L.A.'s Underground Freeway?

The 30-year effort to complete the Long Beach (710) freeway extension may end up being a tunnel.

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January 16, 2003, 2:00 PM PST

"An idea laughed off a decade ago as too costly is reborn now that construction technology has improved... Some transportation officials say they may have the answer to ending the decades-long opposition to completing the Long Beach Freeway: Build it underground... Any time the surface gets congested, the economics of going underground improves."

Thanks to Transport Policy Listserv

FULL STORY: Tunnel Resurfaces as 710 Freeway Extension Plan

Thursday, January 16, 2003 in The Los Angeles Times

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