ROOM TO STRETCH HIGHWAY PROJECTS MOVE AHEAD DESPITE COST HIKE.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Continued widening of Highway 138 and a car-pool lane connector between 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 Interstate5 are among significant improvements in the works for the Antelope Valley's two major transportation routes in coming years. At a transportation summit that 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 Supervisor Michael Antonovich convened last week, transportation officials said they were optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op the car-pool lane connector project would stay on track, despite a recent $30 million price hike. It is one in a series of car-pool lane projects that will stretch from Palmdale to Burbank. ``That will provide good access from the high desert to almost-downtown Los Angeles,'' said Doug Failing, director of the California Department of Transportation's District 7, which covers Los Angeles County. ``That will be real good for this community.'' Design work on the car-pool lane interconnector project is about 98 percent complete. The project has a scheduled completion date of 2011, but Caltrans officials said they will be looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. the work. Price estimates for the $157 million project increased because of design issues and cost hikes in construction materials, transportation officials said. They said they were optimistic funding can be secured from the recently passed transportation bond measure to finance widening projects for Highway 138. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , portions of the highway have been funded for widening. That work includes a $24 million project to widen the Twin Bridges Twin Bridges may mean:
That area has been the scene of numerous collisions, including one that killed three people in 1995. The stretch of highway there is the only one for several miles with no shoulder a driver could use if an oncoming on·com·ing adj. Coming nearer; approaching: an oncoming storm. n. An approach; an advance. vehicle crosses the center line. Another project for the highway is a $10 million European-style traffic roundabout, which is planned to consolidate five closely spaced intersections into one and eliminate the 90- degree curve from Palmdale Boulevard onto 47th Street East. In a roundabout, a driver yields to traffic already in the circle, makes a right turn to enter the circle and makes a right turn to exit. Roundabouts are designed so the traffic in the circle is traveling below 30 mph. Work is scheduled to begin in 2007 and be completed in 2008. james.skeen@dailynews (661) 267-5743 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Widening of Highway 138 continues in efforts to improve safety in the Twin Bridges area from 146th to 165th streets east. (2 -- ran in AV edition only) Cars and trucks move slowly along Highway 138 as construction crews add more lanes east of Pearblossom. District officials are confident of funding to continue the highway widening. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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