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Route 110
CS&HC Sec. 410
Length: 33 mi (53 km) Major cities/towns: San Pedro, CA Lincoln Heights, CA Highland Park, CA Pasadena, CA Direction: North-South
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SR-47	LA ??
SR-91	LA ??
I-10	LA ??
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California State Highways Current - Unconstructed - Deleted - Scenic

California State Route 110 extends from California State Route 47 in San Pedro, California to Glenarm Street in Pasadena, California, USA. Most of Route 110 south of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) is designated Interstate 110; the southernmost section is again signed as a state route. Route 110 is 33 miles (53 km) long. The portion of Route 110 north of Interstate 10 is called the Pasadena Freeway. The portion south of Interstate 10 is called the Harbor Freeway. The surface street extension of this route in Pasadena is known as the Arroyo Parkway, and extends to intersect with Colorado Boulevard. Colorado Boulevard is now California State Route SR-66 and was formerly US Route US-66, of Route 66 fame. San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. ... Pasadena is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-110 LA Exit 6 I-710 LA Exit 12A SR-19 LA Exit 15A I-605 LA Exit 17B SR-39 OC Exit 23B I-5 OC Exit 24 SR-57 OC Exit 31 SR-55 OC Exit 34 SR-90 OC Exit 36 SR-241 OC... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... Location of Interstate 10 Interstate 10 (abbreviated I-10) is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast interstate highway in the United States. ... File links The following pages link to this file: List of Interstate Highways Interstate 10 Interstate 110 (California) Interstate 710 California State Route 57 California State Route 60 California State Route 110 California State Route 2 Interstate 610 (Texas) User:Atanamir List of three-digit Interstate Highways Interstate 310 Interstate... Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... A multiplex or concurrency on a road network occurs where a single physical road carries two or more different highway, motorway or other road numbers. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... JUNCTION MILE POST 10 ?? 86 ?? Legend < Route 110 Route 112 > The California State Highways California State Route 111 is the main north/south state highway and retail corridor through the Coachella Valley, a part of the Colorado Desert in the southeastern corner of the state and famous as a resort... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Example signage of the Califonia State Highway System Below is a partial list of California state highways. ... Below contains a list and summary of the entirely unconstructed California State Routes as outlined by the legislature in 1964. ... The following highways are designated, in whole or part, by the State of California as California State Scenic Highways: California State Highway 1 California State Highway 2 - From 2. ... San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. ... Pasadena is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Sign marking an entrance to the Santa Monica Freeway. ... Location of Interstate 10 Interstate 10 (abbreviated I-10) is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast interstate highway in the United States. ... The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway as it passes under the elevated portion of the HOV/bus transitway. ... The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway is one of the principal north-south freeways in Los Angeles County, California. ... Colorado Boulevard is the main thoroughfare of Pasadena, California. ... Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ...

Even though the Pasadena Freeway legally ends at Interstate 10 (see below), "Harbor Freeway" does appear on freeway signs north of the Santa Monica Freeway up to U.S. Highway 101 and the Four Level Interchange in downtown Los Angeles. U.S. Highway 101, or U.S. Route 101 (often just U.S. 101), is a north-south highway that is aligned along the Pacific West Coast of the United States. ... A 1954 photo of the famed Four Level Interchange near downtown Los Angeles The Four Level Interchange was the first stack interchange in the world. ...

Pasadena Freeway

A nine-mile (14 km), dedicated cycle-way was built in 1897 to connect Pasadena to Los Angeles. Its right of way followed the stream bed of the Arroyo Seco and required 1,250,000 board feet (2,950 m³) of pine wood to construct. The roundtrip toll was US$.15 and it was lit with electic lights along its entire length. The route did not succeed, and the right of way later became the route for the Arroyo Seco Parkway. [1] 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Arroyo Seco is a creek and drainage channel in the southern part of the U.S. state of California. ...

The original freeway was first named the Arroyo Seco Parkway. It had no highway number designation when it first opened and originally had a speed limit of 45 miles an hour (72 km/h). Traffic originally ran in two lanes in each direction with a wide shoulder available for emergency parking. The original route of this Parkway — its 1940 appellation — ran from the Chinatown district in downtown Los Angeles to Pasadena, and was later extended to meet the Hollywood Freeway and Santa Ana Freeway. It was the first modern freeway ever built in the United States — it was opened to traffic on December 30, 1940, and was considered a modern engineering marvel at the time. A hard shoulder or simply shoulder is a reserved area alongside the verge of a road or motorway. ... The Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles as seen from USC, which makes up most of Downtowns skyline. ... The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. ... The Santa Ana Freeway is the name of a segment of Interstate 5 (I-5) between Los Angeles, California and its southeastern suburbs. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... ...

