Glendale Freeway
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The Glendale Freeway is a minor freeway in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. It runs from Glendale Boulevard in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. Throughout its length, it is signed as California State Route 2. Planners originally intended for it to connect to the Hollywood Freeway in Echo Park, but community opposition killed the project by the 1960s; as a result, during games at nearby Dodger Stadium, there is often significant congestion in the areas around the freeway's terminus. The Glendale Freeway offers stunning vistas of the eastern San Fernando Valley, the Verdugo Mountains, the Crescenta Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains.
Since the 1950s, proposals have been made to extend the Glendale Freeway to the Antelope Valley Freeway via a tunnel under the San Gabriels, relieving some of the latter freeway's notorious congestion. The difficulty of designing and building such a route and the cost of insuring it against earthquakes and terrorism would undoubtedly make perpetually cash-strapped Caltrans unable to undertake such an ambitious project.
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[edit] Trivia
The section of freeway between the Ventura Freeway (134) and the Foothill Freeway (210) was largely completed in 1975, but not fully finished until 1979. During this time, the closed freeway was used as a location for several films, including Coffy, Corvette Summer, and the American television series Adam-12. The transition overpass from the eastbound Ventura Freeway to the northbound Glendale Freeway was prominently featured in the notorious disaster film Earthquake when a tractor-trailer crashes over the side of the overpass (a shot completed in miniature special effects).
A sign along southbound Riverside Drive mistakenly points to Glendale Freeway as Interstate 2, or I-2, a federal highway[1]. I-2 is not a designation in the Interstate Highway System.
[edit] Legal definition
Route 2 from Route 101 to Route 210. [State Highway Commission (8/17/1955)]
Source: 2004 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California (PDF)
[edit] Communities served
Cities and neighborhoods along its route include:
[edit] Major intersections
Freeways intersecting with the Glendale Freeway include:
