In addition to requiring regular smog checks for vehicle registrations, the state Air Resources Board deploys 16 inspectors at freeway weigh stations and other locations throughout the state looking for cars, trucks and buses that emit excessive smoke.
The show devotes as much attention to the quotidian structures — strip malls, freeways, gas stations and coffee shops — that are an integral part of the city's urban fabric as it does to iconic residential designs.
Included in the analysis are the cradle-to-grave environmental costs associated with extracting, manufacturing and distributing the materials — such as concrete, steel and asphalt — needed to build and maintain the vehicles, freeways, tracks, stations and other integral components of the travel systems.
The air district has done occasional spot monitoring, but none of its 35 permanent stations is near a freeway because such stations are supposed to measure regional, not localized, pollution levels.
Thirty minutes later, the crowd, mostly city workers and employees of social service nonprofits, fanned out across the city, checking sidewalks, parking lots, subway stations, freeway underpasses and fast-food restaurants as part of San Francisco's biennial count of the homeless.
We're by a freeway opposite a gas station," he said.
The proposed Tustin site would be about eight miles southeast of Anaheim, on land formerly used as a Marine Corps base, with access to Interstate 5, the 55 Freeway and a Metrolink station.
While Angel Stadium is surrounded by three freeways and a train station, the Long Beach site is close to only the 710 and 405 freeways and the only major public transit option — the Blue Line light rail from Los Angeles — does not serve the Angels' primary fan base in Orange County.
In subway cars and Metro stations, at freeway off-ramps and in shadowy underpasses, human misery and desperation are on continuous display.
But the movement sparked by Ferguson is shifting to also include venues of everyday activities: subway stations, freeways and malls.
