Recent Streetsblog LA posts about highway expansion

Divide and Conquer on the 710 Big Dig

By Damien Newton | Aug 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

Last week, Metro finished its most recent public meetings outlining twelve proposals to fill the so-called 4.5 mile “gap” on the I-710 between Alhambra and Pasadena at the I-210. The public response to the twelve alternatives presented was near-uniformly negative. Anger was particularly high at new proposals to connect the I-710 to the I-210 including, a […]

Derision Grows for Caltrans 710 Study That Argues for Massive Road Widening for Cleaner Air

By Damien Newton | Aug 8, 2012 | 9 Comments

(There are two more meetings for the I-170 Expansion Project, tonight in Long Beach and tomorrow in Commerce. The Long Beach Post has the meeting details. If you can’t make a meeting, you can email comments to 710eir@metro.net by August 29th.) When Streetsblog first looked at the alternatives proposed in 2009 for reducing congestion along the […]

Coming Soon: Carmageddon II

By Damien Newton | Jul 20, 2012 | 9 Comments

It’s official: Carmageddon II is scheduled for the end of September from the evening of Friday, September 28 to the early morning of October 1. As before, Metro is demolishing a portion of the Mulholland Bridge in part to make place for a carpool lane. The full details of the closure can be found at […]

EIR Released for the “Other” 710 Project, Let’s Get Ready to Widen

By Damien Newton | Jul 3, 2012 | 24 Comments

The I-710 is a marvel of 20th century transportation planning. The freeway, which is sometimes as large as ten lanes, connects both the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to Route 60, passing the I-405, SR-91, I-105, I-605, I-10, and SR-60 before heading North. Traffic is so congested north of SR-60, that some local […]

Do You Drive the 405 in Westwood? New Website Shows How Rampture Impacts Your Commute

By Sirinya Tritipeskul Matute | Jun 22, 2012 | 5 Comments

Today, my colleague Joe Maddela sent me a link to something he’d programmed called the Rampture Calculator. The Rampture Calculator attempts to estimate the number of days someone (commuters, residents, UCLA students) will be inconvenienced by the closure of an on or off ramp at Wilshire Boulevard to the 405. While I had heard quite a […]

Missed in 2011: O.C. Road Agency Brings Toll Project Back from the Dead

By Damien Newton | Jan 3, 2012 | 7 Comments

There was a saying my mentor Janine Bauer used to tell me when I was back fighting wasteful highway projects in New Jersey. “The public process for highway expansion isn’t over until the road is built.” What she meant was that the monied interests in building expensive highway projects won’t stop no matter how often […]

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