Light-Rail Route
Pasadena’s Board of Directors--the city’s name for its City Council--has selected the Foothill (210) Freeway as the route for an east-west light-rail line through the city.
The action discards two routes that have attracted strong opposition from property and business owners on Green Street. One of the routes would have turned Green Street into a transit mall and the other would have put rail cars on both Green Street and Colorado Boulevard.
City Director Rick Cole said choice of the Foothill Freeway corridor was dictated by the technology being used by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, which is building a light-rail line from Long Beach to Los Angeles, with plans to extend it to Pasadena.
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