According to a story in the Long Beach Press-Telegram, Councilman Patrick O'Donnell is seeking an additional "Umbrella funding package" to alleviate future impacts the planned 405 freeway reconfiguration project is sure to bring.
Funds, according to O'Donnell, are primarily for traffic law enforcement, impacts on roads, signage, street lights and other impacts expected from the closure.
Among the many things that will aggravate drivers that frequent the 405 will be the one-year closure of the 7th Street westbound entrance, as well as the eastbound entrance sometime in mid 2010.
Planned detour streets during construction will be Westminster boulevard, Seal Beach boulevard, and Palo Verde Avenue - which runs just a few blocks up from the CSULB campus. O'Donnell has criticized plans for the Palo Verde detour route on more than one occasion.
In a statement he made to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, O'Donnell made his point clear,"On any day of the week, Palo Verde is a parking lot."
According to plans for the detour route, detour traffic from the 405 is expected to aggravate traffic created by CSULB, further enforcing O'Donnell's point.
So to all who frequent Palo Verde Avenue, you have been warned.
Original story can be found here http://www.presstelegram.com/search/ci_12222424?IADID=Search-www.presstelegram.com-www.presstelegram.com
Photograph provided by: http://www.longbeach.gov/District4/
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