CALIFORNIA STATE ROUTE 22

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'State Route 22' in the U.S. State of California is an east-west highway in southern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County. It runs between Long Beach and Orange by way of Garden Grove. The westernmost part of it is a surface street, Long Beach's '7th Street'. From Long Beach to its eastern terminus in Orange, it is known as the 'Garden Grove Freeway'. It is one of the two principal east-west routes in Orange County, California (the other being the Riverside Freeway approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north).

Contents

The route

History

Planned imporvement

State law

Control cities

Communities served

Exit list

References

External links

The route

The 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Long Beach. Then, 7th Street widens from an expressway into a freeway just before crossing the San Gabriel River (and with it, the Los Angeles/Orange County line). It then merges with the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) at the Interstate 605 interchange and runs concurrently with it for approximately three miles before the two routes diverge in northeastern Seal Beach. Thereafter, the Garden Grove Freeway travels mostly within the city of Garden Grove or along its border with neighboring Westminster. Just inside the Orange city limits, the freeway enters the infamously congested Orange Crush interchange with the Santa Ana and Orange Freeways (Interstate 5 and State Route 57, respectively. It continues along the border of Orange and Santa Ana for three miles (5 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55).

History

Opened in the 1967, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the few freeways in Southern California to never have been widened from its original alignment. This resulted in its suffering from severe rush hour congestion, particularly as Santa Ana's population surged to over 300,000 during the 1990s.

Planned imporvement

In late 2004, in response to California's budgetary deficit, OCTA began a widening project to add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as to update onramps and offramps to contemporary standards, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA. This first phase of the project, scheduled to conclude in late 2006, opened May 2007. A later phase to add HOV lane interchanges at the I-605 junction and at the split with I-405 (Los Alamitos Curve) is in the planning stages, but funding has not yet been procured to start this phase.

State law

'Legal Definition of Route 22:' California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 322
Route 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway, as named by the State Highway Commission on October 22 1957.^[1]

Control cities

'Eastbound'

★ Garden Grove - between I-405 and Harbor Boulevard

★ Orange - between Harbor Boulevard and SR-55
'Westbound'

★ Long Beach

Communities served

★ Long Beach

★ Garden Grove

★ Westminster

★ Orange

★ Santa Ana

Exit list

This exit list is for the Garden Grove Freeway section of Route 22. Postmiles are derived from^[2] and exit numbers derived from^[3].

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
End/Begin Freeway. 25x20px SR 22 approaches on 7th Street from 25x20px SR 1 (Pacific Coast Hwy).
Los Angeles	Long Beach	LA 1.14	1	Studebaker Road
Orange	Seal Beach	ORA 0.65	2		Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; I-405 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
	Concurrency with 24x20px I-405
	Westminster	ORA R0.66			Combined as Exit 5 westbound; I-405 joins westbound and leaves eastbound
	Garden Grove	ORA R.092	5A	Bolsa Chica Road
			5B	Valley View Street
		ORA R2.69	7	Knott Avenue, Golden West Street	All ramps except westbound entrance accessible via Garden Grove Blvd
	Westminster	ORA R3.59	8
	Garden Grove	ORA R4.81	9	Magnolia Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Ave
		ORA R5.82	10	Brookhurst Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Ave
		ORA R6.81	11	Euclid Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Ave
		ORA R7.83	12A	Harbor Blvd South	Combined as Exit 12 westbound; eastbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Ave
			12B	Harbor Blvd North
		ORA R8.82	13	Fairview Street, Haster Street, Garden Grove Blvd
	Orange	ORA R9.73	14A	The City Drive
	Santa Ana	ORA R10.01	14B	Bristol Street	No westbound exit
	Orange	ORA R10.48	14C		Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			14D		Exit 14B westbound
	Santa Ana	ORA R10.99	15	Main Street – Santa Ana	Eastbound ramps accessible via Town and Country Rd; westbound ramps accessible via La Veta Ave
	Orange	ORA R11.84	16	Glassell Street, Grand Ave
		ORA R12.85	17A	Tustin Avenue – Orange	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		ORA R13.17	17B		Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; eastern terminus of SR 22
			17C

References

1. 2006 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California, , , , Caltrans, ,
2. July, 2007 California Log of Bridges on State Highways
3. Cal-NExUS Interchange Exit Numbering

External links

★ OCTA - SR-22

★ WestCoast Roads- California 22

★ Caltrans: Route 22 highway conditions

★ California Highways: CA-22

★ Cal-NExUS: Route 22 East

★ Cal-NExUS: Route 22 West