On Saturday afternoon, two dozen people concerned about the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s tunnel plans gathered at the South Pasadena Library to hear former port worker Dave Alba’s idea for dumping the 710 tunnel project.
Alba wants to see a cargo rail pipeline running alongside the San Gabriel River and then out to the massive warehouses of Ontario, saving an estimated 2.5 million truck trips a year from the harbor along the 710 (Long Beach) Freeway to the Inland Empire. … He acknowledged it will be an uphill battle to gain support from government agencies, labor unions, the affected companies and landowners.