Long Beach Boulevard Street Improvements

Long Beach Boulevard

 The Long Beach Boulevard Improvements project is being implemented to enhance safety, traffic circulation, address deferred maintenance issues, and beautify the corridor.  Construction is in progress and planned for completion June 2024.  Recent milestones completed include backfilling medians with top soil at some locations and installing pedestrian push buttons on the curb ramps.  Currently, the contractor is installing lighting conduits and an irrigation drip system.   In the recent past, residents expressed concerns over the inaccessibility of pedestrian push buttons due to the newly installed cobble stones next to curb ramps.  Please know this was a temporary condition that has now been eliminated because the new pedestrian push buttons have now been installed away from the cobblestones.   Further, the cobble stones are not designed to be walked on.  The were installed in areas not intended for pedestrians that are not ADA accessible.  Cobble stones are an industry practice to designate “non-walkable” surface adopted by both Caltrans and the City of Los Angeles.  Please contact Kenneth Tang at ktang@sogate.org for more information.

The total budget is $10.6 Million. Construction began on September 11, 2023. The contractor began removing some unhealthy trees on October 2, 2023.Construction activities will include the use of heavy equipment, traffic control, lane closures, and will temporarily impact parking.Some construction activities will impact noise levels, such as during concrete removals.Construction activities will be scheduled to minimize impacts where feasible. Construction signage will be placed with sufficient time to provide information needed to accommodate parking conditions.

The City would like to remind the public that for reasons of safety, motorist are required to use caution and reduce speeds when driving through construction work zones.  There are major projects under construction on Garfield Ave and Long Beach Blvd.  To minimize impact to the general public, these corridors remain open to traffic meanwhile construction is under way.  Roadway and in-progress improvements are protected with traffic control to raise awareness and for roadway safety.  In-progress improvements such as the new road medians on Long Beach Blvd are safe to drive along, however, remain to be improvements with soil and landscaping.  Backfill work in the medians began on February 26th and will be fully backfilled with soil by March 11, 2024.  Motorists are reminded to use caution. 

 

Project Contact:  Kenneth Tang, P.E., Project Manager, 323-563-9574

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