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,


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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?

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. :>


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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.