State Route 42
California State Highway Routes
< Route 41		Route 43 >
Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

State Route 42 (SR 42) was a state highway in Southern California, United States, running along Manchester Avenue, Manchester Boulevard and Firestone Boulevard in Los Angeles and the cities south of it. After 1968, it ran from State Route 1 west of Inglewood (near Los Angeles International Airport) east to Interstate 5 in Norwalk. Though signed as SR 42, it was officially Route 105 until replaced by the parallel Interstate 105 around 1990.^[1] From then until the last piece was turned over to local maintenance in 2000, it was an unrelinquished piece of Route 105, and continued to be signed as SR 42.^[2] This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Example State Route signage. ... Below is a list and summary of the deleted State Routes (i. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: California Streets and Highways Code Section 250-257 The California Freeway and Expressway System is a system of existing or planned freeways and expressways in the U.S. state of California. ... The following highways are designated, in whole or part, by the State of California as State Scenic Highways: // State Scenic Highways Entire route The following routes have their entire length designed as a scenic highway: California State Route 28 California State Route 35 California State Route 38 - In San Bernardino... This article is about the idea of state highways State Highway, and is more formally known as Route 139 State highway, and state route are terms that usually apply to numbered highways that are primarily administered and financed by a state government in countries that are divided into states. ... Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the state of California. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ángeles , meaning the angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 ORA 0. ... Runway layout at LAX Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX), is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California. ... INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # Mexican Federal Highway 1/ Mexican Border CA 0 I-805 CA 1 I-15 CA 13 I-8 CA 20 I-805 CA 31 I-405 CA 94 I-605 CA 124 I-710 CA 130 I-10 CA 134 CA 135 I-405 CA 158... Norwalk is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0. ...

Manchester Avenue begins in Los Angeles near the Pacific Ocean at Vista del Mar Lane, and becomes a major road at Pershing Drive. The part west of Lincoln Boulevard (State Route 1) was never a numbered route. East of Sepulveda Boulevard, Manchester Avenue crosses into Inglewood, where it is known as Manchester Boulevard. It jogs about two blocks to the north just west of Interstate 405, and back to the south after passing downtown Inglewood. Upon crossing back into Los Angeles, it is again Manchester Avenue. Lincoln Boulevard is a major northwest/southeast thoroughfare near the Pacific Coast in Los Angeles County. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 ORA 0. ... Sepulveda Boulevard a street in Los Angeles, California, USA, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest municipal street in the world, stretching from the north end of the San Fernando Valley to the south end of San Pedro, a distance of over 60 miles. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 LA 48. ...

At Central Avenue, the road leaves Los Angeles into Walnut Park and becomes Firestone Boulevard, which passes through South Gate and Downey, ending in Norwalk at a merge with Interstate 5 (the Santa Ana Freeway), where SR 42 ended. The name continues however on the frontage roads of I-5 until it enters Buena Park at Artesia Boulevard, where the name changes back to Manchester Boulevard until Orangethorpe Avenue. The frontage road begins again in Anaheim, named Manchester Avenue in several pieces between Euclid Street and State College Boulevard. City of South Gate Offical Seal South Gate is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Norwalk is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # Mexican Federal Highway 1/ Mexican Border CA 0 I-805 CA 1 I-15 CA 13 I-8 CA 20 I-805 CA 31 I-405 CA 94 I-605 CA 124 I-710 CA 130 I-10 CA 134 CA 135 I-405 CA 158... Southern California freeways The Santa Ana Freeway is one of the principal freeways in Southern California, connecting Los Angeles, California and its southeastern suburbs. ... A frontage road for U.S. Highway 71 (a freeway) near Carthage, Missouri. ...

History

Legislative Route 174 was defined in 1933 to run from pre-1964 Legislative Route 60 west of Inglewood east to pre-1964 Legislative Route 2 near Santa Ana.^[3] It was signed as State Route 10 in the initial signage of routes in 1934, running from State Route 3 (now State Route 1) to U.S. Route 101 near the present junction of Interstate 5 and Anaheim Boulevard. (US 101 and LR 2 left the current I-5 alignment north onto Anaheim Boulevard, eventually entering downtown Los Angeles via present State Route 72.) Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-36 TRI L0. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 ORA 0. ... U.S. Highway 101, or U.S. Route 101 (U.S. 101), is a north-south highway that is aligned along the Pacific West Coast of the United States. ... Interstate 5 (abbreviated I-5) is the westernmost interstate highway in the United States. ...

