CITY OFFICIALS TAKE DOWN ILL-ADVISED BIKE-LANE BARRIER.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Criticized as ugly and too close to motorists, a concrete barrier built at a cost of $130,000 as part of a bike path project is being torn down. Work crews were removing a half-mile long barrier erected in October to keep cars away from bicyclists negotiating the Avenue L overpass. After the barrier was completed, city officials were unhappy with how it looked and motorists complained that it crowded their lane. ``Once we saw it we knew it was unacceptable,'' said City Manager Jim Gilley. ``It's like pornography; you know it when you see it. We saw it, and we didn't want it.'' Gilley said neither he nor the City Council saw the blueprint for the wall, which was designed by a consultant. The plans were reviewed by the city's Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
What might appear acceptable on paper can sometimes be deceiving, Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
``You never get the full whammy wham·my n. pl. wham·mies Slang 1. A supernatural spell for subduing an adversary; a hex: put the whammy on someone. 2. until it pops up,'' Roberts said. ``It was totally unacceptable, and we decided to do something else. The barrier went in at what was a third northbound lane under the overpass. The highway has only two northbound lanes on either side of the overpass. ``It was just a mistake,'' Gilley said. ``We'll take our medicine on this one.'' The bike path project is being redesigned, and the cost of the wall will be taken into account during the city's mid-year budget review. ``The wall will come out and, a curb will be installed,'' said Neil Hudson, Lancaster's acting director of 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. . ``There will be five feet of separation between the path and the curb.'' The $1.6 million bike path project will add trees and shrubbery to the dirt right of way beside the Metrolink railroad tracks along 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 . The landscaped bikeway bike·way n. A bicycle lane or path. will run three miles from Avenue J to Avenue M, where a Palmdale bicycle path bicycle path n → camino para ciclistas bicycle path n, bicycle track n → piste f cyclable bicycle path n stops at the city limits. State funds provided as a grant from 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. Metropolitan Transportation Authority will provide $1.3 million of the bikeway cost. The city is kicking in an additional $340,000. Trees, shrubbery, lights and bus stop-style shelters will be added along the approximately 8-foot-wide asphalt path, which will be on city and Metrolink rights-of-way beside the highway. The bikeway is expected to be finished this winter. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A piece of heavy road equipment tears at a barrier wall erected along the Sierra Highway in Lancaster. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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