The Schwarzenegger administration misses no chance these days to call attention to newly authorized infrastructure spending. Today, it issued a detailed press release about actions approved by the California Transportation Commission. Many of them were significant, big-ticket highway items, including some funded by Proposition 1B and some with money from the federal stimulus package.

Way down on the list of 81 projects was the single allocation for anything in Ventura County, an environmental enhancement projects. The commission allocated $350,000 to the Ventura County Transportation Commission to plant oak trees at various interchanges along the 118 Freeway. The plantings are designed to make up for the number of mature trees that were removed as part of the recent Highway 23 widening project.

The first phase of the tree planting will be along the Yosemite Avenue interchange.