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California Department of Transportation
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The California Department of Transportation is an executive department within the U. S. state of California. Caltrans manages the highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems throughout the state. It supports Amtrak California and the Capitol Corridor, the department is part of the state cabinet-level California State Transportation Agency. Like the majority of government agencies, Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento. In 2015, Caltrans released a new statement, Provide a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California’s economy. The earliest predecessor of Caltrans was the Bureau of Highways, which was created by the California Legislature and this agency consisted of three commissioners who were charged with analyzing the state road system and making recommendations. At the time, there was no highway system, since roads were purely a local responsibility. After the commissioners submitted their report to the governor on November 25,1896, voters approved an $18 million bond issue for the construction of a state highway system in 1910, and the first Highway Commission was convened in 1911. On August 7,1912, the department broke ground on its first construction project, the year 1912 also saw the founding of the Transportation Laboratory and the creation of seven administrative divisions. In 1913, the legislature started requiring vehicle registration and allocated the funds to support regular highway maintenance. In 1921, the legislature turned the Department of Engineering into the Department of Public Works, the history of Caltrans and its predecessor agencies during the 20th century was marked by many firsts. In late 1972, the legislature approved a reorganization in which the Department of Public Works was merged with the Department of Aeronautics to become the modern Department of Transportation, for administrative purposes, Caltrans divides the State of California into 12 districts, supervised by district offices. Most districts cover multiple counties, District 12 is the district with one county. The largest districts by population are District 4 and District 7, like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3. Official California Department of Transportation website Named Highways, Freeways, Structures, and Other Appurtenances in California
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California State Route 126
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State Route 126 is a highway in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, California. The route runs from U. S. Route 101 in Ventura to Interstate 5 in Santa Clarita through the Santa Clara River Valley. The highway is an important connector highway in Ventura County, and serves as a route into the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys, the High Desert of Antelope Valley. State Route 126 is the route from Ventura County to the San Joaquin Valley via Interstate 5. The highway is designated as the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway. This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System, however, it is not a scenic highway as designated by Caltrans. SR126 generally follows the Santa Clara River through the valley, passing through the towns of Fillmore, the freeway portion of the highway - called the Santa Paula Freeway - begins in Ventura at U. S. Route 101. It proceeds northeast through the city, interchanging with the end of SR118 at a grade-separated interchange. SR126 continues as a highway thereafter, known as Telegraph Road and this section extends through Fillmore as Ventura Street, where SR126 meets SR23. Following this, SR126 as Telegraph Road encounters the community of Buckhorn, as well as the edge of Piru, in Los Angeles County, SR126 is known as Henry Mayo Drive. The highway continues east to an interchange with I-5, at this interchange the SR126 designation terminates, and the road continues into Santa Clarita as Newhall Ranch Road. In the late 1950s, the freeway was planned to continue all the way to the Antelope Valley Freeway in what is now Santa Clarita. The only remnants of these plans are the two ramps to and from the Antelope Valley Freeway at the Sierra Highway exit 6A in Santa Clarita. The city of Santa Clarita constructed the Cross Valley Connector to connect SR126 directly to SR14, the final CVC section, the bridge over the Santa Clara River, was opened on March 27,2010. The roadway is now a complete 50-mile highway between US101 and SR14 with no overlap with I-5 nor the longer drive through Santa Clarita, State maintenance ends at I-5, though, with the road continuing uninterrupted with six lanes to SR14. 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 an overlap due to a correction or change, 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, California Roads portal California @ AARoads - State Route 126 Caltrans, Route 126 highway conditions California Highways, SR126
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Ventura, California
