Last Summer, Metro and Caltrans announced that their plans for widening the 605 and 5 Freeways would impact more than a thousand properties, including the demolition of hundreds of homes, mostly in the cities of Downey and Santa Fe Springs. The large number of demolitions, and even Metro’s involvement in them, came as a surprise to some readers. Unfortunately, the destruction is a continuation of Metro work already underway. Metro and Caltrans South 5Freeway Widening project status – from November 2020 Metro presentation For a decade, Metro and Caltrans have been widening the southern por...