Aerial view of the Eastern section. Note the Kellogg Drive interchange at center.
Courtesy - Caltrans (from CHPW magazine)
State 90 is a rather odd route as they go in the LA area. 90 was planned to be a full freeway from State 1 in Marina Del Rey to State 91 along Slauson Avenue and Imperial Blvd. Only two small segments were ever built. One is known as the Marina Freeway (Johnny Carson's famous "Slauson Cutoff") and the Yorba Linda Freeway. Both segments are very short and serve little purpose as freeways. The Yorba Linda Freeway was built in 1962 with one interchange at Kellogg Drive. The rest of the freeway is two lanes wide with no grade crossings from Yorba Linda Blvd to Esperanza Road. Part of the freeway was built along a Pacific Electric Railway alignment. This section was upgraded to a four lane divided roadway, albeit a narrow one, a couple of years ago.
The Marina Freeway is a full freeway from Culver Blvd to Slauson Avenue. Interchanges exist at I-405 and Centinela Avenue. It was built in stages from 1967 to 1972.
Aerial view of the Eastern section. Note the Kellogg Drive interchange at
center.
Courtesy - Caltrans (from CHPW magazine)
The rest of 90 exists along Imperial Blvd from Beach Blvd (SR-39) to State 91 and is a conventional highway. Imperial is four lanes or more along that segment.
Eastern State 90: Orange County
Nearing the end of the Super-2 freeway just west of the Buena Vista UC, 55-346.
End of the freeway at Yorba Linda Blvd. Overpass is the Lakeview Avenue OC, 55-345.
Western State 90: Los Angeles County
End of the contructed westbound lanes east of Ballona Creek. From here to Culver
Blvd, only the eastbound lanes were constructed. From Culver to Lincoln Blvd, 90 is a
divided expressway.
Eastern end of the freeway. This is looking east from the 405 junction. Original
fence median has been replaced with a jersey barrier median.
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