Caltrans BAC District 7
Via Email from Caltrans:
Currently, I have the following potential items:
– ATP Program Update
– Angeles Crest Highway Test Section update (Test Ride scheduled for Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:00 am)
– Rice Avenue Interchange
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Caltrans Lies Again: Widening 5 Freeway Will “Minimize Congestion… Reduce Pollution”
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Caltrans is lying. Again.
Caltrans Still Claims 5 Freeway Widening Reduces Congestion, Improves Air
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Caltrans is lying when a new video still asserts that widening the 5 freeway improves air quality and reduces congestion.
Three Government Committees Reject Current Plans to Widen 710 Between Long Beach and East LA
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Long Beach City Council I-710 Oversight Committee, Gateway Council of Governments and The Project Committee all reject current environmental documents for 710 widening between Long Beach and East Los Angeles. Following thousands of comments from leaders within community health and environmental coalitions, the State-led project to expand the 710 Freeway from eight lanes to 14 lanes for […]
New Head of Caltrans: Tony Tavares, Chief of Bay Area and L.A. Districts
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On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Tony Tavares, current Caltrans District 7 Chief, as the new head of Caltrans. Tavares is no stranger to Caltrans headquarters, where he served for years as Division Chief for Maintenance. He also more recently headed up Caltrans District 4 in the Bay Area for several years, and was appointed […]
New Caltrans Video Claims Widening 5 Freeway Is Good for Air, Congestion
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In this new promotional video, Caltrans District 7 inexplicably proclaims that widening a stretch of the 5 freeway in southeast L.A. County will “reduce congestion” and “improve air quality.” The video, shown at Metro’s board and committee meetings recently, further boasts about “better safety” and how outsized new bridges over the freeway will each “dwarf the […]
Caltrans Settles Environment Lawsuit, Cancels High Desert Freeway Project
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Thanks to a Climate Resolve lawsuit, Caltrans has agreed to halt work on the Metro-funded High Desert Corridor freeway