AVENUE S TO BE WIDENED $18.2 MILLION PROJECT BIGGEST YET FOR PALMDALE.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - In what is to be the largest single construction contract awarded in the city's 41-year history, Palmdale officials plan to pay $18.2 million to a Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. company to widen and otherwise improve Avenue S. City officials have sent letters warning people who live or operate businesses near Avenue S that the street work is expected to last 18 months. Officials said they plan additional measures to advise people to drive on other streets whenever possible. ``This will provide a beautiful gateway to the east side of Palmdale,'' Mayor Jim Ledford said Tuesday. ``It's going to have a very profound effect on the east side.'' At its meeting tonight, the City Council is expected to award the construction contract to C.A. Rasmussen for widening the busy east-west corridor The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell. from two lanes to four lanes between the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. and a point just east of 20th Street East. ``The Avenue S corridor improvement project is the largest and one of the most complex projects ever undertaken by the city of Palmdale,'' Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. Director Leon Swain wrote in a report to the council. ``It is being undertaken to significantly improve access to a large section of the east side of Palmdale.'' At the same meeting, the council will consider a $1.8 million contract with Lim and Nascimento Corporation, an Irvine company The Irvine Company is a privately held real estate development company based in Newport Beach, Orange County, California. Donald Bren is its Chairman. Operations The Irvine Company develops suburban master-planned communities throughout central and southern Orange County. , to manage the project. Letters were sent to 1,800 homes and businesses along Avenue S about the approaching construction work. A page outlining the project has been added to city government's Web site. Officials also plan to provide construction updates to news media to alert motorists to potential traffic delays. City officials said they will work with the contractor to minimize the impact on traffic and to encourage corridor commuters to use public transit or take alternate routes. Besides widening the street, the work will include installing new traffic signals and upgrading others, adding a bike path, replacing the two-lane bridge over the Union Pacific railroad Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress to build part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad line. Under terms of the Pacific Railroads Act, the Union Pacific was authorized to build a line westward from Omaha, Nebr. tracks near 20th Street East, realigning the intersection with 20th Street East, and installing new warning lights and crossing gates at the Metrolink train crossing near 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 . Contract workers also will add curbs and gutters, drainage channels, landscaping and, for bus riders, turnouts, benches and shelters. City officials have been working on widening plans for several years and have cobbled cob·ble 1 n. 1. A cobblestone. 2. Geology A rock fragment between 64 and 256 millimeters in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded. 3. cobbles See cob coal. tr. together more than $12 million in state and federal grants. The council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. today in the council chambers, 38300 Sierra Highway, Suite B. CAPTION(S): map Map: Avenue S widening project Daily News |
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