The state Department of Transportation has dropped a controversial plan to close the Ventura Freeway between Calabasas and Thousand Oaks and reroute traffic onto local streets while the freeway is being repaved.
Instead, one freeway lane will be kept open in each direction between Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas and Hampshire Road in Thousand Oaks, Jack Hallin, Caltrans' project development chief, said Monday.
