6 SIGNALS PLANNED FOR CITY PALMDALE TO SPEND $2 MILLION.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Staff Writer PALMDALE - City officials will borrow money to install six traffic signals in central and east Palmdale. The signals, which will cost about $2 million, will be put in by the end of 2005. ``When you add traffic signals, you improve traffic, but sometimes you introduce a little bit of a delay. There's a balance between safety and delays,'' said Bill Padilla, the city's traffic engineer. The city plans to issue $12 million in bonds, $2 million of which will go toward the installation of the traffic signals. The remaining $10 million will pay for resurfacing existing roads, Padilla said. The city will pay off the bonds from future revenue that comes into the general fund money. The six traffic signals will be located at Avenue R and 11th Street East; Avenue R-8 and 30th Street East; Avenue R and Division Street; Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Vista Boulevard and 10th Street East; Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and Avenue N; and Avenue Q and 10th Street East. The Avenue R and 11th Street East intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. is a pedestrian A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case historically. History Walking is the primary means of human locomotion. crossing area heavily used by schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school after cutbacks in school bus transportation. The other intersections are busy ones that now have stop signs, in some cases for just one of the streets. The six signals are among 30 that the city says are warranted based on traffic and engineering studies. Nine other signals already have been funded as part the city's capital improvement program and should be installed by mid- mid- pref. Middle: midbrain. to late-2005, Padilla said. Those signals are at Avenue S and Fifth Street East; Avenue S and 37th Street East; Avenue R and 5th Street East; Avenue R and 35th Street East; Avenue R and 40th Street East; Avenue P and 30th Street East, which is being installed by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County; Rancho Vista Boulevard and Town Center Drive; 10th Street West and Avenue O-4; and Sierra Highway and Avenue O, which is being built by a developer as part of the Wal-Mart Supercenter project on 10th Street West, Padilla said. The city also is looking at putting in four more traffic signals for when a hospital is built on Palmdale's west side, Padilla said. Two would be at the planned hospital main entrances at Palmdale Boulevard and Trade Center Drive/7th Street West and at Tierra Subida Avenue and Date Palm Drive, Padilla said. Two other signals would go in at Tierra Subida and Rayburn Road and Tierra Subida and Fifth Street West, Padilla said. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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