Assemblyman Richard Mountjoy, R-Arcadia, will sponsor an amendment to the Los Angeles County Transportation Improvement Program to provide for construction of noise attenuation barriers along Foothill Freeway in Arcadia.
Council balks at ramp metering plan. Arcadia City Council Tuesday night approved a staff recommendation to file an amendment to the Regional Transportation Improvement Program with the county Transportation Commission. Council will ask that instead of proposed ramp metering on 210 Freeway, a fifth lane should be installed.
Partial opening of the Pasadena interchange is due in late 1974. A major portion - a 4.5 mile section from Fair Oaks to Rosemead - will open in the summer of 1975.
Eighty signed petitions urging construction of a sound wall barrier from Santa Anita Avenue east to Fifth Avenue were presented at a recent Arcadia City Council meeting.
All work on the east end of the Foothill Freeway in Pasadena should be completed in mid-February. Trains have been using the freeway median since August 12, 1975.
Sound barriers closer to reality. Following the last City Council meeting, well-attended by embattled residents, Mayor Dennis Lojeski said he had scheduled a meeting on the subject with Assemblyman Dick Mountjoy, R-Arcadia.
The City Council will hear a report of the proposed Noise Level portion of the General Plan on Tuesday. A Noise Level Plan consists of a statement of community goals and the identification of local noise sources.
Though Arcadia Unified School District has had to cut back on employees due to lack of money from the state, it will soon hire and elementary school counselor thanks to some imaginative use of state grant money.
The Arcadia Police Department's non-emergency business telephone numbers have been changed to the following: Front desk, 570-5150; Administrative offices, 574-5178; Investigation division, 574-5160. The change is due to the switch to Pacific Bell Centrex System which gives priority to emergency services in the event of an emergency.
SCAG will conduct hearings on an area transportation plan. The results will be incorporated into a comprehensive plan for all of Southern California due to be completed April 1, 1975.
Three city-owned lots at 521 N. First Avenue, adjacent to the Foothill Freeway, were sold last week by the Arcadia City Council to the W. D. Wilson Co., which will construct a building on the site and move from its present location in South Pasadena. James J. Melas, president of the W. D. Wilson Co. and an Arcadia resident said his firm deals in sophisticated biomedical supplies and unusual alloys and fittings for medical instruments. Selling price was $41,500. The city originally purchased the lots from the state Department of Highways for $33,000.