By Danielle RiendeauACLU of Northern California
On Wednesday, July 18th the ACLU and community members gathered to support Juana Reyes, who is facing deportation after an arrest for selling tamales outside of the Florin Rd. Walmart in Sacramento and to…
On July 20, 1940, a 3.7-mile section of the Arroyo Seco Parkway opened to vehicle traffic.
It was not only California’s first “freeway” – a high-speed divided road with onramps and off-ramps – but also the first to be built in the urban Western United States and a prototype for future super highways.
The 8.2-mile roadway, finally completed in 1941, remains largely unchanged from its original configuration. Onramps and off-ramps are still exceedingly tight requiring swift acceleration from 5-miles-per-hour to 55-miles-per-hour or similarly quick braking.
A guardrail has replaced the plants that once graced the median, however.
Although engineered to accommodate 27,000 vehicles traveling at Read more »