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Diet Averted: Pasadena Terminates Orange Grove Complete Streets Project gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
There are many popular diets out there today, but there’s one particular diet that many Pasadena residents could not wait to abandon: the infamous “Road Diet.” At their latest regular meeting, the Pasadena City Council gave the people what they wanted and unanimously approved City Manager Steve Mermell’s recommendation to remove the project from the capital improvement program (CIP). Officially named the Orange Grove Complete Streets Project, Pasadena’s highly-unpopular Road Diet was originally adopted into the “future projects list”
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of the CIP in FY2012 as an offspring of the general plan mobility element, which aims to promote multimodal transportation and pedestrian/cyclist safety throughout the city. The project, which was unfunded but estimated to cost $2.3 million, according to Mermell, would have converted a 1.8-mile stretch of Orange Grove Boulevard (between Allen Avenue and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue) from a vehicular-oriented setup, to a “complete street.” Proposed changes would have included the elimination of two vehicular traffic lanes (one in each direction) – a change the city hoped would help “manage vehicle
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VOL. 22, NO. 42
GREAT SHAKEOUT ROLLS OUT ‘SHAKEALERT’ AT PASADENA’S CALTECH
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n Wednesday, Oct. 17 Dr. Lucy Jones, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Judy Chu (D-CA), participated in a press conference at the California Institute of Technology with seismologists and officials from Caltech, USGS and the California Office of Emergency Services to announce the
roll-out of ShakeAlert, the West Coast earthquake early warning system, and its key role in protecting public safety and infrastructure. Years in the planning stages, Caltech officials were delighted to announce Wednesday the beginning of the new technology. ShakeAlert, an innovative technology designed to alert people about a significant earthquake before shaking arrives, was developed by the U.S. GeologSEE SHAKEALERT PAGE 10
Lucy Jones, research associate in geophysics at Caltech and founder and chief scientist at the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society. - Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
Hahamongna Sediment Removal Plan Strongly Opposed by Pasadenans Terry MILLER
CHAKA KHAN NAMED ROSE PARADE GRAND MARSHAL FOR FULL STORY SEE CHAKA KHAN PAGE 11
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At the Arroyo Seco Quarterly Meeting on Oct. 10, Tim Brick, managing director of Arroyo Seco Foundation, made a vivid presentation on
the history of Hahamongna Watershed Park, this being the 25 year anniversary of its establishment. Brick spoke about the early planning for the park and the
What Hahamongna used to look like. – Courtesy photo / Arroyo Seco Foundation
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