After decades of studying and planning, Los Angeles County’s transit agency has officially decided not to add traffic lanes to one of the region's most congested, most polluting freeways.
The 19-mile portion of the busy interstate starts in East Los Angeles and follows the L.A. River south to Long Beach, passing a number of smaller L.A. County cities along the way. It’s also a key corridor for imports to the U.S., due to its connections to the ports of L.A. and Long Beach. Metro officials stated that “40% of all waterborne or containerized imports into the United States” come through our two local ports.
That means a lot of big, diesel burning trucks crawl up and down the 710, spewing harmful particulate pollution that gets breathed in by roughly 1.2 million people who live along the corridor — an area that’s been dubbed the “diesel death zone.” The vast majority of the people living along the 710 — 83% — identify as Black or Hispanic, according to Metro.
“These residents face some of the worst air quality anywhere in the country, as the corridor accounts for 20% of all particulate emissions in Southern California,” officials wrote in a motion, noting just how hazardous freeway traffic is for Southeast Los Angeles communities.
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