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Figueroa Street Tunnels
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Figueroa Street Tunnels
Postcard view provided by Joe Sonderman
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
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BH Photo #448572
Description
The first three tunnels opened in November 1931. The fourth and longest opened on August 4, 1936. The tunnels originally carried two way traffic, which created a bottleneck when the Arroyo Seco Parkway opened. In 1941, work began on four new lanes at a higher elevation immediately to the west of the tunnels. The new lanes opened on December 30, 1943. The tunnels and the Figueroa Street Viaduct then became one-way northbound only.
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Elysian Park on CA 110/ Arryo Seco Pkwy
- Location
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1931. Open with 2 other sister tunnels
- Design
- Tunnel 1
- Dimensions
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Total length: 404.9 ft.
Deck width: 46.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.07830, -118.22823 (decimal degrees)
34°04'42" N, 118°13'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/386676/3771518 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Los Angeles
- Inventory numbers
- 53 0202R
BH 62874 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 25, 2019: Updated by Joe Sonderman: added US 66 corrected spelling of Figueroa
- September 4, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Joe Sonderman