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Ventura, officially the City of San Buenaventura, is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States. European explorers encountered a Chumash village, referred to as Shisholop, the eponymous Mission San Buenaventura was founded nearby in 1782 where it benefitted from the water of the Ventura River. The town grew around the compound and incorporated in 1866. The development of oil fields in the 1920s and the age of automobile travel created a major real estate boom during which many designated landmark buildings were constructed. The mission and these buildings are at the center of a downtown that has become a cultural, retail, Ventura lies along U. S. Route 101 between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, which was one of the original U. S. Routes. The highway is now known as the Ventura Freeway, but the route through the town along Main Street has been designated El Camino Real. During the post–World War II economic expansion, the community grew easterly, the population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census. Ventura is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, archaeological discoveries in the area suggest that humans have populated the region for at least 10, 000-12,000 years. Archaeological research demonstrates that the Chumash people have roots in central and southern coastal regions of California. Shisholop Village, designated Historic Point of Interest #18 by the city at the foot of nearby Figueroa Street, was the site of a Chumash village, the mission was named for St. Bonaventure, a Thirteenth Century Franciscan saint and a Doctor of the Church. San Miguel Chapel was the first outpost and center of operations while the first Mission San Buenaventura was being constructed, the first mission burned in 1801 and a replacement building of brick and stone was completed in 1809. The bell tower and facade of the new mission was destroyed by an 1812 earthquake, the Mission was rebuilt and functions as a parish church. Historic tours of downtown include the mission compound, on July 6,1841, Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted Rancho San Miguel to Felipe Lorenzana and Raymundo Olivas. Fernando Tico also received a Mexican land grant for part of Ventura and he received a land grant for Ojai and the downtown area of Ventura. Whose Olivas Adobe on the banks of the Santa Clara River was the most magnificent hacienda south of Monterey, California became a territory of the United States in 1848 and the 31st state in the Union in 1850. After the American Civil War, settlers came to the area, buying land from the Mexicans, vast holdings were later acquired by Easterners, including the railroad magnate, Thomas A. Scott. He was impressed by one of the employees, Thomas R. Bard, who had been in charge of train supplies to Union troops. Not easily accessible, Ventura was not a target of immigrants, for most of the century which followed the incorporation of Ventura in 1866, it remained isolated from the rest of the state
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California State Route 23
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State Route 23 is a state highway which runs roughly from Fillmore to Malibu. This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, Route 23 consists of three distinct sections. The southern section begins as Decker Canyon Road near Trancas in Malibu and this portion provides numerous beautiful vistas of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean during daytime, but extreme caution is advisable, especially as the road nears PCH. It is a dangerous road, and the rusted chassis of cars that have gone over the side can still be seen. Philip Taylor Kramer, bassist with the rock band Iron Butterfly from 1974-1977, SR23 then merges with Ventura Freeway and runs concurrently with it north to the Moorpark Freeway. The middle section, known as the Moorpark Freeway, is a route for traffic headed between Thousand Oaks and Moorpark. It starts in Thousand Oaks, splitting off from the concurrency with Route 101, the Moorpark Freeway terminates at the exit for Los Angeles Avenue when the freeway turns east to become the Ronald Reagan Freeway. Funding for widening of the freeway was approved August 18,2005, with construction to begin in February 2006, the widening was completed ahead of schedule in April 2008. Traffic along this freeway during rush hour is extremely congested, particularly near the intersection with the 101, the northernmost section begins at State Route 118 in Moorpark, and heads north as Grimes Canyon Road through orange groves and sandstone cliffs. In Fillmore, it terminates at State Route 126, the road in Fillmore actually continues past Route 126 up to the foot of the Los Padres National Forest. On SR23 from Tierra Rejada Road and Olsen Road is a bike lane, after crossing Tierra Rejada Road and Olsen Road, bicyclists are prohibited from crossing. State Route 23 has been designated as such since 1934, however, at this time it was also designated as Legislative Route 155. The freeway portion of SR23 opened in phases between 1971 and 1994. Before then, SR23 intersected with U. S.101 near Newbury Park, although it ran concurrently with U. S.101. SR23 was designated as part of the Freeway and Expressway System in 1959, Decker Freeway was a never built north–south freeway that would connect CA118, US101, and CA1. The freeway was part of a 1958 plan by the Metropolitan Engineering Board, but was considered to be geographically improbable. The freeways southern portion, from CA1 to US101, follows the alignment of Decker Canyon Road and Westlake Blvd. It would continue north before terminating at CA118 near First Street, 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
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Moorpark, California
