Los Angeles Times reports that on Thursday, May 25, the proposal to connect two LA freeways via a toll tunnel “effectively died” when the LA Metro board voted unanimously to withdraw support and funding for the proposed $3.2-billion project. “Instead,” the Times reports, “the board voted to spend $700 million on a range of transportation fixes to ease congestion and other problems arising from traffic spilling onto the streets of Alhambra. . . .” The newspaper adds that board members characterized their action as “a significant departure from relying on new highways to accommodate the region’s growing population and transportation demands.”
