Two Express Lanes in Each Direction

The Contract 1 portion of the project involves the design and construction of two express lanes in each direction of I-10, extending from the Los Angeles/San Bernardino County line to east of the I-10/I-15 interchange.

The project is intended to:

• Reduce traffic congestion

• Increase corridor throughput

• Improve trip reliability

• Accommodate future population and transportation demands

• Provide long-term congestion management

The improvements serve a corridor carrying several very different forms of traffic simultaneously—from daily commuters and local travelers to regional freight and interstate transportation.

Designing and Building for a Growing Region

Highway expansion projects of this magnitude involve considerably more than adding pavement.

Design and construction must be coordinated with existing freeway operations and infrastructure while accommodating traffic management, structures, utilities, drainage, interchanges, environmental requirements, safety systems, and numerous other components of a heavily traveled transportation corridor.

The result is an exceptionally complex project environment involving public owners, designers, contractors, engineers, consultants, agencies, and specialty subcontractors.

Construction Disputes on Major Transportation Projects

Large design-build and transportation projects can generate disputes involving design responsibility, changed conditions, delay, scheduling, cost, scope, coordination, and contract interpretation.

Resolving those disputes requires an understanding of the contract—but also an understanding of how complicated infrastructure projects are actually engineered and constructed.

Construction Lawyers brings that combination of experience to major construction disputes, drawing upon decades of work in construction law, engineering, mediation, arbitration, project neutral services, and dispute resolution.