101-405 WORK NEARS.Byline: Steve Carney Staff Writer Preliminary work will begin this weekend to ease 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. at the intersection of the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and Ventura freeways The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. , and will force the closure of a northbound lane of the 405 on Saturday and Sunday, a Caltrans spokeswoman said. In another move to help the troublesome junction, Rep. Brad Sherman Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing California's At-large congressional district. , D-Woodland Hills, asked Congress on Thursday for $1.5 million to study ways to ease gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. at the interchange which handles about 500,000 cars a day. A recent study named it the seventh-most-clogged junction in the country, and a 1997 Daily News report identified it as ground zero for Valley traffic troubles. To ease congestion, Caltrans is planning a two-mile auxiliary lane heading north from Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see . Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. to the 101. This weekend, workers will begin taking soil samples and drilling for sound-wall foundations along that stretch, Caltrans spokeswoman Margie Tiritilli said. Work will run from 2:30 a.m. until midafternoon Saturday, and from 6 a.m. until early evening Sunday, Tiritilli said. The federal Department of Transportation granted $500,000 in 1998 to study ways to fix the interchange. In testimony Thursday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Sherman requested the additional funding to research even more alternatives. Construction on the auxiliary lane is slated to begin in spring 2001 and be completed in fall 2002. The timetable was shortened when Gov. Gray Davis ordered Caltrans to accelerate its process by designing the lane and working out environmental clearances simultaneously, rather than the usual process of doing those in sequence. |
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