COUNTY ROAD-REPAIR EMERGENCY DECLARED SUPERVISORS SET ASIDE FORMAL BIDDING SYSTEM FOR CONTRACTS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer 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. County supervisors have authorized 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. officials to dispense with To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. competitive bidding Competitive bidding A securities offering process in which securities firms submit competing bids to the issuer for the securities the issuer wishes to sell. competitive bidding 1. for up to $18 million in contracts for private companies to get to work repairing storm-damaged roads. Giving administrators authority to negotiate and award emergency repair contracts will speed up the start of work, officials said Tuesday. Even so, the hardest-hit roads are likely to stay closed until fall, officials said. ``It'll cut something like two to three months in getting the jobs under way,'' acting Public Works Director Don Wolfe said Tuesday after the board vote. Damage is estimated at $38 million to roads maintained by county government and at $16 million to county flood-control facilities - in addition to damage to city streets and state highways. More than 130 roads maintained by county government have been reopened since the Jan. 6-11 storms, officials said, but more than 40 still need extensive repairs. Officials also said that two heavily used Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley commuter routes could be closed until late October - 3 1/2 months later for Bouquet Canyon Road and 1 1/2 months later for San Francisquito Canyon Road than estimated as recently as Friday. Lake Hughes Road Hughes Road is an arterial road in South Mumbai linking Opera House with Kemps Corner. To the left is Malabar Hill. is expected to reopen by Feb. 20. Most roads in the eastern Antelope Valley that are still closed are expected to be reopened by late next month, though 110th Street East between Avenues H and K and 150th Street East between Avenue R and Palmdale Boulevard are expected to remain closed to through traffic until April. ``It's the supervisor's intention to make sure we are doing everything we can to get those roads open as quickly as possible,'' said Paul Novak, an aide to Supervisor Michael Antonovich, whose district contains about 60 percent of the damaged county roads. Bouquet and San Francisquito roads are top priority because of the commuter traffic Noun 1. commuter traffic - traffic created by people going to or returning from work traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time between the Antelope and Santa Clarita valleys, especially since Interstate 5 was severely damaged and more traffic is funneling onto the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. as a result, Novak said. ``All your alternatives have problems. The 14 (Antelope Valley Freeway) is crowded, the 5 is down to one lane, and both those alternatives are blocked,'' Novak said. County road crews are working double shifts, and some have been transferred from other assignments to move dirt and debris in preparation for road repairs, officials said. The supervisors' action Tuesday authorized emergency repair contracts totaling up to $18 million for roads and an additional $2 million for flood-control facilities. The supervisors also authorized an additional $10 million to cover overtime, equipment, materials and other expenses for emergency repairs. The rest of the repair costs will be financed by delaying nonemergency road construction and flood-control projects. Supervisors declared the emergency road repairs exempt from California laws that require public officials to study the possible environmental harm from proposed projects. State law allows them to dispense with studies and the normal competitive-bidding process in an emergency. County officials said they are especially concerned about renting enough trucks for hauling dirt and rock because the recent storms created high demand for them. Officials said they may need to bring some in from outside Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and pay more than the usual rate to county government. County officials hope at least some of the repair costs will be reimbursed. They are completing damage assessments to try to qualify for disaster aid in the wake of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Jan. 15 declaration of a state of emergency in Los Angeles County and six other counties. ROAD REPAIRS --San Francisquito Canyon Road, from Lowridge Place to Dry Gulch: Restore pavement and shoulders. Add shoulder-protecting riprap rip·rap n. 1. A loose assemblage of broken stones erected in water or on soft ground as a foundation. 2. The broken stones used for such a foundation. tr.v. along sections subject to erosion. Open and pave the San Francisquito realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. section. A possible solution includes constructing a bridge over the creek and abandoning the section of road adjacent to the creek, which is occupied by the protected red-legged frog Red-legged Frog is a common name for two alike kinds of frog of the west coast of North America, which are also known, in distinction from each other, as the Northern Red-legged Frog and the California Red-legged Frog. . Cost estimate is $4 million. --Bouquet Canyon Road: Restore washed-out roadway, re-establish creek away from the roadway and repair damaged pavement locations. Cost estimate is $3 million. -- Tapia Canyon Road: Restore entire road that was washed away. Cost estimate is $1 million. -- Lake Hughes Road south of Warm Springs: Remove slide material - about 40,000 cubic yards of it. Cost estimate is $500,000. -- Lake Hughes Road, from Camp Munz to Pine Canyon Road: Replace damaged board walls with riprap and restore edge of pavement and missing shoulders. Cost estimate is $500,000. -- Three Points Road, from Pine Canyon Road to Highway 138: Restore roadway and shoulders and add riprap along those sections subject to erosion. Cost estimate is $600,000. -- Templin Highway Templin Highway is a two-lane road from Interstate 5 and the old Golden State Highway east to the north end of the Castaic Reservoir in Los Angeles County, California, United States. : Clear and repair plugged culverts. Cost estimate is $200,000. --Arrastre Canyon Road: Restore roadway and repair culverts and shoulder protection. Cost estimate is $100,000. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) A car remains partially buried in dried mud as a reminder of flooding that ran over Palmdale Boulevard west of 90th Street East. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: ROAD REPAIRS (see text) |
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