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Metro is proceeding to finalize plans to widen freeways in southeast L.A. County. Details remain elusive on a new slightly-less-harmful alternative for Metro and Caltrans’ 605 Freeway Corridor Improvement Project, though Metro presented the project at last night’s Gateway Cities Council of Governments’ 91/605/405 Freeways Corridor Cities Committee meeting (agenda packet – includes Metro presentation starting on page 82). There wasn’t a lot of new information in yesterday’s presentation, but the discussion was instructive.
This was only the the second public meeting where Metro’s new alternative has been presented, if you can call it that. Though it’s clear that it still calls for demolishing hundreds of homes, the proposal remains vague, sketchy. ....

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