Talk:Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)/Archive 1

message: As someone who lives here, I've never heard it referred to as Freeway 110 or  the Route 110 Freeway. I think previous editors had it right when they used the term, 110 Freeway for the whole stretch from Pasadena-San Pedro.
Also, there is a four-mile stretch south of 190th Street where the Interstate 110 portion is NOT in the city of Los Angeles. It marks the border between Carson, California and an unincorporated bit of county land. Mackerm 02:21, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: This was not the first freeway in the United States.  The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened two months earlier, and the Merritt Parkway was a couple years earlier (although the latter doesn't meet modern freeway standards).  See Freeway for more info.  It was one of the first, though.
Some information from 
Before the parkway was built, Figueroa Street ended south of Dodger Stadium as what is now Figueroa Terrace. The piece north of the tunnels was Dayton Avenue (not sure how far). The north three of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels opened in late 1931. Traffic used North Broadway to Solano Avenue through the tunnels to Riverside Drive, but was there access across the Los Angeles River there? The present Riverside Drive bridge is dated 1938, but it may have replaced an earlier bridge shown on .
The south tunnel is dated 1936. The underpasses under Temple Street and First Street downtown are 1940.
pre-1964 Legislative Route 165 defined 1933, San Pedro to La Canada
pre-1964 Legislative Route 205 defined July 13, 1935, I-5 to Pasadena - traded with the county for the 34-mile Pear Blossom Highway
Figueroa Street Viaduct construction began 1937, extending straight from the north tunnel to Dayton Avenue.
Construction began March 22, 1938 by the State Division of Highways
Opened July 20, 1940 from Orange Grove Avenue to Avenue 40 (Avenue 40?!)
Opening ceremonies December 30, 1940 from Avenue 40 south to the Los Angeles River, not clear if the north part opened yet, but a contract between Grand Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue was completed January 30, 1941
Originally had an at-grade intersection southbound with Riverside Drive and both directions with Solano Street, Bishops Road, Cottage Home Street, Castelar Street and Bernard Street
Southerly Extension to Adobe Street began construction in October 1940, opening ceremony December 30, 1943
Construction began by late 1947 to extend it to the 1949 Four Level Interchange, completed September 22, 1953
Name changed November 16, 1954 to Pasadena Freeway
===Bridge dates===
*1949 Four Level Interchange
*1948 under Sunset Boulevard
*1948 under Alpine Street
*1939 under College Street
*under pedestrian bridge
*1962 under ramp to Stadium Way
*1942 under ramp to Hill Street
*1942 northbound under Stadium Way
*1942 southbound over Stadium Way
*1936 northbound tunnel
*1942 southbound over Amador Street
*1942 southbound over Solano Avenue
*1931 northbound tunnel
*1942 southbound under Park Row Drive
*1931 northbound tunnel
*1931 northbound tunnel
*1936 northbound over Los Angeles River
*1944 southbound over Los Angeles River
*1940 southbound over ramp to Figueroa Street
*1925-1939 under Avenue 26
*1962 under ramp to I-5
*1961 under pedestrian bridge
===Irrelevant trivia===
I removed this paragraph from the article as irrelevant:
*"This is the freeway that is central to the plot of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," where a madman (Judge Doom, played by Christopher Lloyd) tries to destroy Toon Town to build a freeway from Los Angeles to Pasadena, California."
The  movie uses the names Pasadena and Los Angeles, but does anybody in the world (other than, perhaps, the anonymous, three-time user who inserted the paragraph) really believe that the proposed freeway through the entirely fictional Toon Town was the actual Pasadena Freeway? The highway can be seen in the other movies mentioned in the section, but not in this one.
(Edited to add a heading—I put it in the wrong place to begin with—and because I forgot to sign my original edit.) Whyaduck 04:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Figuring out the history

message: I removed this paragraph from the article as irrelevant:
*"This is the freeway that is central to the plot of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," where a madman (Judge Doom, played by Christopher Lloyd) tries to destroy Toon Town to build a freeway from Los Angeles to Pasadena, California."
The  movie uses the names Pasadena and Los Angeles, but does anybody in the world (other than, perhaps, the anonymous, three-time user who inserted the paragraph) really believe that the proposed freeway through the entirely fictional Toon Town was the actual Pasadena Freeway? The highway can be seen in the other movies mentioned in the section, but not in this one.
(Edited to add a heading—I put it in the wrong place to begin with—and because I forgot to sign my original edit.) Whyaduck 04:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Irrelevant trivia