Santa Monica Boulevard is a major west–east thoroughfare in Los Angeles County , California, United States. It runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean to Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles . It passes through Beverly Hills and West Hollywood . A portion of it is designated as California State Route 2 , while the full avenue was Historic Route 66 .
16-784: The western terminus of Santa Monica Boulevard is at Ocean Avenue near the Pacific Ocean. From there until the San Diego Freeway ( Interstate 405 ), Santa Monica Boulevard is a densely urban commercial street. It assumes the designation California State Route 2 between Centinela Avenue at the Santa Monica–Los Angeles border, and the Hollywood Freeway ( U.S. Route 101 ). The portion between Centinela Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica
32-474: A loop service. By February 1927, most trips terminated at Santa Monica, with some cars serving the Ocean Park car house. Annual ridership peaked at 2,644,512 trips in 1929. Service was virtually discontinued after July 7, 1940, as Pacific Electric only ran a single daily car between Vineyard and Beverly Hills to maintain the franchise. Full abandonment occurred on November 18, 1940. Rails along
48-466: Is noted that the south roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills is a city street while the north roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard is a California state highway, each roadway handling bi-directional traffic. On May 31, 2020, local protests following the murder of George Floyd turned into riots which saw numerous buildings vandalized, looted and burned along Santa Monica Boulevard, with
64-771: The Sawtelle Line turned west into private way, in the center of the twin roadways of Burton Way. Running west, the dual tracks crossed Robertson Boulevard, Doheny Drive, and some of the downtown Beverly Hills Streets to reach the Beverly Hills Station (located adjacent to Santa Monica Boulevard near Beverly Drive). At the Beverly Hills Station, the Sawtelle Line joined the Hollywood–Venice Line, and both lines were identical from that location to their common terminus at Woodward Avenue in Venice. This line
80-518: The Sunset Junction neighborhood of Silver Lake . The south roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard, often called Little Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, runs parallel to the state highway (north) roadway of Santa Monica Boulevard from the city's west limit to Rexford Drive. After Rexford Drive, Little Santa Monica turns east, becoming Burton Way. Burton Way merges into San Vicente Boulevard at its intersection with La Cienega Boulevard . It
96-467: The center of San Vicente Boulevard the dual tracks crossed the major intersections of La Brea, Hauser, and Olympic Boulevards, Fairfax Avenue, as well as Wilshire and La Cienega Boulevards. Then they continued one block west of La Cienega to Sherman Junction (at Le Doix Road), where the Sherman cut-off branched north (in the middle of San Vicente Boulevard) to Sherman (West Hollywood). From Sherman Junction,
112-1196: The company's South Hollywood–Sherman Line and Sawtelle Line as well as the Owensmouth Line and San Fernando Line which served the San Fernando Valley . San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway is one of the named principal Southern California freeways . It consists of the following two segments: Interstate 5 , from California State Route 94 in San Diego to Interstate 405 ( El Toro Y ) in Irvine Interstate 405 , in its entirety from Interstate 5 in Irvine to Interstate 5 near San Fernando References [ edit ] ^ "2012 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California" (PDF) . California Department of Transportation . Retrieved April 28, 2013 . List of roads or other routes with
128-700: The entire line was converted to standard gauge , with service beginning on May 1. The line came under control of the Pacific Electric in 1911 under the terms of the Great Merger . When Pacific Electric took over operations, the service went as far as Venice. Cars ran as far as Playa del Rey between May and August 1916. The line was briefly through routed with the Venice Short Line for three months starting in November 1926, creating
144-582: The line had been removed by 1981. The Sawtelle Line followed the Venice Short Line as far as Vineyard Junction. At Vineyard Junction, the Sawtelle Line branched northwesterly. Inside the Vineyard grounds, dual tracks ramped upon fill to join a massive grade separation structure that carried the tracks over Pico Boulevard and down on to an unimproved private way in the center of the twin roadways of San Vicente Boulevard. Continuing northwesterly, in
160-547: The middle of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, now north of Melrose Avenue turns to run east. In West Hollywood, between Doheny Drive and Fairfax Avenue along Santa Monica Boulevard, bronze name plaques are embedded in the sidewalks as part of the West Hollywood Memorial Walk . The original southern end of California State Route 170 was at the intersection with Highland Avenue . Santa Monica Boulevard merges on its eastern end with Sunset Boulevard in
176-891: The most visible destruction being at the site of the popular Japanese-themed restaurant Sake House. Wexler's Deli co-owner Mike Kassar stated to Eater that "Basically every food and beverage establishment for ten blocks got trashed". Metro Local line 4 and Santa Monica Transit Line 1 serve Santa Monica Boulevard, with the latter serving the boulevard in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica. A portion of West Hollywood-operated The PickUp operates on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. The Metro B Line serves an underground station on Santa Monica Boulevard at its intersection with Vermont Avenue . The Pacific Electric operated Red Car interurban trains and streetcars over Santa Monica Boulevard until 1953. The street hosted
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224-854: Was also originally part of California State Route 2. From Centinela Avenue, Santa Monica Boulevard heads northeast through the wealthy areas of West Los Angeles , Westwood , Century City , and Beverly Hills before entering the decidedly urban West Hollywood . Santa Monica Boulevard, being a major street, is for most of its length at least four lanes wide. Most of the Westside car dealerships are located on Santa Monica Boulevard. After Sepulveda Boulevard , Santa Monica Boulevard passes by Century City and its shopping center , and intersects with Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. After intersecting with Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Boulevard continues northeast towards West Hollywood, spanning Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue . At Holloway Drive, in
240-665: Was an interurban railway route primarily operated by the Pacific Electric Railway that ran between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California . The line was established by the Pasadena and Pacific Railway between 1896 and 1901, with passenger service running until 1940. The line was constructed in segments by the Pasadena and Pacific Railway: Beverly Hills to Santa Monica and Santa Monica to Ocean Park in 1896, 4th and Hill Streets, to Beverly Hills in 1897, and finally Ocean Park to Venice in 1901. In 1908
256-620: Was one of four lines between Downtown and Santa Monica that did not run through Hollywood . This was the shortest route to Santa Monica. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under the public domain as a work of the State of California . ( license statement/permission ). Text taken from 1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes , California Department of Transportation . Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . This United States rail–related article
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