Before you decide, know the facts. Explore the plan
68% of Solano residents leave the county for work every day.
Solano isn't a bedroom community by choice.
When local jobs disappear, people drive to find them. Valero closed. Anheuser-Busch closed. Mare Island shut down. Each time, residents didn’t move. They just started driving farther. The Vallejo-Fairfield area now has the worst commute in the country. Not the worst in California.
The worst in the United States.
The lack of local jobs is the main driver of traffic in Solano. More jobs here means fewer cars on I-80.
Here's what the Suisun Expansion and Solano Shipyard actually do for your commute.
The plan brings tens of thousands of jobs to southeastern Solano County between Suisun City, Fairfield, Vacaville, Dixon, and Rio Vista, right in the middle of where people already live. When jobs are here, people stop driving to the Bay Area and Sacramento to find them. That takes cars off I-80 during its worst hours. If you work in the Suisun Expansion, your drive looks like this:
- ~15 min from Fairfield or Suisun City
- ~30 min from Benicia, Vallejo, or Dixon
And most of those trips run in the opposite direction of peak traffic, so you're not fighting the same congestion everyone else is.
The plan also accelerates highway improvements that have been studied for years but are still not funded:
- Upgrading Highway 12
- Upgrading Highway 113
- Widening I-80 between I-680 and Highway 12
The project creates the institutional support and financial momentum to actually get those built.
Most pay above-average wages. Not hypothetical jobs somewhere else. These are jobs in Solano County, close enough to commute to without burning two hours a day.
The project pays its own costs. Existing residents pay nothing. That protection gets locked into the legal agreements before a single shovel hits the ground.