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$5 MILLION APPROVED FOR INTERSTATE 5 RAMPS.


Byline: Daily News

The regional Metro board on Thursday approved $5 million for improving the Interstate in·ter·state  
adj.
Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states.

n.
One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States.

Noun 1.
 5 ramps at Magic Mountain Parkway in Valencia.

The work is part of a project that includes realignment re·a·lign  
tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns
1. To put back into proper order or alignment.

2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between.
 of The Old Road and is intended to reduce congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load.

congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity.
.

Increases in the price of steel and concrete contributed to the rising building costs, said Rick Jager, a Metro spokesman.

Earlier, the agency gave the city $10.4 million to help build the roughly $23 million project, which is already under way.

The transit agency also approved $413,000 for two other city endeavors, a bike trail from I-5 to Discovery Park and a fiberoptic camera network designed to coordinate traffic signals and, hopefully, ease traffic flow.

Metro previously gave $297,000 toward building the trail, budgeted at $700,000.

Today the city will ask Metro for roughly $56 million in grants to improve roads, trails, signal synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.

(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization.

(3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP.
, landscaping and bus projects, said Debbie Helbig, a project development coordinator for 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 estimated cost to build the projects is approaching $100 million.
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Date:Jan 26, 2007
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