Test Drives Show the New Route to Be a Time Saver
The new connector linking the Simi Valley and Moorpark freeways will allow drivers to get around more quickly than taking the street route, a sample test Friday afternoon showed.
Two Times reporters lined up their cars near the beginning of the link at the base of the entrance at Princeton and Los Angeles avenues. Los Angeles Avenue is part of the heavily traversed route commuters take to get from the Simi Valley Freeway to the Moorpark Freeway.
At 1:05 p.m., both cars headed out at the legal speed limit, one onto the new connector, the other down Los Angeles Avenue, the old route.
Two minutes later, the reporter driving on the connector arrived at the Tierra Rejada Road exit, near the other end of the link.
Meanwhile, the reporter on the old route drove down Los Angeles Avenue to Spring Road. He experienced the usual delays--slow trucks and long lights on a winding, two-lane road.
His route took him down New Los Angeles Avenue to the Moorpark Freeway, which he exited at Tierra Rejada Road at 1:14.
So the connector route, which took two minutes, was more than four times shorter than the street route, which took nine.
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