Right now it's a thoroughfare for getting from Pasadena to downtown AND people treat it like it's a freeway, going 70 mph+. However, it has curves and impossibly tight, short exit ramps. The CHP records show a high accident rate with car crashes and cars jumping the walls and chainlink fences and ending up in the bottom of the ditch.

I suggest promoting the parkway concept by lowering the speed limit, installing some large art pieces along the Arroyo, and strengthening the bike/horse/walking paths. "Greening" the Arroyo itself would be a good step,too, by removing at least some of the concrete. (There's already a group studying this.) This area is noted for it's important Arts and Crafts contributions (by Batchelder, Greene & Greene, more). Improvements such as walls, barriers, hardscape should reflect that era and give a cohesive style to the project.

By enhancing it's inherent "parkway" attributes it would force motorists to slow down, have a more pleasant drive, and lower accident rates. The enhanced paths would provide safe travel, exercise, community interraction and a link to the string of parks that exist now-Sycamore Grove, the dog park, and others.

Expanded uses include sidewalk arts and crafts shows like the boardwalks at coastal cities, coordinated community events at the parks which people walk the paths to visit, neighborhood walking/running clubs, bike clubs for children that keep them safe and off the streets.

VERY SMALL local busineses could rent aesthetically-designed booths along the way- tea shops, bike repair, puposas-creating small, viable opportunities.