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Los Angeles Daily News, September 21, 1999, p. N4. ^ Haddad, Paul (2021). Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 978-1-59580-786-1. Hise, Greg (1999). Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6255-8. Schrank and T. Lomax, The Urban Mobility ...
O'Malley vehemently opposed that plan, citing the team's Brooklyn identity. Moses refused to budge and, after the 1957 season, the Dodgers left for Los Angeles and the New York Giants left for San Francisco. [12] Moses was later able to build the 55,000-seat multi-purpose Shea Stadium on the site. Construction ran from October 1961 to its ...
Year Law Now From To Notes 1959 1062 1 San Juan Capistrano (I-5) El Rio (US 101) Deleted 1965 c. 1372 from SR 107 to SR 91; 1967 c. 674 from SR 91 to I-105; 1970 c. 634 from SR 90 to Santa Monica (Dewey Street); 1971 c. 179 from Santa Monica to Los Angeles-Ventura County line; 1971 c. 963 from south border LAX to SR 90; 1972 c. 150 from SR 22 to SR 47; 1972 c. 782 from San Juan Capistrano to ...
And fourth was I-678 in the Bronx, off the Throgs Neck Bridge. Speeds along that portion of the highway typically average 29.7 mph, but traffic can slow down to 27.4 during peak hours.
These closures included the entire IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan (1955) and the Bronx (1973), as well as the BMT Lexington Avenue Line (1950), much of the remainder of the BMT Fulton Street Line (1956), the downtown Brooklyn part of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line (1969) and the BMT Culver Shuttle (1975), all in Brooklyn. [22]
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Moses continued expanding the system of highways in the mid-20th century, including arteries that led to the Triborough Bridge, namely the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens [257] and the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx. [258] Both highways became part of I-278, as did the Queens and Bronx spans of the Triborough Bridge, by the 1960s. [259]
Caltrans wasn't supposed to build a freeway lane without environmental review, but many believe that's exactly what it did. Environmentalists are now trying to stop its use as a toll lane.