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Southern California freeways. A vast network of interconnected freeways in the megaregion of Southern California serves a population of over 23 million people. The Master Plan of Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeways was adopted by the Regional Planning Commission in 1947 and construction began in the early 1950s. [1]
2 cze 2022 · In this StoryMap, we explore the origins of the Southern California freeway system and how the pursuit of the mythical California Dream influenced the rise of automobile culture and the proliferation of freeways around the state.
Photograph of a map showing freeways in Los Angeles and areas marked in downtown and Hollywood, ca.1960. The simple, black and white map is labeled with street names, numbers and letters. A compass is printed in the top right corner.
15 sie 2012 · Map showing proposed freeway routes through Los Angeles County. From the Automobile Club of Southern California's Traffic Survey, 1937. Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library and Archive.
22 maj 2013 · By the time this guide map was published in the beginning of the 1960s, Los Angeles had become a full-fledged freeway city and the automotive age for Southern California was in its middle-years.
7 maj 2013 · The flamboyant grandeur of Los Angeles' freeways makes an especially incongruous background for our withered aspirations. If we treat the car as conveyance, just as we treat clothes as covering, film and literature as distraction, food as fuel, and drink as opiate, we've already lost.
21 paź 2015 · Official map of the original US numbered highways, as adopted by the joint board of state highway engineers in 1926. Detail of the above map, showing Southern California. At the system's zenith, nine U.S. highways bound the Los Angeles region with the nation:
