L.A. County has never joined the northern end of the 710 freeway to the southern end of the 210 freeway.
Those two terminal ends are only miles apart, and should have been linked decades ago.
Why weren’t they? Because those few miles run through the heart of South Pasadena - some of the priciest real estate in SoCal.
And don’t you forget it! LOL They’ll never complete it. Do we want every citizen South of the 10 freeway, all the way to the water, coming in our city? NO! There’s a reason our San Marino Lacy Park charges a Fee to come to the park. They’re called Mexicans. None will say it, but THAT is another IMPORTANT reason why it will never happen. The $$$ of my friends properties are a second and third issue in my opinion. But important nonetheless. I don’t believe the ‘State of Calif’ per se, even has the will to pay out how much that property is worth + never will.
They were going to tunnel under and still the residents did not want it. It actually would have alleviated some traffic.
The “no highways in rich areas” is classic in central CT. The “beltway” around Hartford was completed in all the poor areas, and not one inch was built in a rich area—and has remained in this status for fifty years!
The result is flyover exit ramps to nowhere.
Some pigs are more equal than others.