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Interchange Rebuild Impacts Area Streets
Three east Long Beach streets will get upgrades as part of a $1.5 million traffic mitigation package for the massive 405/605/22 highway interchange overhaul. That package was announced Tuesday after six months of negotiation with the Orange County Transportation Authoritty (OCTA), the agency in charge of the $400 million project. When the work was announced last spring, there was no mitigation of traffic detouring onto Long Beach streets, although the heavily traveled Seventh Street bridge is expected to be closed for a year. City Traffic Engineer David Roseman and Assistant City Attorney Michael Mais did the bulk of the work on the deal, according to Fourth District Councilman Patrick O’Donnell, who also has been part of the negotiations. Continue reading Grunion Gazette.