California State Route 22
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| State Route 22 |
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| Garden Grove Freeway Defined by S&HC § 322, maintained by Caltrans |
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| Length: | 15 mi[citation needed] (24 km) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1964 | ||||||||||||||||
| West end: |  SR 1 in Long Beach |
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| Major junctions: |
.svg/24px-I-405_(CA).svg.png){kind=small} .svg/24px-I-605_(CA).svg.png){kind=small} I-405 / I-605 in Seal Beach.svg/20px-I-5_(CA).svg.png){kind=small}  I-5 / SR 57 in Santa Ana |
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| East end: |  SR 55 in Orange |
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State Route 22 in the U.S. state of California is an east-west highway in southern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County. It runs between Long Beach and Orange by way of Garden Grove. The westernmost part of it is a surface street, Long Beach's 7th Street. From Long Beach to its eastern terminus in Orange, it is known as the Garden Grove Freeway. It is one of the two principal east-west routes in Orange County (the other being the Riverside Freeway approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north).
This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System[1].
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[edit] Route description
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The 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Long Beach. Then, 7th Street widens from an expressway into a freeway just before crossing the San Gabriel River (and with it, the Los Angeles/Orange County line). It then merges with the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) at the Interstate 605 interchange and runs concurrently with it for approximately three miles before the two routes diverge in northeastern Seal Beach. Thereafter, the Garden Grove Freeway travels mostly within the city of Garden Grove or along its border with neighboring Westminster. Just inside the Orange city limits, the freeway enters the infamously congested Orange Crush interchange with the Santa Ana and Orange Freeways (Interstate 5 and State Route 57, respectively. It continues along the border of Orange and Santa Ana for three miles (5 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55).
Route 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway, as named by the State Highway Commission on October 22, 1957.[2]
[edit] History
SR 22 was originally designated in 1934, when the state highway system was first numbered. Before the freeway was built, it was routed along Garden Grove Boulevard, which was known as Ocean Avenue at that time.[3]
Opened in the 1967, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the few freeways in Southern California to never have been widened from its original alignment. This resulted in its suffering from severe rush hour congestion, particularly as Santa Ana's population surged to over 300,000 during the 1990s.
[edit] Future
In late 2004, in response to California's budgetary deficit, OCTA began a widening project to add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as to update onramps and offramps to contemporary standards, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA. This first phase of the project, scheduled to conclude in late 2006, opened May 2007. A later phase to add HOV lane interchanges at the I-605 junction and at the split with I-405 is in the planning stages, but funding has not yet been procured to start this phase.
[edit] Major intersections and exit list
- Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.
| County | Location | Postmile [4][5][6] |
#[7] | Destinations | Notes |
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| Los Angeles LA 0.00-1.47 |
Long Beach | 0.00 | SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) |
Access from SR 22 west to SR 1 south is via Bellflower Boulevard | |
| 0.08 | Bellflower Boulevard | ||||
| Bridge over the Los Cerritos Channel | |||||
| West end of freeway | |||||
| 1.14 | 1 | Studebaker Road | |||
| Bridge over the San Gabriel River | |||||
| Orange ORA 0.00-R13.16 |
Seal Beach | R0.37- R0.65 405 23.28 |
2 | I-405 north (San Diego Freeway) / I-605 north (San Gabriel River Freeway) – Santa Monica |
West end of I-405 overlap; no exit number westbound |
| 405 22.64 | 22 | Seal Beach Boulevard, Los Alamitos Boulevard | |||
| Westminster | 405 20.75 R0.66 |
I-405 south (San Diego Freeway) – San Diego |
East end of I-405 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
| Garden Grove | R0.92 | 5A | Bolsa Chica Road, Valley View Street | Signed as exits 5A (Bolsa Chica Road) and 5B (Valley View Street) eastbound | |
| R2.65 | 7 | Knott Street, Golden West Street | |||
| Westminster | R3.59 | 8 |  SR 39 (Beach Boulevard) |
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| Garden Grove | R4.81 | 9 | Magnolia Street | ||
| R5.82 | 10 | Brookhurst Street - Garden Grove | |||
| R6.81 | 11 | Euclid Street - Garden Grove | |||
| R7.83 | 12 | Harbor Boulevard | Signed as exits 12A (south) and 12B (north) eastbound | ||
| R8.82 | 13 | Fairview Street, Haster Street | |||
| Orange | R9.73 | 14A | The City Drive | ||
| Bridge over the Santa Ana River | |||||
| Santa Ana | R10.01 | 14B | Bristol Street | No westbound exit | |
| Orange | R10.48 | 14C | I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – San Diego |
Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
| R10.48 | 14D | I-5 north (Santa Ana Freeway) / SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Los Angeles, Pomona |
Signed as exit 14B westbound | ||
| Santa Ana | R10.99 | 15 | Main Street | ||
| Orange | R11.83 | 16 | Glassell Street, Grand Avenue | ||
| R12.87 | 17A | Tustin Avenue | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
| R13.16 | 17 | SR 55 (Costa Mesa Freeway) – Riverside, Newport Beach |
Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 17B (south) and 17C (north) | ||
[edit] References
- ^ CA Codes (shc:250-257)
- ^ 2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California. Caltrans, 70. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
- ^ California Highways
- ^ California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed February 2008
- ^ California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
- ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
- ^ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, SR-22 Eastbound and SR-22 Westbound, accessed February 2008
[edit] External links
- OCTA - SR-22
- California @ WestCoastRoads.com - State Route 22
- Caltrans: Route 22 highway conditions
- California Highways: SR 22
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