City officials want to explore capping or even removing a portion of the freeway in the Pico neighborhood.
The Santa Monica City Council approved the receipt of a $2 million federal grant to study capping or removing a section of Interstate 10, reports Maaz Alin in the Santa Monica Daily Press.
"The grant, from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program, will fund a feasibility study of potential "cap parks" along the I-10 between 11th and 20th streets in the city's Pico Neighborhood." The grant requires that the city offer $505,712 in matching funds.
The cap park plan could help stitch together a neighborhood that was divided by the freeway, which displaced roughly 1,500 residents when it was first built. "Councilmember Ellis Raskin, who made the motion to accept the grant, called the freeway the most significant environmental hazard in Santa Monica and said capping it would not be enough." The study will analyze other potential options, including removing a portion of the freeway altogether.
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