Hollywood Freeway
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{{Infobox road
|marker_image=[[Image:US 101 (CA).svg|88x70px]][[Image:California 170.svg|88x70px]]
|state=CA
|highway_name=
|name_notes=
|type=Freeway
|route=Hollywood
|maint=[[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]]
|map=Hollywood Freeway.svg
|direction_a=South
|starting_terminus=[[Image:California 110.svg|25x20px]] [[Image:US 101 (CA).svg|25x20px]] [[California State Route 110|SR 110]]/[[U.S. Route 101 in California|US 101]] ([[Four Level Interchange]])
|junction=[[Image:California 134.svg|20px]] [[Image:US 101 (CA).svg|25x20px]] [[Image:California 170.svg|25x20px]] [[California State Route 134|SR 134]]/US 101/[[California State Route 170|SR 170]] ([[Hollywood Split]])
|direction_b=North
|ending_terminus=[[Image:I-5 (CA).svg|20px]] [[Interstate 5 in California|I-5]] in [[Sun Valley, California|Sun Valley]]
|system=[[Southern California freeways|Southern California Freeway System]]
}}
The '''Hollywood Freeway''' is one of the principal [[freeway]]s of [[Los Angeles, California]] (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the [[United States]]. It is the principal route over the [[Cahuenga Pass]], the primary shortcut between the [[Los Angeles Basin]] and the [[San Fernando Valley]].
==The Route==
The freeway runs from the [[Golden State Freeway]] in the [[Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California|Sun Valley]] district of Los Angeles in the [[San Fernando Valley]] to the [[Four Level Interchange]] in downtown Los Angeles. Between the Golden State Freeway and its intersection with the [[Ventura Freeway]] in the southeastern San Fernando Valley (also known as the [[Hollywood split|Hollywood Split]]), it is signed as [[California State Route 170|State Route 170]]; thereafter, it takes on the more famous designation of [[U.S. Route 101 (California)|U.S. Route 101]].
==Notable Features==
[[Image:LosAngeles04.jpg|Hollywood Freeway at night with Downtown L.A. in the background.|thumb|100px|right]]
The Hollywood Freeway is an expansion of the original '''Cahuenga Parkway''', a short six-lane freeway that ran through the [[Cahuenga Pass]] between Hollywood and Studio City. The Cahuenga Parkway featured [[Pacific Electric Railway]] "[[Red Car]]" tracks in its median, but by the 1950s these tracks were out of service due to radical reductions in Red Car service. The Pacific Electric right-of-way later accommodated an additional lane in each direction.
The intersection of the Hollywood and Pasadena Freeways, known as the [[Four Level Interchange]], is one of the major landmarks in Los Angeles and a symbol of the city's post-[[World War II]] development.
==Legal definition==
The Hollywood Freeway is Routes 101 and 170 from Route 110 ([[Four Level Interchange]]) to Route 5.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/products/Named_Freeways.pdf | title=2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California | publisher=[[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]] | pages=72 | accessdate=2007-03-28}}</ref>
==Exit list==
:''Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, [[postmile]]s were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.''
The entire route is in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]].
