Story Created:
Aug 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM PST
Story Updated:
Aug 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM PST
SOUTH GATE — The City Council has contracted with Wildan Associates to draw up plans for two projects, both dealing with road upgrades, totaling almost $2 million.
The projects are Safe Route to School, $905,000; and Highway Safety Improvement, $973,500.
Wildan will receive a fee of $57,067 for the first project and $94,540 for the second one. Both projects will be financed by federal grants, said Public Works Director Robert Dickey, in a written report to the City Council July 28.
Grants will cover 100 percent of the Safe School Route project and 90 percent of the highway improvement work, Dickey said.
For Safe Routes to School, a new traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Southern Avenue at Truba Avenue and Santa Fe Avenue, along with 122 pedestrian countdown signals around schools, 12 solar-powered speed awareness signs, flashing beacons, in-pavement lights at Long Beach Boulevard and Illinois Avenue and at Long Beach Boulevard and Liberty Boulevard and new sidewalks, Dickey said.
The work is aimed at improving safety for people walking to Bryson, Independence, Hollydale, Montara, Liberty, San Gabriel, San Miguel, State, Stanford, Tweedy and Victoria elementary schools and South Gate Middle School.
The Highway Improvement Project will feature the installation of a raised median on Tweedy Boulevard between Long Beach Boulevard and Alameda Street, traffic signal modification, installation of pedestrian countdown signals at Stanford Avenue and Tweedy Boulevard and installation of protected left turn lanes at Stanford and Tweedy, Dickey said.
He noted that Wildan was selected from a group of four consulting firms by a panel of engineers from South Gate, Lynwood and Downey,
In another school-related matter, the City Council continued its closure of Adella Avenue from Tweedy Boulevard north to the construction site of Los Angeles Unified School District High School No. 9. with the closure to remain until February, at which time the street could be vacated or restored to traffic, said Gary Baker, the LAUSD’s director of construction, in a letter to Dickey.
During the closure, the district will continue to maintain the street and remove graffiti, Baker said.
Completion of the new high school is expected by September 2012, he added.
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