City guns for transportation funds

Project price tags in Glendale have a much larger range, with a low $279,000 for Kenneth Road all the way up to $5.6 million to replace 10 Glendale Beeline buses.

Glendale is working with Los Angeles County and La Cañada Flintridge for improvements to traffic signals along the Foothill Boulevard corridor — trumpeting the regional significance of the projects to make them more competitive.

“We’ve been looking more intently at potential joint projects with our neighbors recently,” said Glendale Public Works Director Steve Zurn. “We’re always in the market for grant funds to replace buses and improve traffic safety.”

Burbank also submitted applications for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge across the Los Angeles River at Bob Hope Drive to connect the Burbank Media District with existing bicycle lanes along Forest Lawn Drive, Griffith Park and an extension of the Los Angeles River Bikeway.

Glendale hopes to upgrade its traffic operation center, and Burbank would like to install an upgraded system for 59 traffic signals along Glenoaks Boulevard, Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Way.