The original portion of the Pasadena Freeway is considered by today's standards to be obsolete and rather dangerous. In its current six-lane configuration, there are no breakdown lanes, although there are periodic turnouts that one can dodge in to in emergency. Entry or exit from the freeway is a death-defying feat, best illustrated by the Avenue 52 intersection in Highland Park. At this point the freeway is depressed and Avenue 52 passes over it. There is one on-ramp and one off-ramp in each direction, of perhaps 100 feet (30 meters) in length. At the bottom of the on-ramp there is, for want of a better phrase, a "staging pad", and a stop sign. Entering the freeway entails stopping on the staging pad, waiting for an opening in traffic, then launching oneself, for all you are worth, directly into the flow of traffic - there is no acceleration lane. Exiting the freeway entails pulling onto the off-ramp while still at speed, then in the length of the ramp coming to a dead stop at the stop sign at the top of the ramp. While the freeway is posted for 55 MPH (90 KPH), it seems that the drivers - and traffic can get quite heavy - regard speed limits as nothing more than guidelines. Highland Park is the name of several places in the United States of America: Highland Park, Florida Highland Park, Illinois Highland Park, Michigan Highland Park, New Jersey Highland Park, Pennsylvania Highland Park, Texas Highland Park, Los Angeles, California Highland Park, New York, New York is a neighborhood in Brooklyn Highland...

Going from Los Angeles into South Pasadena, there is a set of sharp, sweeping turns required to keep the freeway within the bounds of the Arroyo Seco. Since the original design envisioned a much slower traffic flow, these turns are not banked. The speed through them is reduced, but driving this freeway for the first time can be, even for an experienced driver, a hair-raising experience. Despite all this, the freeway remains heavily used.

Arroyo Seco Parkway just past downtown Pasadena, California

Four medium-sized tunnels (called the "Figueroa Street Tunnels") run under and through the hills of Elysian Park. In the northward direction (toward Pasadena), stairways and bus pads can still be seen to the left before the tunnels. These remnants date from the days when the Arroyo Seco Parkway was first opened, and are no longer in use. Linen-Era Postcard of Arroyo Seco Parkway, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California This work is copyrighted. ... Linen-Era Postcard of Arroyo Seco Parkway, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California This work is copyrighted. ... Elysian Park can mean: Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California Elysian Park, Hoboken, New Jersey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The Pasadena Freeway runs through heavily working-class Latino neighborhoods such as Lincoln Heights and Highland Park, as well as upper-middle-class white populated portions of Pasadena and South Pasadena. (Information based on Census data.) Lincoln Heights is an area of East Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Highland Park is a neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles. ...

Extension of route

Since its original opening, the freeway has been extended southwards from the four level interchange near downtown Los Angeles to the port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro. The Harbor Freeway runs through the poorer inner-city sections - with a predominant African American population - of South Los Angeles. The Harbor freeway is entirely within the city of Los Angeles except a four-mile stretch where it marks the boundary between Carson, California and an unincorporated area in the South Bay. Because this section of freeway is up to Interstate Highway standards, it is much wider and safer than the original Pasadena to Los Angeles route. The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... South Los Angeles is the City of Los Angeles official name for a geographical region that is often known as South Central Los Angeles. ... Carson is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... The South Bay is a region in the southwest peninsula of Los Angeles County, California. ... The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) defines standards for Interstate Highways in their publication A Policy on Design Standards - Interstate System. ...

Landmarks and filmography

Some famous landmarks along or nearby the Interstate 110 Harbor Freeway include the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Shrine Auditorium (where several major film, TV, and music awards are presented), Staples Center (home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers and NHL's Kings), Chinatown, Dodger Stadium (home of the MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers ), and the Southwest Museum (a museum dedicated to Native American culture). The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, and Southern California), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ... The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California, near the campus of the University of Southern California. ... An early postcard view of the Shrine The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. ... Staples Center is the center of the future Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District which broke ground in 2004. ... NBA logo, depicting former star Jerry West The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as the NBA, is the worlds premier mens professional basketball league and one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. ... The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. ... The Los Angeles Clippers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. ... The modernized NHL shield logo, debuting in 2005. ... The Los Angeles Kings are a National Hockey League team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. Founded: 1967 Arena: Staples Center Uniform colors: Purple, black, and silver Logo design: A silver crown outlined in purple Stanley Cups won: none Added in the NHLs 1967 expansion, along with the Minnesota... New Chinatown, Los Angeles postcard, late 1940s Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles, California, was originally located less than a mile from its current location. ... Brooklyn Dodgers redirects here. ... The Southwest Museum is a museum, library, and archive. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

