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For the next six weeks, motorists along eastbound state Route 78 from Vista to Interstate 15 will see a series of electronic signs telling them to slow to a specific speed, then to speed up again.
It’s part of a pilot study aimed at synchronizing traffic in an effort to reduce bottlenecks that happen every rush hour, but will depend on at least partial compliance of drivers to make it work.
The California Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Institute of Transportation Studies and the University of California Berkeley, is conducting the Variable Speed Advisory project, which it hopes could lead to reduced delays on area freeways.
In March 2019, Berkeley’s city manager reported that on any given night, approximately 1,000 people in the city are experiencing homelessness. Since COVID-19 began, it’s spread across the United States and economic strain has heightened, possibly placing more Berkeley residents into housing insecurity.
According to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle, homelessness in Alameda County experienced a 63% increase from 2017 to 2019. Such housing insecurity appears to have only deepened as the pandemic continues to deprive job security from residents. According to California’s Employment Development Department, since November 2020, 52,200 Californians lost their jobs, causing the state’s unemployment to increase by 0.9% and overall unemployment to reach 9% by December.
Torrance Halts Tree Removal Following Sunday Protest
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TORRANCE, Calif. At least a dozen activists, alongside two of Redondo Beach’s elected officials, stood in protest on a median bordering Torrance and Redondo on Sunday.
The message was clear: Save Frankie the Ficus, a tree rooted in a median along Pacific Coast Highway, with a canopy that stretches over two and a half lanes of traffic.
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The City of Torrance has postponed the removal of a tree from a center median along Pacific Coast Highway
The tree s removal was planned to alleviate cut-through traffic issues in nearby residential neighborhoods