State Route 19 ( SR 19 ) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California , running along Lakewood Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard in the Los Angeles area. An additional "hidden" state highway, State Route 164 ( SR 164 ), is also signed as part of SR 19, despite having a legal description separate from Route 19. The combined route is a north–south four-to-six lane suburban roadway, lying east of the Long Beach Freeway ( Interstate 710 ) and west of the San Gabriel River Freeway ( Interstate 605 ), and connecting the eastern parts of Long Beach and Pasadena via the Whittier Narrows . Under their legal descriptions, SR 19 runs north to Gallatin Road in Pico Rivera , then SR 164 goes from Gallatin Road to Pasadena. Since 1998, several pieces have been relinquished to local governments, and more transfers are authorized by state law.
23-558: Locals generally refer to the combined SR 19/164 route as either Lakewood Boulevard or Rosemead Boulevard, not by its numerical designation. The two highways are part of the National Highway System , a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration . The original official southern terminus of SR 19 was at
46-574: A letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964 , based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary ( for a full list of prefixes, see California postmile § Official postmile definitions ). Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route
69-495: A population of over 50,000 and about 90% of America's population live within 5 miles (8.0 km) of the network, which is the longest in the world. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Transportation . Lakewood (LACMTA station) Lakewood Boulevard station is a below-grade light rail station on
92-538: Is a United States Act of Congress that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 28, 1995. The legislation designated about 160,955 miles (259,032 km) of roads, including the Interstate Highway System, as the NHS. Aside from designating the system, the act served several other purposes, including restoring $ 5.4 billion in funding to state highway departments, giving Congress
115-628: Is in Los Angeles County . National Highway System (United States) The National Highway System ( NHS ) is a network of strategic highways within the United States , including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, military bases, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities. Altogether, it constitutes
138-662: The C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105 (Century Freeway), below Lakewood Boulevard , after which the station is named. The station serves the city of Downey, California and opened as part of the Green Line on August 12, 1995. The station was initially named Lakewood Blvd/I-105 but was later simplified to Lakewood Bl in 2000. C Line service hours are approximately from 4:00 a.m. until 12:30 a.m. daily. Trains operate every 10 minutes throughout
161-522: The Federal Highway Administration , the 160,000-mile (260,000 km) National Highway System includes roads important to the United States' economy, defense, and mobility, from one or more of the following road networks (specific routes may be part of more than one sub-system): The system includes 4% of the nation's roads, but carries more than 40% of all highway traffic, 75% of heavy truck traffic, and 90% of tourist traffic. All urban areas with
184-647: The Los Alamitos Circle in Long Beach , where Lakewood Boulevard, State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway), and Los Coyotes Diagonal converge. SR 19 then proceeded north along Lakewood Boulevard through Long Beach and the City of Lakewood , intersecting with Interstate 405 , passing under a runway of the Long Beach Airport (the part through the airport has been relocated to the east; parts of
207-694: The Downey- Pico Rivera city limits, Lakewood Boulevard turns into Rosemead Boulevard. Rosemead Boulevard continues north through Pico Rivera (where this segment of SR 19 has been relinquished to the city as well) to Gallatin Road. The hidden SR 164, but signed as part of SR 19, begins north of Gallatin Road, traveling along Rosemead Boulevard across Whittier Narrows Dam before entering the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area and intersecting with State Route 60 . After this,
230-623: The Interstate Highway System, be included. The act provided a framework to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System which "consists of all forms of transportation in a unified, interconnected manner, including the transportation systems of the future, to reduce energy consumption and air pollution while promoting economic development and supporting the Nation's preeminent position in international commerce". The National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 ( Pub. L. 104–59 (text) (PDF) , 109 Stat. 568 , COMPS-1425 )
253-412: The day. Night and early morning weekend service is every 20 minutes. As of December 10, 2023 , the following connections are available: [REDACTED] Media related to Lakewood (Los Angeles Metro station) at Wikimedia Commons This California train station-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Los Angeles County, California –related article
