 State Route 19 | ||||
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 SR 19 highlighted in red, with the relinquished portions in pink | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byCaltrans | ||||
| Length | 26.2 mi[1] (42.2 km) (prior to relinquishments) | |||
| Existed | 1934[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end | Rose Street at theLakewood-Bellflower border (State Maintenance) | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| North end | Foothill Boulevard inPasadena (State Maintenance) | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | California | |||
| Counties | Los Angeles | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Route 19 (SR 19) is astate highway in theU.S. state ofCalifornia, running alongLakewood Boulevard andRosemead Boulevard in the Los Angeles area. An additional "hidden" state highway,State Route 164 (SR 164), is also signed as part of SR 19, despite having a legal description separate from Route 19. The combined route is a north–south four-to-six lane suburban roadway, lying east of the Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) and west of the San Gabriel River Freeway (Interstate 605), and connecting the eastern parts ofLong Beach andPasadena via theWhittier Narrows. Under their legal descriptions, SR 19 runs north to Gallatin Road inPico Rivera, then SR 164 goes from Gallatin Road to Pasadena. Since 1998, several pieces have been relinquished to local governments, and more transfers are authorized by state law.
Locals generally refer to the combined SR 19/164 route as either Lakewood Boulevard or Rosemead Boulevard, not by its numerical designation. The two highways are part of theNational Highway System,[3] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by theFederal Highway Administration.[4]
The original official southern terminus of SR 19 was at theLos Alamitos Circle inLong Beach, where Lakewood Boulevard,State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway), and Los Coyotes Diagonal converge. SR 19 then proceeded north along Lakewood Boulevard through Long Beach and theCity of Lakewood, intersecting withInterstate 405, passing under a runway of theLong Beach Airport[5] (the part through the airport has been relocated to the east; parts of the old alignment remain as airport service roads), then running to the west ofLakewood Center Mall before passing through the neighborhood of Mayfair.
Since the California Legislature relinquished segments of the highway, state control of SR 19 now officially begins at the point where Lakewood Boulevard crosses the Lakewood–Bellflower city limits at Rose Street (SR 19 in Bellflower is also planned to be relinquished by the state[6]). SR 19 then intersectsState Route 91 before straddling the city border between Bellflower andParamount and later Bellflower andDowney. State control of SR 19 then ends north of Gardendale Street when Lakewood Boulevard fully enters into Downey.
Lakewood Boulevard continues north through Downey, intersecting withInterstate 105 before passing by the large site formerly occupied by North American Aviation, Rockwell International and Boeing Reusable Space Systems and interchanging withInterstate 5. At Telegraph Road at the Downey-Pico Rivera city limits, Lakewood Boulevard turns into Rosemead Boulevard.[7] Rosemead Boulevard continues north through Pico Rivera (where this segment of SR 19 has been relinquished to the city as well[8]) to Gallatin Road.[9]
The hidden SR 164, but signed as part of SR 19, begins north of Gallatin Road, traveling along Rosemead Boulevard acrossWhittier Narrows Dam before entering theWhittier Narrows Recreation Area and intersecting withState Route 60. After this, the road entersSouth El Monte before crossing theRio Hondo and straddling the city boundary betweenRosemead andEl Monte. It then intersects withInterstate 10. This portion of Rosemead Boulevard between Gallatin Road and Interstate 10 is still maintained by the state and built to expressway standards.
State maintenance ends again at the Rosemead–Temple City city limits near Grand Avenue. Rosemead Boulevard then continues north through Temple City and the unincorporated areas ofEast San Gabriel andEast Pasadena and into theCity of Pasadena. (The highway was relinquished to Temple City,[10] and those portions in the unincorporated areas were transferred to Los Angeles County.)[11] In Pasadena, the state still maintains the short portion of Rosemead Boulevard fromInterstate 210 toFoothill Boulevard, with SR 164's legal northern terminus at the latter. Rosemead Boulevard continues northwest under Pasadena's control from Foothill Boulevard to Sierra Madre Villa Avenue.[9]
Bus service is provided byMetro Local line 266 (between Foothill Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard) andLong Beach Transit line 111 (south of Del Amo Boulevard) throughout Rosemead Boulevard and Lakewood Boulevard. TheMetro C Line is also provided by astation in the median ofInterstate 105 under Lakewood Boulevard.
Before the present SR 19 was constructed, San Gabriel Boulevard, which extended fromLamanda Park south toDowney, and was widened and repaved by anassessment tax in 1925,[12] was the main road through theWhittier Narrows, requiring several turns to stay on it and to continue south toLong Beach.[13][14][15] The state legislature addedRoute 168 to the state highway system in 1933, which followed this general alignment betweenRoute 60 (SR 1) in Long Beach andRoute 9 (Foothill Boulevard, thenUS 66) near Lamanda Park.[16][17] SR 19 was later designated out of the1964 state highway renumbering.
