Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

I-710 South Corridor Project

Locally Preferred Alternative Recommendation

Metro Board Meeting
March 1, 2018
Item 5
I-710 South Background
• EIR/EIS initiated in 2008
• 19 miles - 16 Cities / Communities
• Multi-Agency Partnership
• Community-Driven Process
• More than 350 meetings held during env.
process
• Focus on Green Technology
• Context-Sensitive Design
• Funding Sources
• Measure R - $590 Million
• Measure M - $500 Million
• $65 M spent to date
Purpose

• Address escalating demand due to

growth in population, employment and
economic activity related to goods
movement
• Address design deficiencies
• Improve traffic safety
• Improve air quality and public health

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Corridor Issues
• Need for Modernization - Freeway built in 1950s/60s
• Recurring congestion during peak times due to operational
issues and insufficient freeway capacity
• I-710 is the Commerce Gateway Corridor - San Pedro Bay
Ports handle 40% of all nation’s imported goods
• Daily Truck Trips expected to increase from 36,000 today
to approx. 55,000 by 2035
• More than half of the interchange ramps in the Corridor
report higher than average accident rates
• High diesel emissions/significant air quality issues
• Freeway traffic spillage into communities
• Compromised and diminishing quality of life

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I-710 South Milestones

99-05 Major Corridor Study

2008 Scoping
2012 Draft EIR/EIS Circulation
2013 Re-Circulation Decision
2015 Finalized Conceptual Design of Revised
Alternatives
2016 Completed Board Motion 22.1 evaluation
/incorporation
2017 Re-circulation of Draft EIR/EIS
2017 Review public comments/alternatives
evaluation – 710 Advisory Committee
Meetings

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Alternative 5C
• Modernizes the freeway
• Enhances safety
• Improves capacity, and
• Improves air quality
($6 Billion)

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 Alternative 7

• Modernizes the I-710

freeway
• Adds Freight Corridor
• Improves air quality
($10 Billion)

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 No Build
Sample Sections

Between Firestone Blvd. and

Florence Ave.

For illustrative purposes

Alt. 5C

Configuration varies
throughout the corridor

Alt. 7
I-710 Build Alternatives
Both Alternatives 5C and Alternative 7 include:
• Zero-/Near Zero- Emissions truck deployment program
• Pursuit of funds for purchase of ZE/NZE trucks and removal of the
older non-conforming trucks
• The program will run parallel to construction of the freeway

• Community health & benefit programs

• TSM/TDM/ITS improvements
• Transit improvement recommendations
• Active transportation improvements (bike / ped. facilities)
• Pursuit of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for financing,
delivery, and operation of infrastructure improvements
• Pursuit of grants to support various improvements programs and
allow for accelerated implementation

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 I-710 Community Health & Benefit Program

Objective
• Makes funding available to implement
projects and outreach activities to
improve air quality / public health

Examples of Eligible Projects

• HEPA filters in schools, day care
facilities, senior centers, clinics and
hospitals Eligible Grant Recipients
• School bus or senior transport vehicle Communities close to I-710:
retrofit/replacement • Cities / Unincorporated LA County
• Community health testing, education, • Day Care Centers / Senior Centers
and outreach, mobile asthma clinics • Community Health Providers
• Greenhouse gas reduction projects: • Non-Profit Organizations (with an air
renewable power, energy efficiency quality or public health mandate)
upgrades, tree-planting
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Motion 22.1 – Items Integrated Into Project
Alternatives
Completed and Integrated
 Evaluated right-of-way avoidance designs (Alternative 7)
- Reduced impacts where feasible; documented where infeasible
 Considered ZE Truck–Only option for freight corridor (Alternative 7)
 Evaluated high frequency express bus transit along I-710
- Continuing coordination with Metro Transit Ops for further evaluation
 Evaluated separate bike path projects within the Study Area
- Env. Clearance proceeding with LA County support
 Integrated five new pedestrian/bike bridges
 Verified application of Complete Streets treatments
 Considered other elements to maximize mobility and minimize
impacts within study area

