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MTA: Most Port of L.A. traffic would steer clear of 710 Fwy. extension
Extending the Long Beach (710) Freeway through Pasadena could bring 1,368 cargo trucks traveling to and from the Port of Los Angeles, transportation officials say. The data, included in a preliminary report on the potential environmental impacts of...
Tags: Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Let the counting begin
Four people pitched their canvass chairs on a recent day above the Foothill (210) Freeway, their gaze focused unwaveringly on the roadway below. Their mission: count cars. All of them. One of the counters, Leandra Alvarez, positioned her fingers...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, Traffic, Road Transportation
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Below-grade surface route the only answer
Letter writer Susan Bolan's comments, “Proposed 710 tunnel could be catastrophic,” are correct. The only sensible way to connect the 710 Freeway to the 210 Freeway is with a simple, relatively inexpensive, below-grade level section (not a...Tags: California Department of Transportation
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Meeting on 710 Fwy. extension draws a crowd
More than 60 people on Monday packed La Caņada High School for an update on the proposed extension of the Long Beach (710) Freeway — a long simmering issue on which many communities have already staked positions. The effects of closing the so-...Tags: California Department of Transportation, Port of Los Angeles, High Schools, Schools, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Caltrans to add truck lanes to I-5 for Santa Clarita commute
Local and state officials have announced a $72-million project to add truck lanes on the Interstate 5 through Newhall Pass and into Santa Clarita. The truck lanes are needed to separate heavy big-rig traffic from passenger vehicles and create safer,...
Tags: California Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Proposed 710 tunnel could be catastrophic
The recent tanker truck fire on the 134 Freeway has brought to the forefront an issue that I have been concerned about for some time. I am grateful that there was no loss of life in this horrendous accident, and I applaud the hard work of all of our...Tags: California Department of Transportation
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Westbound 134 Freeway lanes to close for repairs
Caltrans will close sections of the Ventura (134) Freeway over the next three days as crews repair areas that were damaged during the tanker fire on April 7. The periodic closures, which started Thursday, continue through Sunday, and will impact the...
Tags: Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Travel, Road Transportation
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Lanes on 134 freeway to be closed Thursday, this weekend
Several lanes on the westbound Ventura (134) Freeway will be closed for three nights this week as Caltrans workers repair damage caused by a tanker fire on April 7. As many as three lanes of the westbound 134 between Pacific Avenue and Riverside Drive...
Tags: California Department of Transportation
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Verdugo Views: Remembering the pre-freeway neighborhood
Ron Magneson’s family moved to Walnut Drive in 1948 when he was four years old, and remained there until they were forced to leave in 1964 by construction of the Glendale (State Route 2) Freeway. “It was a very short street,” he...
Tags: Transportation, Cancer, Roy Rogers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Chevy Chase
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Alfonse Capodieci
August 4, 1917 -- March 11, 2012 After living a full and eventful life, Dr. Alfonse Capodieci passed away peacefully in Walnut Creek, California at the age of 94 on Sunday, March 11. He was a 45-year resident of Glendale, where he practiced Orthopaedic...Tags: Washington, DC, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Georgetown University, New York City, Science and Technology
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405 closures planned for Friday, Saturday nights
More overnight closures on the 405 Freeway are planned for Friday and Saturday as construction crews continue to work on the Mulholland Drive overpass. Caltrans said it would close the northbound 405 between Getty Center Drive and Ventura Boulevard...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Getty Center, Matt Stevens
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Massive gas-tanker fire closes 134 Freeway, Glendale man arrested
A section of the Ventura (134) Freeway has reopened following a fiery crash that consumed a gas tanker and another car late Saturday,the California Highway Patrol is reporting. The fire erupted shortly after 11 p.m. when the rear trailer to the tanker...
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