KBUU Newswire, Wed May 16 – PCH To Get Freeway Tow Trucks – PCH As Crowded As 110 In DTLA – Homeless Plan (Almost) Ready – Bu Gets Worldwide Fame For Straw Ban
Written by 991KBU on May 16, 2018
- Traffic ticket crackdown on P C H today.
- Freeway Service Patrol trucks heading to PCH ion Malibu.
- Santa Monica parents raise money for Malibu schools.
- Malibu has a strategic plan for the homeless … but the city’s not quite ready to share that.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news. It’s the (((( final ))) edition of the ((( Wednesday ))) news … from Radio Malibu ….
F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
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Eighteen months after KBUU radio asked county supervisor Sheila Kuehl … why PCH doesn’t have freeway service patrol trucks … the trucks are heading towards Malibu.Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/metro-tow-truck/
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There were some interesting statistics gathered by the Metro officials as they determined the cost benefit ratio for putting a Metro freeway service patrol tow truck on PCH.
Every year … there is an average of 15 collisions per mile on PCH between Cross Creek and the Getty Museum.
Congestion delays in Malibu are 15% higher on weekends … than on weekends.
Delays are 30% higher in beach days.
And up to 60% higher on weekend summer days.
No surprises there to any Malibu drivers … but the metro official said he was surprised to learn that congestion levels on PCH are as they are on the 110 freeway in downtown Los Angeles.
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As we told you earlier … LA County Sheriff’s deputies plan special enforcement on Pacific Coast Highway today.
Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/extra-traffic-enforcement-on-pch/
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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. ((( time ))))
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Six months after a fire that started at a homeless encampment endangered houses at the Civic Center … a group of people trying to help the homeless … along with law enforcement and city officials … have come up with a Malibu Homeless Homelessness Strategic Plan.
And one week from Thursday … the city is hosting a community meeting to discuss the plan.
What is that plan? Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/homeless-plan-almost-ready/
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Malibu schools will benefit from a charity wine auction earlier this month … even though Malibu parents largely ignore the event.
The Santa Monica Malibu education foundation raised $285,000 at the gala event in Santa Monica.
The money goes to support art … Science and technology classes at all the schools in the district.
Malibu parents that weekend were raising money locally.
But … no reason to feel bad that Santa Monica parents are raising charity for Malibu kids.
We should point out … an estimated 11 million dollars in tax money flows from Malibu to Santa Monica schools every year.
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Malibu may not have been the first place to ban plastic straws … but it was the most famous.
https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-gets-more-attention/
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Weather for the Malibu ….
It will be (((( sunny )))) today … highs (((( 66 )))) beaches … (((( 71 )))) mountains and canyons.
Winds will be strong.
Downcoast winds … ((( 25 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:49 )))).
After that … ((( cloudy )))) tonight … low (((( 52 )))) beaches … (((( 49 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( just the same )))).
Right now … at Trancas it’s (((( 62 )))) degrees.
In upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 57 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 65 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 56 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 2 to 3 )))) feet high ….
(((( Swells coming out of the south southwest are diminishing. And it wil be windy this afternoon. ))))
Poor to fair surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( High tide is at 11:26 this morning.
Low tide is at 4:27 this afternoon.
A 6 foot high tide will arrive at 10:41 tonight. ))))
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