Local News in Brief : Caltrans Drops Rerouting
The state Department of Transportation has dropped a controversial plan to close the Ventura Freeway between Calabasas and Thousand Oaks and reroute traffic onto local streets while the freeway is being repaved.
Instead, one freeway lane will be kept open in each direction between Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas and Hampshire Road in Thousand Oaks, Jack Hallin, Caltrans’ project development chief, said Monday.
In recent weeks, officials in Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills protested the proposed rerouting, contending that it would harm residential and commercial streets along the freeway.
The nine-month, $15-million paving project, designed to stop the spread of potholes, is scheduled to begin in the spring, with all work to be done between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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