La Cienega Boulevard
La Cienega Boulevard is a major north/south thoroughfare that runs from El Segundo Boulevard in El Segundo, California northward to Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It is unusual among most Southern California roadways in that part of it was built to freeway standards in the late 1940s as part of the Laurel Canyon Freeway, part of California State Route 170. The SR 170 freeway was never completed south of U.S. Highway 101, and the stretch of La Cienega from just north of Manchester Boulevard in Inglewood, through the Baldwin Hills and along the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area to Jefferson Boulevard in Los Angeles is a divided, limited access highway with few traffic signals. As such, emergency call boxes like those found along the area's freeways were installed along that stretch in the 1970s. From south of Manchester and from north of Jefferson, La Cienega Boulevard is a regular surface street and one of Hollywood's major throughfares. Offices for A&E Network, The History Channel and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are located on La Cienega as are the studios of KABC and KLOS, two of Los Angeles' biggest radio stations. The Spanish phrase la cienega translates to English as "the swamp."
External linksSouthern California Unsigned Freeways - La Cienega Boulevard
|
|
