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Willow Road Bottleneck in Northfield - Can It Ever Be Solved?
Many years ago when I lived in my very first apartment in South Pasadena in California, my house was just 1/2 block away from a street that was destined to become an extension of the Long Beach Freeway.  The street was called Meridian and those of us who traveled the area knew it was long overdue but also a shame since the street sliced through a nice leafy suburb with pretty homes.  To this day, the extension has not been built because of strong, vehement actually, opposition to it.
Fast forward to today and the scene is repeating itself in the struggle over what ultimately happens to Willow Road as it slices through Northfield, a nice leafy suburb with pretty homes.  Again, locals are not exactly thrilled to have this heavily traveled route expanded to accommodate the huge number of cars that use this popular east-west thoroughfare.  I moved here from Los Angeles in 1986 and it's been a bottleneck almost every day of the year.
The section in question is a 1 1/4 mile strip that stretches from Happ Road on the east side to Sunset Ridge at the west end.  As two lanes pinch into one, traffic comes almost ... more

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