Dive in and get some facts about:
“The 710” and why it’s down, but not dead just yet.

  • 1958

    Master Plan of Freeways

    The Master Plan of Freeways was adopted by the State of California.

  • 1960

    Here come’s "progress"?

    The first 500 houses from 4 cities were purchased by Caltrans to clear the surface route for the new SR-710 freeway

    1960

  • 1965

    South Pasadena Citizens Mobilize

    1965: South Pasadena Beautiful
    1970: South Pasadena Preservation Foundation (spring forth from S.P.B.)
    1,000 Homes have now been snapped up my Caltrans, and the fight to stop the freeway intensifies

    Lead by South Pasadena, there is now a coalition of cities that include: South Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, Pasadena, El Cereno, Alhambra, Sierra Madre, and others

  • 1970

    No Freeway Built

    1970

Acronyms and Abbreviations mostly pertaining to
“The 710 Freeway Process”

ACT  Active Traffic Management
APE  Area of Potential Effects
ATM  Active Traffic Management
bgs  below ground surface
BRT  Bus Rapid Transit
California Register California Register of Historical Resources
Caltrans California Department of Transportation
CCR  California Code of Regulations
CEQA  California Environmental Quality Act
CFR  Code of Federal Regulations
CHRIS  California Historical Resources Information System
CMS  changeable message signs
Draft EIR/EIS  State Route 710 North Project Draft Environmental Impact
Report/Environmental Impact Statement
FHWA  Federal Highway Administration
Focused RDEIR/SDEIS  Focused Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental Draft
Environmental Impact Statement
FONAE  Finding of No Adverse Effect
FTIP SCAG  Federal Transportation Improvement Program
I  interstate
in/sec  inch per second
ITS  Intelligent Transportation System
LRT Light Rail Transit
LRTP  Metro’s 2009 Long Range Transportation Plan
Metro  Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MLD  most likely descendant
MOU  Memorandum of Understanding pursuant to 23 USC 327
National Register National Register of Historic Places
NEPA  National Environmental Policy Act
PERC  Pacific Electric Railway Company
Pilot Program Surface Transportation Project Delivery Pilot Program
PM Post Mile

FOCUSED RECIRCULATED DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT/SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

SR 710 NORTH PROJECT vi DRAFT
PPV  parts per volume
PQS  professionally qualified staff
PRC California Public Resources Code
PRDMP  Post-Review Discovery and Monitoring Plan
RPT/SCS  2016 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy
SCAG  Southern California Association of Governments
SEM  sequential excavation method
SHPO  State Historic Preservation Officer
SHPSR  Supplemental Historic Property Survey Report
SOIS  Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
sq mi  square miles
TAP  transit access pass
TBM  tunnel boring machine
TSM/TDM  Transportation Systems Management/Transportation Demand Management
TSSP  Traffic Signal Synchronization Program
USC  United States Code