Work in the Port of Los Angeles area will prompt some road closures on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Anaheim Way and Farragut Avenue in the North Harbor will be closed for 10 hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to port officials who say truckers intending to use the \u201cheavy haul route\u201d should plan for alternate routes.<\/p>\n
Motorists traveling west on Pier B Street can detour their way around the closure by continuing west until the roadway reaches Pier A Way, then turning right. They onto Pier A Way. From there, drivers should then turn right onto North Henry Ford Avenue, which rejoins Anaheim Street.<\/p>\n
The closure is required as the Port of Long Beach builds what\u2019s being called \u201cthe Port of the Future\u201d a planned plan doubling annual container volumes to 20 million units by 2050.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy strategically modernizing the port\u2019s infrastructure with $3.3 billion in capital investments over the next decade and developing digital systems to dramatically enhance efficiency and visibility, the port is also becoming the world\u2019s first zero-emissions port,\u201d officials said in a statement. \u201cToday, the port moves cargo valued at $300 billion a year and generates 2.7 million jobs across the U.S., as it continues to lead the world on sustainability programs and plans to double those benefits by doubling volume.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work in the Port of Los Angeles area will prompt some road closures on Saturday. Anaheim Way and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,817,143121,131,133,132,1284,3160,595,106169],"class_list":["post-504801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-close","tag-hours","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-port","tag-roads","tag-saturday","tag-some"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}