Here are inexpensive, do-able solutions that can relieve traffic now throughout the corridor:

	Enhance capacity on our city's designated "Mobility Corridors" by installing Intelligent Traffic Signalization (ITS increases capacity by up to 30%).
	Channel peak-hour freeway-to-freeway traffic away from neighborhoods and onto Mobility Corridors, such as Fair Oaks, Raymond and Arroyo Parkway.
	Extend Raymond Avenue through excess land at the Pasadena Water and Power Plant site to connect with the Pasadena Freeway and provide an alternate route into South Pasadena.
	Extend the 710 Freeway at Valley Blvd. ¼ mile via surface roads, through vacant land already owned by Caltrans, to connect with Mission/Alhambra Road, thus relieving the bottleneck at Valley and Fremont by over 50%.
	Construct an exit off the 710 Freeway at Hellman (just south of Valley Blvd.) which would be dedicated to Cal State L.A. where over 25,000 faculty and students enter and exit daily, thus relieving the Valley Blvd. exit.
	Reconfigure the Fair Oaks - 110 Freeway interchange in South Pasadena (a project already in the design phase) to correct the mess Caltrans created when they changed the signal timing three years ago to favor exiting traffic from the 110 Freeway, resulting in lengthy traffic back-ups on Fair Oaks.
	Complete the Metro Blue Line Light Rail from downtown Los Angeles to east Pasadena. Then extend it to Claremont, a project waiting for funding and supported by every city in the San Gabriel Valley.
	Create exclusive bus lanes on major arterial streets, such as Arroyo Parkway and Fair Oaks.
	Complete the Alameda Corridor and the Alameda Corridor East projects which will help relieve truck traffic on the I-5 and I-10 freeways by shifting more goods movement to existing rail lines.
	Provide "high occupancy vehicle" (car pool) lanes on surface roads that connect the 210 Freeway to the 10 Freeway, such as Rosemead Blvd., a very wide arterial that was once proposed as a freeway and is still a Caltrans-owned facility. Or, replace Rosemead Blvd.'s cross-intersections with a series of modern, capacity-enhancing roundabouts to provide an uninterrupted freeway-to-freeway connection, while freeing up so much capacity on Rosemead that retail and pedestrian use could be enhanced by narrowing the road in choice locations between roundabouts.
	Add bicycle lanes and encourage more use of bicycles by locals. 42% of Pasadena residents work in Pasadena.
	Create a jitney system. It worked during the L.A. bus strike.
	Expand the ARTS bus!

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