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Info Guide to the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
Check out this pdf. Navigating 710 EIR_presentation to help you write your public comment. CalTrans/Metro is taking public comment until July 2015. After that point, they will make the decision about what to do with the 710-extension. Make sure you have your voice … Continue reading
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Alhambra Councilwoman Barbara Messina’s “virgin air” comment
Say what!?!? On March 9, 2015 on the air, Barbara Messina (again) claimed if CalTrans builds the toll freeway tunnel, all the pollution accumulated from the port trucks and cars would be purified from the scrubbers, releasing ‘virgin air’ into the … Continue reading
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Still not satisfied with the “alternatives” to a surface freeway?
Mon. April 13, 6:30 pm (tentative date) Pasadena City Council will meet at the Pasadena Convention Center to discuss and vote on a 6th Alternative – a people’s alternative. Pasadena’s local preference as an Alternative for the SR-710 project Resolution opposing … Continue reading
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Where to start with the EIR?
Here are 3 pages from the section, Tunnel Excavation Report, pages 6 (map) & 361-362. Excavation Report + map pp.361-362 Each Tunnel: 4.2 miles of bored tunnel .7 miles of cut and cover tunnel 1.4 miles of at-grade segments. Total: 6.3 … Continue reading
Media on 710 – after EIR publication
Pasadena Now: WPRA Finds Caltrans’ SR-710 Draft EIR to be “Grossly Inadequate”, Aug. 7, 2015 These experts found inadequacies in almost all of the DEIR’s sections, including growth, tunnel boring machine failure, land use, community impacts, traffic, transportation, air quality, … Continue reading
The EIR – check it out and submit your comments!
You can view the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) here but there is a hard copy at the Alhambra public library, with a 40 page summary. It is also available to view at other locations. One of our members has read the summary and … Continue reading
Public comment on EIR until July 6, 2015
The Environmental Impact Report for the SR-710 North transportation network was released on March 6, 2015 by the California Department of Transportation. The comment period is 120 days, with the last opportunity for public comment being July 6, 2015. … Continue reading
Letter to Pasadena Star News
710 Freeway would be complex and carcinogenic POSTED to Pasadena Star News: 02/11/15, 3:10 PM PST The 710 is carcinogenic The 710 Freeway is an exponentially complex issue that would take more than one entire issue of this newspaper to begin … Continue reading
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Alt. Solutions
http://connectingpasadena.squarespace.com This empty freeway ditch needlessly divides our city, cutting off the Old Pasadena Business District on the east from the Ambassador Auditorium, Maranatha Campus and the rest of West Pasadena. The CPP, a citizen driven initiative, aims to develop a … Continue reading
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What’s the status of the 710 Freeway tunnel?
(from Metro website) Metro and Caltrans will release and circulate the Study’s draft environmental document in February 2015. Caltrans review and comment period is 90-days, and will hold two public hearings. The public is encouraged to provide comments during this … Continue reading
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Responsible Alhambrans Against the 710 