To answer that, a little history is required. Why wait five years after new laws were passed eliminating any possible freeway extension before erasing the north 710 designation? According to the state highways code, the on-ramps - the ramps off Pasadena Avenue to the 134 (Ventura Freeway) and 210 (Foothill Freeway) and the exit from the 210 - are “Route 710.”īut the state highways code says this small, unconnected section in Pasadena “shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2024, and as of that date is repealed.” However, the matter of what to call “The 710 Stub” is confusing. Of course, the Long Beach Freeway stretches 23 miles to Valley Boulevard near Alhambra, the northern terminus. In the SHC, Article 2, The California Freeway and Expressway System, Section 253.9 states the following: The state freeways and expressway system “shall also include Route 710 from Route 47 to Route 1 from Route 1 near the city of Long Beach to Route 10 near the city of Alhambra and from Route 10 to Route 210 near the city of Pasadena.” The answer lies with the California Streets and Highways Code, or the SHC. So if Caltrans uses Google’s data, where did Google get the information resulting in putting the 710 Freeway at the 210/134 interchange, as well as in The Ditch in Old Pasadena, on Google’s directions app? “Why is it on the GPS? That is a really good question and I don’t know why,” said Joanne Nuckols, a longtime member of the “Freeway Fighters” in South Pasadena. About as far as a motorist can go from the exit is to nearby Del Mar Boulevard and California Boulevard, east-west thoroughfares in Pasadena. No motorist can get to Long Beach - at least not on a Long Beach freeway - from Pasadena. While there is no Long Beach Freeway in Pasadena nor South Pasadena, and never will be, the apps suggest there is. Siri tells drivers to “take the Long Beach Freeway,” whether heading south from the 210/134 interchange, or north from the surface streets in Pasadena and South Pasadena toward on-ramps for both the 210 East, 210 West and 134 West, leading to a sunken stretch of roadway with a tunnel and overhead bridges known affectionately as “The Ditch” or “The 710 Stub.” The freeway does not extend to the 210, and the area is only an exit to a roadway known as the 710 Stub that goes to Del Mar Boulevard. Though most certainly dead, the non-built freeway’s digital ghosts remain, jumping into your smartphone’s direction apps, conjuring up a confusing, and some say misleading set of GPS directions, maps and notifications.īoth Google maps and Apple maps label an exit from the intersection of the 210/134 freeways in Pasadena as “Route 710” and “Long Beach Freeway.” This is the map of the 210 Freeway in Pasadena from Apple Maps app taken from a smartphone, showing a connection to the Long Beach Freeway (on left) traveling into Old Pasadena. Their drawn-out battle worked, and the state killed the freeway project in 2018. Since 1959, local communities in the west San Gabriel Valley have fought against a proposed extension of the 710 Long Beach Freeway through El Sereno, South Pasadena and Pasadena.
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