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Moorpark is a city in Ventura County in Southern California. Moorpark was founded in 1900 when the application for the Moorpark Post Office was approved, villegas was named Moorparks first postmaster on August 8 of that year. The townsite of Moorpark was owned and surveyed by Robert W. Poindexter and his wife, the town has experienced a great amount of growth since the late 1970s. The population was 34,421 at the 2010 census, up from 31,415 at the 2000 census, Moorpark has 19 parks, all with a variety of amenities. Park hours for unlit facilities are from 6,00 a. m. to sunset, lit facilities are from 6,00 a. m. to 10,00 p. m. The Citys Dog Park is open from 7,00 a. m. to 5,00 p. m. PST, and 7,00 a. m. to 7,00 p. m. DST. The Citys Skatepark is open from 10,00 a. m. to sunset on school days, Park facilities, including picnic pavilions, ball fields, soccer fields, and tennis courts can be reserved for private use. Of these most sources agree that its origin was Admiral Lord Ansons estate Moor Park in Hertfordshire and it is mainly believed that the town of Moorpark is named after the Moorpark apricot, which used to grow in the area. The valley where Moorpark is located was inhabited by the Chumash. A Chumash village named Quimisac was located in what is now known as Happy Camp, the area was later part of the large Rancho Simi land grant given in 1795 to the Pico brothers by Governor Diego de Borica of Alta California. Robert W. Poindexter, the secretary of the Simi Land and Water Company, a map showing the townsite was prepared in November 1900. It was a resubdivision of the large lot subdivision known as Fremont, an application for a post office was submitted on June 1,1900 and approved by August of that year. The application noted that the town had a railroad depot, the town grew after the 1904 completion of a 7, 369-foot tunnel through the Santa Susana Mountains. Moorpark was then on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroads Coast Line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The depot remained in operation until it was closed in 1958 and it was eventually torn down around 1965. For one hour on November 12,1957, this fact was featured on Edwin R. Murrows See It Now television show, the reactor, called the Sodium Reactor Experiment was built by the Atomics International division of North American Aviation at the nearby Santa Susana Field Laboratory. The Sodium Reactor Experiment operated from 1957 to 1964 and produced 7.5 megawatts of power at a Southern California Edison-supplied generating station. Moorpark College opened on September 11,1967, Moorpark College is one of the few colleges that features an Exotic Animal Training and Management Program
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California State Route 27
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State Route 27 is a state highway in the U. S. The entire route is known by its street name, Topanga Canyon Boulevard. As one of the routes across the Santa Monica Mountains. SR27 is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System, however, it is not officially part of the system as designated by Caltrans. SR27 begins at SR1 right next to the Pacific Ocean and Topanga County Beach and it travels north as Topanga Canyon Boulevard, cutting through Topanga State Park. Upon exiting the park, SR27 provides access to Fernwood, Topanga, Sylvia Park, SR27 continues winding into the San Fernando Valley, nearly entering Calabasas before entering the Los Angeles community of Woodland Hills. The route becomes a city arterial through the valley, intersecting US101 before entering Warner Center. After traversing Chatsworth, SR27 ends just past an interchange with the SR118 freeway, metro Local line 245 runs on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The original state highway system in 1933 included a highway from near Topanga Beach to Montalvo-San Fernardo Road near Chatsworth, two years later, this was numbered as Route 156. The route was redesignated as SR27 in the 1964 state highway renumbering, 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 an overlap due to a correction or change, segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route is in Los Angeles County, California Roads portal Caltrans, Route 27 highway conditions California Highways, SR27 California @ AARoads. com - State Route 27
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Chatsworth, Los Angeles
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Chatsworth is a neighborhood in the northwestern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. The area was home to Native Americans, some of whom left caves containing rock art, Chatsworth was explored and colonized by the Spanish beginning in the 18th Century. The land was part of a Mexican land grant in the 19th Century, Chatsworth has seven public and eight private schools. There are large open-space and smaller recreational parks as well as a public library, distinctive features are the former Chatsworth Reservoir, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and a number of private businesses. Overall, Chatsworth has one of the lowest densities of any neighborhood in the city, and it has a relatively high income level. The 2000 U. S. census counted 35,073 residents in the 15. 24-square-mile Chatsworth neighborhood—or 2,301 people per square mile, in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 37,102. In 2000 the median age for residents was 40, considered old for city and county neighborhoods, the neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, with a relatively high percentage of whites and of Asian people. The breakdown was Whites,65. 7%, Latinos,13. 5%, Asians,14. 4%, Blacks,2. 