Interstate 405 (California)

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Route 405
Length: 72.8 mi (117.1 km)
Formed:
Major cities: Los Angeles
Inglewood
Hawthorne
Torrance
Carson
Long Beach
Westminster
Huntington Beach
Fountain Valley
Costa Mesa
Irvine
Direction: North-South
JUNCTION POSTMILE
I-5 LA 48.65
SR-118 LA 46.25
U.S. Route 101 LA 39.46
SR-2 LA 30.87
I-10 LA 29.53
SR-187 LA 27.96
SR-90 LA 25.96
I-105 LA 23.37
SR-107 LA 17.59
SR-91 LA 16.57
I-110 LA 12.96
I-710 LA 7.60
SR-19 LA 3.33
I-605 ORA 24.05
SR-22 ORA 23.27
ORA 20.74
SR-39 ORA 16.54
SR-73 ORA 10.29
SR-55 ORA 8.75
SR-133 ORA 1.80
I-5 ORA 0.00
California State Routes
Unconstructed - Deleted - Scenic
< Route 399 Route 440 >

Interstate 405, colloquially referred to as "The four-oh-five", is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major bypass of I-5 running through Southern California. The entire 405 is part of the "San Diego Freeway" despite ending about 40 miles from San Diego. Interstate 405 is a heavily traveled thoroughfare by commuters and freight haulers along its entire length and has earned its place as one of the busiest and most congested freeways in the world. It has played a crucial role in the development of dozens of cities and suburbs along its route through the Greater Los Angeles area.

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[edit] Route

Interstate 405 (California) highlighted in red; its concurrency with the Garden Grove Freeway, State Route 22, is highlighted in blue.
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Interstate 405 (California) highlighted in red; its concurrency with the Garden Grove Freeway, State Route 22, is highlighted in blue.
The San Diego Freeway, close to the interchange with the Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101), on one of the rare days when it is not congested.
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The San Diego Freeway, close to the interchange with the Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101), on one of the rare days when it is not congested.

The San Diego Freeway splits away from the Golden State Freeway in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles (Exits 73/158), becoming Interstate 405. From the northern San Fernando Valley it heads straight south toward the Santa Monica Mountains. After crossing over the Sepulveda Pass, its route roughly follows the outline of the Pacific coast varying between five and ten miles inland. It crosses the Los Angeles/Orange county line in Long Beach, then continues southeast through Orange County. It is joined by the Santa Ana Freeway in southeastern Irvine at the massive El Toro Y interchange, below which it merges back into Interstate 5 (at Exit 94).

The section of I-405 from Hawthorne Boulevard to Golden State Freeway opened in 1961. I-405 from Hawthorne Boulevard to I-605 opened in 1966, and the portion between I-605 to the El Toro Y opened in 1970.

San Diego Freeway southbound near the intersection with the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10).
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San Diego Freeway southbound near the intersection with the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10).

The San Diego Freeway's congestion problems are legendary, leading to the joke that the Interstate was named 405 because traffic moves at "four or five" miles an hour. Indeed, average speeds as low as five miles per hour are routinely recorded during morning and afternoon commutes, and its interchanges with the Ventura Freeway (milepost 63) and with the Santa Monica Freeway (milepost 53) each consistently rank among the five most congested freeway interchanges in the United States. Commuters are known to despise the freeway: Steve Harvey of the Los Angeles Times once featured a personalized license plate with the text HATE405 in his column. While much of this gridlock has to do with the lack of alternate routes between many of the areas it connects -- some of which, such as the Pacific Coast and Laurel Canyon freeways, were proposed but abandoned for political reasons -- the freeway would likely be busy even with the addition of other roads and mass transit solutions, as it connects so many important Greater Los Angeles area locations.

[edit] Points of interest along the 405

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Commerce/Recreation

  • Century City high-rise office park
  • Marina del Rey
  • More than ten California state beaches, as well as many owned by counties and municipalities, and many tourist-heavy beach cities

[edit] Education and cultural

[edit] Control cities

[edit] Communities served

Communities along Interstate 405 include

[edit] Trivia and References

[edit] The O.J. Simpson chase

While dangerous high-speed chases along the San Diego Freeway are not uncommon, perhaps the most famous chase in its history was also one of the slowest. On the afternoon of June 17, 1994, former football star O.J. Simpson, suspected in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ronald Goldman, took to the freeway in a white Ford Bronco (driven by former USC teammate Al Cowlings) with police in pursuit. A bizarre, widely-televised low-speed chase ensued and ended hours later when Simpson returned to his Brentwood estate via the Sunset Boulevard exit and surrendered to law enforcement.

[edit] Ennis Cosby Murder

Ennis Cosby, the only son of Bill Cosby, was murdered along I-405 in Los Angeles on January 16, 1997, while fixing a flat tire.

