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NO 710, NO Tunnel!
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** CLICK on POST TITLE ABOVE ** STOP THE 710 FREEWAY/TUNNEL PROJECT! The No 710 Action Committee needs YOU … to march for the cause! WHAT: South Pasadena’s annual “Festival of Balloons” parade Residents from 15 participating cities throughout the San Gabriel Valley will march in solidarity to voice our collective outrage over Metro’s…
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A few people can change a lot in a community
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The radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whose insights are used today as much by those on the right as on the left, once wrote: “If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” At a time when apathy and defeatism seem so…
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REALTORS® Join Fight Against 710 Tunnel
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The Pasadena-Foothills Association of REALTORS® has joined the fight against the proposed 710 tunnel now under environmental review. Citing major concerns with impacts on residential neighborhoods from increased air and noise pollution as well as untenable cost estimates, the Board of Directors voted to add its voice to the hundreds of residents and community…
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Ron Kaye: The MTA is child’s play
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September 29, 2012| 3:08 p.m. In the climactic scene of director Ivan Reitman‘s 1993 political satire “Dave,” President Mitchell (Kevin Kline) tells a joint session of Congress he lost his way, forgot his job was to make people’s “lives a little better…care more about you than I do about me…care more about what’s right than I…
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LA City Council approves a resolution to OPPOSE all surface & tunnel fwy & hwy routes
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Today the Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution of Councilman Jose Huizar (resolution no. 12-0002-S82) to OPPOSE ALL SURFACE AND TUNNEL FREEWAY AND HIGHWAY ROUTES currently being studied by Metro, including the H-2, H-6, F-2, F-5, F-6, and F-7. THE F-7 WAS ADDED DURING THE MEETING, AND WAS APPROVED…
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Metro Staff recommends no further action on 710 routes through San Rafael
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Metro staff has issued a recommendation that the H-2 (Avenue 64 highway) and F-5 (San Rafael freeway tunnel) routes be eliminated from further study. The recommendation also will eliminate all other highway and freeway routes EXCEPT the “F-7” tunnel running from Alhambra to Pasadena (emerging near Huntington Hospital). Thus, per the staff’s recommendation, no freeways or…
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SPECIAL MEETING: Aug 22nd 7:00pm Church of the Angels
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Save the Date! For a San Rafael Neighborhoods Association special meeting to discuss the possible closure of the San Rafael School and 710 freeway extension proposals. Wednesday, August 22 7:00PM Church of the Angels 1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena Special guest speakers include: PUSD Board Member Scott Phelps on the future of…
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City Council Votes NO on 710 Extension Proposals
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Last night the Pasadena City Council unanimously adopted a resolution opposing any further consideration by Metro of three proposed SR-710 extension alternatives: H-2 (Avenue 64/Colorado highway), F-5 (tunnel freeway surfacing through San Rafael neighborhood), and H-6 (Huntington Drive and Fair Oaks highway). WHAT’S NEXT The City Council will send a letter to…
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Tempers flare in Pasadena over 710
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PASADENA – Angered residents filled the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple Wednesday evening to voice their opposition to a proposed 710 Freeway route that would carve through the upscale San Rafael neighborhood. The residents jeered a battery of Mettopolitan Transit Authority consultants dispatched by the agency to allay fears that the state has immediate plans…
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Pasadena Star News – Residents express strong opposition to 710 plan
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By Lauren Gold, SGVN twitter.com/laurenkgold PASADENA – Residents Monday urged the City Council to take a stand against two proposed 710 Freeway extension routes that would cut through Pasadena’s San Rafael neighborhood. Many accused the council of shying away from the issue and asked for an official opinion against the proposals, citing the…