To consolidate, disseminate, and gather information concerning the 710 expansion into our San Rafael neighborhood and into our surrounding neighborhoods. If you have an item that you would like posted on this blog, please e-mail the item to Peggy Drouet at pdrouet@earthlink.net
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
What Does Southern California Need From the 710 Freeway?
Moderated by Conan Nolan, General Assignment Reporter, NBC4
The 710 is one of the most important freeways in Southern California.
It’s also shorter than originally planned: For nearly 50 years, legal
and environmental challenges have stalled the freeway in Alhambra, 4.5
miles short of its intended destination, Pasadena. Over the decades,
discussions about extending the freeway have cast its future as a local
issue. But the 710 causes traffic, produces pollution, and affects
commerce across Los Angeles and even beyond. How broad are these
impacts, and what role might the stalled extension play in them? What
would the five options now being debated for dealing with the
Alhambra-to-Pasadena gap–implementing new surface traffic technology and
strategies, new rapid bus transit, light rail transit, a freeway
tunnel, or building nothing at all–mean for our region? UCLA Institute
of Transportation Studies director Brian Taylor, Clean Tech Advocates senior advisor and former California Environment Secretary Linda S. Adams, L.A. Chamber of Commerce president Gary Toebben, and Southern California Association of Governments executive director Hasan Ikhrata visit Zócalo to discuss what these proposals mean for all of us.
LOCATION:
Museum of Contemporary Art
250 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
Parking $9 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall garage. Enter from Second St., just west of Grand Ave.
