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| | Freeway System Of Los Angeles Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | While Southern California residents idiomatically refer to freeways with the definite article, as "the [freeway number]" (e.g., the Santa Monica and San Bernardino freeways are known as "the 10," as they are segments of Interstate 10), traffic reporters, highway signs, and transportation planners usually refer to a freeway by its full, descriptive name. |
 | | Southern California's romance with the automobile owes in large part to resentment of the Southern Pacific Railroad's tight control over the region's commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
 | | Conversion of open-access portions of California State Highway 58 between Barstow and Tehachapi to Interstate highway standards, with the aim of extending Interstate 40 (I-40) from its current western terminus in Barstow at Interstate 15 (I-15) to California State Highway 99 (CA-99) in Bakersfield or Interstate 5 (I-5) in Buttonwillow |
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