Local News in Brief : Freeway Project to Start
Work on the first of the Ventura Freeway widening projects will begin in two weeks, the state Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.
The bulk of the 16-month project will consist of adding a fourth lane each way between Valley Circle and Topanga Canyon boulevards in Woodland Hills, a two-mile stretch often called the “Woodland Hills bottleneck.”
Throughout the project, all six lanes of the freeway will remain open during the day. But for a four-month period beginning this summer all traffic will be moved to the same side of the median, which is expected to cause some slowing.
In early 1989, work is expected to begin on a second widening project to expand the 101 freeway to five lanes each way from Topanga Canyon Boulevard to Universal City.
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