Field Representative Samuel Shoup was pleased to attend last week’s groundbreaking for the Ranchero Road Widening Project in Hesperia. The five-mile widening project, scheduled to begin in February, will expand the road to five lanes between Interstate 15 and Seventh Avenue. Additional improvements will include bridge replacement over the California Aqueduct, a widened railroad crossing near Oak Hills High School, and new traffic signals at the intersections of Maple, Cottonwood and Seventh Avenues.