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User ID: 9161143 Apr 19th [2003] 2:16 AM
From Daily News
April 18, 2003
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Work to begin in 2004 on new 134 ramp
$33 million job to take 3 years
By Susan Abram
Staff Writer
BURBANK -- Preliminary work is under way to build a new Hollywood Way on-ramp to the westbound Ventura Freeway, a $33 million project that will take three years to complete, officials said.
The city and Caltrans are working together to construct the new on-ramp, needed to ease traffic out of Burbank's booming Media District, officials said.
"The Media District is expected to grow significantly," Caltrans officials said in a statement. "The city of Burbank has identified these improvements as vital to the economic growth of the region."
Construction of the on-ramp will begin in fall 2004, with completion set for 2006.
The city's Public Works Department first must clear the way to create the on-ramp, said city Traffic Engineer Ken Johnson.
"We have to do a whole series of things before the work begins on the on-ramp," Johnson said. "The first is to realign the existing westbound Ventura Freeway off-ramp at Hollywood Way. The second is to move an electrical substation nearby. The substation is being moved and also they are adding on to it."
Johnson said electrical conduits connected to the substation are being installed under Pass and Alameda avenues.
Caltrans also will lengthen the Hollywood Way, Alameda and Pass Avenue overcrosses to accommodate the new on-ramp, he said.
Soundwalls along the realigned off-ramp and new on-ramp also will be constructed.
"These freeway improvement projects will enhance safety, relieve congestion, and improve mobility and access to and from the Ventura Freeway (134) and the Media District," according to Caltrans.
"We do get heavy traffic there because that intersection is the hub for studios," said Sgt. Bruce Speirs, spokesman for the Burbank Police Department. "Anybody that has any studio-related business there will take that off-ramp. I would tell anyone who has to take that route from now on to preplan. They need to know the route. Traffic, though it's heavy, does flow."
User ID: 9161143 Apr 19th [2003] 2:16 AM
From Daily News
April 18, 2003
**********
Work to begin in 2004 on new 134 ramp
$33 million job to take 3 years
By Susan Abram
Staff Writer
BURBANK -- Preliminary work is under way to build a new Hollywood Way on-ramp to the westbound Ventura Freeway, a $33 million project that will take three years to complete, officials said.
The city and Caltrans are working together to construct the new on-ramp, needed to ease traffic out of Burbank's booming Media District, officials said.
"The Media District is expected to grow significantly," Caltrans officials said in a statement. "The city of Burbank has identified these improvements as vital to the economic growth of the region."
Construction of the on-ramp will begin in fall 2004, with completion set for 2006.
The city's Public Works Department first must clear the way to create the on-ramp, said city Traffic Engineer Ken Johnson.
"We have to do a whole series of things before the work begins on the on-ramp," Johnson said. "The first is to realign the existing westbound Ventura Freeway off-ramp at Hollywood Way. The second is to move an electrical substation nearby. The substation is being moved and also they are adding on to it."
Johnson said electrical conduits connected to the substation are being installed under Pass and Alameda avenues.
Caltrans also will lengthen the Hollywood Way, Alameda and Pass Avenue overcrosses to accommodate the new on-ramp, he said.
Soundwalls along the realigned off-ramp and new on-ramp also will be constructed.
"These freeway improvement projects will enhance safety, relieve congestion, and improve mobility and access to and from the Ventura Freeway (134) and the Media District," according to Caltrans.
"We do get heavy traffic there because that intersection is the hub for studios," said Sgt. Bruce Speirs, spokesman for the Burbank Police Department. "Anybody that has any studio-related business there will take that off-ramp. I would tell anyone who has to take that route from now on to preplan. They need to know the route. Traffic, though it's heavy, does flow."