Chino Hills Ca TRAFFIC SLOWDOWN EXPECTED ON CARBON CANYON ROAD

PRESS RELEASE

PR09 - 109

Contact: Denise Cattern Valerie McClung

(909) 364-2615 (909) 364-2618

Date: August 20, 2009

TRAFFIC SLOWDOWN EXPECTED ON CARBON CANYON ROAD

FOR DELIVERY OF COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE - AUGUST 25th & 26th

Public Safety officials in Chino Hills are one step closer to achieving improved emergency

communications in the Carbon Canyon area of Chino Hills. San Bernardino County has already

installed a 70-foot tall communications monopole at the top of Canon Lane in Carbon Canyon.

The pole will be disguised as a pine tree. Emergency communication in the Canyon has been

hampered by the topography. The location was chosen because it provided the best emergency

radio coverage and solved the many gaps in communications where radio signals were blocked.

On Tuesday, August 25th and Wednesday, August 26th, a prefabricated communications

equipment shelter, and the equipment needed to move the shelter, will be traveling on large tractor

trailers on Carbon Canyon Road (SR142). Changeable message signs will be posted to warn

motorists to expect delays. The trucks are traveling from Orange County east on SR 142 to Canon

Lane. Movement of the equipment is expected to slow eastbound traffic between 8:00 and 9:00

a.m. both days. Once work is complete, the rigs will travel west back toward Orange County. The

California Highway Patrol will escort the rigs to Canon Lane where they will be parked near Fire

Station No. 4.

The equipment shelter will be off-loaded onto a "crawler" which will very slowly carry the

shelter to the top of Canon Lane. Temporary "no parking" signs will prohibit parking on Canon

Lane and near the Fire Station from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on both days. The Chino Hills Police

Department will stop traffic on SR 142 long enough to allow the crawler to cross the road. A brief

closure will occur again when the crawler returns to the Fire Station at the end of work each day.

Construction of the communications infrastructure should be complete by mid-September and the

facility will be activated in late November or early December.

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