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Width. 46.5 feet (14 m) Route map. The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 (the Arroyo Seco Parkway) through Elysian Park in Los Angeles, California, United States. From south to north, the four tunnels measure 755, 461, 130, and 405 feet (230, 141, 40, and 123 m) in ...
Width. 80 feet (24 m) Route map. The Airport Tunnel, also known as the Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel, is a highway tunnel in Los Angeles, carrying Sepulveda Boulevard underneath the two runways (25L/25R) and taxiways on the south side of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). This section of Sepulveda is a part of California State Route 1.
12.75 feet (3.89 m) Route map. The 2nd Street Tunnel is a widely filmed and photographed tunnel on 2nd Street under Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Times described it as "the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of". [ 1] It is 1,500 ft (460 m) long and lined with glossy white-glazed ...
Figueroa Street. / 34.04972°N 118.25944°W / 34.04972; -118.25944. Figueroa Street is a major north-south street in Los Angeles County, California, spanning from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington north to Eagle Rock. A short, unconnected continuation of Figueroa Street runs just south of Marengo Drive in Glendale to Chevy ...
The aqueduct project began in 1905 when the voters of Los Angeles approved a US$1.5 million bond for the 'purchase of lands and water and the inauguration of work on the aqueduct'. On June 12, 1907, a second bond was passed with a budget of US$24.5 million to fund construction. [ 13 ][ 14 ] Construction began in 1908 and was divided into eleven ...
The tunnel required more than 50,000 cubic yards (38 227.75 m 3) of elevation, 4,000 cubic yards (3 058.22 m 3) of concrete and 1.25 million of bricks to line it. With the exception of the tunnel in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia , which was 41 feet (12 m) in diameter , but only 140 feet (43 m) long, the Broadway Tunnel was the widest tunnel of ...
Hill Street Tunnel. Hollywood Subway. Categories: Transportation buildings and structures in Los Angeles. Tunnels in Los Angeles County, California.
1930–1939: Los Angeles Municipal Airport. Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The next year, the dirt runway was replaced with oiled decomposed granite which could be used year-round and two more hangars, a restaurant, office space, and a control tower were built. On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los ...