The Gateway Cities COG’s new I-710 Ad Hoc Committee is in a sort of public/private limbo – an odd place for a committee whose stated focus includes “community engagement.” COG staff are quick to clarify that the meetings are not subject to California’s Brown Act, which mandates a some degree of openness and transparency when elected officials meet to discuss and decide public matters like, say, planning a multi-billion-dollar freeway widening that includes hundreds of home demolitions.
Not every elected official in the GCCOG supports every freeway project, but on the whole the COG has. GCCOG is basically a group of relatively suburban-leaning city representatives the COG’s leaders and staff have acted as cheerleaders for widening the 710, 605, 5, and other freeways. The Gateway Cities Council of Governments (GCCOG) recently formed its own ad hoc committee to come up with recommendations for some kind of revised lower 710 Freeway project.
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Times called “a zombie project from another era.” Yet instead of being canceled outright, the 710 Freeway widening is now spawning a series of committees that appear to be working to revive said zombie.
Readers will recall that the Environmental Protection Agency, Caltrans, and the Metro board have all withdrawn their support for what the L.A.
As expected, Metro and Caltrans highway builders are not quite accepting that the lower 710 Freeway widening project is dead.
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