CALTRANS, CHP AWAIT NEW FACILITY THEY'LL SHARE TRANSIT HUB.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - The towering building taking shape near the interchange of the Ventura and Glendale freeways The Glendale Freeway is a minor freeway in the Los Angeles, California, USA, metropolitan area. It runs from Glendale Boulevard in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. Throughout its length, it is signed as California State Route 2. should be complete at this time next year as a new $46 million transportation management hub. Construction of the 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. Regional Transportation Management Center at 2901 W. Broadway is expected to be complete by mid-December, followed by about four months of radio and microwave installation. A 180-foot radio communications tower was installed two weeks ago next to the 88,000-square-foot, five-story building that will house both the Caltrans Transportation Management Center, which monitors traffic flow on freeways throughout Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. dispatch services. ``Having the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan co-located with Caltrans along with state-of-the-art equipment and systems will equal increased coordination and quicker response time,'' Caltrans spokeswoman Deborah Harris said. ``This will assist in increasing mobility for motorists.'' About 325 workers will be transported from the center's current offices in the Caltrans district office in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or to the Glendale location - built on property owned by Caltrans - in April 2005. All radio calls to the California Highway Patrol's southern division will be dispatched from the new building and the center will also receive all 911 cellular phone calls in Los Angeles County. ``The building that they're in now cannot accommodate all of the Caltrans personnel and the building is old,'' said project coordinator Officer Mark Firkins of the CHP. ``It's like a dungeon Dungeon - Zork in there. There's no windows and it's very cramped. This is going to give all of our communications operators and dispatch some breathing room.'' The building will also house the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans Freeway Service Patrol A freeway service patrol, alternatively known as a motorist assistance patrol, roadway service patrol, or a courtesy patrol, is the umbrella term for a variety of programs implemented by government agencies, typically state Highway Patrols or Departments of - a network of 140 tow trucks that operate on the freeways in the mornings and afternoons and provide free assistance to motorists who have run out of gas or got a flat tire. The program is coordinated among the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the CHP and Caltrans. The new center is larger than the current location with more screens for the observation of closed-circuit cameras located on the freeways. The communications center An agency charged with the responsibility for handling and controlling communications traffic. The center normally includes message center, transmitting, and receiving facilities. Also called COMCEN. See also telecommunications center. , considered an essential services facility, will be built on rubber-base isolators and will be designed to withstand a magnitude-8.0 earthquake, Firkins said. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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