GRANADA HILLS : Simi Freeway Work Shifts to West Lanes

By HENRY CHU

May 21, 1994 12 AM PT

Westbound traffic on the Simi Valley Freeway in Granada Hills will shift to the eastbound lanes starting Sunday night or Monday night as construction begins on the westbound lanes, Caltrans said.

Traffic returned to the eastbound lanes Friday after Fontana-based Brutoco Engineering & Construction finished rebuilding that side of the bridges at San Fernando Mission Boulevard and Bull Creek.

The bridges had crumbled in the Northridge earthquake.

Caltrans spokesman Russell Snyder said San Diego-based contractor F.C.I. Constructors has 110 days to finish rebuilding the westbound bridges. During construction, the freeway will remain six lanes wide, three in each direction.

The project is expected to cost about $9.6 million. Rebuilding the east side of the bridges cost $9.7 million.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

GRANADA HILLS : Simi Freeway Work Shifts to West Lanes

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