New curbing aims to bring concrete improvements to Palm Crest walkers
Last Friday, a few days before the Aug. 14 start of a new school year at Palm Crest Elementary School, a county public works crew was finishing a weeklong series of parkway improvements along Fairmount Avenue designed to slow down speeders on the highly pedestrian street.
Their work included a three-way stop at Hillard Avenue and installment of a concrete island at Fairmount and Earlmont avenues that creates a 90-degree junction and prevents parked cars from blocking footpaths.
The project was a joint effort of the La Cañada Flintridge Public Works and Traffic Commission and surrounding neighbors in the wake of a 2015 safety complaint by a Brownie troop whose members said they often battled speeding cars walking to and from Palm Crest.
On June 21, 2016, the City Council showed support for an estimated $70,000 worth of improvements from Palm Drive east to Jarvis Avenue.
“This all started from a local Brownie troop focusing on a traffic improvement, and (now) it’s starting to come to fruition,” then-Mayor Jon Curtis said at that 2016 meeting.
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