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The Interstate in the City of California

Interstate 10 in the city of California is one of the major west and east Interstate highway route in the United States. Starting from the state of the city of California, from the east route of Santa Monica to the Pacific Ocean, to the state of Los Angeles and all the way through the Arizona border. In the city of the Greater Los Angeles, the Interstate 10 in California is usually called as the San Bernardino Freeway and Santa Monica Freeway, which were connected through the short concurrency of the Golden State Freeway. The latter is also called as the Interstate 5 that is located at the East Los Angeles Interchange. The Interstate 10 in the city of California has several parts that were designed for the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, the Redlands Freeway, and the Rosa Parks Freeway.

The Route Description of the Interstate 10 in the City of California

Both of the Highways Code and the California Streets refers the Interstate 10 in California as the following:

  • The Route 101 is close to the Mission Road located at the city of Los Angeles through the location of the state line of Arizona located at the Colorado River thru the Monterey Park vicinity, Chicago Summit, Indio, thru Blythe, Colton, and Pomona.
  • The first route of Interstate 10 in the city of California is from the city of Santa Monica to Route 5 which is located close to the Seventh Street located in the city of Los Angeles.

In spite of the legal definition about Interstate 10 in the city of California, the Caltrans usually connect the two different parts of the said routes through cosigning it with Interstate 5 into 1-10 down. It is located between the Freeway of Santa Monica and the East Los Angeles Interchange, opposing the route of the west Freeway of San Bernardino which has the Route 101 and the Route 5. This was referred formally as the Route 110 (it was signed by the Interstate 110.) and in the year of 1968, it was signed again as the United States 101 westbound and 1-10 United States eastbound.

Both of this 1-10 and 1-5 is opposing consistently through the help of the route logs by the Federal Highway Administrator’s Interstate Highway that will overlap the 1-10 parts of the route in the city of California. The 1-10 routes are a segment by the Expressway System and the California Freeway that is also under the National Highway System. It is the highways network that is referred to as the critical role in the economy of the said country. Trough the mobility and the defense of the Federal Highway Administration, the route 1-10 of the city of California is qualified to be involved by the State Scenic Highway System, but the California Department of Transportation doesn’t allow the Interstate 1-10 in California to be included in the scenic highway.

During the 25th day of April 1957, the State Highway Commission stated the name of the Route 1 to the Route 5 of the Route 10 as the Freeway of Santa Monica. The freeways located between the 1-205 San Diego Freeway and the 1-110 Harbor is generally called as the Freeway of the Rosa Parks, right after the civil rights of American and African activists. In the city of Santa Monica, the route 1-10 was officially signed to be part of the Christopher Columbus Intercontinental Highway.

The Santa Monica Freeway

The small part of the Route 1 and the westernmost part of the Interstate 10 in California is called as the Santa Monica Freeway. This Santa Monica Freeway will start at the Santa Monica McClure Tunnel in the city of California and will end at the downtown southeast of the city of Los Angeles that is located at the East Los Angeles Interchange. The Interstate 10 will start at the place of Santa Monica when the first Route runs into the Santa Monica Freeway heading the east portion of the route. The SR 1 will exit at the Lincoln Boulevard heading the south part of the Freeway, while the Route 1-10 will continuously heading the east portion of the freeway.

San Bernardino Freeway

The Interstate 10 in the city of California heading the east part of the Downtown Los Angeles Eastside that is located at the region of Los Angeles, with the two different HOV lanes that are paralleling the El Monte Busway which is the north part of the freeway. The routes taking by the said Freeway will extend its route to the Alameda Street that is part of the United States 101 Freeway. It will follow the spur west where the 1-10 routes will pass the California State University, Los Angeles.

Riverside Country

In the Riverside Country, the Interstate 10 in California will pass first the Calimesa before they enter the Beaumont that will also merge to the State Route 60 eastern end. In the city of Banning, the Interstate 1-10 in California will pass the intersection of the SR 243 before they enter the San Gorgonio Pass that is located between the San Jacinto Mountains and the San Bernardino Mountains.

The Future of the Interstate 10 in California

Because of the increase in the traffic volume in both the San Bernardino Freeway and Los Angeles Freeway, Caltrans are planning to have some additional features of the Interstate 10 in California to lessen the traffic on both Freeways. The following are the solutions that they will do:

  • The Caltrans are planning to add two or more tolled express lanes on both the San Bernardino Freeway and Los Angeles Freeway. They also think that adding some tolled express lanes will in the Ford Street that is located at the Redlands will help to reduce the traffic at the first two freeways.
  • Caltrans are also planning to finish the high occupancy vehicle lane construction in both the said routes between the SR 57 and the I-605.