FREEWAY WIDENING ESTIMATE UP AGAIN MTA EXPECTED TO ALLOCATE $30 MILLION MORE FOR WORK.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Staff Writer The cost of adding car-pool lanes through the congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. interchange of 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. and Interstate 5 jumped an additional $30 million because of design issues and price increases in construction materials, transportation officials said last week. One of the top transportation priorities for northern 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 officials, the freeway-widening project was estimated to cost $81 million as recently as 2005. After a second big jump, the latest estimate is $157 million, with $127 million in funding. ``This significant cost increase was due to changes in Caltrans (state Department of Transportation) seismic design criteria Noun 1. design criteria - criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device; "the job specifications summarized the design criteria" criterion, standard - the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their standards that the project has to comply with, the need to redesign the bridge widening at a single location to meet the Metrolink vertical clearance standards, and the continuous rising of the concrete and steel prices,'' Caltrans project manager Osama Megalla said in a letter to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The MTA's planning and programming committee is expected to vote Wednesday to come up with the additional $30 million in funding. Design work on the project is about 95percent complete. The project is expected to go out for bids in April. Transportation officials are trying to expedite the project and get it completed by mid-2009. North Los Angeles County officials said the new lanes are vital for serving commuters from the Antelope and Santa Clarita valleys The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . Tens of thousands of commuters crowd the interchange daily. The connector would make commutes easier for residents of the Antelope and Santa Clarita valleys by easing 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. and providing continuity of the car-pool lanes on both freeways. Increased costs of construction projects are blamed in large part on a global building boom. Closer to home, the winding-down building boom had kept contractors busy, with fewer bidding on major highway projects. james.skeen@dailynews (661) 267-5743 |
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