OLYMPIC PARKWAY, CHULA VISTA

Olympic Parkway is a scenic road that incorporates walking trails, open space preserves, a naturalized drainage channel, and a major flood protection facility.

Rick Engineering Company's Transportation Division prepared Environmental documents and Final Design plans for the recently completed revisions to the E. Orange Avenue and Olympic Parkway Interchange on Interstate 805 in the City of Chula Vista. The improvements increased the capacity of the diamond interchange to accommodate the forecast traffic volumes, and provided the needed capacity to accommodate the traffic volumes generated by the events held at the Coors Amphitheatre.

The improvements included the widening of the existing E. Orange Avenue/Olympic Parkway Bridge, the widening of E. Orange Avenue/Olympic Parkway, the construction of auxiliary lanes on the I-805 freeway, the widening and signal modification on the existing ramps for the E. Orange Avenue/Olympic Parkway interchange, and the widening of the southbound off-ramp to Main Street/Auto Park Drive, along with the construction of noise barriers and retaining walls at various locations throughout the project.

ASCE presented Rick Engineering Company with a 2005 Outstanding Civil Engineering Project award.