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The Century Freeway begins at Sepulveda Boulevard ( California State Highway 1, the famous Pacific Coast Highway) on the southern edge of Los Angeles International Airport, adjacent to the city of El Segundo. It proceeds generally eastward from there on, crossing the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers before terminating at the San Gabriel River Freeway in western Norwalk.
An integral part of Caltrans' 1960s master plan for the Southern California freeway system, the Century Freeway nevertheless did not open until 1993. Many factors contributed to the delay. The growth of the environmentalist movement in the 1960s created resistance to new freeway construction. Fiscal difficulties brought about by the 1971 Sylmar earthquakePST on the morning of February 9, 1971, an earthquake measuring Magnitude 6. 6 on the Richter magnitude scale rocked the northern San Fernando Valley, near Sylmar, Los Angeles, California. Sylmar Quake' is the name initially given to the event by local me and the California tax revoltA tax revolt is a political struggle to repeal, limit, or roll back a government-imposed tax. In the United States, it is often used to refer to a series of anti-tax state initiative campaigns, which have been particularly popular in the West. The first o of the late 1970s further hampered Caltrans' construction efforts. However, the major source of resistance to the freeway's construction was community opposition, and the side effects of these demands. By the early 1970s, most of the areas in the freeway's path (and thus slated to be demolished) were predominantly African-American; resentment over previous freeway projects' effects on other black communities resulted in significant modifications to the original route. Most cities along the way, weary of the noise and visual blight created by elevated freeways, demanded that the route be built far below grade in a "trench." After construction began in the 1980s, failure to perform a full survey of the area's groundwaterGroundwater is any water found below the land surface. It is found in aquifers, in the pore spaces of rocks, in unconsolidated sediments, as permafrost, and as soil moisture. Groundwater flows to the surface naturally at springs and seeps and can form oas deposits resulted in buckling and cracking along the eastern portions of the route. Norwalk, opposed to the freeway's proposed route through the center of the city, blocked the route from reaching its intended terminus at the Santa Ana FreewayThe Santa Ana Freeway is a portion of Interstate 5 in Los Angeles, California and its southeastern suburbs. It begins at the East Los Angeles Interchange, running in a generally southeasterly direction from there to its intersection with the San Diego Fre (I-5); however, Caltrans had already decided to abandon that section due to the inability of the severely congested Santa Ana Freeway to accommodate any more traffic.
Throughout the difficulties, Rep. Anderson (D- San PedroSan Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. History The site, at the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, on the west side of San Pedro Bay, was used by Spanish ships starting in the 154) tirelessly advocated for the route's construction, touting its possibilities for congestion relief along Century, Manchester, and Firestone Boulevards and the Imperial Highway; it has succeeded in these tasks, as well as relieving pressure on the Santa MonicaThe Santa Monica Freeway is the westernmost segment of Interstate 10, beginning at the western terminus of I-10 at the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California and ending southeast of downtown Los Angeles at the famous East Los Angeles Interchang and San DiegoThe San Diego Freeway (colloquially known as "the 405") is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California. Connecting Los Angeles to San Diego, it is heavily traveled by commuters and freight haulers along its entire length and is known Freeways for travelers between downtown Los Angeles and LAX. After Anderson's death in 1994, Caltrans honored him by renaming the freeway in his honor; however, the name "Anderson Freeway" is seldom used except on maps.
In addition to being below grade for most of its route, the Century Freeway is also notable for the MTA Green Line light rail line running along its median. Its elaborate high occupancy vehicle lane structure includes a towering interchange with the Harbor Freeway's HOV lanes.
Communities along the Century Freeway include:
Freeways intersected by the Century Freeway include:
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