LANE SCALLOPING MAY BE STUDIED.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - With the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. preparing to launch a series of major traffic corridor studies, north 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 want to make sure they include looking at solutions for the lane scalloping scal·lop·ing n. A series of indentations or erosions on a normally smooth margin of a structure. scalloping along 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. . The freeway, the region's major link to the 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. and Los Angeles Basin The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles as well as its southern and southeastern suburbs (both in Los Angeles , alternates from two to three lanes each way between the 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 and Santa Clarita. And there are no plans at present to widen the freeway to provide consistency in traffic flow. Antelope Valley officials see an opportunity to get such a project started as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority starts what they call a major investment study for north Los Angeles County. The study will look at the Antelope Valley (14) and Golden State (5) freeways and Highway 138. ``The goal is get the 14 to three lanes all the way down to the 5,'' said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. ``If we get rid of the scalloping you'll see the traffic flow much better.'' The lane scalloping is maddening to motorists, who must merge in and out of lanes and see traffic slow down at each bottleneck, and is also a drawback in attracting economic development. ``When you bring developers to a site here, they see that and go, Oh, you have an impediment here,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts. ``One of the major things we've got to do is get the 14 set up so it doesn't go from two to three to two to three.'' The major investment study will include looking at various options for improving the corridors and provide initial cost estimates and environmental reviews. The study will set up the next stage of work, full-blown environmental studies and engineering, and would give the MTA a ``ready-to-go'' project if state transportation funds become available. The study is one of nine such studies MTA plans to start this fall. North Los Angeles County transportation officials will be meeting with MTA staff in the next few weeks to begin looking at options to be included in the study. It is not known yet how long the work will take. Once the scope of the study has been determined, the effort will likely be lead by a steering committee composed of MTA staff, north county representatives, the regional planning body Southern California Association of Governments, and county officials. |
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