CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 5, 1989
It seems that we in Orange County still live in an age of bigotry, racism and intolerance. I refer to the defacing of two newly placed freeway signs on the Garden Grove and San Diego freeways. The signs announce "Little Saigon Next Exit." Over the past 2 weeks both of these signs have been defaced with spray-painted remarks against the Vietnamese community. The first time it happened, around Feb. 1, Caltrans quickly cleaned the signs. For this, they should be commended. However, I noticed as I drove the freeway today that it has happened again.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 22, 1991 | MONICA RODRIGUEZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The California Department of Transportation expects to spend about $28,000 this year to erase graffiti from signs, walls and art projects along San Diego freeways. Steve Saville, Caltrans spokesman for District 11, which includes Imperial, Riverside and San Diego counties, said Caltrans used to spend $3,000 to $5,000 a year to clean up graffiti in all three counties. Graffiti have gradually increased in the last couple of years, Saville said.
NEWS
June 30, 1989 | DARRELL DAWSEY, Times Staff Writer
Stepping up its offensive on the traffic snarls plaguing Los Angeles County, the California Highway Patrol on Thursday unveiled an ambitious six-month pilot program designed to alleviate congestion on the most troubled portions of the San Bernardino, Santa Ana and San Diego freeways. Dubbed Operation CLEAR-- for Clearing Lanes Efficiently And Rapidly, the program will use specially trained teams of "congestion relief officers," CHP officers whose sole duty will be to patrol specific sections of the three freeways in search of stalled cars, debris and other traffic impediments.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 1, 1989 | ERIC BAILEY, Times Staff Writer
In their first day of operation Thursday, new car-pool lanes on the San Diego Freeway had an impact, helping to double peak traffic speeds in the morning while increasing the number of cars on the highway's unrestricted lanes, Caltrans officials said Thursday.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 2, 1988 | Staff Writer Jerry Hicks
Prosecutors in the Randy Steven Kraft murder trial say a paper with 61 entries, found in his car trunk when he was arrested May 14, 1983, is a death list--Kraft's own score card of how many young men he had killed dating back to late 1971. Kraft's attorneys deny it is a death list, and call it meaningless information that will only inflame his jury. Kraft himself, in a 1983 interview, called the list nothing more than references to friends of his and his roommate at the time.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 18, 1996 | LUCILLE RENWICK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Granada Hills woman was shot on the San Diego Freeway this weekend as she and her boyfriend drove home from her 20th birthday celebration, police said Saturday. Laura Previde was listed in serious but stable condition Saturday evening at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Panorama City. Shortly after the shooting, police arrested Temmie Brown, 23, of Gardena at an apartment complex in the 15100 block of Plummer Street in North Hills.