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Transportation Issues
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- Highway 118 in Moorpark, including truck traffic on LA Ave. and the 118 Bypass Proposal
- North Hills Parkway proposal (replacing 118 Bypass Proposal)
- City bus service in Moorpark
- County bus service (VISTA or SCAT)
- How to balance improvements to both public transportation and roads
- Metrolink or Amtrac
- Car/van pooling
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Subject North Hills Parkway
Date
Mon Oct 16 2006 14:56
Author Roseann Mikos
(rmikos@bigplanet.com)
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What is the North Hills Parkway? This is the planned through street that will be a Tierra Rejada-like road that will add a new regional collector street in the northern area of our city, parallel and to the north of Los Angeles Ave., following what is now the 118-freeway right-of-way land (across areas that do NOT presently have a freeway.
The City of Moorpark cannot afford to build an extension of the 118 freeway from where it now ends to go west. Only Caltrans and the state has the authority and eventually the money to do that.
Years ago, some people thought that Tierra Rejada Road should be the "118 by-pass" and that trucks should be diverted to that road instead of Highway 118 (Los Angeles Ave.). The "then" city council said "No", it's not fair to put those trucks on what is a major city-funded road through a residential neighborhood. While I was not on the city council then, I agree that putting the trucks on a city-funded residential collector road is not fair to those nearby residents.
The same is true for the new North Hills Parkway--it will be a collector road, going through the new residential neighborhoods that are being built inside the city limits in the "North Hills" of our city.
While right-of-way for the future extension of the 118 freeway IS being set aside, no state funds are projected for such a project in probably 20-50 years! So you cannot divert truck traffic to there now, even if you wanted to. The city's resources, if used to build a freeway, would mean that we could not spend money on other important things like public safety, improving our library, our parks, and our local roads.
We CAN and WILL make a local road to allow residents to bypass the trucks on it--this will be the North Hills Parkway. But it will not be a truck bypass, as that would not be prudent.
As bad as it is to have trucks on the current Highway 118 (Los Angeles Ave.)--and it is bad-- it is still better to keep them there than to move them onto hilly areas north of the city--unless and until there is a freeway there (which is unlikely to be built by the state for at least 30-50 years!)
In the mean time, let's build the North Hills Parkway to provide alternatives for residents. AND let's work regionally to restrict truck traffic on LA Avenue by any legal means possible, including getting a full time weigh station near the west end of town to mandate safer trucks for those that are allowed.
What do you think?
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