TRAFFIC SHIFTS NOT ENOUGH, GLENDALE SCHOOL BOARD SAYS.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer GLENDALE - The school board on Tuesday welcomed one-way streets and other traffic changes around Hoover High and two other schools, but was not convinced the effort will protect students from cars and gangs. Board members asked a city traffic official who spoke at their meeting Tuesday whether the City Council would consider closing Glenwood Road at least during peak hours peak hours npl, peak period n → horas fpl punta peak hours peak npl → heures fpl d'affluence or de pointe when 5,000 students from surrounding elementary, middle and high schools hit the street. Glenwood was closed in the spring after a Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
``The one-way streets are a wonder, a dream,'' said Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. board President Jeanne Bentley, referring to Virginia Avenue Virginia Avenue is a street in the Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast quadrants of Washington, D.C. Like other state-named streets in Washington, it diagonally crosses the grid pattern formed by lettered (east-west) and numbered (north-south) streets. and Concord Street. ``But what I question is why the council voted against closing Glenwood.'' She said a 1996 survey of traffic concerns in the area found that the option of closing Glenwood then was most favored and least opposed. But city officials and school district Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
James Nathaniel Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist. said closure was problematic. ``We have to realize closure creates problems with other residents of the area and for emergency vehicles,'' Brown said. The thoroughfare had been closed for two months following the slaying of 17-year-old Hoover High senior Raul Aguirre in May. The City Council voted 3 to 2 in July to reopen the road, and rejected the idea of adding a street median to slow traffic down. But it approved one-way designations for Virginia and Concord, allowing for easier pickups and drop-offs at Toll Middle School and Keppell Elementary School elementary school: see school. . Jano Baghdanian, Glendale's traffic and transportation administrator, told the board that closing Glenwood Road part time had been considered, but there was concern about emergency access and school safety. Since the council's vote last month, city staff has been working with the district to fine-tune various other measures along Glenwood that would slow traffic and limit parking. Many on the board questioned the district's $118,000 to $162,000 share of the approximately $324,000 job. Although traffic in the area has long been a problem, the safety discussion had focused most recently on the risks posed by access to the campus. ``All the traffic planning in the world is not going to solve the issue of the attractive nuisance Noun 1. attractive nuisance - anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm; "their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in" that Hoover High School is to people who do not belong there,'' said Hank Paz, chairman of a joint traffic safety committee, ``And that's what we have to keep in the backs of our minds.'' CAPTION(S): map Map: Street reopened Daily News |
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