COUNTIES SET PLAN TO REPAIR HIGHWAYS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. , Inyo and Mono counties are joining together to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. highway improvements for eastern Sierra-bound travelers, including a stretch of Highway 14 noted for safety concerns and frequented by Mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. Mountain-bound skiers. Transportation authorities for the three counties have agreed to a plan in which individual transportation projects along highways 14 and 395, and the Highway 120 corridor would be split four ways. The agreement calls for 40 percent of a project's cost to be paid by the county in which it is located, 40 percent by the state and 10 percent by each of the other two counties. The Kern County project identified for the agreement is the widening of a 10-mile stretch of Highway 14 from two lanes to four lanes and the construction of an interchange An interchange is a location where two things meet, usually perform some kind of exchange, and possibly go on their ways again. It is most commonly used in four contexts:
n. 1. A death resulting from an accident or disaster. 2. One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence. in 1994. The agreement will advance the $40 million project by two or three years, officials said. With the agreement, construction could occur in 2005 or 2006. ``We're glad we were able to come to a consensus on this project. This is the way the state Transportation Commission wants us to do business,'' said Ron Brummett, executive director of the Kern Council of Governments, Kern County's transportation authority. ``This will save time for L.A. residents traveling to the eastern Sierras.'' The improvements will also greatly enhance safety, Brummett said. Perhaps the most serious incident at the Highway 14-California City Boulevard 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. occurred July 9, 1994, when four Los Angeles-area residents died and two others were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. seriously. Their car pulled onto Highway 14 in front of a van carrying 15 Glendale and Pasadena residents. The agreement still must be approved by the California Transportation Commission. It is expected that the agreement will be submitted to state officials in January for their consideration. |
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