California State Route 2
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Southwest end | Centinela Avenue at the Santa Monica-Los Angeles border | |||
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Northeast end | SR 138 at the Piñon Hills–Phelan border | |||
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Country | United States | |||
State | California | |||
Counties | Los Angeles, San Bernardino | |||
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State Route 2 (SR 2) is a
Route description
SR 2 is known as the
SR 2 is part of the
The California Legislature has relinquished state control of various segments of SR 2 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and turned them over to local control.[12]
SR 1 to the southeast junction with US 101
The original official southwestern terminus of SR 2 was at the junction of
At its west end, Santa Monica Boulevard starts off
The south roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard, often called Little Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, runs parallel to the state highway (north) roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard from the city's west limit to Rexford Drive. After Rexford Drive, Little Santa Monica turns east, becoming Burton Way. Burton Way merges into San Vicente Boulevard at its intersection with La Cienega Boulevard. It is noted that the south roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills is a city street while the north roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard is a California state highway, each roadway handling bi-directional traffic.
After intersecting Wilshire, Santa Monica Boulevard continues northeast toward West Hollywood, spanning Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue. At Holloway Drive, in the middle of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, now north of Melrose Avenue turns to the east. In West Hollywood, between Fairfax Avenue and Doheny Drive along Santa Monica Boulevard, bronze name plaques are embedded in the sidewalks as part of the West Hollywood Memorial Walk. SR 2 continues east through Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard to the Hollywood Freeway.
Route 2 then merges onto
Southeast junction with US 101 to I-210
Alvarado Street and Glendale Boulevard
From US 101, Route 2 heads northeast on
Glendale Freeway
After crossing Allesandro Street, Route 2 then branches northeast onto the Glendale Freeway, a north–south route. With five lanes each direction, the freeway is quite wide. It intersects
After its interchange with the eastern
The Glendale Freeway was originally proposed to continue through Echo Park all the way to Hollywood Freeway (101).[14] Since that plan has been scrapped, the freeway is somewhat isolated from the remainder of the LA freeway system.
I-210 to Route 138
Leaving La Cañada Flintridge at an altitude of 1,300 feet (400 m), the route turns north onto the Angeles Crest Highway. This route winds generally east-northeast through the canyons of the San Gabriel Mountains for over 80 miles (130 km), before descending through Big Pines and Wrightwood to the edge of the Victor Valley approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Hesperia and ending at SR 138. The highway climbs to a high point of 7,903 feet (2,409 m) at Dawson Saddle. The eastern portions of the Angeles Crest Highway are notoriously dangerous, with many switchbacks and blind curves, and are often closed during occasions of heavy winter snowfall. The highway is generally closed between Islip Saddle and Vincent Gap from mid-December to mid-May due to snow and rockfall.
History
Designation
In 1964, Route 2 was defined as a single route from Santa Monica to Wrightwood with no discontinuities. The segment of former US 66 on Santa Monica Boulevard west of the Hollywood Freeway and Lincoln Boulevard was added to Route 2 at this time, since US 66 was truncated to
Before the segment of the Glendale Freeway was built between Glendale Boulevard and just west of the Los Angeles River, Route 2 began at the Hollywood Freeway on Santa Monica Boulevard, continued east to Myra Avenue, then north on Myra Avenue, east on Fountain Avenue, northeast on Hyperion Avenue, southeast on Rowena Avenue, southeast on Glendale Boulevard, and northeast on Fletcher Drive to just west of the Los Angeles River.[citation needed] From west of the Los Angeles River, Route 2 continued on the Glendale Freeway to its temporary connection with Fletcher Drive at Avenue 38 and then followed the routing described in the previous paragraph to Route 138 northeast of Wrightwood.[citation needed]
Before the segment of the Glendale Freeway was built north of Glassell Park, Route 2 continued north on Fletcher Drive to Eagle Rock Boulevard, then north on Eagle Rock Boulevard to Verdugo Road, north on Verdugo to Cañada, north on Cañada back to Verdugo, and north and east on Verdugo to the Angeles Crest Highway (then Haskell Street).[citation needed]
Beverly Hills Freeway
Originally, it was to have been the Beverly Hills Freeway from Route 405 to Route 101 just east of Vermont Avenue, flowing onto the Glendale Freeway. In fact, the proposed freeway on Route 2 west of Route 101 was the original routing of the "Santa Monica Freeway" (a name which subsequently went to the distantly parallel
Planners originally intended for it to connect to the Hollywood Freeway with Route 101 near the Vermont Avenue interchange, but community opposition killed the project by the 1960s (which is why there is a huge median around the cancelled interchange today). The Glendale Freeway offers stunning vistas of the eastern San Fernando Valley, the Verdugo Mountains, the Crescenta Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains.[17]
In the 1960s, the city of
California State Senator (later Congressman) Anthony Beilenson was one of the leading opponents of the project.
