SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Warning Signs, Fence Proposed Along Tracks
In hopes of preventing more Metrolink fatalities, a county transportation panel recommended Wednesday the installation of warning signs, ditches and an eight-foot-high fence along two miles of railroad track in Sylmar, San Fernando and Pacoima.
The unanimous decision by the county Transportation Commission’s Financing and Programming Committee comes after a cluster of fatal accidents in the eastern San Fernando Valley--most recently a March 5 accident that took the lives of a teen-age couple walking on the tracks in Sylmar.
The project, estimated to cost $863,760, is expected to be approved by the commission Wednesday. The fencing and other improvements would be installed in April or May, county transportation officials said.
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