Interstate 710
Interstate 710, also known as the Long Beach Freeway, is a 23-mile-long north-south interstate highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California, USA. Interstate 710's southern terminus is near the Long Beach Harbor in Long Beach and its northern terminus is at Valley Boulevard in Los Angeles, just to the west of the Alhambra city limits. I-710's numerical designation indicates that it is a spur route of Interstate 10, a freeway with which I-710 intersects in East Los Angeles, a few miles south of I-710's northern terminus.
In between Long Beach and Alhambra, Interstate 710 passes through the cities and communities of Los Angeles, Carson, Paramount, Lynwood, South Gate, Cudahy, Bell Gardens, Bell, Maywood, East Los Angeles, and Monterey Park.
I-710 exists in a heavily urbanized and industrialized part of Los Angeles County. For many years, the California Department of Transportation has wanted to extend I-710 further north to Pasadena, a project that may still occur although it has many opponents - primarily residents who live on or near the proposed extension route in the community of South Pasadena.