[edit] Other Notes

  • I-405 was the subject of a 3-minute computer-generated movie called 405, produced in May 2000 by Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt. The movie depicted a DC-10 jet making an emergency landing on the freeway behind a driver.
  • The band Death Cab for Cutie referenced the interstate in their song titled "405," though the reference is more likely to the Washington interstate of the same name.
  • In November 2003, Amber Stachowski, a collegiate water polo player for the UCLA Bruins and member of the U.S. National Team was injured in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 405. She sustained a concussion, which kept her out of the water for two months. Six months later, she qualified for the Olympic team, which won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [1]
  • Lazlo Bane's song I'm No Superman mentions "heading down the 405" on a journey to work.

[edit] State law

Legal Definition of Route 405: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 615

[edit] Exit list

Postmile[2] Municipality #[3] Destinations Notes
ORA 0.00
ORA 0.02		 Irvine Interstate 5 South - San Diego Freeway Continues San Diego Freeway;
Southbound left exit and northbound entrance; separate truck / local access bypass ramps
1A Lake Forest Drive Southbound exits and northbound entrances accessible via the Interstate 5 truck bypass ramps
1B Bake Parkway
ORA 0.95 1C Irvine Center Drive Exit 1 northbound; northbound exit and entrance accessible via Enterprise
ORA 1.80 2 State Route 133 - Laguna Freeway;
Laguna Beach; to Interstate 5 North; to Eastern Toll Road		 No northbound exit to northbound SR-133, served by I-5
ORA 2.88 3 Sand Canyon Avenue
ORA 3.95 4 Jeffrey Road; University Drive
ORA 5.62 5 Culver Drive
ORA 6.92 7 Jamboree Road
ORA 7.80 8 MacArthur Boulevard - John Wayne Airport
ORA 8.75 Costa Mesa 9A State Route 55 - Costa Mesa Freeway No southbound exit to southbound SR-55, or northbound entrance from northbound SR-55 (both served by SR-73)
ORA 9.51 9B Bristol Street Northbound ramp splits off to connect with Park Center Drive
ORA 10.29 10 State Route 73 - San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor;
San Diego; to State Route 55 South		 Southbound exit and northbound entrance
ORA 10.75
ORA 11.45		 11 South Coast Drive; Fairview Road; Harbor Boulevard Exit 11A (Fairview Rd) and Exit 11B (Harbor Blvd) southbound;
no direct access to South Coast Dr southbound
ORA 12.41 Fountain Valley 12 Euclid Avenue
ORA 13.41 Talbert Street southbound entrance ramp only
ORA 13.78 14 Brookhurst Street
ORA 14.82
ORA 15.21		 15A Warner Avenue East No northbound exit
Huntington Beach 15B Magnolia Street; Warner Avenue West Exit 15 northbound
ORA 16.54 16 State Route 39 - Beach Blvd Southbound entrance accessible via Center Ave or Edinger Ave
ORA 17.75
ORA 17.94		 Westminster 18 Bolsa Avenue; Golden West Street
ORA 19.16 19 Westminster Avenue; Springdale Street
ORA 20.74 21 State Route 22 East - Garden Grove Freeway; Valley View Street Northbound exit accessible via Garden Grove Blvd; SR-22 joins northbound and leaves southbound
ORA 22.64 Seal Beach 22 Seal Beach Blvd; Los Alamitos Blvd
ORA 23.27 23 State Route 22 West - 7th Street SR-22 joins southbound and leaves northbound
ORA 24.05 24A Interstate 605 North Exit 24 northbound
LA 0.45 Long Beach 24B Studebaker Road Southbound exit and northbound entrance
LA 1.11 25 Palo Verde Avenue Combined as Exit 25 southbound;
southbound entrance from Palo Verde Ave accessible via Stearns St
LA 1.64 26A Woodruff Avenue
LA 2.18 26B Bellflower Blvd Exit 26 southbound; southbound exit and entrance accessible via Los Coyotes Diagonal
LA 3.33 27 State Route 19 - Lakewood Blvd
LA 4.88 29 Cherry Avenue Split into Exit 29A and 29B; exits to Cherry Ave South accessible via Temple Ave to Spring St (also Signal Hill)
LA 5.39 29C Orange Avenue Northbound exit and entrance accessible via 32nd St (also Signal Hill)
LA 6.08 30A Atlantic Avenue (also Signal Hill)
LA 6.34
LA 6.50		 30B Wardlow Road; Long Beach Blvd Southbound exit and entrance accessible via Crest Dr
LA 6.70 32A Pacific Avenue Southbound exit and northbound entrance
LA 7.60 32A Interstate 710 North - Pasadena Exit 32C southbound
32B Interstate 710 South - Long Beach
LA 8.06 32C Santa Fe Ave Exit 32D southbound;
northbound exit and entrance accessible via Warnock Way; Southbound exit and entrance accessible via Wardlow Rd
LA 8.19 33A Alameda Street Southbound exit and entrance accessible via 223rd St
