Appropriations of funds from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to the San Gabriel Valley during the mid 1960’s for road projects averaged about $50 million per year. As the factories were springing up in Industry, so were housing projects in the surrounding communities of La Puente, West Covina, Walnut, Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights and El Monte. A major four lane road project named Route 1274 was constructed as a 58 mile link between Huntington Beach in the south and the Antelope Valley to the north. The City of Industry was one of the 13 cities the route weaved through in an effort to facilitate north/south travel in an area with (at that time) a limited freeway system. The freeway’s that did exist were still making there way east and north out of Los Angeles and the port of Long Beach. In 1967 the Pomona Freeway made it to the City of Industry, roughly running along the southern boundary of the City.