- Figueroa Street
Figueroa Street is a street in
Los Angeles County, California named for GeneralJosé Figueroa (1792 – 9 September 1835), governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835, who oversaw the secularization of the missions of California. It runs in a north/south direction for a length of more than 30mile s (48 km) between the Los Angeles communities of Eagle Rock and Wilmington. Termini are at Pacific Coast Highway in Wilmington and just north of theVentura Freeway west of Pasadena, with a break betweenSan Fernando Road in Cypress Park and College Street in Chinatown.An early routing of Figueroa Street near
downtown Los Angeles was part of U.S. Route 66, today a part of thePasadena Freeway . The famedFigueroa Street Tunnels were once a part of that same stretch of roadway. Figueroa resumes its course near the overcrossing ofSunset Boulevard over thePasadena Freeway , just north of the "stack " or four-levelinterchange . The road passes throughDowntown Los Angeles near Bunker Hill and South Park. South of the Financial District, Figueroa Street services some popular locations includingStaples Center arena, the Los Angeles Convention Center, and theUniversity of Southern California . For the rest of its southbound journey, Figueroa Street runs parallel to theHarbor Freeway (Interstate 110) inSouth Los Angeles . The only portion of Figueroa Street that lies outside Los Angeles city limits is in the city of Carson, but it soon reenters Los Angeles near Wilmington. The street ends at Harry Bridges Boulevard north of San Pedro.Some of the southern terminus was once part of U.S. Route 6 before its almost total
decommission ing through California in 1964; indeed, Figueroa Street at Pacific Coast Highway was the actual western terminus of that highway,Fact|date=February 2007 although maps show that US 6 went as far east as Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach.The MTA bus route 81 serves most of Figueroa Street, except for the portion between 9th Street and the 110 Freeway, and south of Imperial Highway.
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