Meeting on Traffic Dangers Scheduled
A community group and the Los Angeles Police Department are meeting Thursday to slow down deadly traffic on Valley surface streets.
Virginia Huber, co-chairwoman of the West Valley Traffic Summit, said the organization plans to develop “solutions that will not cost taxpayers $1 million.”
“All of us on the Community Police Advisory Board are aware that more people die in the Valley from traffic than any other violent crime: gangs, domestic violence, everything,” Huber said. “We’ve been working for about 18 months and decided to get everybody together to do something about it.”
The public summit will meet from 8 to 11 a.m. at Warner Center Marriott Hotel, 21850 Oxnard St., Woodland Hills.
The advisory committee studied some of the most troubling roads--Canoga Avenue, Valley Circle Boulevard and the intersection of Saticoy Street and De Soto Avenue--for traffic dangers and exchanged information with LAPD’s West Valley Traffic Division. So far, suggestions from the two groups include painting streets to make them look narrower, widening bike lanes and changing the timing on traffic signals.
According to the LAPD, the number of speed-caused collisions in the Valley increased from 551 in 1997 to 1,163 during the first nine months of 1999, according to the latest figures available.
Summit planners hope to bring together area politicians, police and the advisory board to work on the problem.
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