Local News in Brief : Burbank to Add Signs at Tricky Intersection

The Burbank City Council on Tuesday authorized $50,000 for installation of more warning signs and other safety measures at the intersection of Buena Vista and Vanowen streets, the site of at least five fatal traffic accidents in several years.

The city has already erected barriers and installed highly reflective warning signs to caution motorists traveling east on Vanowen that they must turn where the street ends, at Buena Vista Street.

Now it will install another warning sign on Vanowen, 1,000 feet before the intersection, put raised reflecting dots along Vanowen’s lanes and erect collapsible barriers on and around a triangular-shaped island in the middle of the intersection.