the first freeway was built in los angeles in 1940.
the first freeway was built in los angeles in 1940.
when was the first freeway built in los angeles?
1940
plans for the hollywood freeway officially began in 1924 when los angeles voters approved a "stop-free express highway" between downtown los angeles and the san fernando valley. the first segment of the hollywood freeway built was a one and a half mile stretch through the cahuenga pass. that segment opened on june 15, 1940. it was then known as the "cahuenga pass freeway". pacific electric railway trolleys ran down the center of this freeway until 1952. the next section of the freeway that stretched from the san fernando valley to downtown los angeles opened on april 16, 1954 at a cost of $55 million. the final section, north of the ventura freeway to the golden state freeway was completed in 1968.
hollywood freeway
the metro green line opened in 1995. its right-of-way was planned from conception to be entirely isolated and protected, running in the median of interstate 105, the century freeway west from norwalk, connecting at rosa parks station with metro blue line, then further west to los angeles international airport, and then south on elevated tracks to redondo beach. the century freeway, named for century blvd. the equivalent of 100th st., was the world's first freeway built to bypass and relieve traffic congestion from another freeway – the 91, artesia freeway.
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