The 19-mile portion of the busy interstate starts in East Los Angeles and follows the L.A. River south to Long Beach, passing a number of smaller L.A. County cities along the way. It’s also a key corridor for imports to the U.S., due to its connections to the ports of L.A. and Long Beach. Metro officials stated that “40% of all waterborne or containerized imports into the United States” come through our two local ports.
That means a lot of big, diesel burning trucks crawl up and down the 710, spewing harmful particulate pollution that gets breathed in by roughly 1.2 million people who live along the corridor — an area that’s been dubbed the “diesel death zone.” The vast majority of the people living along the 710 — 83% — identify as Black or Hispanic, according to Metro.
“These residents face some of the worst air quality anywhere in the country, as the corridor accounts for 20% of all particulate emissions in Southern California,” officials wrote in a motion, noting just how hazardous freeway traffic is for Southeast Los Angeles communities.
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