CITY OKS OVERPASS CONTRACT : HUD LOAN TO FUND AVENUE H BRIDGE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Using a federal loan, Lancaster will build a $4.5 million overpass at Avenue H over 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 and the Southern Pacific railroad "Southern Pacific" redirects here. For the country-rock band, see Southern Pacific (band) The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks SP) was an American railroad. tracks. The City Council approved a contract Monday night with Granite Construction Granite Construction is a member of the S&P 400 Index, and is the parent company of Granite Construction Company, one of the nation's largest heavy civil contractors and construction materials producers. to build the overpass. Construction is expected to start in May and will take approximately 15 months, city officials said. Lancaster is using a loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund $4 million of the construction contract. The rest of the funding will come from the city's capital improvement budget. Lancaster plans to repay the loan using the money it receives from the federal Community Development Block Grant through the year 2002. Lancaster is using the land where the city's new $14.3 million baseball stadium is located as collateral for the loan. The decision to use the stadium land as collateral was approved by a 4-1 vote, with Councilwoman Deborah Shelton Deborah Shelton (born November 21, 1948) is an American beauty queen and actress. Shelton first won the Miss Virginia USA title and was subsequently crowned Miss USA in May 1970. dissenting dis·sent intr.v. dis·sent·ed, dis·sent·ing, dis·sents 1. To differ in opinion or feeling; disagree. 2. To withhold assent or approval. n. 1. . Shelton said in a closed session Jan. 16 the council and staff talked about several redevelopment agency-owned properties as possible collateral and was expecting the staff to report back on various options. ``I was real uncomfortable using the baseball stadium as collateral,'' Shelton said. ``I was surprised to see that on the consent calendar.'' Slightly shorter than the 2-year-old Avenue L overpass, the Avenue H crossing will be 2,400 feet long. The overpass will be 100 feet wide, allowing four traffic lanes in each direction. The Avenue H overpass and the Avenue L overpass, which was opened in March 1994, are part of the city's General Plan goal of constructing a ``peripheral loop'' of wide, fast-flowing streets to alleviate traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. in the central areas of the city. The planned loop system will provide an eight-lane thoroughfare THOROUGHFARE. A street or way so open that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, (q.v.) which is open only at one end. 2. Whether a street which is not a thoroughfare is a highway, seems not fully settled. circling the city on 50th Street West, Avenue H, 20th Street East and Avenue L. |
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