For more information on South Pasadena's long struggle with the 710 Freeway Extension, please inquire for documents in the library, at City Clerk's Records offices, and in the hearts and minds of many South Pasadena residents.

The Long Beach Freeway Interstate 710 (I-710) runs for 23 miles in a north-south direction through Los Angeles County. For most of its route, it follows the course of the Los Angeles River, rarely wandering more than a few hundred feet from the riverbed.

The 710 Freeway runs from Ocean Boulevard west of downtown Long Beach north to Valley Boulevard (just north of Interstate 10) in Alhambra, just west of El Sereno.

Few cities in the nation are better recognized for determination to preserve its neighborhoods and small-town atmosphere. Support for a fight against a major highway project through the City has come from all across the country.

South Pasadena has been cited five times on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of "Most Endangered Places. Having already seen its historic landscape carved into subdivisions by one freeway, the city is committed to preventing construction of another freeway extension that would destroy its neighborhoods, its heritage and its economic survival.