Three portable changeable message signs (CMS) will soon be placed on Pacific Coast Highway, as a result of a $124,250 grant awarded to the City in June of 2014 to promote safety along PCH. Part of the grant will fund the purchase of the three signs, which can be placed along the PCH corridor, between the McClure Tunnel in the City of Santa Monica to the Los Angeles/Ventura county lines.
The signs will be deployed and operated by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) for a one-year period. CHP will keep a weekly record of where each CMS was deployed, how long it was deployed and the message it displayed.
The City can provide CHP with suggestions for where the signs will be the most effective. City staff provided a map of the PCH corridor and suggested the signs be placed near the shoulder of PCH, close to the intersections of Kanan Dume Road, Malibu Canyon Road and Topanga Canyon Road.
After the one-year period, the City of Malibu will become the owner of the signs.