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Los Angeles Daily News, September 21, 1999, p. N4. ^ Haddad, Paul (2021). Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 978-1-59580-786-1. Hise, Greg (1999). Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6255-8. Schrank and T. Lomax, The Urban Mobility ...
Plans for the Hollywood Freeway officially began in 1924 when Los Angeles voters approved a "stop-free express highway" between Downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. [2] The first segment of the Hollywood Freeway built was a one and a half mile stretch through the Cahuenga Pass. That segment opened on June 15, 1940.
Aerial view of the I-105/I-710 interchange Night aerial view of the Los Angeles River where I-710 converges on it (from the right) at the City of Commerce I-710 at its junction with SR 60 in East Los Angeles. The California Streets and Highways Code defines Route 710 as follows: [7] 622. Route 710 is from Route 1 to Route 210 in Pasadena. 622.1.
Los Angeles traffic is the worst, and we've got bad news — it doesn't look like it's going to get any better. In the U.S., L.A. topped the annual traffic index released by navigation system ...
Los Angeles Union Station, hub for LACMTA metro lines and buses, Metrolink and Amtrak trains, and the Hollywood Freeway, one of Los Angeles' major thoroughfares. Greater Los Angeles has a complex multimodal transportation infrastructure, which serves as a regional, national and international hub for passenger and freight traffic.
Los Angeles has synchronized its traffic lights. [11] [12] [13] The mean travel time for commuters in Los Angeles is shorter than other major cities, including New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. Los Angeles' mean travel time for work commutes in 2006 was 29.2 minutes, similar to those of San Francisco and Washington, DC. [14]
In the 1924 Major Street Traffic Plan for Los Angeles, a widening of Figueroa Street to San Pedro as a good road to the Port of Los Angeles was proposed. [11] Progress was slow, [ 12 ] and, in 1933, the state legislature added the entire length to the state highway system as Route 165 , an unsigned designation.
State Route 91 (SR 91) is a major east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that serves several regions of the Greater Los Angeles urban area. A freeway throughout its entire length, it officially runs from Vermont Avenue [3] in Gardena, just west of the junction with the Harbor Freeway (Interstate 110, I-110), east to Riverside at the junction with the Pomona (SR 60 west of SR ...