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In La Caņada Flintridge, a trip down memory lanes
Forty years ago, more than 1,000 La Caņada Flintridge residents set foot on the Foothill (210) Freeway for the first and likely only time, toasting the completion of the highway. They danced, dined and drank on the roadway during the fundraiser hosted by...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, California Department of Transportation, Highway Transportation
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Neighbors flunk Sacred Hearts' plans
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy has run into an unexpected obstacle in its plan for a campus makeover — a group of nearby residents who say the proposed renovation will cause traffic jams and safety problems. The school plans to build a four-...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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A costly trail to smooth streets
La Caņada Flintridge officials are playing catch-up in an attempt to resurface all 110 miles of the city’s streets. The problem is, they don’t have all the money the work requires. City staffers hope to set La Caņada on a course to repave all...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Count for 710 freeway gap study starts
With traffic roaring in their ears and diesel fumes mixing with the warm spring air, four people settled into canvas chairs on the Gould Avenue overpass above the Foothill (210) Freeway this week, their gaze focused unwaveringly on the roadway below. The...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, California Department of Transportation, Highway Transportation
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Fatal crash on Angeles Crest
A driver was killed Saturday in a single-vehicle wreck on Angeles Crest Highway, some 15 miles above La Caņada Flintridge. The crash occurred near highway mile marker 39, a few miles northeast of Angeles Forest Highway, Sgt. Kim Shelton of the...Tags: Transportation, Travel, California Department of Transportation, California
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Don't blame the Crest, officials say
Despite another fatal crash on Angeles Crest Highway over the weekend — the fourth since the lower part of the highway reopened in June of this year — the California Highway Patrol says that it’s drivers who are dangerous, not the road....Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Transportation, Travel, California Department of Transportation
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Jessen Drive Bridge work leads to revised school traffic routes
The Jessen Drive Bridge isn't necessarily a bridge too far. But it is a bridge too old, at least as far as the city is concerned. It's been planning its replacement for at least a decade. And now those plans are coming to fruition.
The two-lane wood-and-...Tags: Transportation, Travel, California Department of Transportation, Teaching and Learning, Education
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Warning signs to blame in runaway truck crash?
A former Girl Scout who warned of dangerous conditions on Angeles Crest Highway months before a fatal runaway truck crash in 2009 testified on Tuesday in the murder trial of that truck’s driver that he would not have seen warning signs along the...Tags: Transportation, Travel, Missing Persons, Prosecution, Justice System
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Local advocates bicycle safety on Crest
A La Caņada resident is asking Caltrans to increase bicyclist safety along Angeles Crest Highway by replacing missing signage that reminds vehicle drivers to share the road.
In the wake of the recently re-opened highway’s increasing popularity...Tags: Transportation, Health and Safety at Work, Travel, Human Interest, Career and Workplace
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Runaway truck's driver takes the stand
In testimony Friday that was set to continue Monday morning, the driver of the runaway truck that killed two people in La Caņada Flintridge in April 2009 after its brakes went out on Angeles Crest Highway recounted parts of that journey leading up to...Tags: Transportation, Travel, Missing Persons, Social Issues
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Crest danger a long-term issue
In the August 2011 issue of Motor Trend magazine there was an article comparing two new BMWs, the M1 and the M3. The author got two California Highway Patrol officers to close a portion of the newly opened Angeles Crest Highway in order to put these...Tags: Transportation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Travel, Values, Ethics
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No word from Costa jury
After nearly a week of deliberations, the jury in the murder case against Marcos Costa, the driver of a brakeless big rig that killed two people in La Caņada in April 2009, retired Wednesday without announcing a verdict. Costa, a Portuguese-speaking...Tags: Transportation, Travel, Murder, Crimes, Justice System
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