Interstate 210 and State Route 210 (California)

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Interstate 210, State Route 210
Foothill Freeway
Defined by S&HC § 510, maintained by Caltrans
Length: 86 mi[1] (138 km)
Formed: 1964
West end: I-5 near San Fernando
Major
junctions:		 SR 134 in Pasadena
I-605 near El Monte
I-15 in San Bernardino
East end: I-10 in Redlands
State highways in California (list - pre-1964)
County routes in California (list)
< SR 207 SR 211 >
History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

Route 210, marked partially as Interstate 210 (I-210) and as State Route 210 (SR 210), and named the Foothill Freeway, is a state highway in the Los Angeles area of the U.S. state of California. It forms a bypass around the north side of Los Angeles, and passes near downtown San Bernardino, through the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

East of SR 57 at the Glendora Curve in Glendora, the Foothill Freeway is presently signed as SR 210, with the eastern section near San Bernardino marked as SR 30, its old designation. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has previously been rejected in requesting its addition to the Interstate Highway System, but that was prior to July 2007, when the remaining portion of freeway was completed.

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System[3].

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[edit] Route description

Freeway as seen from the Metro Gold Line Sierra Madre Villa Station
Freeway as seen from the Metro Gold Line Sierra Madre Villa Station

I-210's western terminus is at its junction with the Golden State Freeway (I-5), near the Sylmar district of Los Angeles, in the foothills separating the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. From that point, the freeway's alignment is generally diagonal as it heads southeast through the northeastern San Fernando Valley and the Crescenta Valley before turning due south towards the junction with the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134) in Pasadena. At this interchange, the Foothill Freeway 'shifts' its alignment and direction. Heading into the complex on the 210, the primary road (or trunk) continues south onto the unsigned northern stub of the unfinished I-710 to California Boulevard, while the primary road of the Ventura Freeway becomes the continuation of the Foothill Freeway. I-210 then becomes an east-west freeway to the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) in San Dimas.

State Route 210 presently has two distinct segments:

The western freeway segment serves as the easternmost portion of the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210). Beginning at the east end of I-210 near San Dimas, SR 210 extends eastward, eventually paralleling Highland Avenue, as it continues through Fontana. It intersects Interstate 15, an artery between Southern California and Nevada a few miles before it meets with Interstate 215 in San Bernardino.

The segment east of Interstate 215 is the former alignment of State Route 30, although Caltrans has not yet changed all the signs on this portion to SR 210. This segment extends eastward to junctions with Interstate 215, State Route 259, State Route 18 and State Route 330 in Highland. State Route 210 then curves southward and ends in a junction with Interstate 10 in Redlands.

[edit] Glendora Curve

Glendora Curve
Maintained by Caltrans
Major cities: Glendora
System: Southern California freeways
State highways in California (list - pre-1964)
County routes in California (list)
History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

The Glendora Curve is the former colloquial name for the interchange between State Route 57 and the Foothill Freeway, Interstate 210[citation needed]. The "curve" portion refers to the interchange from the northbound lanes of State Route 57 to the westbound lanes of I-210, and from the eastbound lanes of I-210 to the southbound lanes of State Route 57. The origin of the name comes from its location in the city of Glendora. Prior to 2002, this interchange was entirely part of I-210, and the eastern terminus of I-210 ended several miles south of the curve at the Kellogg Interchange at the junctions of the Chino Valley Freeway, State Route 71, the San Bernardino Freeway, I-10, and Route 57. After the portion of I-210 south of the Glendora Curve was transferred to Route 57 in 2002, effectively extending Route 210 east past the Glendora Curve, the name Glendora Curve fell out of popular use.

The interchange consists of two freeway segments (i.e. there are two freeway 'paths' of travel into the complex) of two major highways:

[edit] Future

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With the completion of a central freeway segment in July of 2007, Caltrans is expected to ask the AASHTO to designate the entire route as part of Interstate 210. Once approved, the SR 210 and SR 30 green State Route signs will be replaced with Interstate 210 ones.

Elevated portion of freeway in Monrovia, CA.
Elevated portion of freeway in Monrovia, CA.
San Bernardino SR 210 Fwy.
San Bernardino SR 210 Fwy.

Route 210 from Route 5 to Route 10 in Redlands is known as the Foothill Freeway, as named by Senate Concurrent Resolution 29, Chapter 128 in 1991.[4]

[edit] History

The alignment of I-210 originally included the northern segment of what is now the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) from Glendora to its intersection with the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) and the Chino Valley Freeway (State Route 71) at the Kellogg Interchange complex in Pomona. The Foothill Freeway began construction in 1958, and the first section was opened in 1966 signed as State Route 118. The section east of State Route 134 to Interstate 10 was done in 1976.[1]

For the next several decades, Caltrans constructed extensions to the Foothill Freeway from San Dimas to the Interstate 215/State Route 30 interchange in San Bernardino. In 2003, the 20-mile (32 km) segment east of San Dimas was completed, and the I-210 numbered assignment to the Kellogg Interchange was transferred to the current east-west segment noted above, and the State Route 57 number assignment was re-routed to its present alignment. The section between Interstate 15 and Interstate 215 officially opened on July 24, 2007.