LA 9.56 Carson 33B Wilmington Avenue
LA 10.54 34 Carson Street
LA 11.22 35 Avalon Blvd
LA 12.60 36 Main Street Northbound exit and southbound entrance
LA 12.96 Los Angeles 37A Interstate 110 - Harbor Fwy; San Pedro; Los Angeles Exit 37 northbound
LA 13.28 37B Vermont Avenue Southbound exit and northbound entrance
LA 13.83 38A Normandie Avenue Southbound exit accessible via 190th St
LA 14.40 38B Western Avenue Southbound exit and entrance accessible via 190th St
LA 15.45 Torrance 39 Crenshaw Blvd Northbound exit and entrance accessible via 182nd St
LA 16.57 40A State Route 91 - Artesia Blvd; Redondo Beach Blvd Exit 40 northbound
LA 16.88 40B Redondo Beach Blvd Southbound exit and northbound entrance
LA 17.59 Lawndale 42A State Route 107 - Hawthorne Blvd
LA 18.23 42B Inglewood Avenue
LA 19.21 Hawthorne 43 Rosecrans Avenue Split between Exit 43A (East) and Exit 43B (West) southbound
LA 20.17 44 El Segundo Blvd - El Segundo Southbound exit accessible via La Cienega Blvd
LA 45A Interstate 105 - El Segundo; Norwalk Exit 45 southbound
LA 21.22 Los Angeles 45B Imperial Highway Southbound exit combined with Exit 46 (Century Blvd); southbound exit and entrance accessible via La Cienega Blvd
LA 22.22 Inglewood 46 Century Blvd Southbound exit combined Imperial Highway; southbound exit and entrance accessible via La Cienega Blvd
LA 23.36
LA 23.64		 47 State Route 42 Manchester Blvd; La Cienega Blvd
LA 24.27 Los Angeles 48 La Tijera Blvd
LA 24.56 49A Howard Hughes Parkway Exit 49 southbound
LA 25.96 Culver City 49B Slauson Avenue Exit 50B southbound, combined with SR-90; northbound exit accessible via Sepulveda Blvd; northbound entrance accessible via Jefferson Blvd
50A State Route 90 - Marina del Rey Exit 50B southbound, combined with Slauson Ave
50B Jefferson Blvd Exit 50A southbound
LA 27.20 51 Culver Blvd; Washington Blvd Northbound exit and southbound exit accessible via Sawtelle Blvd; northbound entrance accessible via Braddock Dr
LA 27.95 52 Venice Blvd; Washington Blvd Northbound exit and entrance accessible via Sepulveda Blvd; southbound exit and entrance accessible via Sawtelle Blvd
LA 29.16 Los Angeles 53A National Blvd Northbound exit and southbound entrance
LA 29.53 53B Interstate 10 - Santa Monica Freeway Exit 53 southbound
LA 30.18 54 Olympic Blvd Southbound exit (accessible via Sawtelle Blvd) and northbound entrance (accessible via Cotner Ave)
LA 30.87 55A State Route 2 - Santa Monica Blvd Northbound exit and entrance accessible via Cotner Ave; southbound exit and entrance accessible via Sawtelle Blvd
LA 31.54 55B Wilshire Blvd Spilt into Exit 55B (East) and 55C (West) southbound
LA 32.50 56 Montana Avenue Northbound exit only, accessible via Sepulveda Blvd
56 Waterford St Southbound exit and entrance
LA 33.00 57A Sunset Blvd Exit 57 southbound, accessible via Church Ln; northbound entrance accessible via Moraga Dr
LA 33.20 57B Moraga Drive Northbound exit and entrance
LA 34.76 59 Getty Center Drive
LA 36.72 61 Mulholland Drive; Skirball Center Dr
LA 38.59 63A Valley Vista Blvd Southbound exit and entrance only, both accessible via Sepulveda Blvd
LA 39.00 63A Ventura Blvd Southbound exit accessible only via 101 South; northbound exit accessible via Sepulveda Blvd
LA 39.46 63B U.S. Route 101 - Ventura Freeway
LA 40.29 64 Burbank Blvd
LA 41.36 65 Victory Blvd Southbound exit accessible via Haskell Ave
LA 42.36 66 Sherman Way Split into Exit 66A (East) and Exit 66B (West) northbound; southbound exit accessible via Haskell Ave
LA 43.76 68 Roscoe Blvd
LA 44.74 69 Nordhoff Street
LA 46.24 70 Devonshire Street
LA 46.25 71A State Route 118 - Ronald Reagan Freeway; Simi Valley Exit 71 southbound
LA 47.24 71B San Fernando Mission Blvd Northbound exit and southbound entrance
LA 47.75 72 Rinaldi Street Northbound exit and entrance accessible via Sepulveda Blvd
LA 48.52   Interstate 5 North - Golden State Freeway; Sacramento Northbound exit and southbound entrance; separate truck bypass ramps

[edit] References

  1. ^ USOC News: Amber battles back after car accident
  2. ^ January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways
  3. ^ Cal-NExUS Interchange Exit Numbering

[edit] External links

 Auxiliary routes of Interstate 5
I-105 California - Oregon
I-205 California - Oregon/Washington
I-305 California
I-405 California - Oregon - Washington
I-505 California
I-605 California
I-705 Washington
I-805 California
past/
future		 I-305: Oregon - I-505: Oregon - I-605: Washington - I-905: California
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