As a longtime resident of Glenoaks Canyon since 1969, I feel I must send a very heartfelt thank you to all those incredible firefighters — both on the ground and in the air — who provide us mere mortals with such wonderful protection of our homes and lives. During our tenure in the canyon, we’ve been through many fires. Our great firefighters have always come to the rescue.
Our family thanks you, one and all, for your superb service to our community and, once again, for saving our canyon.
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN
Glendale
City has a stake in 710 extension
I am a Glendale native and frequent reader of Patrick Azadian’s column in the Glendale News-Press.
It appears that Glendale and surrounding communities have a stake in the 710 Freeway — South Pasadena missing link — discussion (From the Margins, “Residents should decide,” Aug. 4). Like many of our infrastructure investments, this will have regional economic impacts, whether it is built or not.
To mitigate the impact of added traffic, my suggestion is to include truck lanes.
After spending a lot of time caught in traffic jams with many trucks where the 210 Freeway meets the 134 Freeway in Pasadena, three ideas present themselves.
First, much of the demand for the 710 Freeway missing link is for truck traffic. Second, trucks cause extra congestion because they use the right lanes and thus interfere with on- and off-ramp traffic. Third, these trucks are generally “through” traffic and do not need (and may be banned from) using local on and off ramps.
To do it right, but at quite a cost, the truck lanes should extend on the 210 from Interstate 5 in Sylmar to the 605 Freeway in Duarte and the whole length of the 710.
Maybe building the South Pasadena segment with truck lanes would be a good start.
MIKE MCGINLEY
Glendale
Krekorian article lacked objectivity