{| class=wikitable
!Location
![[Postmile]]<br><ref name=trucklist>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/trucks/truckmap/truck-route-list.xls State Truck Route List] ([[XLS file]]), accessed January 2008</ref><ref name=bridgelog>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/brlog2.htm Log of Bridges on State Highways], July 2007</ref><ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/ All Traffic Volumes on CSHS], 2005 and 2006</ref>
![[exit number|#]]<ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [[California Numbered Exit Uniform System]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/oneoonenorth.pdf US-101 Northbound] and [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/oneoonesouth.pdf US-101 Southbound], accessed January 2008</ref><ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [[California Numbered Exit Uniform System]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/oneseventynorth.pdf SR-170 Northbound] and [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/oneseventysouth.pdf SR-170 Southbound], accessed January 2008</ref>
!Destinations
!Notes
|-
|rowspan=9|[[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
|1.57
|
|{{jct|state=CA|US|101|dir1=south|to2=to|I|5|dir2=south|name2=[[Santa Ana Freeway]]|I|10|dir3=east|name3=[[San Bernardino Freeway]]|SR|60|dir4=east|name4=[[Pomona Freeway]]}}
|Continuation beyond SR 110
|-
|1.57
|3B
|{{jct|state=CA|SR|110|dir1=north|I|110|dir2=south|name1=[[Pasadena Freeway]]|name2=[[Harbor Freeway]]|city1=Pasadena|city2=San Pedro}}
|Southbound exit and northbound entrance
|-
|2.48
|4A<!--former 4 northbound-->
|[[Glendale Boulevard]], Echo Park Avenue, Union Avenue
|
|-
|2.86
|4B
|{{jct|state=CA|SR|2|dir1=east|name1=Alvarado Street}}
|South end of SR 2 overlap
|-
|3.34
|5A
|Rampart Boulevard, Benton Way
|
|-
|3.76
|5B
|Silver Lake Boulevard
|
|-
|4.40
|6A
|[[Vermont Avenue]]
|
|-
|4.85-<br>4.99
|6B
|[[Melrose Avenue]], [[Normandie Avenue]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|5.55-<br>5.81
|rowspan=2|7
|rowspan=2|{{jct|state=CA|SR|2|dir1=west|name1=[[Santa Monica Boulevard]]|road=[[Western Avenue (Los Angeles)|Western Avenue]]}}
|rowspan=2|North end of SR 2 overlap
|-
|rowspan=7|[[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]]
|-
|6.25
|8A
|[[Sunset Boulevard]]
|No northbound entrance
|-
|6.52
|8B
|[[Hollywood Boulevard]]
|
|-
|6.91
|8C
|[[Gower Street (Hollywood)|Gower Street]]
|
|-
|7.06
|9A
|[[Vine Street]]
|Southbound exit only
|-
|7.46
|9B
|[[Cahuenga Boulevard]] – [[Hollywood Bowl]]
|No northbound entrance; signed as exit 9A northbound
|-
|7.84
|9C
|[[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] ([[California State Route 170|SR 170]] south) - [[Hollywood Bowl]]
|South end of SR 170 overlap; signed as exit 9B northbound
|-
|rowspan=15|[[North Hollywood, California|North Hollywood]]
|9.22
|11A
|Barham Boulevard – [[Burbank, California|Burbank]]
|Signed as exit 11 southbound
|-
|9.60
|11B
|Universal Studios Boulevard
|Northbound exit and entrance; serves [[Universal Studios Hollywood]]
|-
|10.34
|12A
|[[Lankershim Boulevard]] – [[Universal City, California|Universal City]]
|
|-
|10.56
|12B
|[[Ventura Boulevard]]
|No southbound exit
|-
|11.11
|12C
|Vineland Avenue
|Signed as exit 12B southbound
|-
|rowspan=3|''101'' 11.75<br>''170'' R14.50
|
|{{jct|state=CA|US|101|dir1=north|name1=[[Ventura Freeway]]|city1=Ventura}}
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|-
!colspan=3|North end of US 101 overlap
|-
|5B
|{{jct|state=CA|SR|134|dir1=east|name1=[[Ventura Freeway]]|city1=Pasadena}}
|Northbound exit is via exit 12C
|-
|R14.78
|6A
|[[Riverside Drive (Los Angeles, California)|Riverside Drive]]
|Southbound exit and northbound entrance
|-
|R15.37
|6B
|Magnolia Boulevard - [[North Hollywood, California|North Hollywood]]
|Signed as exit 6 northbound
|-
|R15.99
|7
|Burbank Boulevard
|
|-
|R16.63
|8A
|Oxnard Street
|
|-
|R17.25
|8B
|[[Victory Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Victory Boulevard]]
|
|-
|R18.27
|9
|Sherman Way
|
|-
|R19.72
|10
|Roscoe Boulevard
|
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Sun Valley, California|Sun Valley]]
|R20.10
|11A
|Sheldon Street
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|-
|R20.55
|11B
|{{Jct|state=CA|I|5|dir1=north|name1=[[Golden State Freeway]]|city1=Sacramento}}
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{LA Freeways}}
[[Category:Southern California freeways]]
[[Category:U.S. Route 101]]
[[Category:Transportation in the San Fernando Valley]]