Tucked within the southwest loop of the intersection with Interstate 10 is the Central Los Angeles office of the California Highway Patrol. It was heavily photographed for the 1970s U.S. television program CHiPs, as it was depicted as the home office of its main characters, Officers Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello. It does not have direct access to or from either freeway, though. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the state police force of California, originally a highway patrol agency created in 1929 to ensure road safety in California, it assumed greater responsibility as time went on. ... CHiPs was a US television series running on NBC from 1977 to 1983. ...

During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a white truck driver named Reginald Denny was pulled from his truck and beaten on an intersection, Florence Avenue and Normandie Street, about a mile (2 km) west from the 110 Freeway. The incident was broadcast live via news helicopter. Truck driver Reginald Denny lies beaten in an intersection as his assailant celebrates The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the LA riots, the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, was sparked on April 29, 1992 when a mostly white jury acquitted four police officers accused in...

The Pasadena Freeway can be seen in the introduction of the 1971 Steven Spielberg film, Duel. Dennis Weaver's character drives through several tunnels before entering the Interstate 5 interchange (which leads to Sacramento and beyond). 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio but raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona), is a Jewish American film director and producer whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ... Duel is a 1971 television movie directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Richard Matheson, starring Dennis Weaver and a Peterbilt 351 logging truck. ... Dennis Weaver (b. ... MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION MILEPOST Mexico Federal Highway 1 British Columbia provincial highway 99 Legend BROWSE STATE HWYS CA-4 CA-7 Image:OR-4. ... City nickname: The Big Tomato Location Location of Sacramento in California Government County Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 99. ...

Citizen involvement

In 2001, Richard Ankrom, a local artist, who repeatedly got lost trying to get onto Interstate 5 North from the 110 Freeway because there was no clear official signage labeling access to the 5 North, solved his frustration by covertly modifying one of the overhead signs on the freeway just before the tunnels. Using official government sign specifications, Ankrom fabricated two sign pieces, one being an Interstate marker shield with the number '5' on it, and one with the word "NORTH", and affixed them to the left side of the sign. He performed his modifications in broad daylight, disguised as a CalTrans worker, and the results went unnoticed for nine months, until his friend leaked the news to the Los Angeles Times. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION MILEPOST Mexico Federal Highway 1 British Columbia provincial highway 99 Legend BROWSE STATE HWYS CA-4 CA-7 Image:OR-4. ... Caltrans logo The soaring ramps in the stack interchanges favored by Caltrans often provide stunning views. ... The Los Angeles Times (also LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ...

Prior to Ankrom's work, the only signage directing motorists to the 5 North off-ramp came at a quarter-mile before the exit, thus forcing many to merge across multiple lanes in a very short distance. The unofficial modifications remain on the sign to this day, after having been inspected by CalTrans to ensure it would not fall off onto the road below. CalTrans is gradually upgrading all California freeway signs to a newer, more reflective form; when this happens on the 110, Ankrom's work will be lost, but the new sign will include "5 North" icons.

Ankrom was never charged, despite statements from officials that his actions were illegal.

See http://www.thisistrue.com/freeway.html for a picture of Ankrom's work.

State Law

Legal Definition of Route 110

 410. (a) Route 110 is from Route 47 in San Pedro to Glenarm Street in Pasadena. (b) The relinquished former portion of Route 110 that is located between Glenarm Street and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena is not a state highway and is not eligible for adoption under Section 81. 

Source: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 410

Legal Definition of the Pasadena Freeway

Route 110 from Route 10 to Pasadena. [State Highway Commission (11/18/1954)]

Source: 2004 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California (PDF)

See also

• Freeways

A typical rural freeway (Interstate 5 in the Central Valley of California, USA). ...

Trivia

The name Arroyo Seco in Spanish means Dry Wash.

Alternate Transportation

There exists an alternate way of getting from Los Angeles to Pasadena. The Metro Gold Line, on the former AT&SF Pasadena Subdivision right-of-way, offers "quick, convenient transit" from Pasadena to Los Angeles, with various intermediate stops.

External links

• Arroyo Seco Parkway preservation site
• A textual account of Ankrom's sign modification
• Cahighways.org article on the 110 freeway
• California's Great Cycle-Way
• Pasadena Freeway - Various pictures of Pasadena portion