A memorial to ‘Freeway Fighter’ Joanne Nuckols showcases ‘power of people’ to stop 710 Freeway extension

The 710 Freeway extension most likely would have been built, either on the surface, or in a tunnel beneath the communities of El Sereno, South Pasadena and Pasadena, if Joanne Nuckols wasn’t there to stop it.

Nuckols, who embodied the 60-year community opposition that eventually killed the long-planned 4.5-mile freeway extension, died on Aug. 19. Her life and extensive efforts fighting the 710 north extension were remembered Saturday, Feb. 28, in South Pasadena by family, friends, elected...