News of the Arroyo
Title: | Pasadena Freeway Closed For ArroyoFest |
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Date: | 2003-06-15 |
Summary: | June 15, 2003 - Television news coverage of ArroyoFest. |
Author: | News |
Publication: | KNBC |
Content: | Times: Most Accident-Prone Freeway In Region LOS ANGELES -- An eight-mile segment of the Pasadena Freeway was closed Sunday as hikers and bikers strolled the pavement for ArroyoFest, an event to get people thinking about alternative modes of transportation. Organizers said a trip down the \"Historic Arroyo Seco Parkway\" once was more akin to a drive through park-like surroundings. Now, it\'s a high-speed thoroughfare. Caltrans shut the freeway down from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. from its northern terminus at Glenarm Street and Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena to Avenue 26 in the Cypress Park/Lincoln Heights area. Avenue 26 was also closed from North Figueroa to Humboldt streets from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The celebration included a freeway walk and bike ride, along with a community festival at Sycamore Grove Park in Highland Park. With the Metro Gold Line, which runs partially parallel to the 110 Freeway, set to open in the summer, organizers are talking about making the 110 Freeway into a new type of transportation corridor. That would involve bike paths, expanded bus service, pedestrian walkways and returning at least part of the freeway to its roots as a parkway, urban planning experts Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Robert Gottlieb wrote in the Los Angeles Times. The two wrote that the freeway, which opened in 1940, is now the most accident-prone in the region. |
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