 State Route 42 | ||||
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 SR 42 last routing highlighted in pink. | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byCaltrans | ||||
| Existed | 1960–2000 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  SR 1 inWestchester | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| East end |  I-5[a] inNorwalk | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | California | |||
| Counties | Los Angeles | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Route 42 (SR 42) is adecommissioned state highway in thesouthern region part of theU.S. state ofCalifornia, running alongManchester Avenue,Manchester Boulevard andFirestone Boulevard inLos Angeles and the cities south of it. In its final official routing that lasted from 1968 to 2000, SR 42 ran fromState Route 1 west ofInglewood (nearLos Angeles International Airport) east to what was then a direct interchange withInterstate 5 inNorwalk.[1] Though signed as SR 42, it was officiallyRoute 105 until it was replaced by the parallelInterstate 105 on October 14, 1993.[2] The entire route was deleted from theCalifornia Freeway and Expressway System in 2000, with the remaining portion of SR 42 being relinquished to local jurisdictions in that year.[3] The direct interchange with I-5 was later demolished in 2013 in favor of widening that portion of the Interstate.[1] However, some SR 42 signs may still remain along the route.[3]
State Route 42 began atLincoln Boulevard (State Route 1) as Manchester Avenue. East ofSepulveda Boulevard, Manchester Avenue crossed intoInglewood, where it is known as Manchester Boulevard. It jogged about two blocks to the north just west ofInterstate 405, and back to the south after passing downtown Inglewood. Upon crossing back into Los Angeles, it again became Manchester Avenue.
AtCentral Avenue, SR 42 entered the unincorporated community ofFlorence-Graham. It then became Firestone Boulevard and passed throughSouth Gate andDowney, and ended inNorwalk at a merge withInterstate 5 (theSanta Ana Freeway).
TwoMetro stations serves the corridor:
Legislative Route 174 was defined in 1933 to run frompre-1964 Legislative Route 60 west ofInglewood east topre-1964 Legislative Route 2 nearSanta Ana.[4] It was signed asState Route 10 in the initial signage of routes in 1934, running fromState Route 3 (nowState Route 1) toU.S. Route 101 near the present junction ofInterstate 5 andAnaheim Boulevard. (US 101 and LR 2 left the current I-5 alignment north onto Anaheim Boulevard, eventually entering downtown Los Angeles via presentState Route 72.)
Note: the present alignment of I-5 between Chapman Avenue inAnaheim and Main Street in Santa Ana was also part of LR 174, after a shortconcurrency of LR 2 and LR 174 in Anaheim. LR 2 used those two streets throughOrange, but US 101 was moved to LR 174 once it was built, and so that part of LR 174 was never signed as SR 10. The bypassed section of LR 2 becameState Route 51 in the1964 renumbering, but was removed from the state highway system in 1965.[5]
By 1942, the piece of SR 10 east ofState Route 19 (Lakewood Boulevard) had been designatedU.S. Route 101 Bypass.[6]U.S. Route 101 moved to the presentInterstate 5 alignment, formerly US 101 Bypass, by 1959, and SR 10 was truncated to the present I-5/Firestone Boulevard junction.[7]
 State Route 10 | |
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| Location | Inglewood -Norwalk |
| Existed | 1934–1960 |
Around 1960, SR 10 was renumbered to State Route 42 due to the nearbyInterstate 10 (numbered in 1957).[3] This change, which would have normally happened in the1964 renumbering, was done early due to the closeness of I-10. Route 42 was legislatively defined in that renumbering, running not only from SR 1 to I-5, but beyond toState Route 91 inAnaheim Hills. This route split from the existing SR 42 inNorwalk and ran east along unbuiltpre-1964 Legislative Route 176 to the intersection ofState Route 39 (Beach Boulevard) andImperial Highway. East of SR 39, Imperial Highway was state-maintained, and carried pre-1964 LR 176 and post-1964 SR 42 to its end at SR 91.[8] The whole route, from SR 1 to SR 91, had been added to theCalifornia Freeway and Expressway System in 1959.[9][10]
 State Route 105 | |
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| Location | Inglewood -Norwalk |
| Existed | 1968–1993 |
In 1965, the unbuilt part fromInterstate 605 east to SR 39 was transferred toState Route 90, which had been defined in 1964 to end at I-605; this left a gap in SR 42. The part of SR 42 west of I-605 was added to theInterstate Highway System asInterstate 105 in March 1968,[11] and the legislative changes were made that year - that piece became Route 105, and the piece east of SR 39 became a further extension of SR 90.[3]
Despite being officially Route 105 since 1968, the route continued to be signed as SR 42, not only along its defined alignment from SR 1 to I-605, but past I-605 toInterstate 5 (which had loosely become part of SR 90 in 1965).[12]
Interstate 105 was constructed from 1982 to 1994.[9] Even after the new route was finished, the old route continued to be signed as SR 42, even after the last section was relinquished in mid-2000.[3] Some signs still remained in 2004.[13] Since the widening of Interstate 5 between Interstate 605 and the Los Angeles-Orange County line, Firestone Boulevard does not connect with it anymore, instead ending at Bloomfield Avenue. Access to Firestone Boulevard from I-5 is now viaRosecrans Avenue.[1]
Except where prefixed with a letter,postmiles were measured on the road as it was in1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, seeCalifornia postmile § Official postmile definitions).[15] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route was inLos Angeles County.
| Location | Postmile [2][14] | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Los Angeles | 0.00 | West Manchester Avenue | Continuation beyond SR 1 | ||
| SR 1 (Lincoln Boulevard) | West end of SR 42 | ||||
| 1.32 | Sepulveda Boulevard | ||||
| Inglewood | 2.91 |  I-405 (San Diego Freeway) | Interchange | ||
| 3.83 | La Brea Avenue | FormerSR 107 | |||
| 5.42 | Crenshaw Boulevard | ||||
| Los Angeles | 6.42 | Western Avenue | FormerSR 213 | ||
| 7.42 | Vermont Avenue | ||||
| 7.93 | Figueroa Street | ||||
| 8.04 |  I-110 (Harbor Freeway) –Los Angeles,San Pedro | Interchange | |||
| 8.19 | Broadway | ||||
| 8.39 | Main Street | ||||
| 9.44 | Central Avenue | East end of Manchester Avenue; west end of Firestone Boulevard | |||
| Florence-Graham | 10.97 | Alameda Street | FormerSR 47 | ||
| South Gate | 11.61 | Long Beach Boulevard | |||
| 14.53 |  I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) –Pasadena,Long Beach | Interchange | |||
| 14.81 | Garfield Avenue | ||||
| Downey | 17.45 |  SR 19 (Lakewood Boulevard) –Long Beach,Pasadena | |||
| Norwalk | 18.82 |  I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway) | Interchange | ||
| | Imperial Highway | FormerSR 90 | |||
| |  I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) –Santa Ana | Interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; east end of SR 42. The entrance and exit were permanently closed in 2013 with the widening of I-5, and thus motorists have since been redirected south on Bloomfield Avenue and east onRosecrans Avenue. | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