Note: the present alignment of I-5 between Chapman Avenue in Anaheim and Main Street in Santa Ana was also part of LR 174, after a short concurrency of LR 2 and LR 174 in Anaheim. LR 2 used those two streets through Orange, but US 101 was moved to LR 174 once it was built, and so that part of LR 174 was never signed as SR 10. The bypassed section of LR 2 became State Route 51 in the 1964 renumbering, but was removed from the state highway system in 1965.^[4] 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. ... Cover of the March-April 1964 edition of California Highways and Public Works, showing an extended State Route 1 replacing U.S. Route 101 Alternate In 1963 and 1964, the California Division of Highways implemented a major renumbering of its state highways. ...

By 1942, the piece of SR 10 east of State Route 19 (Lakewood Boulevard) had been designated U.S. Route 101 Bypass.^[5] U.S. Route 101 moved to the present Interstate 5 alignment, formerly US 101 Bypass, by 1959, and SR 10 was truncated to the present I-5/Firestone Boulevard junction.^[6] This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... U.S. Highway 101, or U.S. Route 101 (U.S. 101), is a north-south highway that is aligned along the Pacific West Coast of the United States. ... Interstate 5 (abbreviated I-5) is the westernmost interstate highway in the United States. ...

Around 1960, SR 10 was renumbered to State Route 42 due to the nearby Interstate 10 (numbered in 1957).^[2] This change, which would have normally happened in the 1964 renumbering, was done early due to the closeness of I-10. Route 42 was legislatively defined in that renumbering, running not only from SR 1 to I-5, but beyond to State Route 91 in Anaheim Hills. This route split from the existing SR 42 in Norwalk and ran east along unbuilt pre-1964 Legislative Route 176 to the intersection of State Route 39 (Beach Boulevard) and Imperial Highway. East of SR 39, Imperial Highway was state-maintained, and carried pre-1964 LR 176 and post-1964 SR 42 to its end at SR 91.^[7] The whole route, from SR 1 to SR 91, had been added to the California Freeway and Expressway System in 1959.^[8][9] Cover of the March-April 1964 edition of California Highways and Public Works, showing an extended State Route 1 replacing U.S. Route 101 Alternate In 1963 and 1964, the California Division of Highways implemented a major renumbering of its state highways. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE Vermont Ave. ... Norwalk is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Imperial Highway is a road in Orange and Los Angeles Counties in California. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: California Streets and Highways Code Section 250-257 The California Freeway and Expressway System is a system of existing or planned freeways and expressways in the U.S. state of California. ...

The route was never signed with State Route 105 shields, despite having that number since 1968.

In 1965, the unbuilt part from Interstate 605 east to SR 39 was transferred to State Route 90, which had been defined in 1964 to end at I-605; this left a gap in SR 42. The part of SR 42 west of I-605 was added to the Interstate Highway System as Interstate 105 in March 1968,^[10] and the legislative changes were made that year - that piece became Route 105, and the piece east of SR 39 became a further extension of SR 90.^[2] :The Interstate 605 number is also used for a planned bypass of Seattle, Washington. ... The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System, is a network of highways in the United States. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0. ... Look up March in Wiktionary, the free dictionary March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Despite being officially Route 105 since 1968, the route continued to be signed as SR 42, not only along its defined alignment from SR 1 to I-605, but past I-605 to Interstate 5 (which had loosely become part of SR 90 in 1965).^[11] Interstate 5 (abbreviated I-5) is the westernmost interstate highway in the United States. ...

Interstate 105 was constructed from 1982 to 1994.^[8] Even after the new route was finished, the old route continued to be signed as SR 42, even after the last section was relinquished in mid-2000.^[2] Some signs still remained in 2004.^[12]

References

1. ↑ January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways
2. ↑ ^a b c d California Highways: Former State Route 42
3. ↑ California Highways: Legislative Route 174
4. ↑ California Highways: Unsigned State Route 51
5. ↑ 1942 Gousha Los Angeles and vicinity map
6. ↑ 1955 Gousha Los Angeles district map
7. ↑ District VII State Highway Numbering Map, September 20, 1963
8. ↑ ^a b California Highways: Interstate 105
9. ↑ California Highways: State Route 90
10. ↑ California Highways: Interstate Highway Types and the History of California's Interstates
11. ↑ October 21, 2000 photo of signage on Interstate 5 north at former SR 42
12. ↑ July 6, 2004 photo of signage on Interstate 710 south approaching Firestone Boulevard