Links

Here are links to other web sites that talk about the 710 freeway. Remember that web sites can and often do disappear from time to time, at the whim or even the necessity of the owners of those web sites, and so we cannot be responsible if one or more of the links noted below does not work. But please let us know if they don't, so that we can fix or delete any bad links from this page.

Sites Against the Construction of the 710 Freeway extension:

Caltrans Tenants Association is an organization of tenants who rent Caltrans-owned properties along the proposed route of the 710 Freeway extension.
• The Sierra Club's 710 Freeway Updates page gives a great overview of the reasons that the Sierra Club remains steadfast in its opposition to the 710 Freeway extension.
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation's In The News details the organization's opposition to the extension, and lauds the federal lawsuit and injunction against Caltrans.
• The new Pasadena-based organization Neighbors for Better Transportation was established to fight Measure A, the 710 ballot measure in Pasadena on the March 2001 ballot which will merely force the Pasadena City Council to issue an official statement in support of the building of the 710 Freeway extension, and to promote Measure C, which will call for a comprehensive transportation plan for the City of Pasadena.
• Read the complete text of Judge Pregerson's order granting a preliminary injunction against the construction of the 710 extension (you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to read this).
• Law Office of Antonio Rossman, who is working with the City of South Pasadena to stop the extension from being built. Click on their "Briefs" menu item to read the South Pasadena/National Trust/etc. briefs that earned the preliminary injunction installed by Judge Pregerson on July 19, 1999
• Cyburbia Cafe: Planning Peeves Forum - NIMBY I-710 freeway. This forum didn't generate much caring or comment from its participants, but every little bit helps.
• Eminent Reclaim (just an address and phone).
• Friends of the Earth talk about the Route 710 Highway.
• State Assemblyman Jack Scott: Hundreds March (reprint of L.A. Times article about the march and rally on March 8, 1998).
• John E. Galetzka a USGS Geologist against the freeway
• National Trust for Historic Preservation: NTHP Decries Decision to Built Destructive Freeway Extension and Injunction Lawsuits Filed
• South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce: Position on the 710 Freeway
• South Pasadena Crier: Special 710 Insert
• Taxpayer.net: Road to Ruin

Sites For the Construction of the 710 Freeway extension:

• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Record of Decision (ROD), State Route 710. Read for yourself the historic "Record of Decision", which arose from a backroom deal forged at the 11th hour between Marty Martinez and Bill Clinton, in order to get the former President's support for the ROD.
• Urban Freeway Renewal is sponsored by the Office of Research and Development of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
• Caltrans' Interstate 710 Projects page links to a number of articles concerning the 710 Freeway.
• The City of Monterey Park has its The Importance of Filling the 710 Freeway Gap web page.
• The 710 Freeway Coalition is from long-time 710 advocate Nat Read, a Glendale resident who owns a business in Pasadena, and is a paid freeway lobbyist on Alhambra's dole. It takes great glee in promoting untruths and in trashing the fine people of South Pasadena. Note: You must use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view this site.
• California Highways: Interstate 710 is an interested pro-freeway citizen's personal web site.
• Friends of Southern California's Highways appears on the surface to be some kind of official grassroots pro-freeway organization, but is in reality just a personal web site put together by three freeway proponents but crafted to appear larger than it really is.

Sites That Appear to be Neutral:

• California State Auditor. Click on the link for "Report 2000-127, Department of Transtment of Transportation, Inadequate Strategic Planning Has Left the State Route 710 Historic Properties Rehabilitation Project Nearly Without Funds and Less Than Half Finished.
• Channel2000.com: 105 Freeway Sinking into Water Table. What Caltrans would rather you forget about: How they disregarded their own engineers' dire warnings and went ahead and built the105 freeway below the surface of the city, only to find that that pesky old water table kept on making the roadway buckle. Their solution: to continuously pump the now contaminated water into the L.A. "River" and violating pollution laws, and keeping three lanes of the freeway closed, all without telling you, the lowly taxpayer. The bill so far: $21 million and climbing. This is their same plan for South Pasadena and the 710.
• The La Canada Tribune: with articles about the 710 as it affects the La Canada-Flintridge area.

Alternative Transportation Solutions:

• Metro Blue Line

Related:

• Assemblyman Alan Lowenthal: Lowenthal Bill To Transfer the 710 Freeway to Caltrans Passes Transportation Committee (3-22-99)
• Driving L.A. Freeways Tips and tricks on getting around town
• Portland OR fights freeways too!
• South Pasadena (on Route 66)