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City Council to consider $85 million bypass plan
4-mile road seen as relief from growth
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More from Local NewsThe Moorpark City Council will review conceptual plans Wednesday for North Hills Parkway, a four-lane bypass through the city, projected to cost about $85 million.
Fulfilling a general plan requirement, the highway is meant to relieve traffic impacts of current and future growth. But it is still years in the making, officials said.
About 93 acres of right-of-way acquisition would be required for the project.
If the application for the 4-mile road goes through the city channels and is approved, it would run from Highway 118 near Princeton Avenue, linking newer housing developments around Spring and Walnut Canyon roads, and a bridge would require four residential properties on Walnut Canyon to be removed.
The road would end at Los Angeles Avenue, the rural portion of Highway 118, west of Gabbert Road. It would end next to the proposed site of what is billed as the largest independent filming complex in the country.
Commonwealth Studios said its proposed project would create about 150 local jobs and bring in hundreds more to Moorpark.
City Councilman Keith Millhouse said he likes this conceptual look of the parkway.
"It's a critical part of the circulation element to the city," said Millhouse, who also sits on the Ventura County Transportation Commission.
He said with the various segments and phases of the plan, there is no estimate of when road construction could begin.
Much of the cost to build the bypass would fall to developers who have agreements with the city that include requirements for right-of-way development, said Yugal Lall, city engineer.
The developers include Hitch Ranch, SunCal and Pardee developments. AB Properties, which is zoned commercial and industrial, will also be responsible for the section near Gabbert Road.
The road would start around AB Properties and then continue east to Spring Road, finally connecting with Princeton Avenue.
The next step will be meeting with California Department of Transportation officials and identifying other project funding sources.
A staff report says funding would also include assistance from state and federal highway improvement grants.
In July 2004, the City Council hired Parsons Group to prepare a study to investigate the conceptual alignment and feasibility of the project.
The plan will be discussed at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, visit http://www.ci.moorpark.ca.us.
Posted by ru4real on May 24, 2008 at 5:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The big question is, will this road include truck traffic?
Posted by wolf9walker on May 25, 2008 at 4:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Accidents reduced on part of Highway 118, report says
By Anna Bakalis (Contact)
Friday, March 28, 2008
imagine33 you should read that article. pay close attention to that part where it says
“On Highway 118 between Somis and Ventura, a 10-mile stretch of road, 175 accidents and two fatalities were reported in 2007, compared to 183 accidents in 2006. Of the 12 accidents involving commercial vehicles, the commercial driver was at fault half the time”
so of the 175 accidents and two fatalities. Trucks were involved in 12 accidents and 0 fatalities. And trucks were at fault only half that. That means cars were are fault 169 accidents and two fatalities.
looks to me that you and everyone else should be for worried about car drivers. every article I find car drivers cause up to 90%+ of all accidents. but no one seems to care. all I hear is the trucks, trucks, trucks. here read this article
http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Storie...
"42,642 people died in traffic accidents in the United States. Statistics show that 4,995 people, or 11.7 percent of the total, died in accidents involving big rigs.
If you factor in the data that show some 75 percent of accidents involving big rigs are attributable to the actions of the four-wheeler, less than 3 percent the total might actually have been killed in accidents at which the trucker was at fault.
for every story people in moorpark may have about trucks, I have 100 about cars everyday. you might hear about a drunken truck once in a while, but you hear about drunken cars everyday. car drivers are killing lot more of us everyday, when are we going to start doing something about those reckless drivers. it seems that no one cares about the 40,000 people that died because of car drivers.
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