Garden Grove

Help is coming to boulevards

ROADWORK is coming to ease the crunch at Garden Grove and Harbor boulevards (Shutterstock).

If you’ve tried to navigate the intersection of Garden Grove  and Harbor boulevards, you know there’s often tangles of traffic due to the vast numbers of cars, trucks and other vehicles trying to get through.

A proposed solution to that bottleneck is on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of the Garden Grove City Council.

The council will consider awarding a contract worth $6,678,330 to PALP Inc. for street widening and other improvements at that key intersection.

According to a staff report, the project “generally” consists of a 12-foot roadway widening to add an eastbound right-turn lane along Garden Grove Boulevard and a five-foot roadway widening to add a second left-turn lane along Harbor Boulevard.

Additionally, the project will widen existing “substandard” through lanes to a minimum width of 11 feet. All-new traffic signals will be installed at all four corners.

The funding will be 65 percent from the Orange County Transportation Authority and 35 percent from the city.

Also on the agenda is the awarding of a contract to Act 1 Construction Inc. for the Woodbury Revitalization and Expansion Project at a cost of $10,992,000.

The council will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Ave.

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