VENTURA : State Grant to Help Synchronize Signals
The city of Ventura has received a $200,000 state grant to improve its computerized traffic-light synchronization system, officials said Wednesday.
The grant is part of California’s $3-million share of the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account, which was collected by the federal government from oil companies that violated oil price control violations in the 1970s.
On Monday, a spending plan for these funds that included the grant to Ventura was signed into law with assistance from two local legislators, state Sen. Gary K. Hart (D-Santa Barbara), and Assemblyman Jack O’Connell (D-Carpinteria), said Jeff Bowling, a spokesman for O’Connell.
The state grant, along with $100,000 from the city’s general fund, will be used to hook up about 30 traffic signals in Ventura to the central traffic Signal Surveillance System computer.
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