Caltrans has petitioned the AASHTO, the federal body that oversees the interstate highway system, to re-sign the entire Foothill Freeway, including the entire segments of State Routes 210 and 30 to I-210. In the meantime, Caltrans is in the process of re-signing State Route 30 from I-215 to Interstate 10 in Redlands as part of State Route 210. The removal of the leg now signed as the 57 gave I-210 an uncommon distinction: it is a 3-digit spur route that does not connect to its parent route, Interstate 10.

The western freeway segment, planned since the 1970s and completed in 2002, replaced a western surface street segment that began with Base Line Road (sometimes spelled Baseline Road) at its intersection with Foothill Boulevard in San Dimas and extends eastward into Upland. In Upland it became 16th Street, then turned northward onto Mountain Avenue, then turned eastward onto 19th Street. It left Upland and continued eastward into Rancho Cucamonga. It then seemed to turn northward onto Haven Avenue and end at the western freeway segment. This segment is probably still signed as SR 30—at least in some places if not ubiquitously—but some recently published maps are reflecting a signage change.

State Route 30 is the former designation of State Route 210 and State Route 330. Route 30 ran from its interchange with I-210 at the Glendora Curve east to State Route 18 at Big Bear Lake. The easternmost portion of Route 30 was transferred to Route 330 in 1972. Thereafter, Route 30 was routed south to I-10 in Redlands. In 1999, the entirety of Route 30 from the Glendora Curve to Redlands was transferred to Route 210.

[edit] Use as movie location

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In 1974, Universal Studios used condemned houses ready to be bulldozed for a section of the freeway in Pasadena for the disaster film Earthquake.[citation needed]

From 1975 to 1981, the uncompleted section of Interstate 210 in La Crescenta (and the intersecting SR 2 Glendale Freeway) was often used often as a filming location. Some films and television shows filmed on this section include the theatrical films Death Race 2000, Corvette Summer and The Gumball Rally as well as the made for television films Smash Up on Interstate 5 and The Great American Traffic Jam.[citation needed]

Perhaps most famously, the American television series CHiPs made extensive use of the Interstate 210–CA SR 118 interchange, often conducting major action sequences on the closed freeway. This section was finally opened in 1981 once the Tujunga Wash bridge was completed.[citation needed]

Later, as the freeway extended further east, so did its use as a filming location. In 2005 and 2006, for example, several television shows, commercials, and feature films shot on the unopened section of the freeway between Alder Avenue and Linden Avenue in the city of Rialto. A character in the fifth season of the fictional television show 24, which is set in Southern California sometime around 2009 or 2010, gives her location to be the intersection of I-210 and I-10, presumably referring to a future reconnection of I-210 to its parent.[citation needed]

In late August 2006, one of the shoots on the freeway was a portion of a major action sequence in the feature film Transformers. The 2007 series Drive, which uses highways settings for many of its action scenes, also shoots on the 210.[5] In the first episode, the Alder Avenue exit sign is clearly legible.

