Countywide : Call Boxes Scheduled to Go Up Next Month
The Orange County Transportation Commission has tentatively scheduled installation of the first emergency call boxes on the county’s freeway system for mid-October, said Lisa Mills, manager of planning and programming for the OCTC.
The first phase calls for the installing 90 boxes along the Orange Freeway (California 57). After that initial phase, the boxes will be installed along the Garden Grove and Riverside freeways; the Santa Ana Freeway north of the Garden Grove Freeway; the San Diego Freeway; the Laguna and Corona del Mar freeways; then Interstate 5 south of the San Diego Freeway, Mills said.
Mills said the Costa Mesa Freeway (California 55) and the stretch of Santa Ana Freeway between the Garden Grove and San Diego freeways will get the boxes last, because of widening planned along those routes.
When the project is complete in about 18 months, the county’s freeway system will have 980 emergency call boxes at intervals of about a quarter-mile.
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