Westside Parkway nears completion
View of Westside Parkway
For many Taft College students, the school day begins with a timely commute from Bakersfield. Soon this commute may become less time consuming with the completion of the final phase of the Westside Parkway.
The final stretch of the road, which currently connects Truxton Avenue to Allen Road, will connect Allen Road to the intersection of Heath Road and Stockdale highway. Westside Parkway, from Truxtun Avenue to Allen Road, officially opened to traffic on August 2, 2013. The project includes three lanes in each direction with interchanges at Truxtun Avenue, Mohawk Street, Coffee Road, Calloway Drive and Allen Road.
For the many students that commute each day, the parkway shaves crucial minutes off of their drive, and with the final segment being completed, the average drive time is expected to decrease.
There is no official date for the final segment of the parkway to open, but according to CalTran,s it should be available for traffic in Early 2015.