Gribblenation

This past month I drove the entirety of California State Route 134 on the Ventura Freeway while visiting the Los Angeles Area. The present route of CA 134 is a 13 mile east/west State Highway which is entirely aligned on the Ventura Freeway from Interstate 210 in Pasadena to US 101/CA 170 in northern Los Angeles.   CA 134 on the Ventura Freeway is the primary through route connecting traffic between San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley.  The Ventura Freeway continues on US 101 north from the western terminus of CA 134 through Ventura County to the Santa Barbra County line. CAhighways.org on CA 134 CA 134 was not one of the original run of 1934 Signed State Highways.  By most accounts CA 134 was first signed by 1935 but said year seems to be disputed by an October 1935 Department of Public Works publication and 1935 Goshua Highway Map. 1935 Department of Public Works Publication 1935 Goshua Los Angeles Highway Map The first true map to display CA ...

Recently I had the opportunity to drive a large section of Interstate 5 from California State Route 54 in southern San Diego north to California State Route 99 in Wheeler Ridge in Kern County. Interstate 5 in California is the second longest highway in the State at 796 miles.  I-5 in California spans from the Mexican border in the southern City Limits of San Diego north to the Oregon State Line in Siskiyou County.  Given that I-5 has such substantial length I thought it would be best to divide any blogs featuring it up into 150-200 mile segments.  The first segment of the I-5 series in California as noted above traverses through much of the San Diego and Los Angeles Metro Areas to San Joaquin Valley over the Grapevine Grade. Much of this segment of I-5 was built over corridors once occupied by US 101, US 99 and US 6.  For simplicity sake my intent it mainly to focus on the route of I-5 and the history of the construction of the freeway segments it occupies. CA...