Figueroa Street

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Figueroa Street is a street in Southern California, United States. It runs in a north/south direction for a length of more than 30 miles (48 km) between the communities of Eagle Rock and Wilmington. Termini are at Pacific Coast Highway in Wilmington and just north of the Ventura Freeway west of Pasadena, with a break between San Fernando Road in Highland Park and College Street in Chinatown.

An early routing of Figueroa Street near downtown Los Angeles was part of U.S. Highway 66, today a part of the Pasadena Freeway. The famed Figueroa Street Tunnels were once a part of that same stretch of roadway. The road passes through Downtown Los Angeles near Bunker Hill and South Park. Figueroa Street also passes by Staples Center. For the rest of its southbound journey, Figueroa Street runs parallel to the Harbor Freeway (Interstate 110) in South Los Angeles. The only portion of Figueroa St. that leaves the Los Angeles city limits is in the city of Carson, but it soon reenters LA in the vicinity of Wilmington. The road ends at Harry Bridges Boulevard north of San Pedro.

Part of the southern terminus was once part of U.S. Highway 6 before its almost total decommissioning through California in 1964; indeed, Figueroa Street at Pacific Coast Highway was the actual western terminus of that highway,^{[citation needed]} although maps show that US 6 went as far east as Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach.