$3 MILLION OK'D FOR BUS FACILITY.Byline: Holly Edwards Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $3 million funding package for Santa Clarita's proposed state-of-the-art bus maintenance facility. City officials hope to begin construction of the 54,000-square-foot facility next year on a 12-acre site at the Rye Canyon Business Park in the Valencia Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. Industrial Center. Opening the Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility would shave shave (shav) 1. to cut at or parallel to the surface of the skin. 2. to remove the beard or other body hair by such a process. 3. to cut thin slices from or to cut into thin slices. about $1 million off the city's $7.5 million annual budget to operate and maintain the bus fleet, said Bob Murphy, city transit coordinator. ``It should be much less expensive because the costs of fueling, washing and storing our buses will be less,'' Murphy said. ``As it is now, all of our fuel is brought in here by tanker truck in the middle of the night, and our buses are all washed by hand. The new facility would have fuel tanks and an automatic washing system.'' The city also spends over $100,000 annually to store its buses at three locations: the Santa Clarita Metrolink Metrolink is the name of several transport services throughout the world:
If approved by the Senate and signed by President Clinton Clinton. 1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. , the funding bill will bring the total amount of federal dollars available for the project to $7.25 million. The city is seeking $12 million to $13 million in federal funding to help pay for the $16 million facility. When the city took control of the bus system in 1991, the small maintenance facility in the industrial center adequately served the city's fleet of 39 buses. Since then, however, the city's fleet has grown to 72 buses and the number of passenger boardings has increased from 400,000 to 4.5 million annually, Murphy said. Supported by U.S. Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . Howard Howard, English noble family. Landowners in Norfolk from the 13th cent., the Howards obtained the duchy of Norfolk through the marriage of Sir Robert Howard to Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk. ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, the $3 million funding package is part of $54.2 billion in transportation funds approved by the House. The House and Senate will adopt a final transportation budget this summer to be signed by the president before the Oct. 1 start of the next fiscal year. ``The congressman certainly sees the value of the transportation maintenance facility because it will save the city money in the long run,'' said McKeon aide David Foy, a spokesman for McKeon. ``Hopefully, next year we'll get the rest of the funding for it.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Santa Clarita expects to receive $3 million to help build a new bus maintenance facility. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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