BIG NEWS…
WE WON!!! *
*for the moment
On March 13th, the Department of Transportation DENIED the '“Streets for All” grant application for a feasibility study to demolish the 90 freeway.
A huge thank you to all the leaders of the opposition, including Mark Berger and Daphne Bradford.
But most importantly, thank you to everyone in the communities surrounding the 90 freeway that took action by writing letters to elected and appointed officials, signing Daphne’s petition, spreading the word to friends and neighbors, attending community and local council meetings, and posting yard signs to raise local awareness!
Michael Schneider from “Streets for All” has vowed to keep looking for funding privately, and they can always reapply for government grants, so we’ll have to remain vigilant. That said, given the unified and overwhelming response that our communities mobilized, hopefully they will decide it’s not a fight they want to pick again. Because they will lose.
Stop the misguided, misrepresented, and misleadingly framed plan to eliminate SR-90.
We are a group of concerned citizens who believe that the proposal to eliminate the Marina 90 freeway will have detrimental effects to our neighborhoods and our safety. Help us come together and stop this plan – which does not represent the interests of most of the citizens it would affect – before it gains any traction.
Why save a freeway?
Look, I get it – It’s not cool to like freeways. In fact, there’s little that Angelenos enjoy more than to complain about how bad our freeways are. Yet I bet you won’t find a freeway in SoCal with a better reputation than SR-90, aka “the 90”, aka “The Marina Freeway”. It serves its purpose, is rarely congested, has wide lanes with a generous shoulder, boasts expansive views, and best of all helps reduce traffic on our already clogged side-streets (i.e. Lincoln, Sepulveda, Jefferson, Washington, Inglewood, Centinela, Slauson).
Although often called “underutilized” or “empty”, it carries a load of between 80,000-100,000 cars per day. That’s about 2.5 million cars per month. So could it be that it seems under-used because all the other freeways in LA are over-used? (Answer: Yes)
In short, since it looks like a highway is supposed to look (generally open and with cars freely moving), the 90 freeway feels like an outlier in our city. But that’s not a reason to get rid of it — that’s a reason to keep it.
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