2%, and others,4. 2%. Korea and the Philippines were the most common places of birth for the 25. 2% of the residents who were born abroad—a low figure for Los Angeles, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $84,456, considered high for the city. The percentages of families earned more than $40,000 was considered high for the county. Renters occupied 28. 9% of the stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 71. 1%. The average household size of 2.6 people was considered average for Los Angeles, in 2000 there were 2,933 military veterans, or 10. 8% of the population, a high percentage compared to the rest of the city. The percentages of married people were among the countys highest, the rate of 10% of families headed by single parents was low for the city. Chatsworth is flanked by, the Santa Susana Mountains on the north, porter Ranch and Northridge on the east. Winnetka, Canoga Park, and West Hills on the south, the Simi Hills, and unincorporated Los Angeles County and Ventura County on the west. Twin Lakes, a community founded by San Franciscos George Haight in the early 20th Century and this region experiences hot and dry summers, with average daily high temperatures of 90–100 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chatsworth has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, Chatsworth was inhabited by the Tongva-Fernandeño, Chumash-Venturaño, and Tataviam-Fernandeño Native American tribes. Native American civilizations had inhabited the Valley for an estimated 8,000 years, Stoney Point is the site of the Tongva Native American settlement of Ashaawanga or Momonga, that was also a trading place with the neighboring Tataviam and Chumash people
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Interstate 405 (California)
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Interstate 405, also known as I-405 or the 405, is a major north–south Interstate Highway in Southern California. It is a longer route than using Interstate 5, running along the western and southern parts of the Greater Los Angeles Area from Irvine in the south to near San Fernando in the north. The entire route is known as the segment of the San Diego Freeway. I-405 is a heavily traveled thoroughfare by both commuters and by freight haulers along its length and is the busiest and most congested freeway in the United States. The freeways annual average daily traffic between exits 21 and 22 in Seal Beach reached 374,000 in 2008, making it the highest count in the nation. It has played a role in the development of dozens of cities and suburbs along its route through Los Angeles. This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, Interstate 405 begins at the El Toro Y interchange with Interstate 5 in southeastern Irvine. It then runs northwest through Orange County to Long Beach in Los Angeles County, the freeway then roughly follows the outline of the Pacific coast, varying between five and ten miles inland before crossing over the Sepulveda Pass in the Santa Monica Mountains. I-405 next travels northerly through the San Fernando Valley, before its termination with I-5 in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles, large portions of the route closely parallel Sepulveda Boulevard. As a result of these problems, it may take longer to pass through the entire Los Angeles area using this bypass route instead of merely taking the primary route I-5 through Downtown. Another parallel freeway is proposed to connect the Valley and the LA basin, despite 4 years of construction disruptions, billions of dollars of public money, LA Times commentary claims traffic with the lane expansions is actually just as bad or worse. There are a number of points of interest that I-405 passes by or connects to, for transportation, these include John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Long Beach Municipal Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. With connections, it is very close to the Port of Long Beach. I-405 also passes cultural facilities such as the Getty Center, the Skirball Cultural Center, the route also passes by or through many recreation and commercial destinations. I-405 was approved as an interstate in 1955. Construction began in 1957 with the first section, mostly north of LAX Airport being completed in 1961 followed by sections west of Interstate 605 within the few years. The highway was renumbered to Interstate 405 during the 1964 renumbering, the final section covering most of Orange County opened in 1969. Construction required the already existing Mulholland Highway to be re-routed 1.1 miles to the south along a new 579-foot-long bridge, the freeway from present-day I-10 to I-5 near San Fernando was once known as the Sepulveda Freeway as it was named for Sepulveda Boulevard
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North Hills, Los Angeles
