On 2 Historic Roads, Renovation Encroaches on Preservation

(NYTimes) Two historic highways on opposite side of the continent, the Pasadena Freeway in Southern California and the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, are being endangered by repair projects, said a highway preservationist.
Paul Daniel Marriott, author of “Preserving the Historic Highway,” a guide to melding safety improvements with historical accuracy for parkways and highways, said in an interview recently that a $17 million maintenance and rehabilitation project now under way on the Pasadena Freeway, or State Route 110 in California, was endangering original elements of the road, which opened in 1940 (as the Arroyo Seco Parkway) and is the oldest part of what became the Los Angeles freeway system. Continued