Cleanup work completed along Orange Line bikeway.Byline: Dana Bartholomew dana.bartholomew@dailynews.com 818-713-3730 Staff Writer VAN NUYS - Final cleanup took place Tuesday on a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. bikeway bike·way n. A bicycle lane or path. that had become home to transients and trash, city transportation officials reported. A contractor for the L.A. Department of Transportation removed the last of the trash Tuesday on a 11/2-mile stretch of Orange Line bikeway between between Sepulveda Boulevard and Hazeltine Avenue. The bike path had become blighted blight n. 1. a. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues. b. with trash, homeless encampments, drinking spots and overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. weeds along the route. "It's done. It's all cleaned up," said Paul Meshkin, an LADOT LADOT Los Angeles Department of Transportation transportation engineer in charge of the 14-mile bikeway. "Today, it looks really nice. "Every tree is trimmed. Trash has been removed. We just have to make sure the contractor stays on top of it." Meshkin said Sunscape landscaping was hired last summer on a six-month contract to maintain the bikeway. Negotiations are under way to renew the contract, which expires this month. 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. police and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies had periodically picked up trash along the route. "I'd like to see a requirement for how often they (the contractor) must do maintenance," said Glenn Bailey of Encino, chairman of the city's Bicycle Advisory Committee. The bikeway "needs to be clean and maintained. And the users and the residents need to know exactly how often the work will be done - and that it be done." |
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