OFFICERS TO HELP WITH TRAFFIC NEAR L.A. MALLS.Byline: RICK ORLOV Staff Writer In a holiday gift to motorists, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. announced Monday that traffic officers will be dispatched this week to 55 busy intersections around the city's shopping malls to help ease 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. . The Department of Transportation will dispatch 77 of its white-gloved officers to direct traffic from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and keep bottlenecks to a minimum. In 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. , the officers will work around Westfield's Fashion Square in Sherman Oaks and Topanga Plaza in Canoga Park, as well as the Northridge mall This article is about a mall in Salinas, California. For the dead mall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, see Northridge Mall (Milwaukee). Northridge Mall, located in Salinas, California, serves as Monterey County's largest shopping mall. . ``There is enough tension facing all of us last-minute shoppers,'' Villaraigosa said at a news conference at the windswept wind·swept adj. Exposed to or swept by winds: windswept moors. windswept Adjective 1. intersection of Fairfax Avenue Fairfax Avenue is a street on north central Los Angeles, California. It runs from La Cienega Boulevard (which separates the Westside from the central part of the city) with Culver City at its southern end to Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on its northern end. and Third Street. ``We can't do anything about reducing the lines in stores or cutting the costs of PlayStation 3s, but we can do something about traffic.'' Villaraigosa said deploying officers to the malls will not divert resources from other traffic initiatives, such as towing illegally parked cars on major streets or assigning traffic officers to the city's 50 worst intersections during rush hour. ``This is something we can do to try to reduce the tension a little bit and help people get to where they're going and be able to spend more time with their families and friends, rather than in traffic,'' Villaraigosa said. Transportation Department Director Gloria Jeff said she is able to assign the officers without interrupting other work because of the hiring program approved by the city this past year. ``We have enough traffic control officers that we are able to absorb this temporarily to help with traffic,'' Jeff said. rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Traffic Officer Hans Sosa-Lanza of the L.A. Department of Transportation directs traffic at Westfield Topanga Westfield Topanga, formerly known as the Westfield Shoppingtown Topanga and more commonly known to locals as the Topanga Mall or Topanga Plaza, is a two-story shopping mall consisting of 230 tenants spread across three sections. in Canoga Park. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer |
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