State Route 118 (Los Angeles Avenue) is a heavily traveled state highway, as well as an arterial route for the City of Moorpark. SR 118 carries a high volume of truck traffic and subsequently is in need of pavement rehabilitation. C.A. Rasmussen secured the $29.4-million SR-118 Pavement Rehabilitation Project contract last summer, and brought in the George L. Throop Company as a subcontractor.
Los Angeles Avenue is a congested thoroughfare and the challenge of transporting concrete from even a nearby batch plant would have been wrought with delays due to traffic, which in turn, would have negatively affected the quality of the concrete by the time the transport trucks arrived at the site. Instead, the Throop Company is using their volumetric mixing trucks on site to provide the concrete.
The pavement work is currently underway on the 2.8-mile stretch of Los Angeles Avenue from Montair Drive to Spring Road. Current work includes cold-planing and overlaying the existing asphalt concrete, reconstructing the pavement with rapid setting Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP-RSC), re-paving of approach lanes, and replacing loop detectors at multiple intersections.
Infrastructure upgrades include 2,785 linear feet of Metal Beam Guardrail (MBGR), 46 new traffic signal equipment packages, additional roadside signs, and 31 curb ramps, to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. Targeted project completion is fall 2027.