MTA to build 405 carpool lane
Betting they can come up with the money later, Los Angeles County transportation officials Thursday approved plans to build the San Diego Freeway car-pool lane over the Sepulveda Pass even though they have just a fraction of the project's $1 billion price tag.Sue Doyle in the Daily News.
Construction of the 10-mile northbound car-pool lane -- stretching along one of the nation's most congested sections of highway from the Santa Monica Freeway to the Ventura Freeway -- should begin this summer after years of planning.
The project, approved by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board, is expected to create some 18,000 construction jobs and be completed in 2013.
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