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Motion 22.1 – Items Integrated Into Project
Alternatives
To Be Done During Construction
• Transit Incentives/additional as-needed services
• Local Hire Provisions
• Bike/Ped Safety Plan
• Neighborhood enhancements within the project area

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Public Circulation

• July 21, 2017: Recirculated

Draft Environmental
Document released to public
• October 23, 2017: 90-day
comment period closed
• Public Hearings:
− 8/23/17 Commerce
− 8/26/17 Paramount
− 8/31/17 Long Beach

• Community Briefings:
− 10/18/17 East Los Angeles
− 10/19/17 Long Beach

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 Summary of Public Comments
Key Issues & Concerns:
• Preference for full Zero Emission
Technologies
• Minimize Right-of-Way Impacts (i.e.
avoid residential relocations and
impacts to Bell Shelter and Long
Beach Multi-Service Center)
• Concerns about peak-hour parking
restrictions on nearby streets
• Duration of construction and • Environmental justice and air
impacts including ramp and street quality concerns for communities
closures near I-710
• Need for more bike and pedestrian • Need to include local hire
connections to LA River trail provisions in construction
• Need to fully utilize freight rail and
the Alameda Corridor
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 How is the Preferred Alternative Determined?
Congestion Relief, Mobility Benefits, Travel
Time Savings, Safety, Air Quality

Purpose & Need

Air Quality &

Health Risk,
Displacements, Public
Visual, Section 4f, Concerns Pref.
& Environmental Technical Benefits
Alt.
Justice Feasibility Now!

Affordability

What can be built

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 Comparison of Benefits and Impacts
Evaluation Factor Measure Alternative 5C Alternative 7

Reduction in Vehicle Hours of

Mobility Benefits
Delay

Congestion Relief I-710 Level of Service (LOS)

I-710 Auto / Trucks

Travel Time
Improvements
Freight Corridor - Trucks
Benefits

Removes Operational Conflicts

Safety Benefits

Separates Cars & Trucks

Diesel Particulate Matter and

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)
*
Air Quality
Least Amount of PM 2.5

Greenhouse Gases

*Assumes incentive funding for 18,350 ZE/NZE Trucks to use the Freight Corridor
(compared to 4,000 ZE/NZE Trucks under Alt. 5C). Incentive funding would be pursued
under either alternative, but it’s subject to availability.
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 Comparison of Benefits and Impacts, cont.
Evaluation Factor Measures Alternative 5C Alternative 7

Parks, rec. areas, Partial Impacts

refuges, and historic
sites Full Impacts

Least Adverse Effect to EJ

Impacts

EJ Impacts
Populations

Visual Impacts Fewest Visual Impacts

Residential Displacements 109 158

ROW Impacts Non-Res. Displacements 121 206

Sensitive Facilities
Displacements
$ per lbs. Diesel Particulate
Air Quality Cost Matter Reduced
Benefit
$ per lbs. NOx Reduced
Cost

Total Project Cost

Cost / Affordability
Affordability *
phasing and implementation of
Constructability
Early Action Projects
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*Based on implementation of Early Action Projects
Comparison of Benefits and Impacts, cont.
Visual Impacts
Alternative 5C Alternative 7

View from LARIO Trail, Looking Southwest at the I-710/SR-91 Interchange, in the City of Long Beach

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Compare NZE & ZE Truck Performance
Conventional Diesel Near Zero Emission Zero Emission Truck
Truck Truck

Diesel Particulate Matter*

(DPM) (lb/10,000 miles)
0.12 0 0

Nitrogen Oxides* (NOX)

(lb/10,000 miles)
38.7 3.9 0

Greenhouse Gases* (GHG)

