INTERSTATE 210 (CALIFORNIA)

'Interstate 210' (abbreviated 'I-210', and colloquially referred to as 'The 210' or ''the two-ten'') is a bypass interstate highway in the Greater Los Angeles Area of Southern California that links many of the suburban cities and communities that surround Los Angeles to its north and east. Known as the 'Foothill Freeway', it runs along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains from the San Fernando Valley to Glendora without having to pass through the congestion of Downtown Los Angeles.
East of Glendora, the Foothill Freeway is presently signed as State Route 210 (CA-210), with CalTrans (California's Department of Transportation) hoping to get it approved to become a non-chargeable interstate route. With the July 2007 completion of the freeway segment of CA-210 between Alder Avenue in Rialto and the Barstow Freeway (Interstate 215) in San Berndardino, the Foothill Freeway now provides another link between the communities of the Inland Empire and the Los Angeles area.

Contents

Route description

History

Use as movie location

State law

Control cities

Cities/communities located along the Foothill Freeway (west to east)

Exit list

References

External links

Route description

I-210's western terminus is at its junction with the Golden State Freeway (I-5), near the Sylmar district of Los Angeles, in the foothills separating the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. From that point, the freeway's alignment is generally diagonal as it heads southeast through the northeastern San Fernando Valley and the Crescenta Valley before turning due south towards the junction with the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134) in Pasadena. At this interchange, the number assignment of I-210, somewhat confusingly, 'transfers' to the alignment of CA-134. The physical alignment of the freeway continues south, however, ending at California Boulevard; this confusing alignment is actually the unsigned northern stub of the unfinished I-710, intended to junction with the Foothill Freeway. I-210 then becomes an east-west freeway (the CA-134 number assignment is dropped east of the interchange) to the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) in Glendora.
The Foothill Freeway's alignment continues east as California State Route 210 past its junctions with Interstate 15 in Rialto and Interstate 215 in San Bernardino to Interstate 10 in Redlands.

History

The alignment of I-210 originally included the northern segment of what is now the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) from Glendora to its intersection with the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) and the Chino Valley Freeway (State Route 71) at the Kellogg Interchange complex in Pomona. The Foothill Freeway begun construction in 1958, and the first section was opened in 1966 signed as State Route 118. The section east of State Route 134 to Interstate 10 was done in 1971.
For the next several decades, Caltrans constructed extensions to the Foothill Freeway from San Dimas to the Interstate 215/State Route 30 interchange in San Bernardino. In 2003, the 20-mile (32 km) segment east of San Dimas was completed, and the I-210 numbered assignment to the Kellogg Interchange was transferred to the current east-west segment noted above, and the State Route 57 number assignment was re-routed to its present alignment. The section between Interstate 15 and Interstate 215 officially opened on July 24, 2007.
Caltrans has petitioned the AASHTO, the federal body that oversees the interstate highway system, to re-sign the entire Foothill Freeway, including the entire segments of State Routes 210 and 30 to I-210. In the meantime, CalTrans is in the process of re-signing State Route 30 from I-215 to Interstate 10 in Redlands as part of State Route 210.
The removal of the leg now signed as the 57 gave I-210 an uncommon distinction: it is a 3-digit spur route that does not connect to its parent route, Interstate 10. Moreover, the continued lack of I-710 completion means that I-210 does not even connect to another spur route of its parent (another I-''X''10, for example), but rather to those of two other interstates entirely, Interstates 5 and 15. A resigning of the route to an I-''X''05 or I-''X''15 designation is extremely unlikely, as this anomaly should be remedied once CalTrans gets approval to resign the entire Foothill Freeway as I-210.

Use as movie location

In 1974, Universal Studios used condemned houses ready to be bulldozed for a section of the freeway in Pasadena for the disaster film ''Earthquake''.
From 1975 to 1981, the uncompleted section of Interstate 210 in La Crescenta (and the intersecting CA/SR-2 Glendale Freeway) was often used often as a filming location. Some films and television shows filmed on this section include the theatrical films ''Death Race 2000'', ''Corvette Summer'' and ''The Gumball Rally'' as well as the made for television films "Smash Up on Interstate 5" and "The Great American Traffic Jam."
Perhaps most famously, the American television series "CHiPs" made extensive use of the Interstate 210–CA SR-118 interchange, often conducting major action sequences on the closed freeway. This section was finally opened in 1981 once the Tujunga Wash bridge was completed.
Later, as the freeway extended further east, so did its use as a filming location. In 2005 and 2006, for example, several television shows, commercials, and feature films shot on the unopened section of the freeway between Alder Avenue and Linden Avenue in the city of Rialto. A character in the fifth season of the fictional television show ''24'', which is set in Southern California sometime around 2009 or 2010, gives her location to be the intersection of I-210 and I-10, presumably referring to a future reconnection of I-210 to its parent.
In late August 2006, one of the shoots on the freeway was a portion of a major action sequence in the feature film "Transformers". The 2007 series ''Drive'', which uses highways settings for many of its action scenes, also shoots on the 210.^[1] In the first episode, the Alder Avenue exit sign is clearly legible.

