 6th Street inCentral Los Angeles | |
| Maintained by | Bureau of Street Services,Los Angeles Department of Water and Power |
|---|---|
| Length | 14 mi (23 km) |
| Nearest metro station |    Pershing SquareWilshire/VermontWilshire/NormandieWilshire/WesternWilshire/La BreaWilshire/Fairfax |
| West end | San Vicente Boulevard incentral Los Angeles |
| Major junctions |  SR 110 SR 60 |
| East end | Harding Avenue inEast Los Angeles |
6th Street is an east–west thoroughfare that runs continuously for 9 miles (14 km) indowntown andcentralLos Angeles,California. The street also continues for 5 miles (8.0 km) inEastside Los Angeles andEast Los Angeles, although not as a thoroughfare.
6th street travels continuously for nine miles acrosscentral anddowntownLos Angeles. From west to east, 6th street begins on theLos Angeles-Beverly Hills border, then travels throughcentral Los Angeles (including the neighborhoods ofMid-Wilshire,Hancock Park,Windsor Square,Koreatown,Wilshire Center, andWestlake), then continues through downtown (including theFinancial District;Historic Core'sJewelry,Broadway Theater andSpring Street Financial districts;Skid Row; andArts District). The continuous portion of 6th Street ends at thedowntown Los Angeles-Eastside Los Angeles border, where through traffic continues ontoWhittier Boulevard via the6th Street Viaduct, a 3,500 foot (1.1 km)viaduct that spans numerous train tracks, theLos Angeles River, andUS 101. 6th Street also continues as a discontinuous local road for approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) inEastside Los Angeles andEast Los Angeles.
Through much of downtown, 6th Street is part of aone-way couplet with 5th Street, 5th Street traveling westbound and 6th Street eastbound. 5th Street merges into 6th as it exits downtown to the west, and 6th is two-way outside downtown.
State Route 110 has offramps that connect to 6th Street, but there are no on-ramp connections. Similarly,State Route 60 has a westbound onramp and offramp at 6th Street, but no eastbound connection. 6th Street is discontinuous and therefore does not connect withUS 101,Interstate 710, and aconcurrent section ofInterstate 5 andInterstate 10.
Three bus lines travel along 6th Street:Metro Local Lines 18 and 20, andMetro Rapid Line 720. Metro Local Line 18 travels along 6th fromWestern Avenue inKoreatown toWhittier Boulevard indowntown Los Angeles. Likewise,Metro Rapid Line 720 travels along 6th from Burlington Avenue inWestlake toWhittier Boulevard. Metro Local Line 20 also travels on 6th from Westlake to downtown, although it only goes as far as Valencia Street westbound andMain Street eastbound. Furthermore, each of these routes travel on 5th instead of 6th westbound through downtown, as much of the downtown section of 6th street is one-way eastbound.[1][2][3]
Los Angeles Metro'sB andD lines parallel 6th Street for a significant portion of their routes, with theWilshire/Western,Wilshire/Normandie,Wilshire/Vermont, andPershing Square stations located one block from of 6th Street and theWestlake/MacArthur Park and7th Street/Metro Center stations located two blocks from 6th street.[4] TheD Line Extension will also add two more stations within one block of 6th Street:Wilshire/La Brea andWilshire/Fairfax,[5] andan additional B and D line station has been proposed on 6th Street in theArts District.[6]
Many ofLos Angeles's most notable landmarks are located on or abut 6th Street, including (from west to east):Los Angeles County Museum of Art,La Brea Tar Pits,MacArthur Park,Pershing Square, and6th Street Viaduct. Additionally, sixLos Angeles Historic Cultural Monuments are located on 6th Street:Park Plaza Hotel,Chapman Park Studio Building,Chapman Park Market Building,Founder's Church of Religious Science,Pacific Mutual Building, and the aforementioned MacArthur Park.[7]
Additional landmarks on 6th Street include:
Schools on 6th Street include (from west to east):John Burroughs Middle School, Young Oak Kim Academy, New Covenant Academy, Larchmont Charter, Rise Kohyang Elementary,The Chicago School Los Angeles campus,Hollenbeck Middle School,Theodore Roosevelt High School,Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles, Rowan Avenue Elementary School,Garfield High School, and Joseph Gascon Elementary School.
6th Street is mentioned in theRandy Newman song "I Love L.A."[8]