Kern County breaks ground on La Colonia Mexicana sidewalk project

Kern County breaks ground on La Colonia Mexicana sidewalk project

La Colonia Mexicana, a small community just south of Shafter, broke ground Tuesday on a new sidewalk project that will bring the first concrete walkways to the neighborhood in decades.The $2 million project will construct just shy of one mile of curbing and sidewalks throughout the community, which has long been without basic pedestrian infrastructure. Funding comes from Assembly Bill 617, a state program focused on improving air quality in disa…