![]() ![]() What’s depressing is how inexorably these small freeway expansion projects continue to advance. Yes, I know that Metro has designed it so that it’s very difficult to shift money from highways into anything but building highways.) (Though $35 million could go a long way toward, say, providing fareless transit, more frequent buses, expansion of bike-share – all things that Metro struggles to pay for. So, when I see a $35 million freeway capacity expansion project, it doesn’t seem quite so hellaciously destructive as all of its more costly peers. There are many more Metro freeway widenings in the hundreds-of-millions range: the $770 million 57/60 interchange widening, the $679 million North County 5 Freeway widening, the ~$300 million 71 Freeway widening, and others. It’s depressing that I can consider a $35 million highway widening to be a little project… but Metro is doing multiple billion-plus dollar freeway widenings – the $1.3 billion (and growing) 5 North widening, the $1.9 billion 5 South widening – and planning several more, including the ~$5 billion 605 Freeway Corridor Improvement Project (605CIP) and the ~$6 billion 710 widening. The item didn’t even warrant a discussion in committee. ![]() Today, the Metro board Planning Committee signed off on parts of a freeway expansion project: the I-605 at Valley Boulevard Interchange Improvements Project. Sometimes it’s the little things that get to me. ![]()
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