(MT CO2/10,000 miles)
15.1 15.1 0

Approx. number of
Trucks per $100 million N/A 4,000 Trucks 1,520 Trucks
of Funding**

* Running Exhaust emission factors are based on EMFAC2014 for heavy-heavy duty trucks in Los Angeles County for
calendar year 2035.
** Unit costs represent incremental, average costs of zero emissions trucks (battery electric, fuel cell vehicles) from I-710
Zero Emissions Truck Commercialization Study, assuming pre-2035 deployment (Calstart, 2013).
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I-710 ZE/NZE Deployment Strategy
Option 3 Maximize Deployment of ZE/NZE Trucks
30,000

Number of ZE/NZE Trucks*

25,000

20,000

15,000 AQ Benefits to the

Community
10,000

5,000
Short Term Long Term
0
$100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700
AQ Funding Levels (in millions)

Maximize Number of “Clean Emissions” Trucks and Air Quality Benefits

– Begin with mix of ZE and NZE trucks in the near term

– Transition to ZE trucks as ZE trucks become commercially available and

affordable.

– Partner with SCAQMD, EPA, CARB to pursue grant funding outside of the
project programmed funds to support health-benefit investments.

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Project Schedule:
What’s Next?

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Next Steps
Winter 2018
• Metro Board to adopt the Preferred Alternative for FEIR/FEIS
• Initiate Work on FEIR/FEIS for Preferred Alternative
• Coordinate with Air Agencies to:
− Refine and Enhance I-710 ZE and NZE Truck Program
− Seek Funding

Spring 2018
• Identify scopes and order of pursuit of Early Action highway improvement
projects based on independent utility, benefits, and availability of funds

Summer 2018
• Complete the Environmental Process
• Caltrans to approve the Final Environmental Document

Winter 2019
• Release RFPs for Final Design of Early Action Projects

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 Early Actions Candidates
North
$592M $127M
Anaheim PCH Willow
$134M $134M
$12M $8M I-405
Del Amo LB Blvd
Hill Spring

$220M
SR-91 Alondra
Shoreline/7th

$151M
+ $200 M in Arterial
improvements

I-105

$60M
Southern $18M I-5 to SR-60
Slauson
Clara

Rosecrans Humphreys
Imperial Atlantic-
Bandini Washington $3M
Firestone Florence
$157M All Estimates are Present Value
$91M $144M 23
and Subject to Change
Early Action Objectives & Outcomes
1. Work within funding Several Early Action Candidates:
constraints • Include Arterial Improvements
2. Address today’s problems and Safer Interchanges with:
3. Deliver safety, mobility, and • New/Improved Signals (incl.
signal synch)
health benefits sooner
• Improved ped/bike facilities on
city streets
Identify Candidate Projects • Include New Ped/Bike Crossings
with: over the freeway and across the
• Verified Benefits LA River for community
• Lower Capital Costs connectivity
• Lower Property Impacts • Result in reduced interim
relocations needed for the whole
• Shorter Overall Schedule
project.

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Next Steps
– Air Quality Improvements
• NZE/ZE truck Program - purchases/subsidies
• Pollution source controls and elimination (ports and industry)
• SCAQMD and all project partners
– Active Transportation
• Bike and pedestrian projects (potential early action)
• Safety education and awareness programs
• Metro ATP group and local jurisdictions
• LA County for the LA River Bike projects
– Community Health Benefits Grant Program
• Grants for improvements at sensitive receptors
• Community-agency dialogue (development of guidelines)
• Community health risk prevention/reduction
• LA County Health Department and local jurisdictions

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Next Steps
– Ports AQ Improvement Programs
• Clean port operations
• Community engagement
• Ports and cities of LA and LB
– Freeway Operation Safety programs/ITS
• Regular advisory and informational bulletins/progress reports
• Community engagement
• Truck safety and speed monitoring/control
• Speed and emission enforcement
• Caltrans, Metro, CHP, Local law enforcement

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