Interstate 710 extension

[TheStranger]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9297712

Is this really the end?

I've gotten the sense in the last few years though that the preferred option for a while from CalTrans's standpoint has been a tunnel route (precisely because of South Pasadena's stance).  Hasn't been any chance in decades that a surface-level route was ever going to be constructed in that area.

[pctech]

I remembering reading some where that the original LA metro freeway plan (circa 1957) is about 60% complete.  If true, I doubt any more will be built. The era of building more freeways has passed in my opinion, not only for CA. but every where in the US. Too many issues involved, cost, environmental and the growing shift to mass /public transportation.

[TheStranger]

The era of building more freeways has passed in my opinion, not only for CA. but every where in the US. Too many issues involved, cost, environmental and the growing shift to mass /public transportation.

This doesn't remotely apply to the Midwest/South though (69, 73, 74, Grand Parkway, US 31, 840, etc.)....

In California?

Well, Bakersfield is trying to get the 58 freeway extended to the Westside Parkway...Merced County is currently having 99 upgrades/bypasses built in segments from Chowchilla to Atwater...and the Los Banos bypass is slowly progressing through the planning stages.

It really depends on where you are.  New urban freeways in California?  They'll be the hardest to come by for sure, but that doesn't necessarily reflect trends everywhere.