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#1732794462566276-414: The federal government or the private sector , and they would be repaid through such means as highway tolls or taxes. In 1997, 28 more states asked to be part of the program. Ohio was the first state to use a state infrastructure bank to start building a road. An advantage of this method was completing projects faster; state laws and the lack of appropriate projects were potential problems. According to
299-598: The largest highway system in the world. Individual states are encouraged to focus federal funds on improving the efficiency and safety of this network. The roads within the system were identified by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) in cooperation with the states, local officials, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and approved by the United States Congress in 1995. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in 1991 established certain key routes such as
322-404: The latter. Rosemead Boulevard continues northwest under Pasadena's control from Foothill Boulevard to Sierra Madre Villa Avenue. Bus service is provided by Metro Local line 266 (between Foothill Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard) and Long Beach Transit line 111 (south of Del Amo Boulevard) throughout Rosemead Boulevard and Lakewood Boulevard. The Metro C Line is also provided by a station in
345-473: The median of Interstate 105 under Lakewood Boulevard. Before the present SR 19 was constructed, San Gabriel Boulevard, which extended from Lamanda Park south to Downey , and was widened and repaved by an assessment tax in 1925, was the main road through the Whittier Narrows , requiring several turns to stay on it and to continue south to Long Beach . The state legislature added Route 168 to
368-467: The northern portion of SR 164 that went through an unincorporated area of the county from Callita Street to I-210 was relinquished to the county. In April 2008, the section of SR 164 through Temple City was relinquished to that city. On April 9, 2012, the section of SR 19 through Lakewood was relinquished to that city. In 2017, the relinquishment process in Bellflower began. Except where prefixed with
391-568: The old alignment remain as airport service roads), then running to the west of Lakewood Center Mall before passing through the neighborhood of Mayfair. Since the California Legislature relinquished segments of the highway, state control of SR 19 now officially begins at the point where Lakewood Boulevard crosses the Lakewood– Bellflower city limits at Rose Street (SR 19 in Bellflower is also planned to be relinquished by
414-464: The power to prioritize highway system projects, repealing all federal speed limit controls, and prohibits the federal government from requiring states to use federal-aid highway funds to convert existing signs or purchase new signs with metric units. The act also created a State Infrastructure Bank pilot program. Ten states were chosen in 1996 for this new method of road financing. These banks would lend money like regular banks, with funding coming from
437-599: The present transition between SR 164 and SR 19, and it was originally planned as the Rio Hondo Freeway . Many segments of SR 19 have since been relinquished to the cities that they run through. Caltrans relinquished Long Beach's portion of SR 19 to the city on January 27, 1999, and Downey's segment of SR 19 was relinquished to the city on July 3, 2001. However, the segment in Pico Rivera was not relinquished to that city until June 22, 2004. On October 27, 2006,
460-592: The road enters South El Monte before crossing the Rio Hondo and straddling the city boundary between Rosemead and El Monte . It then intersects with Interstate 10 . This portion of Rosemead Boulevard between Gallatin Road and Interstate 10 is still maintained by the state and built to expressway standards. State maintenance ends again at the Rosemead– Temple City city limits near Grand Avenue. Rosemead Boulevard then continues north through Temple City and
483-629: The state highway system in 1933, which followed this general alignment between Route 60 ( SR 1 ) in Long Beach and Route 9 ( Foothill Boulevard , then US 66 ) near Lamanda Park. SR 19 was later designated out of the 1964 state highway renumbering . The 9.56-mile (15.39 km) piece of SR 19 north of Gallatin Road in Pico Rivera has legally been State Route 164 since the 1964 renumbering , but has always been signed as SR 19. Original plans for SR 164 took it southeast to Interstate 605 from
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#1732794462566506-548: The state). SR 19 then intersects State Route 91 before straddling the city border between Bellflower and Paramount and later Bellflower and Downey . State control of SR 19 then ends north of Gardendale Street when Lakewood Boulevard fully enters into Downey. Lakewood Boulevard continues north through Downey, intersecting with Interstate 105 before passing by the large site formerly occupied by North American Aviation, Rockwell International and Boeing Reusable Space Systems and interchanging with Interstate 5 . At Telegraph Road at
529-400: The unincorporated areas of East San Gabriel and East Pasadena and into the City of Pasadena . (The highway was relinquished to Temple City, and those portions in the unincorporated areas were transferred to Los Angeles County.) In Pasadena, the state still maintains the short portion of Rosemead Boulevard from Interstate 210 to Foothill Boulevard , with SR 164's legal northern terminus at
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