MIKELS URGES PETITION FOR 118-34 ISSUE.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Staff Writer MOORPARK - Supervisor Judy Mikels urged residents Wednesday to undertake a petition drive to put the thorny thorn·y adj. thorn·i·er, thorn·i·est 1. Full of or covered with thorns. 2. Spiny. 3. Painfully controversial; vexatious: a thorny situation; thorny issues. issue of expanding the Highway 118-34 junction in Somis to a countywide vote. Mikels told a meeting of the Highway 118 Task Safety Force that putting the issue on the ballot as an advisory vote would help officials gauge the level of support for Caltrans' $5.8 million expansion plan, which has come under fire from some Somis residents. The vote also would test the validity of a county Transportation Commission survey which found that 72 percent of county residents and 62 percent of Somis residents supporting the prpoject, she said. Caltrans wants to expand and realign 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. the intersection beginning in 2002. Supporters of the project, including Mikels, say it will help ease rush-hour traffic 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. . However, the local group Save Our Somis, wants Caltrans to undertake a less-drastic expansion of the intersection in order to preserve the rural character of their city. County election officials said putting an initiative on the ballot would require the signatures of 20,817 registered voters. The deadline was Tuesday for the initiative to get on Nov. 7, although officials said the Board of Supervisors has the authority to put the issue on the ballot. However, Mikels said she would not put the plan to her colleagues because she thinks the petition drive should be a grass-roots effort. In other business at the Highway 118 Safety Task Force meeting: --Caltrans released figures showing that 12 people were killed and 247 injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in 664 collisions on the highway from September 1994-99. --Caltrans officials said construction of the $350,000 Long Canyon Bridge will begin in late September. During the weeklong project, only local traffic will be allowed to use Highway 118 between Somis and Moorpark. --Officials said expansion of the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan weigh station A weigh station is a checkpoint along a highway to inspect vehicular weights. Usually, trucks and commercial vehicles are subject to the inspection. Overview Weigh stations are equipped with scales, some of which permit the trucks to continue moving while being weighed, west of Moorpark for eastbound east·bound adj. Going toward the east. eastbound Adjective going towards the east Adj. 1. trucks will be put out to bid on June 22 and finished by the end of the year. |
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