A bus lane through Eagle Rock is slated to open before the Olympics. Will it hurt businesses?

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Set us as preferred Anthony Cafarchia grew up in Eagle Rock, where his family has owned the Eagle Rock Bakery and Deli since the 1960s.The shop withstood the loss of his mom and dad, the pandemic and the stress of the Eaton fire, which destroyed his brother’s home.He fears a bus lane may be its undoing.“I don’t know how we’re going to benefit with this big change,” he said.

“I think it’s going to kill the business.”A 19-mile bus route that would connect North Hollywood to Pasadena will slice through the Eagle Rock community along a high-traffic portion of Colorado Boulevard’s Historic Route 66 as part of Metro’s goal to enhance public transit ahead of the 2028 Olympics.Metro’s plan to shuttle hundreds of thousands of fans to the Games across L.A.

County hinges on a massive bus network.The route through Eagle Rock is one of a handful of the agency’s bus projects in the construction or design phase that’s slated for completion ahead of the 2028 Games from Northridge to Long Beach, Pasadena to Mid-City.The route won’t deliver riders directly to an Olympic venue but has been lauded by transit advocates as a car-free alternative for people to travel between the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.

For years, though, many residents and business owners in this enclave of Los Angeles have questioned the designs, believing they will bottleneck traffic in the area, hurt small businesses when already limited parking becomes even sparser and degrade Eagle Rock’s small-town charm.California A plan to block off freeway and street lanes for exclusive use by athletes, staff and others is in the works for the 2028 Olympics.The plans have also been subject to pushback beyond Eagle Rock.

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