Recent Streetsblog LA posts about The 710

Motion Seeks to Ease Tensions Over 710 Expansion by Focusing on Displacement Elimination, Community Enhancements

By Brian Addison | Feb 28, 2018 | 6 Comments

Metro Board Member and Supervisor Hilda Solis, backed by fellow board member and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, has drafted a motion that will put the 710 expansion on hold while focusing on the community projects attached to the massive infrastructure proposal.

Metro passed the Fasana motion effectively killing the SR-710 North freewau tunnel. Map via Metro

Metro Board Votes to Kill 710 North Freeway Tunnel

By Joe Linton | May 25, 2017 | 14 Comments

This morning the Metro board of directors voted to approve a motion that effectively kills the $6 billion 710 North freeway tunnel project and redirects its funds to soundwalls, resurfacing, transit, signals, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements.

Fasana Metro Motion Could Kill 710 North Freeway Tunnel

By Joe Linton | May 17, 2017 | 8 Comments

If passed by the full Metro board next week, John Fasana's motion should spell the end of the zombie highway expansion project to spend $6B tunneling the 710 Freeway North

710 Freeway Opposition Testimony Dominates October Metro Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Oct 26, 2015 | 29 Comments

(NO-710 advocate Joe Cano recorded the meeting. His video can be found here.) Last week’s Metro board meeting agenda included numerous items, from bus service to Union Station run-through tracks, but the audience was packed with people mobilized to testify against Metro’s freeway expansion projects. Namely, the 710 Freeway. There are two halves to the 710 story: […]

The 710 and Measure R2: Can Los Angeles Build Transit and Beat Its Addiction to Asphalt?

By Roger Rudick | Apr 22, 2015 | 33 Comments

“We have to build an army of people who are willing to say ‘enough is enough,’” said Mayor Eric Garcetti at Wednesday’s MoveLA conference at Union Station, speaking of the region’s traffic and pollution problems. He was there, along with hundreds of other county and city leaders, drumming up support for Measure R2, a proposed […]

Metro’s North 710 Freeway Tunnel Study Meetings in High Gear, Pasadena Working Group Offers Brainy Alternatives

By Roger Rudick | Apr 14, 2015 | 12 Comments

Smart people live in Pasadena. Some of them work for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and send probes to Mars. Others spend their days figuring out quantum mechanics at Caltech. And still others dabble in transportation. A study group formed by Pasadena’s Mayor Bill Bogaard and its City Manager has a smart idea in response to L.A. Metro’s study to link […]

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