7 minutes agoFirst highway in Los Angeles 82 years ago
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(3 years ago)Officials from the California Department of Transport and Los Angeles on December 30, 1940, performed the opening ceremony for the city's first highway. About 1,000 and 500 people participated in cutting off the strip of this 7 - mile [7 km] highway that was extending a broad road called [...]
About 1,000 and 500 people participated in cutting off this 7 - mile - long [7 km] strip of highway called Arroyo Sico and connecting the center of Los Angeles with the city of Pasadena.
The new highway had a width of 21m and had three lanes in each direction. It was named Arroyo Seco, as a dried torrent was called, which extended parallel to it.
Later, the famous Rose Bowl stadium of Pasadena was built along this highway. Today Los Angeles is famous for its highways that cover about 1,000 miles [1 thousand km] of length.
