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Reseda Blvd. @ the 101
Hi All,
Let's start off the morning w/ some Los Angeles trivia: >From southbound Reseda Boulevard, city signs refer to US Federal Route 101 (US-101) as "101 West" and "101 East". This is geographically correct, since US-101 has a latitudinal path between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara County. Conversely, the entrance ramps @ Reseda refer to US-101 by its interstate orientation: "North" and "South". Is this direction mismatch a phenomenon to Los Angeles, or phenomena for other US-101 exits? Cheers, Carl Rogers "Adding human experience to highway enthusiasm" ******** Calrog.com, http://www.calrog.com : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An integrated media arm in Turn-of-the-Century PC Development, International Highway Research, and Interpersonal Psychology. Has served your home country and ninety-four of its worldwide neighbours since 2000, through Internet downstream and published works. ******** |
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Reseda Blvd. @ the 101
Carl Rogers wrote:
> Hi All, > > Let's start off the morning w/ some Los Angeles trivia: > > >From southbound Reseda Boulevard, city signs refer to US Federal Route > 101 (US-101) as "101 West" and "101 East". This is geographically > correct, since US-101 has a latitudinal path between Los Angeles and > Santa Barbara County. > > Conversely, the entrance ramps @ Reseda refer to US-101 by its > interstate orientation: "North" and "South". > > Is this direction mismatch a phenomenon to Los Angeles, or phenomena > for other US-101 exits? > > Cheers, > > Carl Rogers Carl, this nonsense occurs all over the portion of US-101 in the San Fernando Valley. For a while, they made the following distinction: The Ventura Freeway went East/West but US-101 went North/South. Thus, a sign assembly might point to both US-101 North and Ventura Freeway West. It seems they have given up on that distinction in some areas. Interestingly, there is no similar issue on CA-1/Pacific Coast Highway in the vicinity of Malibu, CA. The road heads generally West but is referred to as CA-1 North. CA-2 has a similar issue. The non-freeway portions are clearly East/West; however, the freeway portion (featured in your recent video) goes North/South, and is posted as such. In the vicinity of Riverside, CA, CA-91 East morphs into CA-91 North before the CA-60/CA-91/I-215 interchange. Of course, as a Bay Area resident, who can forget the notorious section near Oakland where, while driving North, you are on both I-80 East and I-580 West? |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:40:13 -0800, in misc.transport.road
Scott en Aztlán > wrote in >: >"Steven J. Sobol" > said in ca.driving: > >>In article om>, wrote: >> >>> Of course, as a Bay Area resident, who can forget the notorious section >>> near Oakland where, while driving North, you are on both I-80 East and >>> I-580 West? >> >>That's nothing. The I-77/I-81 multiplex in Virginia has you going >>south on I-77 and north on I-81/US 11 for several miles. :> > >The railroads solved all this BS more than 100 years ago. Every train >runs either "timetable east" or "timetable west." Except for a few railroads like the Illinois Central and the GM&O, tracks did go identifiably east or west, even if they went more north or south at times. |
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