Inside Seven
Current Issue: March 2012
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
GOVERNOR
Malcolm Dougherty
DIRECTOR
Michael Miles
DISTRICT 7 DIRECTOR
The Employee Newsletter for the California Department of Transportation, District 7, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
(left to right, front row) Montebello Mayor Dr. Frank Gomez, Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, Monterey Park Mayor David Lau, Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, State Senator Ron Calderon Representative Claudia Cruz, and Assemblyman Charles Calderon along with District 7 Director Michael Miles and Deputy District 7 Director Lindy Lee team break in front of the future site of the new Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello after the groundbreaking.
Repairs Begin on Pomona Freeway (SR-60) Paramount Boulevard Bridge

Montebello’s connection may have been severed but Caltrans has the remedy.

Caltrans began construction on the new Paramount Boulevard bridge on Friday, March 2 in Montebello. The bridge had to be demolished after it was damaged by a fuel tanker truck fire December 14, 2011 – an event that local media called “the real Carmageddon.”

While the fuel tanker truck was traveling on the eastbound Pomona Freeway (SR-60) around noon on Wednesday, December 14, it became engulfed in flames and came to rest just under the Paramount Boulevard bridge...

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