State law

'Legal Definition of Route 210:' California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 510
Route 210 from Route 5 to Route 10 in Redlands is known as the Foothill Freeway, as named by Senate Concurrent Resolution 29, Chapter 128 in 1991.^[2]

Control cities

'Eastbound'

★ Pasadena

★ San Bernardino

★ Redlands - between Interstate 215 and Interstate 10
'Westbound'

★ Mountain Resorts - between I-10 and SR-330

★ San Bernardino - between SR-330 and Interstate 15

★ Pasadena - between Interstate 15 and SR-134

★ San Fernando - between SR-134 and San Fernando

★ Sacramento - between San Fernando and I-5 (Golden State Freeway)

Cities/communities located along the Foothill Freeway (west to east)

★ Los Angeles, California

★
★ Sylmar

★
★ San Fernando

★
★ Lake View Terrace

★
★ Sunland

★
★ Tujunga

★ Glendale

★ La Crescenta-Montrose

★ La Cañada Flintridge

★ Altadena

★ Pasadena

★ Arcadia

★ Monrovia

★ Duarte

★ Irwindale

★ Azusa

★ Glendora

★ San Dimas

★ La Verne

★ Claremont

★ Upland

★ Rancho Cucamonga

★ Fontana

★ Rialto

★ San Bernardino

★ Highland

★ Redlands

Exit list

Postmiles are derived from and exit numbers derived from^[3].

County	Location	Postmile	#	Destinations	Notes
Westbound traffic defaults onto 25x20px I-5 Golden State Freeway north
Los Angeles	Los Angeles	LA R0.00	1A		Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			1B		Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA R0.84	1C	Yarnell Street	Exit 1 eastbound
		LA R1.92	2	Roxford Street
		LA R3.28	3	Polk Street
		LA R4.11	4	Hubbard Street
		LA R4.94	5	Maclay Street
		LA R6.00	6A		Exit 6B westbound
		LA R6.01	6B	Paxton Street	Exit 6A westbound. Notable filming location for ''CHiPs'' television series.
		LA R7.82	8	Osborne Street; Foothill Blvd
		LA R9.43	9	Wheatland Avenue
		LA R11.08	11	Sunland Blvd	Filming location for the motion picture ''Corvette Summer''
		LA R14.15	14	La Tuna Canyon Road
	Glendale	LA R15.62	16	Lowell Avenue	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Honolulu Ave
		LA R16.77	17A	Pennsylvania Avenue	Exit 17 eastbound
		LA R17.38	17B	La Crescenta Avenue	Westbound entrance and eastbound entrance
		LA R18.22	18	Ocean View Blvd
	Glendale	LA R18.88	19		Notable filming location for the television series ''CHiPs'', ''Emergency!'' and the films ''The Gumball Rally'', ''Death Race 2000'', and ''Corvette Summer''.
		Joined with 25x20px SR 2
	La Cañada Flintridge	LA R19.88	20
		Split from 25x20px SR 2
		LA R20.60 LA R20.85	21	Gould Avenue; Foothill Blvd
		LA R21.53	22A	Berkshire Place
	Pasadena	LA R22.49	22B	Arroyo Blvd
		LA R23.19	23	Lincoln Blvd; Howard Avenue
		LA R24.06	24	Mountain Street
		LA R24.97	25A	() Del Mar Blvd, California Blvd, Colorado Blvd	Exit 26A westbound
			25B		Unnumbered westbound
		LA R25.29	25A	Fair Oaks Avenue south	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; exit accessible via Maple St, entrance accessible via Corson St
			25B	Fair Oaks Avenue north
		LA R26.33	26	Lake Avenue	Exit 26B westbound
		LA R26.94	27	Hill Avenue	Exit 27A westbound
		LA R27.41	27B	Allen Avenue	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA R28.25	28	Altadena Drive	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		LA R28.46	29A	Sierra Madre Blvd	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			29A	San Gabriel Blvd	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		LA R29.29	29B	Madre Street
		LA R29.51 LA R29.79	30B	, Michillinda Avenue	Split into Exit 30A (Rosemead Blvd south) and Exit 30B (Rosemead Blvd north) eastbound; Exit 30A ramp accessible via Walnut St; Exit 30B ramp accessible via Colorado Blvd; Westbound exit accessible via Foothill Blvd.
	Arcadia	LA R30.82	31	Baldwin Avenue	Westbound exit accessible via Foothill Blvd
		LA R31.88	32	Santa Anita Avenue
	Monrovia	LA R32.89	33	Huntington Drive
		LA R33.91	34	Myrtle Avenue
		LA R34.74	35A	Mountain Avenue	Eastbound ramps accessible via Evergreen Ave
	Duarte	LA R35.24	35B	Buena Vista Street	Eastbound exit accessible via Evergreen Ave; westbound exit accessible via Central Ave
	Irwindale	LA R36.42	36A		Exit 36B westbound
			36B	Mount Olive Drive; Huntington Drive	Exit 36A westbound
		LA R37.83	38	Irwindale Avenue
	Azusa	LA R38.96	39	Vernon Avenue	Eastbound exit accessible via 3rd St
		LA R39.60	40		Westbound exit accessible via 1st St
		LA R40.60	41	Citrus Avenue	Westbound ramps accessible via Baseline Rd
	Glendora	LA R41.59	42	Grand Avenue	Westbound exit accessible via Baseline Rd
		LA R43.16	43	Sunflower Avenue
		LA R44.04
I-210 becomes SR 210

References

1. ETOnline: "'Drive' Takes Viewers on a Bumpy Ride"
2. 2006 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California, , , , Caltrans, ,
3. Cal-NExUS Interchange Exit Numbering

External links

★ WestCoast Roads: Interstate 210

★ Cal-NExUS: Route 210 East

★ Cal-NExUS: Route 210 West

★ Caltrans: Interstate 210 highway conditions

★ The Big Highways Page: California Route 210

★ California Highways: Interstate 210

★ Western Exit Guide - Interstate 210 California

★ Interstate Guide: Interstate 210 California

★ SANBAG Projects: State Route 210 - Foothill Freeway