California State Route 60

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State Route 60
Pomona Freeway, Moreno Valley Freeway
Defined by S&HC § 360, maintained by Caltrans
Length: 70 mi[1] (113 km)
Formed: 1964
West end: I-5 / I-10 / US 101 in Los Angeles
Major
junctions:		 I-605 near El Monte
SR 71 in Pomona
I-215 / SR 91 in Riverside
East end: I-10 in Beaumont
State highways in California (list - pre-1964)
County routes in California (list)
< SR 59 SR 61 >
History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

State Route 60 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs from Interstate 10 near the Los Angeles River in Los Angeles east to I-10 in Riverside County, with an overlap at Interstate 215.

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System[2].

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[edit] Route description

Route 60 serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of the San Gabriel Valley. The west terminus of the freeway is at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex. The east terminus is at the junction with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10) in Beaumont. The freeway is known as the Pomona Freeway west of its junction with State Route 91 and Interstate 215 in Riverside. East of this interchange the freeway is known as the Moreno Valley Freeway until its terminus at its junction with Interstate 10. Interestingly, the freeway shares the alignment of the Orange Freeway, State Route 57 for some two miles (3 km) in Diamond Bar and it shares the alignment of the Escondido Freeway, Interstate 215 for about 5 miles (8 km) in Riverside. The route takes its number from former U.S. Route 60.

[edit] Pomona Freeway

The Pomona Freeway is the assigned name of the majority of State Route 60 (SR 60) between its western terminus at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and its junction with the Riverside Freeway, State Route 91 (SR 91) and Interstate 215 (I-215) in Riverside. The freeway itself continues east beyond this interchange but does so as the Moreno Valley Freeway.

It traverses through Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. As it passes through many of Los Angeles' east side suburbs in southern San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, it is a major transportation corridor. For the majority of its length it is generally parallel to, and south of, the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10), and generally parallel to, and north of, the Riverside Freeway. Traffic congestion is exacerbated by the rapid population growth and, therefore, residential, commercial, and industrial development in the inland communities known informally as the Inland Empire. In particular, it has become increasingly clogged of late with shipping container-laden trucks travelling from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to rail yards and warehouses in the Inland Empire.

[edit] Moreno Valley Freeway

The Moreno Valley Freeway is a freeway segment of State Route 60 and Interstate 215, connecting Riverside to communities further east in the Inland Empire and (via Interstate 10) to the Coachella Valley. Its western terminus is at the intersection of the Pomona (State Route 60) and Riverside freeways (State Route 91 and Interstate 215), near downtown Riverside. The freeway is cosigned as State Route 60 and Interstate 215 for several miles in Riverside, traveling southeast, until the border between Riverside and Moreno Valley, where Interstate 215 branches southward as the Escondido Freeway, and State Route 60 (maintaining the Moreno Valley Freeway designation) branches eastward for approximately 20 miles. After passing through Moreno Valley and the rugged hill country to the east (known as the Badlands to the locals), it ends at Interstate 10 in Beaumont.

Owing to the rapid development of the Inland Empire since the 1980s, the Moreno Valley Freeway now suffers from severe congestion. The Northern most section that shares its roadbed with Interstate 215 is currently under construction to improve traffic flow.

Major cities
Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs

[edit] History

Before 1964, U.S. 60 ran from Los Angeles to the Arizona state line, where it continued its nationwide trek, often overlapping U.S. 99 and U.S. 70 along the way. The advent of Interstate 10 created a situation where, at one point, four different signed routes would run along the state-maintained highway.

In 1964, California implemented a plan to simplify its highway-numbering system, where one state highway had only one route number and concurrencies were sternly discouraged. As a result, the U.S. 60 designation (along with U.S. 70 and U.S. 99) was removed. Interstate 10 (as Route 10) superseded U.S. 60's alignment from Beaumont and towards the Arizona state line, even though the routing was only partly a freeway. This left the officially designated Route 60 from Beaumont to Los Angeles orphaned from its original U.S. Highway (which to this day begins at a point on Interstate 10 east of Quartzsite, Arizona). This new Route 60 was provisionally signed as a U.S. Highway since the designation would guide motorists from Los Angeles to Arizona in the absence of a completed freeway for Interstate 10; when all of Route 10 was upgraded to a freeway, the U.S. Highway designation disappeared.

The stretch of Route 60 along the Moreno Valley Freeway made national headlines in April, 2004, when five-year-old Ruby Bustamante of Indio and her 26-year-old mother, Norma, were reported missing. Their car had left the road, apparently unwitnessed, between the gap in two guard rails on April 4. It then crashed underneath a tree in a deep ravine. Though Mrs. Bustamante lost her life, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncooked Top Ramen noodles and bottles of Gatorade which were in the car. The parent companies of both products, Nissin Foods and Quaker Oats respectively, have each pledged $5000 toward Ruby's college education.

