With the 710 Freeway extension all but dead, South Pasadena has finalized a wish list of road and transit improvements that includes a new 110 Freeway onramp, widening Fair Oaks Avenue by removing curb extensions and building two bridges spanning intersections where the Metro Gold Line light-rail train holds up city traffic.

Los Angeles Metro requested the local road improvements from cities in the 710 corridor after its board voted down a freeway extension in May.

The board opted instead for a host of smaller fixes to break the gridlock that exists within the 4.5-mile north-south stretch from the 710 freeway terminus at Valley Boulevard in El Sereno through Alhambra, South Pasadena and Pasadena.

Since the Metro board voted to kill the freeway extension — a project on the Caltrans master freeway list since 1959 that was debated by west San Gabriel Valley cities for nearly 60 years — few expect the project to be revived.

A vote by Caltrans would be the final blow to what had become a project to build a tunnel to finish the route. A decision is expected early next year.

In the meantime, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Alhambra, La Canada Flintridge and the El Sereno area of Los Angeles are submitting “early project lists” to Metro due Dec. 31. A full plan will be taken to the Metro board in March.

The authority will have about $1 billion or more to spend on 710 corridor projects, with about $740 million left from an allocation from 2008’s Measure R sales tax, and the rest from state and federal sources.

Alhambra, a city that supported the extension and more recently the tunnel, has met at the table with long-time opponents, including South Pasadena and Pasadena, along with county Supervisors Hilda Solis and Kathryn Barger. The three cities once on opposite sides are working on ways to improve traffic flow along major north-south streets that cross city boundaries, with an emphasis on Fremont Avenue, Atlantic Boulevard, Fair Oaks Avenue and Pasadena Avenue.

If there was one theme in South Pasadena’s submission, it wasto get commuters off Fremont Avenue and onto Huntington Drive and Fair Oaks Avenue, two wider thoroughfares that can handle more commuter and truck traffic exiting the 710 Freeway dead end.

“The emphasis here is to have a coordinated effort between the three cities, in lieu of having the tunnel,” South Pasadena Councilman Robert Joe said at Tuesday’s special City Council meeting.

The city’s first priority is to ask Caltrans for a “hook ramp” allowing vehicles to enter the southbound 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway toward Los Angeles from eastbound State Street at a cost of $38 million. The new entrance would remove the current left turn lanes from Fair Oaks and unclog the morning and evening jam-up that has created a service level “F” intersection.

The project would also widen the northbound 110 Freeway exit ramp to two left-turn lanes, one through lane and one right-turn lane, eliminating the queue of cars that extends onto freeway lanes in the evening rush hours.

Also a priority are road upgrades to Fremont Avenue, both in South Pasadena and Alhambra, and removing curb extensions along Fair Oaks that will allow for more capacity at a cost of $15 million to $20 million. The city would take steps to discourage drivers from using Fremont and using signs and turn lanes to nudge cars to Huntington Drive and Fair Oaks Avenue.

The city is asking Metro to study building two roadway overpasses at the Gold Line tracks, over Monterey Road and Pasadena Avenue. These may cost $80 million to $100 million and the city may run into competition with Pasadena, which may ask for one at California Avenue, said Paul Boland, transit planner with consulting group Nelson/Nygaard.

The consultant initially placed a low priority on new bicycle lanes. However, the City Council amended the request by asking for projects spelled out in a 2011 bicycle master plan be included after several cyclists spoke in support of sharing the roadways with bike riders and pedestrians as a way to reduce automobile traffic.