Laguna Niguel Ca Transportation

A 300-foot section of Alicia Parkway that collapsed during recent rainstorms will be closed indefinitely, city officials said. As the City Council tonight looks at spending $133,000 for measures to keep the slope from slipping further, Public Works Director Ken Montgomery said the eastbound lane could be closed for years. The damaged road is near the bottom of a hill near where Alicia Parkway dead-ends into Crown Valley Parkway.

The City Council approved a motion Tuesday that will allow the residents living on Weatherwood to vote on whether they would like speed bumps placed along their street. The council directed the Traffic Commission to set up a date for the voting at its next meeting and establish the number and location of the speed bumps to be placed on the street, if residents approve the plan.

Council members have tentatively approved a recommendation by the Traffic Commission to increase the speed limit on four streets by 5 mph. The speed limit on Highlands Avenue (from Pacific Island Drive to Niguel Road) will increase to 40 mph, Alicia Parkway (between Pacific Park Drive and Aliso Creek Road) will increase to 50 mph, St.

City officials decided Tuesday to put the Metrolink commuter rail station project out to bid for a second time, in the hopes of garnering bids closer to the city's budget. The previous attempt yielded only two bids, the lowest almost $2 million more than the city's $2.5-million budget and the other $4 million above what the city could pay. If the Orange County Transportation Authority's board of directors decides Monday to use an available $2.

Taking a hard look at the area's economy, a new study says that the city's financial potential is still a few years away from being fully realized. The study covered a major growth area in the city: a long strip of land running alongside Interstate 5. Although great commercial opportunities exist with the freeway so close, access to the land is a problem because railroad tracks run parallel to the interstate.

First, Mission Viejo wanted it. Then, Laguna Niguel got interested. And now, Laguna Hills is trying to decide whether to join in. There's room for only one more commuter rail station in South County, and as traffic congestion gets worse on Interstate 5, city officials are trying to decide which community will get the station and who will pay for it. "It doesn't take much to realize that this is a badly needed facility and that time is of the essence," said Mission Viejo Mayor Robert D. Breton.

A public hearing will be held Tuesday on a proposed commuter rail station in Mission Viejo or Laguna Niguel. The City Council will ask residents for opinions on the best location for a Metrolink commuter rail station, which would connect stations in Orange and Los Angeles counties and have a terminus at Union Station in Los Angeles. Three sites are under consideration, with two in Mission Viejo between Cabot Road and the San Diego Freeway near Oso Parkway.

Officials agreed Wednesday to pay a store $5.8 million for the right to build part of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor directly over the store and its parking lot, officials said. Costco, a discount department store that is part of a Seattle-based chain, agreed to sell the right-of-way for its Cabot Road store just west of Interstate 5. That right of way will provide an alternative for linking the corridor with the freeway.

Aliso Creek Road, a new street linking El Toro Road with Alicia Parkway in Laguna Niguel, is open. Two lanes of the 4 1/2-mile-long road that winds through Laguna Niguel and Aliso Viejo were opened last week, said Tom Mathews, a spokesman for County Supervisor Thomas F. Riley said. An expansion of the road to include additional lanes will be completed in May, Mathews said. Aliso Creek Road is being built at a cost of $13.

In one of their first official acts as a public body, Laguna Niguel officials agreed Tuesday to join a panel that is planning a tollway connecting Newport Beach to southern Mission Viejo. Members of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency met with city officials before their first regular council meeting to describe the design of the transportation corridor and to discuss the status of the project.

A 300-foot section of Alicia Parkway that collapsed during recent rainstorms will be closed indefinitely, city officials said. As the City Council tonight looks at spending $133,000 for measures to keep the slope from slipping further, Public Works Director Ken Montgomery said the eastbound lane could be closed for years. The damaged road is near the bottom of a hill near where Alicia Parkway dead-ends into Crown Valley Parkway.