With port traffic expected to nearly triple between 20, the situation is only expected to decline.
Together, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle more than 30% of the nation’s waterborne containerized shipping traffic.Ĭurrently, 50,000 diesel-fueled freight trucks and 165,000 other vehicles travel the freeway each day bottlenecks are common. The southern portion of the 710 Freeway, a roughly 20-mile stretch that runs from Long Beach to Alhambra, is congested with diesel-spewing trucks that deliver imported furniture, auto parts, electronics and clothing across the country. The project, Omishakin said, “is not aligning with the direction that we are taking at the state from a transportation standpoint, just plain and simple.”īalancing the demands of expanding commercial traffic against the health needs of people living near the freeway has long been a challenge. “I don’t see how we can move forward with this project in its current format,” said Toks Omishakin, director of the California Department of Transportation, at a meeting last week of the California Transportation Commission. Federal environmental regulators recently found that the latest $6-billion proposal to expand the 710 Freeway might violate Clean Air Act standards, forcing state and local transportation officials to consider scrapping the effort and starting over with an entirely new approach. Anonymous tips may be submitted through “LA Crime Stoppers” by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), downloading the “P3 TIPS” app to your smartphone (available at the Apple App store and Google Play), or visiting the project faces another, potentially even greater, complication. The identification of the passenger is being withheld pending notification to the next of kin.Īnyone who may have witnessed this collision is asked to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detective Jeff Meyer at (562) 570-7355. Impaired driving and speed were believed to be a factor at the time of the collision.įollowing medical clearance, Castillas was taken into custody and booked for felony vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony driving under the influence causing bodily injury. The preliminary investigation revealed the 2018 Honda was driven by a 27-year-old resident of Long Beach, Christian Castillas, who was traveling northbound on shoreline Drive when he collided with a parked Long Beach Fire BLS Unit on the shoulder. The passenger of the Honda Civic, a female adult, succumbed to her injuries at the scene. Long Beach Fire Department personnel was already on scene treating the male adult driver of the 2018 Honda Civic, and later transported him to a local hospital for their non-life-threatening injuries. When officers arrived on scene, they found a collision occurred between a 2018 Honda Civic and LBFD vehicle, a BLS Unit. officers were dispatched to the area of the Shoreline Drive and the 710 Freeway near the 7th Street exit, regarding an injury traffic collision between a vehicle and a Long Beach Fire Department Basic Life Support (BLS) Unit, which resulted in the death of a female adult. 29, 2023, which resulted in the death of a female adult. CORRECTION 10/29/23: The second reference of the BLS Unit now indicates it is a LBFD vehicle, not LBPD as originally published.Ĭollision Investigation detectives are investigating a traffic collision that occurred on Oct.