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John Hascall wrote:
> 
> Ron Newman <rnewman@shell1.cybercom.net> wrote:
> }Jeff Bishop  <jwbishop@uclink4.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> }>Many
> }>of us actually do drive more-or-less the same route that the 710 would
> }>cover, and frankly I fail to see why South Pasadenans prefer to have
> }>highly congested surface streets instead of one smoothly run freeway.
> }
> }Because keeping the traffic on those streets is a lesser evil than
> }demolishing large sections of South Pasadena, which would displace
> }many people and degrade the quality of life for many other who would
> }remain adjacent to the right-of-way.
> }
> }This is South Pasadena's decision.  Nobody should be forcing them
> }to destroy their community for the benefit of others.
> 
>     Besides, there is plenty of history to show that such
>     a freeway would be JUST as congested in short order.
>     So, that would be a lose-lose.

It is a nonsensical propaganda assertion that the completion of the 710
stub would "destroy South Pasadena". The 710-210-134 runs right through
Pasadena, and in the North-South direction has many wealthy homes on the
East and one of the most popular "yuppie" restaurant and entertainment
districts (Old Town) on the West/South--which was largely developed
after the freeway came to Pasadena. If anything, the freeway has
enhanced Pasadena and made it easier for residents and visitors alike to
gain access to its many treasures.

Perhaps South Pasadena is afraid that because of their cultural
impoverishment, they will become completely ignored once the freeway is
finished. At least right now all that traffic is forced onto surface
streets, and SOME of it must do some incidental shopping and eating
there. It's a big pocketbook conspiracy, folks--nothing to do with all
that "endangered historical city" baloney. 

The route has been carefully prepared, study after study done, shifts
costing hundreds of millions of dollars made to accomodate a few, and
over 25 years of due process given. It's over, but for South Pasadena,
like the dinosaur it takes a long time for the message that it's over to
travel from its tiny brain to the rest of its body.

David