Further construction
The first segment of freeway was built in the 1950s and ran from just west of the Los Angeles River to Avenue 38 in
Starting in July 1964, Route 2 began in Santa Monica at its junction with Routes 1 and
For its entire length, until the tracks were removed, Santa Monica Boulevard followed the tracks of the
Except for a short portion at its eastern end, Santa Monica Boulevard was adopted as a state highway in 1933. From 1934 to 1936, it was signed as State Route 2. Then it became
From 1936 to 1964,
Today, the
Since the 1950s, proposals have been made to extend the Glendale Freeway to the
In popular culture
The section of freeway between the
Major intersections
Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary ( ).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.
County | Location | Postmile [1][21][22] | Exit [23][24] | Destinations | Notes |
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Los Angeles LA L0.00-82.27 | Santa Monica | L0.00[a] | SR 1 south (Lincoln Boulevard) – LAX Airport | Continuation beyond I-10 | |
L0.00 Los Angeles, Oxnard Interchange; southwestern end of SR 2; I-10 east exit 1A, west exit 1B | | ||||
Los Angeles line | 2.31 | Centinela Avenue | Southwestern end of state maintenance | ||
SR 7 ; I-405 exit 55A; northeastern end of state maintenance | |||||
3.80 | Sepulveda Boulevard | ||||
Beverly Hills | 6.20 | Wilshire Boulevard | |||
West Hollywood | 8.69 | La Cienega Boulevard | |||
9.57 | Fairfax Avenue | ||||
Los Angeles line | 10.62 | La Brea Avenue | Western end of state maintenance | ||
SR 170 | |||||
12.74 5.55[b] | US 101 north (Hollywood Freeway) / Santa Monica Boulevard – Ventura | Western end of US 101 overlap; interchange; US 101 exit 7; Santa Monica Boulevard was former US 66 east | |||
Western end of freeway on US 101 | |||||
4.85[b] | 6B | Melrose Avenue, Normandie Avenue | |||
4.40[b] | 6A | Vermont Avenue | |||
3.76[b] | 5B | Silver Lake Boulevard | |||
3.34[b] | 5A | Rampart Boulevard, Benton Way | |||
2.86[b] 12.75 | Eastern end of freeway on US 101 | ||||
Los Angeles | Eastern end of US 101 overlap; interchange; US 101 exit 4B | ||||
13.19 | Sunset Boulevard | Former US 66 | |||
13.59 | Glendale Boulevard south | ||||
Southern end of Glendale Freeway | |||||
14.21 | 12 | Glendale Boulevard north | Southbound exit; SR 2 south merges onto Glendale Boulevard south; no access from Glendale Boulevard south to SR 2 north | ||
14.95 | 13A | Riverside Drive | Signed as exit 13 northbound | ||
15.14 | 13A | Los Angeles, Sacramento | Signed as exit 13 northbound; I-5 exit 139 | ||
15.52 | 13B | Fletcher Drive | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
16.01 | 14 | San Fernando Road | Former US 6 / US 99 | ||
R17.00 | 15A | Verdugo Road | Signed as exit 15 northbound | ||
R17.29 | 15B | York Boulevard | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
R18.52 | 16 | Colorado Boulevard, Broadway | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
R18.81 | 17B | Signed as exits 17A (east) and 17B (west) northbound; SR 134 exit 9B | |||
Glendale | R19.05 | 17C | Holly Drive | Signed as exit 17A southbound | |
R20.05 | 18 | Mountain Street | |||
R23.00 | 21A | Verdugo Boulevard – Montrose | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
R23.16 R18.87 I-210 west (Foothill Freeway) – San Fernando, Sacramento Southwestern end of I-210 overlap; northern end of Glendale Freeway; SR 2 south follows I-210 exit 19 | | ||||
R23.44 | 21C | Foothill Boulevard | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; former SR 118 | ||
La Cañada Flintridge | R19.88[c] 24.41 | Northeastern end of freeway on I-210 | |||
I-210 east (Foothill Freeway) / Angeles Crest Highway – Pasadena | Northeastern end of I-210 overlap; interchange; I-210 exit 20 | ||||
| 33.80 | CR N3 (Angeles Forest Highway) – Palmdale | |||
| 64.09 | Islip Saddle, elevation 6,658 feet (2,029 m)[25] | |||
SR 39 south (San Gabriel Canyon Road) | Closed | ||||
| 64.15 | Eastbound winter closure gate | |||
Vincent Gap | 74.72 | Westbound winter closure gate | |||
San Bernardino SBD 0.00-6.36 | Mountain Top Junction | 6.36 | SR 138 – San Bernardino, Palmdale | Northeastern end of SR 2 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- California Roads portal
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