(Nov. 3, 2015, 3:10 p.m.) -- City management has agendized for Council approval on Nov. 3 to adopt plans and specifications and award a contract for [agenda title] "Improvements of the Bicycle System Gap Closure and Improved Los Angeles River Bike Path Access project" that includes installing a traffic signal on Wardlow Rd. at Pacific Ave., and two "roundabouts" on Pacific Ave. (at 36th St. and Bixby Rd.), actions that drew grassroots oppposition from Los Cerritos area neighbors in 2013.
City management responded to the objections by calling the signal and the roundabouts "traffic calming" measures, and continued to pursue the projects without audible objection from now-former 7th district Councilman James Johnson.
In 2013, neighborhood residents said installing a traffic signal on Wardlow Rd. would encourage cut-through traffic on Pacific Ave. north of Wardlow Rd. and would increase what they said was a frequent block-long traffic buildup of cars when there are too many cars coinciding with trains at an at-grade Blue Line crossing just to the west...and installing the traffic signal would add to traffic congeston on Wardlow Rd., not calm traffic.
Homeowners in the area of 36th St. said the "roundabout" would be dangerous to bicyclists as well as removing parking from nearby residences.
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