[edit] 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
[1][6][7]		 #[8] Destinations Notes
Los Angeles
LA R0.00-R52.15		 Los Angeles R0.00 1 I-5 (Golden State Freeway) – Los Angeles, Sacramento Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 1A (north) and 1B (south)
R0.84 1C Yarnell Street Signed as exit 1 eastbound
R1.92 2 Roxford Street – Sylmar
R3.28 3 Polk Street
R4.11 4 Hubbard Street
R4.94 5 Maclay Street – San Fernando
R5.91 6A SR 118 west (Ronald Reagan Freeway) Signed as exit 6B westbound
R6.01 6B Paxton Street Signed as exit 6A westbound
R7.82 8 Osborne Street – Lake View Terrace
R9.44 9 Wheatland Avenue – Lake View Terrace
R11.08 11 Sunland Boulevard – Sunland, Tujunga
R14.17 14 La Tuna Canyon Road
Glendale R15.62 16 Lowell Avenue – Tujunga
R16.77 17A Pennsylvania Avenue – La Crescenta Signed as exit 17 eastbound
R17.38 17B La Crescenta Avenue – La Crescenta Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R18.22 18 Ocean View Boulevard – Montrose
Glendale R18.87 19 SR 2 west (Glendale Freeway) – Los Angeles West end of SR 2 overlap
La Cañada Flintridge R19.88 20 SR 2 east (Angeles Crest Highway) – La Cañada Flintridge East end of SR 2 overlap
R20.60 21 Gould Avenue Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
R20.85 21 Foothill Boulevard Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R21.53 22A Berkshire Avenue, Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena R22.49 22B Arroyo Boulevard, Windsor Avenue
R23.19 23 Lincoln Avenue, Washington Boulevard
R24.06 24 Seco Street, Mountain Street
R24.86 25A Colorado Boulevard – Pasadena Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
R24.96 25A To SR 110 (SR 710 south) / Del Mar Boulevard, California Boulevard Signed as exit 26A westbound
R24.96 25B SR 134 west (Ventura Freeway) – Ventura Signed as exit 26A westbound
R25.29 25 Fair Oaks Avenue, Marengo Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 25A (south) and 25B (north)
R26.33 26 Lake Avenue
R26.94 27A Hill Avenue Signed as exit 27 eastbound
R27.41 27B Allen Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R28.25 28 Altadena Drive, Sierra Madre Boulevard Westbound exit is via exit 29A
R28.68 29A San Gabriel Boulevard – San Marino
R29.29 29B Madre Street
R29.49 30 SR 19 south (Rosemead Boulevard) / Michillinda Avenue Signed as exits 30A (south) and 30B (north) eastbound
Arcadia R30.82 31 Baldwin Avenue – Sierra Madre
R31.88 32 Santa Anita Avenue – Arcadia
Monrovia R32.89 33 Huntington Drive – Monrovia, Arcadia
R33.91 34 Myrtle Avenue – Monrovia
R34.74 35A Mountain Avenue
Duarte R35.24 35B Buena Vista Street
Irwindale R36.41 36A I-605 south (San Gabriel River Freeway) Signed as exit 36B westbound
R36.41 36B Mount Olive Drive Signed as exit 36A westbound
Bridge over the San Gabriel River
R37.86 38 Irwindale Avenue – Irwindale
Azusa R38.96 39 Vernon Avenue
R39.60 40 SR 39 (Azusa Avenue)
R40.60 41 Citrus Avenue – Covina
Glendora R41.59 42 Grand Avenue – Glendora
R43.16 43 Sunflower Avenue
R44.20 44 Lone Hill Avenue
R44.38 45 SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) – Santa Ana East end of I-210; west end of SR 210
San Dimas R45.46 46 San Dimas Avenue – San Dimas
La Verne R46.63 47 Foothill Boulevard (SR 66 east) – La Verne
R48.08 48 Fruit Street
Claremont R49.53 50 Towne Avenue
R51.85 52 Base Line Road Former SR 30
San Bernardino
SBD 0.00-R33.18		 Upland 1.50 54 Mountain Avenue – Mount Baldy
3.47 56 Campus Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga 4.60 57 Carnelian Street
5.90 58 Archibald Avenue
6.91 59 Haven Avenue
7.91 60 Milliken Avenue
9.14 61 Day Creek Boulevard
11.50 64A I-15 – Barstow, San Diego
Fontana 11.91 64B Cherry Avenue
12.91 Beech Avenue HOV-only interchange
13.93 66 Citrus Avenue
14.93 67 Sierra Avenue
Rialto R16.03 68 Alder Avenue
R17.39 70 Ayala Drive
19.00 71 Riverside Avenue
72 Pepper Avenue Under construction
Bridge over the Cajon Wash
San Bernardino 73 To I-215 south / State Street, University Parkway
R21.87 74 I-215 north – Barstow
R22.94 75A H Street Signed as exit 75 eastbound
R23.10 75B To I-215 south (SR 259) – Los Angeles, Riverside Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R24.22 76 SR 18 / Waterman Avenue
R25.72 78 Del Rosa Avenue
R26.73 79 Highland Avenue
Highland R28.66 81 SR 330 north – Mountain Resorts
R29.32 82 Base Line Road
Bridge over the Santa Ana River
R30.23 83 5th Street
Bridge over the Santa Ana River
Redlands R32.34 84 San Bernardino Avenue
R33.18 85 I-10 – Los Angeles, Indio Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 85A (west) and 85B (east)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed February 2008
  2. ^ CA Codes (shc:250-257)
  3. ^ CA Codes (shc:260-284)
  4. ^ 2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California. Caltrans, 60. Retrieved on 2007-03-28. 
  5. ^ ETOnline: "'Drive' Takes Viewers on a Bumpy Ride"
  6. ^ California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
  7. ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
  8. ^ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, I-210 Eastbound and I-210 Westbound, accessed February 2008

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Auxiliary routes of Interstate 10
California: 110 • 110 (former) • 210 • 710 — Arizona: 410 (unbuilt) • 510 (former) • 710 (unbuilt) — Texas: 110 • 410 • 610 — Louisiana: 110 • 210 • 310 • 310 (unbuilt) • 410 (unbuilt) • 410 (unbuilt) • 510 • 610 • 910 (unsigned) — Mississippi: 110 — Alabama: 210 (former) — Florida: 110
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Chino Valley (SR 71) • Foothill (SR 210) • Moreno Valley (SR 60) • Riverside (SR 91/I-215) • I-15 • I-40 • I-215 • SR 58 • SR 259 • SR 330
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