 State Route 164 | |
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| Location | Pico Rivera–Pasadena |
| Length | 9.56 mi (15.39 km) |
| Existed | 1964–present |
The 9.56-mile (15.39 km) piece of SR 19 north of Gallatin Road inPico Rivera has legally been State Route 164 since the1964 renumbering, but has always been signed as SR 19. Original plans for SR 164 took it southeast toInterstate 605 from the present transition between SR 164 and SR 19, and it was originally planned as theRio Hondo Freeway.[18]
Many segments of SR 19 have since been relinquished to the cities that they run through.Caltrans relinquished Long Beach's portion of SR 19 to the city on January 27, 1999,[5] and Downey's segment of SR 19 was relinquished to the city on July 3, 2001.[7] However, the segment in Pico Rivera was not relinquished to that city until June 22, 2004.[8] On October 27, 2006, the northern portion of SR 164 that went through an unincorporated area of the county from Callita Street to I-210 was relinquished to the county.[11] In April 2008, the section of SR 164 through Temple City was relinquished to that city.[10] On April 9, 2012, the section of SR 19 through Lakewood was relinquished to that city.[19] In 2017, the relinquishment process in Bellflower began.[6]
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).[20] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route is inLos Angeles County.
| Location | Postmile [20][21][22][23] | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Long Beach | 0.00[a] |  SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) / Los Coyotes Diagonal –Newport Beach,Long Beach,Bellflower | Los Alamitos Traffic Circle; original south end of SR 19; former US 101 Alt. | ||
| 1.06[a] |  I-405 (San Diego Freeway) –San Diego,Santa Monica | I-405 exit 27; interchange; formerSR 7 | |||
| 1.97 |  Donald Douglas Drive toLong Beach Airport / Wardlow Road | ||||
| Long Beach–Lakewood line | 2.97[a] | Carson Street | FormerSR 214; servesLong Beach City College | ||
| 3.98[a] | Del Amo Boulevard | ||||
| Lakewood–Bellflower line | N/A | Rose Street | Southern end of state maintenance on SR 19 | ||
| Bellflower | 5.89 | Artesia Boulevard –Bellflower,Long Beach | FormerSR 91 | ||
| 6.05 |  SR 91 (Artesia Freeway) –Riverside,Manhattan Beach | SR 91 east exit 15, west exit 15A; interchange | |||
| Paramount–Downey line | 8.37 | Gardendale Street | Northern end of state maintenance on SR 19 | ||
| Downey | 8.57 |  I-105 (Century Freeway) –Norwalk,LAX Airport | I-105 exit 16; interchange | ||
| 8.89 | Imperial Highway | FormerSR 90 | |||
| N/A | Bellflower Boulevard | Former Legislative Route 169 (1933–1945) | |||
| 10.38 | Firestone Boulevard | FormerSR 42 | |||
| 12.08 |  I-5 (Santa Ana Freeway) –Santa Ana,Los Angeles | I-5 exit 125; interchange; formerUS 101 Bypass south | |||
| Downey–Pico Rivera line | 12.31 | Telegraph Road | North end of Lakewood Boulevard; south end of Rosemead Boulevard; formerUS 101 Bypass north /SR 26 | ||
| Pico Rivera | N/A | Slauson Avenue | |||
| N/A | Washington Boulevard | ||||
| 15.52 | Whittier Boulevard –Whittier,Montebello | FormerSR 72 | |||
| 16.64 1.39[b] | Gallatin Road | Southern end of state maintenance on SR 164 | |||
| South El Monte | 2.41[b] | San Gabriel Boulevard, Durfee Avenue | |||
| 3.34[b] |  SR 60 (Pomona Freeway) –Pomona,Los Angeles | SR 60 exit 10A; interchange | |||
| 4.81[b] | Garvey Avenue –El Monte,Monterey Park | FormerUS 60/US 70/US 99 | |||
| El Monte–Rosemead line | 5.60[b] |  I-10 (San Bernardino Freeway) –San Bernardino,Los Angeles | I-10 exit 26B; interchange | ||
| Rosemead | 6.22[b] | Valley Boulevard –El Monte,Los Angeles | FormerSR 212 | ||
| Rosemead–Temple City line | 6.89[b] | Northern end of state maintenance on SR 164 | |||
| Temple City | 7.78[b] | Las Tunas Drive | |||
| N/A[b] | Callita Street | ||||
| East San Gabriel–East Pasadena line | 9.65[b] | Huntington Drive | |||
| East Pasadena | 10.74[b] | Colorado Boulevard | FormerSR 248 (US 66 post-1933) | ||
| Pasadena | 10.88[b] |  I-210 (Foothill Freeway) –San Bernardino,Pasadena | I-210 exit 30; interchange; southern end of state maintenance | ||
| 10.95[b] | Foothill Boulevard | Northern end of state maintenance; formerRoute 210 (US 66 pre-1933) | |||
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