We’re in a time of re-examining our community roots, history, and values as they’ve evolved over the past 140+ years. The Link follows a route of culturally and historically significant sites like Carmelita Gardens, where a nexus of artists and thinkers inspired the young John Muir’s early ideas about nature conservation.

Conservation and recreation projects are under way to revitalize the Arroyo, but without the Link, our access to it — and ability to enjoy those investments and improvements — will remain limited and difficult. A walking and biking path would enhance local circulation, now and looking forward.

The Arroyo Link would:

• Offer Metro A (Blue) Line riders a pleasant, convenient path from Memorial Station to the Arroyo’s amenities, including major event venues the Rose Bowl and Brookside Park.
  

• Complement the Union Street Protected Bike Lane—a vital east-west corridor between Old Pasadena, Pasadena City College, and Caltech—extending the lane’s utility and reach.

• Enable us along the 710 Freeway Stub to mark the historical Black, Japanese American, and Mexican American communities that were displaced by freeways in the name of progress. Looking forward to the area’s redevelopment, the Link would also be a valuable car-free connector for the thousands of new residents and businesses that are expected to flow into the area, alleviating the increase in car congestion, stress, and pollution that many fear.

• Connect Pasadena to the L.A. region’s rapidly expanding network of multi-modal routes along the Los Angeles River watershed. At present, the network starts from South Pasadena and goes to downtown L.A., then north and south.