CITY COUNCIL TO SEEK STATE FUNDS FOR SIDEWALKS, BIKE ROUTES.Byline: Daily News BURBANK - The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to seek state funds for a $342,000 project to install and repair sidewalks near schools and improve bike routes students can use. The state funds, which are distributed under the Safe Routes to School Grant Program, could be distributed to the city in the fall if the project meets with approval from state officials. If approved, construction would be finished by the end of next year. But the state's budget problems could complicate com·pli·cate tr. & intr.v. com·pli·cat·ed, com·pli·cat·ing, com·pli·cates 1. To make or become complex or perplexing. 2. To twist or become twisted together. adj. 1. that schedule. ``Nobody knows anything about what the state's doing anymore. ... It's just a horrible waiting game,'' said Mayor Stacey Murphy. ``We're just hoping we get the money from the state.'' Under the project, sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. construction would happen around Joaquin Miller, Bret Harte, William McKinley and Thomas Edison elementary schools Edison Elementary School is the name of many primary schools, with most of them named after Thomas Edison. They include:
``A lot of times the kids don't want to walk on the grass and they walk along the street route,'' said Tony Pisa, 38, of Burbank, who was picking up his two daughters from the school by car. As part of the project, a sidewalk would be installed a block away from the school in the 800 block of East Providencia Avenue, which already has a sidewalk on one side. Pat Grace, who lives along the side that would receive the sidewalk, said she is happy a sidewalk will pass in front of her house, and she thinks ``it's good if the kids want it.'' The total cost of the sidewalk improvements would be $260,000, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report to the council. The total cost of the bike routes would be $82,000. The bike routes could be used by students from six surrounding elementary schools elementary school: see school. and four middle and high schools, according to the report. Signs would be installed warning motorists that the route is used by bikers, and technology would be installed at 11 locations to speed up the transfer to a green light for bikers approaching an 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. . Magnetic sensors are in place at intersections so that lights change to green quicker for motorists, but those sensors are not sensitive enough to work for bikes, said 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 Bruce Feng. Loops to be installed underground will do the trick for bikes, he said. The city would be required to pay for $34,200 of the project to qualify for the state funds. |
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