Griffith Company is hard at work on a Caltrans reconstruction project designed to ease congestion on the White Lane off-ramp on Southbound Highway 99 in Bakersfield. The existing asphalt concrete ramp is being removed and replaced with a much longer and wider Portland cement concrete ramp.
Presently, traffic on the ramp can back up onto Highway 99. When the two-phase project is complete — the White Lane off-ramp remains open as a functioning freeway exit throughout — the possibility of this ramp "filling up" during peak travel will greatly decrease.

The plan calls for removing a 10-foot shoulder back some 1,360 feet and replacing it with a new 12-foot-wide lane and 10-foot-wide concrete shoulder.