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North Hills is a community in the north-central San Fernando Valley, and within the City of Los Angeles, California. North Hills was originally a community known as Mission Acres. After World War II, the developed suburban community was renamed Sepulveda until the latter 1990s. Northridge is to the west, Panorama City is to the east, Van Nuys is to the south, main thoroughfares include, Sepulveda Boulevard and Roscoe Boulevard, Hayvenhurst, Woodley, and Haskell Avenues, and Lassen, Plummer, and Nordhoff Streets. North Hills is bounded by Balboa Boulevard and Bull Creek on the west, Devonshire and Lassen Street on the north, the Pacoima Wash on the east, overlapping Area codes 747 and 818 serve the area. The North Hills ZIP code is 91343, North Hills is home to the large Veterans Administration Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center campus, which serves veterans in the San Fernando Valley, with residential and outpatient care. Mission Acres was a community made by early developers who created 1 acre plots for agricultural activities. The Californio Sepulveda family, going back to the founding of the Pueblo of Los Angeles, is the source of various Los Angeles place-names, Sepulveda Boulevard is the primary north/south street through North Hills, crossing Sepulveda Pass to the south. In 1992, residents of the half of Sepulveda, west of the San Diego Freeway. Thereafter the value of properties east of the San Diego Freeway in Sepulveda fell, the City of Los Angeles eventually changed the name of remaining Sepulveda to North Hills also. The city then formed a new sub-neighborhood of North Hills West which begins west of the 405 freeway and goes to Bull Creek/Balboa, the eastern section became the sub-neighborhood of North Hills East. North Hills West boundaries are west of the 405-San Diego Freeway, along the Bull Creek Wash, South of Devonshire, the North Hills East boundaries are east of the 405-San Diego Freeway, along the Pacoima Wash, South of Lassen, and North of Roscoe. North Hills West Neighborhood Council was certified in 2003 and their slogan is Fostering Community, and its logo is of a green tree in the city. The 2012-2014 North Hills West Neighborhood Council was seated into office on September 20,2012, a northwestern section became part of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council in 2013. North Hills East Neighborhood Council was certified in 2010 and it has a growing, multicultural group of neighbors dedicated to service and community activism. Public library The Los Angeles Public Library Mid-Valley Regional Branch, one of the biggest in the San Fernando Valley, is located on Nordhoff Street at Woodley Avenue in North Hills. In 2009, the Los Angeles Timess Mapping L. A. project supplied these North Hills community statistics, median household income, population size is 60,254 according to 2010 Census data. It should be noted that this summarizes both sides of the 405 freeway, the North Hills West neighborhood had 24,000 residents in 2009
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Interstate 5 in California
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Interstate 5 is a major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the U. S. state of California. It begins at the Mexico–United States border at the San Ysidro crossing, goes north across the length of California and crosses into Oregon south of the Medford-Ashland metropolitan area. It is the important and most used of the two major north-south routes on the Pacific Coast, the other being U. S. Route 101. This highway links the major California cities of San Diego, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento, Interstate 5 has several named portions, the Montgomery Freeway, San Diego Freeway, Santa Ana Freeway, Golden State Freeway, and West Side Freeway. I-5 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System, however, it is a scenic highway as designated by Caltrans only from State Route 152 to I‑580. Interstate 5 begins at the San Ysidro Port of Entry from Mexico in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, immediately after the border, I-805 splits off to the northeast and serves as a bypass of I-5 that avoids the downtown San Diego area. I-5 itself continues northwest and intersects with the end of the SR905 freeway. I-5 then continues northward and joins the end of SR75. I-5 then enters Chula Vista, briefly leaving the San Diego city limits and it continues along the east side of San Diego Bay where it intersects with SR54 and enters National City. From there, I-5 veers around the San Diego Naval Base, I-5 subsequently interchanges with four state routes — SR15, SR75 and the Coronado Bay Bridge, the western end of SR94, and the southern end of SR163. In addition to serving downtown San Diego, I-5 also provides access to Balboa Park from the Pershing Drive exit. The portion of I-5 from the border to downtown San Diego is named the Montgomery Freeway in honor of John J. Montgomery, a pioneer aviator who flew a glider from a location near Chula Vista in 1884. I-5 continues northwest from downtown as the San Diego Freeway until it reaches its junction with I-8, then slightly to the north while passing near SeaWorld. Thereafter, I-5 interchanges with the end of SR52 before passing through the UC San Diego campus in University City near La Jolla. At Nobel Drive, the San Diego LDS Temple towers over I-5, shortly afterward, I-5 interchanges with the northern terminus of I-805 before continuing north and interchanging with the western end of SR56. At this interchange, there is a recently completed local bypass that provides the access to Carmel Mountain Road from both directions and provides the only access to SR56 going northbound. North of the San Diego city limits, I-5 enters into the city limits of Solana Beach, in Oceanside, I-5 intersects with the SR78 freeway and the SR76 expressway and continues through Camp Pendleton. It then follows the Pacific Ocean coastline for the next 20 miles, I-5 enters Orange County at the Christianitos Road exit
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SR 23 north (Moorpark Avenue) – Fillmore
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I-405 (San Diego Freeway) – Santa Monica
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