[edit] Major intersections and exit list

Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.
County Location Postmile
[3][4][5]		 #[6] Destinations Notes
Los Angeles
LA 0.00-R30.46		 Los Angeles 0.00 1A I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) – Santa Monica Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Bridge over the Los Angeles River
0.00 1B Mateo Street, Santa Fe Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
0.38 1C Soto Street No eastbound exit
R0.55 1A I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
R0.55 1C I-5 north (Golden State Freeway) / US 101 north (Hollywood Freeway via Santa Ana Freeway) – Los Angeles, Sacramento Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R1.48 1D Whittier Boulevard, Lorena Street Signed as exit 1B eastbound
R1.94 2 Indiana Street Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R2.59 3A Downey Road
R3.27 3B I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) / Valley Boulevard – Pasadena, Long Beach
Monterey Park R4.43 4 Atlantic Boulevard
Montebello R5.16 6A Findlay Avenue Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
R5.89 6B Garfield Avenue, Wilcox Avenue Signed as exit 6 westbound
R7.77 8 Paramount Boulevard – Montebello
Rosemead R8.55 9 San Gabriel Boulevard – Rosemead
Bridge over the Rio Hondo
9.51 10A SR 19 (Rosemead Boulevard)
South El Monte 10.23 10B Santa Anita Avenue – South El Monte
11.01 11 Peck Road
Bridge over the San Gabriel River
Industry 11.71 12 I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway)
12.63 13 Crossroads Parkway
14.26 14 Seventh Avenue – Industry Signed as exits 14A (south) and 14B (north) eastbound
15.93 16 Hacienda Boulevard
17.97 18 Azusa Avenue
19.46 19 Fullerton Road
20.43 20 Nogales Street
R21.48 21 Fairway Drive – Walnut
Diamond Bar R22.97 23 Brea Canyon Road
R23.56 24A SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) – Santa Ana West end of SR 57 overlap
R24.45 24B Grand Avenue – Diamond Bar
R25.46 25 SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) East end of SR 57 overlap; westbound exit is via exit 26
R25.56 26 Diamond Bar Boulevard
Pomona R28.04 28 Phillips Ranch Road
R29.39 29A SR 71 (Chino Valley Freeway) – Pomona, Corona Signed as exit 29B westbound; eastbound exit to SR 71 north is via exit 29B
R29.39 29B Garey Avenue Signed as exit 29A westbound
R30.33 30 Reservoir Street
San Bernardino
R0.00-R9.96		 Chino R1.37 32 Ramona Avenue
R2.37 33 Central Avenue
R3.60 34 Mountain Avenue
Ontario R4.58 35 SR 83 (Euclid Avenue) – Ontario
R5.86 36 Grove Avenue
R6.86 37 Vineyard Avenue
R7.87 38 Archibald Avenue
R8.91 39 Haven Avenue – Ontario Airport
R9.96
R0.00		 40 Milliken Avenue, Hamner Avenue Signed as exit 41A westbound
Riverside
R0.00-30.50
R0.49 41 I-15 – Barstow, San Diego Signed as exit 41B westbound
R1.99 42 Van Buren Boulevard, Etiwanda Avenue, Mission Boulevard
R3.03 43 Mission Boulevard, Country Village Road
R4.55 45 Pedley Road
R5.58 46 Pyrite Street
Rubidoux 7.53 48 Valley Way, Mission Boulevard – Rubidoux
9.56 50 Rubidoux Boulevard – Rubidoux
Bridge over the Santa Ana River
Riverside 11.07 52A Market Street – Downtown Riverside
11.73 52B Main Street
R12.06 53A SR 91 west (Riverside Freeway) – Riverside, Beach Cities Signed as exit 34B westbound
R12.21
215 43.27		 53B I-215 north (Riverside Freeway) – San Bernardino, Barstow West end of I-215 overlap; no exit number westbound
See Interstate 215 (exits 29-34A)
215 R38.34
R12.21		 58 I-215 south – San Diego East end of I-215 overlap; no exit number eastbound
13.31 59 Day Street
Moreno Valley 14.32 60 Frederick Street, Pigeon Pass Road
15.34 61 Heacock Street
16.35 62 Perris Boulevard
18.37 64 Nason Street
19.20 65 Moreno Beach Drive
20.37 66 Redlands Boulevard – Moreno
21.37 67 Theodore Street
22.10 68 Gilman Springs Road – Hemet, San Jacinto Former SR 177
East end of freeway
27.98 74 Jack Rabbit Trail No exit number westbound
Beaumont 30.50 I-10 – Indio, Los Angeles Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
30.50 Beaumont Eastbound exit and westbound entrance

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways
  2. ^ CA Codes (shc:250-257)
  3. ^ California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed February 2008
  4. ^ California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
  5. ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
  6. ^ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, SR-60 Eastbound and SR-60 Westbound, accessed February 2008

[edit] External links

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