Since late October, Southern California Edison has owned Lake Avenue along Altadena’s business district, funnelling traffic into two lanes and eliminating long stretches of street parking.
And it may go on for awhile.
Edison is removing and replacing an aging underground electircal vault in the street in front of the Bank of America, which has turned Lake Avenue into a zone of cones, K-rails, and temporary fencing in the street. According to Ben Wong, in Edison’s public affairs office, the replacement and required electrical work may go on until the first week of December.
“There is a chance it could be sooner, but as with any construction project, unforeseen circumstances (you don’t always know what you’ll find once you start digging below the surface) could affect that schedule,” Wong said in an email.
They placed the new vault in a few weeks ago this week they jack hammered the old vault and filled the whole up with cement. The workers told me on Monday that they would be done on Friday. Then I spoke to someone on Tuesday and they said another 2 weeks.
If you need to shop at Steve’s Pets they have a parking lot in the rear of their store you have to enter threw Marcheta street north of the Pet shop off Lake or El Molino.