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CITIES MAY RECEIVE TRANSIT FUNDING.


Byline: Daily News

GLENDALE - Glendale and Burbank would receive $4.1 million in federal money for six transportation projects as part of a funding bill scheduled to be heard Thursday by the House.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Monday authorized the funding, including $2.65 million for Glendale and $1.45 million for Burbank.

Glendale would receive $800,000 to construct cul-de-sacs at Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914.  Drive and the railroad tracks, near the site of the Jan. 26 Metrolink crash that killed 11 and injured nearly 200 passengers.

Glendale also would receive $1 million to fund a downtown streetcar streetcar, small, self-propelled railroad car, similar to the type used in rapid-transit systems, that operates on tracks running through city streets and is used to carry passengers.  project; $462,000 to purchase natural-gas buses for its Beeline bee·line  
n.
A direct, straight course.

intr.v. bee·lined, bee·lin·ing, bee·lines
To move swiftly in a direct, straight course.
 transit system; and $388,000 to rehabilitate Adams Street.

Burbank would receive $1 million to fund the design of a rail crossing- grade separation at Vanowen Street, just west of Clybourn and Empire avenues. The city would also receive $450,000 to buy compressed natural-gas buses to expand service throughout the city, including connecting two regional rail lines to 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  and to Bob Hope Airport Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR, FAA LID: BUR) is a regional and national airport located in Burbank, California, United States.

It was formerly known as United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940);
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Date:Mar 8, 2005
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