Amazon project comes with list of roadwork tasks

Developers of the Amazon distribution center under construction next to Meadows Field Airport are being required to carry out a number of substantial improvements to nearby roadways, plus pay $1.4 million into a regional transportation fund to help minimize the project's impact on local traffic.

The roadwork, detailed in public documents provided this week by Kern County officials, include new turning lanes, traffic signals and street widening along 7th Standard Road and Merle Haggard Drive, not only near the project's location near Highway 65 but, in some instances, further west by Coffee Road and Calloway Drive as well.