EDITORIAL RELIEF AHEAD.AT least they didn't leave out the 405! That seems to be the local consensus about news that the state will be giving 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 $1.5 billion of the $1.8 billion it requested from the initial distribution of last year's transportation bond. That's a pretty good ratio, but the $300 million difference means some significant cuts. More notable among them, a car-pool lane for the I-5 between the 134 and 170 freeways, through Sun Valley, Burbank and Glendale. But the appropriation will include $730 million for the most important local transportation project of all -- a northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. car-pool lane on the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. . We'll take it, thanks. Los Angeles County's needs, in terms of traffic relief, are so great that there's no way they'll all be met at once. So it's important to start with the needs that are most pressing, and certainly none is more so than those of the dreaded dread v. dread·ed, dread·ing, dreads v.tr. 1. To be in terror of. 2. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance: dreaded the long drive home. 405. |
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