Recent Streetsblog LA posts about highway expansion

City, Caltrans, Seek Feedback on North Spring Street Bridge Widening

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

(Yesterday, a new advertisement appeared in our sidebar advertising a public meeting on the North Spring Street Bridge Improvement project on Tuesday, May 10, at 6:00 P.M. at the Lincoln Heights Senior Citizen Center at 2323 Workman Avenue. Below is a summary of the project, most of which was written before the advertisement was placed. […]

Editorial: Don’t extend the 710;Shrink It and Expand Alternatives

By Mark Vallianatos | Apr 13, 2011 | 5 Comments

I have written about how amorphous the scoping process for Metro and Caltran’s 710 gap-closure/ big dig project has been. I’ve now given shape to my own opinions in comments for the scoping phase of their environmental review (which ends on April 14th). Please submit comments if you are interested in the future of freeways […]

Streetpoll: Are We Ready for Virtual Meetings

By Damien Newton | Apr 5, 2011 | 2 Comments

[poll id=”47″] Now that the advertisement for the 710 Conversations Virtual Meeting and Open House is down off the sidebar, it seems a good time to review the concept and execution of the Virtual Meeting and Open House. First off, let’s put aside our feelings on the SR-710 Big Dig project and focus instead on […]

The 710: A Post Modern Freeway

By Mark Vallianatos | Mar 7, 2011 | 8 Comments

I’m sad to report that a generic timeline has replaced the board game of transportation history I admired during the first series of 710 conversations outreach meetings. With the stakes raised by CalTran’s release of a notice of scoping/initiation of studies for the SR-710 Gap Closure Project (which we’ll be calling the SR-710 California’s Big […]

Name the SR-710 Extension Moves to the Final Page, But How Much Will It Cost?

By Damien Newton | Feb 25, 2011 | 20 Comments

[poll id=”44″] Last week’s poll asking you to vote on what name L.A. Streetsblog will use to describe the 710 Extension Project was easily Streetsblog’s most popular poll to date, with 252 total votes. Two project names got sixty votes each to move on to this final poll. One week from today, either Art Dean’s […]

The 710 Game: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $780 million

By Mark Vallianatos | Feb 17, 2011 | 8 Comments

It seems suggestive that Metro and Caltran’s just launched SR-710 Conversations public outreach process features a timeline of transportation milestones printed as a board game. It remains to be seen whether it will be a game that the public plays: a creative rethinking of mobility needs in the San Gabriel Valley and Northeast Los Angeles, […]

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