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A section of the 1915 Ridge Route in Lebec, California, abandoned when US 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over the Tejon Pass in order to make travel straighter and safer. Dead Man's Curve on old U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland, Ohio
The Ridge Route was the first automobile highway linking the Central Valley with the Los Angeles Basin. It was laid in a sinuous fashion through the ridges and gullies of the Sierra Pelona Mountains to the Tejon Pass around 1910. The northern portion of this highway, which became a part of U.S. Route 99, was known as "The Grapevine." The Ridge ...
Tchester.org: Angeles Crest Highway; Tchester.org: Angeles Crest Highway (SR—2) Road Guide; Cycling on Angeles Crest Highway; Geocities page on Angeles Crest Highway (Archived) 2009-10-25). Angeles Crest Highway news: Los Angeles Times—"Man About Town" column: "Rough and humble on the Angeles Crest Highway" March 2006 Storm Damage Photos
The families of four sorority sisters struck and killed on California’s Pacific Coast Highway are suing the state and local governments ... Dead Man’s Curve saw more than 3,000 collisions, 52 ...
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State Route 22 (SR 22) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that connects Long Beach with northern Orange County. It runs between Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Long Beach and the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55) in Orange by way of Garden Grove. The westernmost part of SR 22 runs along Long Beach's 7th ...
This Ridge Route Alternate, or Ridge Alternate Highway, [51] shortened the route by 9.6 miles (15.4 km) and increased the minimum curve radius from 70 to 1,000 feet (21 to 305 m). [52] This was done for the safety of the road, which had many accidents, and to increase the road's capacity.
"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 39 in Canada. [3] The song was written and composed by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian, and Jan Berry at Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica.