Santa Ana Freeway
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South end: | I-5 / I-405 (El Toro Y) | ||||||||||||
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Major junctions: |
SR 22 / SR 57 (Orange Crush) I-605 in Norwalk I-5 / I-10 / SR 60 (East LA Int.) |
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North end: | US 101 / SR 110 (4 Level Int.) | ||||||||||||
System: | Southern California freeways | ||||||||||||
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The Santa Ana Freeway is one of the principal freeways in Southern California, connecting Los Angeles, California and its southeastern suburbs. The freeway begins at the four level Bill Keene Memorial Interchange complex in downtown Los Angeles, signed as U.S. Route 101. From there, it proceeds one mile east to the East Los Angeles Interchange where it takes the designation of Interstate 5. Its alignment then generally goes northwest to southeast towards its junction with the San Diego Freeway, Interstate 405 (I-405) (informally referred to as the El Toro Y), in Irvine.
North of the East Los Angeles Interchange complex, Interstate 5's name changes to the Golden State Freeway. South of its junction with the I-405, its name changes to the San Diego Freeway. (Interstate 405 ends at this junction.)
An abundance of landmarks, most importantly (Disneyland and Angel Stadium of Anaheim) in Anaheim, along the Orange County portion of its route combines with a severe bottleneck beginning at the Los Angeles County border (shrinking from 12 to 6 lanes) to make it one of the most congested freeways in Southern California. The infamously busy intersection of the Santa Ana, Garden Grove, and Orange freeways in southwestern Orange is nicknamed the Orange Crush.
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[edit] History
The Santa Ana Freeway is a bypass of the original state highway from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, which passed through Whittier and mostly became SR 72 in the 1964 renumbering. Southeast of Santa Ana, this earlier highway, added to the state highway system in 1910 as Route 2, generally followed the present freeway from Tustin past East Irvine to El Toro.[1] This route was marked as part of US 101 in 1928.[2]
In 1933, the state legislature added a number of routes to the state highway system, including two that later formed parts of the Santa Ana Freeway. Route 166 began at the new Route 172 (now SR 60), at the corner of Indiana and Third Streets, and headed south on Indiana Street and east and southeast on Mines Avenue (Olympic Boulevard) and Anaheim-Telegraph Road to Route 171 (now SR 39) at the intersection with Los Nietos Road near Santa Fe Springs. Route 174 began at Route 60 (now SR 1) and followed Manchester Avenue and Firestone Boulevard (then under construction alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad's Santa Ana Branch) to Route 2 (Anaheim Boulevard) in southern Anaheim. A second piece began further southeast on Route 2, where it turned east on Chapman Avenue, and followed the shorter Santa Ana Boulevard diagonally to Route 2 (Main Street) in northern Santa Ana.[3][4] In 1934, Route 166, except on Indiana Street, was marked as part of Sign Route 6 (which continued along Route 171 to Buena Park), and the entire length of Route 174 became Sign Route 10.[5][6] (SR 6 was renumbered to SR 26 in 1937, when US 6 entered California;[7] SR 10 was soon truncated to Anaheim Boulevard, as US 101 had moved from Route 2 to the shorter Route 174 in Santa Ana.[8])
A U.S. Route 101 Bypass was created by 1941, beginning at the intersection of Routes 166 (Indiana Street, soon moved to Downey Road[citation needed]) and 2 (US 101 along Whittier Boulevard), and following Routes 166 and 174 to Route 2 (US 101) in Anaheim. The connection between Routes 166 and 174 was made via Route 168 (Rosemead Boulevard, then and now SR 19). This resulted in SR 10 being truncated further, to the intersection of Firestone and Rosemead Boulevards, though SR 26 continued to extend east to Buena Park.[9][10][11]
A freeway connecting downtown Los Angeles with Orange County was planned by that county by 1939,[12] and was included in A Transit Program for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, published that year by the Metropolitan Transportation Engineering Board.[13] To allow for its construction by the state, the definition of Route 166 was modified in 1941, changing the southeast end to Route 174 near Norwalk; at the same time, the northernmost piece was changed from Indiana Street to Downey Road.[14]
The entire Santa Ana Freeway began construction in 1947 and completed in 1956. Originally it was signed as US 101 before the segment of the 101 between the East Los Angeles Interchange and the United States–Mexico border in San Ysidro, California was decommissioned in favor of Interstate 5. It was approved as as a chargeable interstate in 1961. The Santa Ana Freeway and also portions of San Diego Freeway (before the freeway was built) south of El Toro Y went up changing the U.S. 101 signs to Interstate 5 in 1964, including full length of Golden State Freeway which was originally signed as US 99.
[edit] Legal definition
Routes 101 and 5 from Route 110 (Four Level Interchange) to Route 405.[15]
[edit] Major cities
Control Cities officially in bold:
- Chinatown
- Boyle Heights
- Civic Center (used northbound only US 101 to Hollywood Freeway)
- Los Angeles
- East Los Angeles
- Commerce
- Downey
- Santa Fe Springs
- Norwalk
- La Mirada
- Buena Park
- Anaheim
- Orange
- Santa Ana
- Tustin
- Irvine
- San Diego (Southbound only)
[edit] 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 [16][17][18] |
#[19] | Destinations | Notes |
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Orange ORA 5 21.30-44.38 |
Irvine | 21.30 | I-5 south (San Diego Freeway) – San Diego | Continuation beyond I-405 | |
22.21 | 94B | Alton Parkway | Signed as exit 94 southbound | ||
22.80 | Barranca Parkway | Southbound exit and northbound entrance (HOV only) | |||
23.12 | 95 | SR 133 north (Eastern Toll Road) – Riverside, Santa Margarita | Signed as exit 96B southbound | ||
23.12 | 95 | SR 133 south (Laguna Freeway) – Laguna Beach | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
R23.94 | 96 | Sand Canyon Avenue | Signed as exit 96A southbound | ||
R24.99 | 97 | Jeffrey Road | |||
R26.58 | 99 | Culver Drive | |||
27.59 | 100 | Jamboree Road (to SR 261) | |||
Tustin | |||||
28.25 | 101A | Tustin Ranch Road | |||
R29.09 | 101B | Red Hill Avenue – Tustin | |||
29.62 | 102 | Newport Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
30.26 | 103A | SR 55 north (Costa Mesa Freeway) – Riverside | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
30.26 | 103B | SR 55 south (Costa Mesa Freeway) – Newport Beach | Signed as exit 103 southbound | ||
Santa Ana | 30.90- 31.09 |
103C | First Street, Fourth Street | Signed as exit 104A southbound | |
31.76 | 104 | Grand Avenue, Santa Ana Boulevard | Signed as exit 104B southbound | ||
32.46 | 105A | 17th Street | |||
33.09 | 105B | Main Street, Broadway – Santa Ana | Former SR 51 north/SR 73 south | ||
Santa Ana, Orange |
34.00 | 106 | SR 22 west (Garden Grove Freeway) – Long Beach, Garden Grove | Signed as exit 107B southbound | |
34.00 | 107A | SR 22 east (Garden Grove Freeway) – Orange | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
34.14 | 107A | La Veta Avenue, Bristol Street | Northbound exit is part of exit 106; serves Angel Stadium | ||
34.27 | 107A | SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Pomona | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
Orange | 34.94 | 107B | Chapman Avenue | Southbound exit is via exit 107C; former SR 51 south | |
35.19 | 107C | State College Boulevard, The City Drive | Former SR 250 | ||
35.59 | 109A | Orangewood Avenue | Northbound exit is via exit 107C | ||
Anaheim | |||||
35.92 | Gene Autry Way, Disney Way | HOV only | |||
36.26 | 109A | Katella Avenue | Signed as exit 109 northbound | ||
36.61 | 109B | Disney Way, Anaheim Boulevard | Northbound exit is via exit 109; former SR 72 | ||
37.40 | 110A | Harbor Boulevard | Signed as exit 110 northbound | ||
37.64- 38.06 |
110B | Disneyland Drive, Ball Road | Northbound exit is via exit 110 | ||
38.92 | 111 | Lincoln Avenue | Former SR 214 | ||
39.51 | 112 | Euclid Street | |||
40.71- 40.93 |
113 | Brookhurst Street, La Palma Avenue | Signed as exits 113A (Brookhurst Street, La Palma Avenue west) and 113B (La Palma Avenue east) northbound | ||
Anaheim, Fullerton |
41.50 | 114 | Magnolia Avenue | Signed as exit 114A southbound | |
42.10 | 113C | SR 91 west (Artesia Freeway) | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
42.10 | 114B | SR 91 east (Riverside Freeway) – Riverside | Northbound exit is via exit 114 | ||
Buena Park | 43.13 | 115 | Auto Center Drive | Northbound exit only | |
43.43 | 116 | SR 39 (Beach Boulevard) | |||
44.26 | 117 | Knott Avenue, Artesia Boulevard | Former SR 91 | ||
Los Angeles LA 5 0.00-16.88 101 S0.00-S1.33 101 0.00-1.57 |
La Mirada | 1.21 | 118 | Valley View Avenue – La Mirada | |
Santa Fe Springs | |||||
1.68 | Alondra Boulevard | No exit ramps | |||
Santa Fe Springs, Norwalk |
2.41 | 119 | Carmenita Road | ||
3.44 | 120A | Rosecrans Avenue – La Mirada | Signed as exit 120 southbound | ||
Norwalk | 3.64 | 120B | Firestone Boulevard | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; former SR 42 | |
4.41 | 121 | Norwalk Boulevard, San Antonio Drive – Norwalk | Former SR 35 | ||
4.91- 5.12 |
122 | Imperial Highway, Pioneer Boulevard | |||
Santa Fe Springs, Downey |
6.38 | 123 | Florence Avenue | ||
6.85 | 124 | I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway) | |||
Downey | 8.31 | 125 | SR 19 (Lakewood Boulevard, Rosemead Boulevard) | ||
8.95 | 126A | Paramount Boulevard – Downey | |||
Montebello, Commerce |
9.70 | 126B | Slauson Avenue – Montebello | No northbound entrance | |
10.88 | 128A | Bandini Boulevard, Garfield Avenue | |||
Commerce | 11.55 | 128B | Washington Boulevard – Commerce | ||
12.80 | 129 | Eastern Avenue, Atlantic Boulevard | Former SR 15 | ||
12.92 | 130A | Atlantic Boulevard south, Triggs Street | |||
13.78 | 130C | I-710 north (Long Beach Freeway) – Pasadena | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
13.78 | 130B | I-710 south (Long Beach Freeway) – Long Beach | Northbound exit is via exit 130A | ||
13.89 | 130B | Eastern Avenue | Northbound exit only | ||
14.25 | 131A | Olympic Boulevard | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; former SR 26/SR 245 | ||
14.80 | 131B | Ditman Avenue | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
Los Angeles | 14.94 | 131 | Indiana Street | Signed as exit 132 southbound; former SR 165 | |
15.1 | 132 | Calzona Street | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
16.05 | 133 | Grande Vista Avenue | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
16.05 | 133 | Euclid Avenue | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
16.47 | 134A | I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) – Santa Monica | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
16.47 | SR 60 east (Pomona Freeway) – Pomona | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||
16.59 | 134B | Soto Street | No exit number southbound | ||
North end of I-5 overlap; south end of US 101 | |||||
16.88 101 S0.00 |
I-5 north (Golden State Freeway) – Sacramento | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | |||
101 S0.02 | 134C | Seventh Street | Signed as exit 1A southbound | ||
101 S0.62 | 1A | Fourth Street | No northbound entrance; signed as exit 1B southbound | ||
101 S0.91 | 1B | First Street | No southbound entrance; signed as exit 1C southbound | ||
101 S1.2 | 1C | Cesar Chavez Avenue | Northbound exit only | ||
101 S1.33 101 0.00 |
1D | I-10 east (San Bernardino Freeway) – San Bernardino | No southbound entrance | ||
101 0.1 | 1E | Mission Road | No northbound exit | ||
101 0.39 | 2A | Vignes Street | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
101 0.76 | 2B | Alameda Street – Union Station | No southbound exit | ||
101 0.87 | 2B | Los Angeles Street | No northbound exit | ||
101 1.01 | 2C | Spring Street | Northbound exit only | ||
101 1.08 | 2C | Broadway | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
101 1.32 | 3A | Grand Avenue, Temple Street | Northbound exit is part of exit 3 | ||
101 1.57 | 3 | SR 110 north (Pasadena Freeway) to I-110 south (Harbor Freeway) – Pasadena, San Pedro | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
101 1.57 | US 101 north (Hollywood Freeway) – Ventura | Continuation beyond SR 110 |
[edit] References
- ^ Ben Blow, California Highways: A Descriptive Record of Road Development by the State and by Such Counties as Have Paved Highways, 1920 (Archive.org or Google Books), pp. 165, 194-195
- ^ California Highways and Public Works, United States Numbered Highways, January 1928
- ^ "An act...relating to...the addition of certain highways to the State system.", 1933 chapter 767, p. 2040: "Los Angeles, Indiana and 3rd Streets, to the Huntington Beach-Whittier Road near Santa Fe Springs." "State Highway Route 60 via Manchester Avenue to State Highway Route 2 near Miraflores." "State Highway Route 2 near Orange County Hospital to Main Street, Santa Ana, via Santa Ana Boulevard."
- ^ "An act to establish a Streets and Highways Code...", 1935 chapter 29, p. 286: "Route 166 is from Route 172, at the intersection of Indiana and Third Streets, in Los Angeles, to Route 171 near Santa Fe Springs." "Route 174 is from: (a) Route 60 via Manchester Avenue to Route 2 near Miraflores. (b) Route 2 near Orange County Hospital to Main Street, Santa Ana, via Santa Ana Boulevard."
- ^ California Highways and Public Works, State Routes will be Numbered and Marked with Distinctive Bear Signs, August 1934
- ^ H.M. Gousha Company, Los Angeles and Vicinity, 1935
- ^ Richard F. Weingroff, U.S. 6: The Grand Army of the Republic Highway
- ^ H.M. Gousha Company, Los Angeles and Vicinity, 1939
- ^ H.M. Gousha Company, Los Angeles and Vicinity, 1941: SR 10 overlaps US 101 Bypass to Anaheim
- ^ H.M. Gousha Company, Los Angeles and Vicinity, 1942: SR 10 has been truncated
- ^ Division of Highways, Los Angeles and Vicinity, 1944
- ^ Los Angeles Times, Super-Road Hearing Set, September 8, 1939, p. 20
- ^ Ann Forsyth, Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 0520241665, p. 61
- ^ "An act to amend Sections 345, 466 and 612 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to descriptions of certain State highways.", 1941 chapter 142, p. 1185: "Route 166 is from Route 172, at the intersection of Downey Road to Route 174, near Norwalk."
- ^ 2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California. Caltrans, 63. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
- ^ California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed January 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, I-5, accessed January 2008
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