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Public Works Commission outlines street, bike-lane and transit hub projects ahead of 2028 events
Summary
The chair of Carson’s Public Works Commission briefed the council on ongoing and planned infrastructure projects including pavement upgrades, bike-lane expansions, Victoria Transit Center design, Smart Traffic Signal plans and median landscaping.
Kobe Howard, chair of the City of Carson Public Works Commission, presented a comprehensive update to the City Council on April 1 about infrastructure projects the commission has supported. The presentation covered pavement upgrades, active-transportation improvements, transit hub planning and preparations tied to major regional events.
Howard reviewed the citywide pavement upgrade program started in March 2024 and listed planned or ongoing projects: the Carriagecrest Park expansion, the Victoria Transit Center (near California State University, Dominguez Hills), speed-hump installations, a city streetlight and intelligent-transportation system, and median landscaping improvements. The commission highlighted an active bike-lane expansion program that will add about 14.6 miles of class 2 bike lanes on streets including Carson Street, Figueroa, Main Street and Victoria and additional bike-lane work on other arterials.
Howard said the Victoria Transit Center is in the design phase and intended to link local services (Carson Circuit, Long Beach Transit) with regional rail lines. The commission also noted plans for Martin Luther King Jr. Street repairs where subsurface conditions tied to a former landfill have created long-standing maintenance challenges.
The commission discussed smart-traffic-signal networks tied to the city’s new fiber network and a longer-term concept to explore an urban drone “vertiport” to support electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as a future mobility option. Councilmembers asked for clarification about prior Carson Street landscaping work, maintenance responsibilities, and project phasing; public works staff said median and landscape work will be phased to reduce business impacts.
Commission and staff asked residents to use the city’s 311 system to report maintenance issues and said phase 1 of the fiber network is funded and in process, enabling future traffic-signal synchronization projects.
