California State Route 19

Image:I-405 at CA 19.jpg

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 the National Highway System,{{FHWA NHS map|region=losangeles|access-date=October 19, 2017}} a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.{{FHWA NHS}}

The original official southern terminus of SR 19 was at the Los Alamitos Circle in Long 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 the City of Lakewood, intersecting with Interstate 405, passing under a runway of the Long Beach Airport[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE92EBDEA59978&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM" State begins transfer of Lakewood Boulevard] (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 of Lakewood 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{{Cite web |url=https://www.bellflower.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=29958 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-07-29 |archive-date=2017-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429211634/https://www.bellflower.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=29958 |url-status=dead }}). SR 19 then intersects State Route 91 before straddling the city border between Bellflower and Paramount and later Bellflower and Downey. 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 with Interstate 105 before passing by the large site formerly occupied by North American Aviation, Rockwell International and Boeing Reusable Space Systems and interchanging with Interstate 5. At Telegraph Road at the Downey-Pico Rivera city limits, Lakewood Boulevard turns into Rosemead Boulevard.{{Cite web |url=http://www.downeygis.org/downeyca/minutes/MINSCC090903.pdf |title=Minutes Of The City Council |access-date=2008-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050212140938/http://www.downeygis.org/downeyca/minutes/MINSCC090903.pdf |archive-date=2005-02-12 |url-status=dead }} Rosemead Boulevard continues north through Pico Rivera (where this segment of SR 19 has been relinquished to the city as well{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/|title=Google News|date=17 September 2023|website=Google News|accessdate=17 September 2023}}) to Gallatin Road.{{Cite map | publisher=Thomas Brothers | title=Los Angeles and Orange Counties Street Guide and Directory | year=1999 | page=566, 596, 636, 676, 706, 736, 766, 796}}

The hidden SR 164, but signed as part of SR 19, begins north of Gallatin Road, traveling along Rosemead Boulevard across Whittier Narrows Dam before entering the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area and intersecting with State Route 60. After this, the road enters South El Monte before crossing the Rio Hondo and straddling the city boundary between Rosemead and El Monte. It then intersects with Interstate 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 of East San Gabriel and East Pasadena and into the City of Pasadena. (The highway was relinquished to Temple City,[http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_910_bill_20070223_introduced.pdf Bill introduced] sen.ca.gov {{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and those portions in the unincorporated areas were transferred to Los Angeles County.){{Cite web|url=http://lacounty.info/omd/q3_2006/cms1_048914.pdf|title=CPY Document|access-date=17 September 2023|website=lacounty.info}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In Pasadena, the state still maintains the short portion of Rosemead Boulevard from Interstate 210 to Foothill 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.

Bus service is provided by Metro Local line 266 (between Foothill Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard) and Long Beach Transit line 111 (south of Del Amo Boulevard) throughout Rosemead Boulevard and Lakewood Boulevard. The Metro C Line is also provided by a station in the median of Interstate 105 under Lakewood Boulevard.

File:CONTEXT VIEW, EASTERN QUADRANT OF PLANT (LAKEWOOD BOULEVARD RIGHT), FACING NORTH. - Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA HAER CA-315-4.tif, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing facilities along Lakewood Boulevard in Long Beach, 2002]]

Before the present SR 19 was constructed, San Gabriel Boulevard, which extended from Lamanda Park south to Downey, and was widened and repaved by an assessment tax in 1925,Los Angeles Times, Celebrate Paving of Boulevard, November 4, 1925 was the main road through the Whittier Narrows, requiring several turns to stay on it and to continue south to Long Beach.Ben Blow, California Highways: A Descriptive Record of Road Development by the State and by Such Counties as Have Paved Highways, 1920 ([https://archive.org/details/californiahighwa00blowrich Archive.org] or [https://books.google.com/books?id=osgNAAAAYAAJ Google Books]), p. 165Rand McNally & Company, [http://members.cox.net/mkpl2/hist/droz-laca33n.jpg Los Angeles and Vicinity] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002930/http://members.cox.net/mkpl2/hist/droz-laca33n.jpg |date=2011-07-26 }}, 1933Division of Highways, [http://www.americanroads.us/citymaps/1934CaStateMapLosAngeles.png Los Angeles and Vicinity], 1934 The state legislature added Route 168 to the state highway system in 1933, which followed this general alignment between Route 60 (SR 1) in Long Beach and Route 9 (Foothill Boulevard, then US 66) near Lamanda Park.{{cite CAstat|year=1933|ch=767|p=2040}}: "State Highway Route 60 near Long Beach to State Highway Route 9 near Lamanda Park."{{cite CAstat|year=1935|ch=29|p=286}}: "Route 168 is from Route 60 near Long Beach to Route 9 near Lamanda Park." SR 19 was later designated out of the 1964 state highway renumbering.

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|state=CA

|type=SR

|route=164

|length_mi=9.56

|location=Pico Rivera–Pasadena

|formed=1964

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The 9.56-mile (15.39 km) piece of SR 19 north of Gallatin Road in Pico Rivera has legally been State Route 164 since the 1964 renumbering, but has always been signed as SR 19. Original plans for SR 164 took it southeast to Interstate 605 from the present transition between SR 164 and SR 19, and it was originally planned as the Rio Hondo Freeway.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cahighways.org/161-168.html|title=California Highways: Routes 161-168 to Individual Page Detour|website=www.cahighways.org|accessdate=17 September 2023}}

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, and Downey's segment of SR 19 was relinquished to the city on July 3, 2001. However, the segment in Pico Rivera was not relinquished to that city until June 22, 2004. 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. In April 2008, the section of SR 164 through Temple City was relinquished to that city. On April 9, 2012, the section of SR 19 through Lakewood was relinquished to that city.{{Cite web|url=https://dot.ca.gov/dist07/divisions/planning/cm/D7_SR19_signedRAR_corrected.pdf|title=Caltrans|website=dot.ca.gov|access-date=2023-09-17|archive-date=2022-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914235649/https://dot.ca.gov/dist07/divisions/planning/cm/D7_SR19_signedRAR_corrected.pdf|url-status=dead}} In 2017, the relinquishment process in Bellflower began.

{{CAinttop|county=Los Angeles|post_ref=
{{Caltrans bridgelog|date=July 2007}}California Department of Transportation, [http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/2006all.htm All Traffic Volumes on CSHS] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721033203/http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/2006all.htm |date=July 21, 2011 }}, 2006California Department of Transportation, [http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/1999all.htm All Traffic Volumes on CSHS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209171824/http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/1999all.htm |date=2012-02-09 }}, 1999 (the last year before it was updated to remove the relinquished part)

}}

{{CAint

|location=Long Beach

|lspan=3

|postmile=0.00Postmiles are measured from SR 19's original southern end at SR 1, before that segment north to Rose Avenue was deleted and relinquished to local control.

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|1|name1=Pacific Coast Highway|road|Los Coyotes Diagonal|city1=Newport Beach|city2=Long Beach|city3=Bellflower}}

|notes=Los Alamitos Traffic Circle; original south end of SR 19; former US 101 Alt.

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=1.06

|road={{Jct|state=CA|I|405|name1=San Diego Freeway|city1=San Diego|city2=Santa Monica}}

|notes=I-405 exit 27; interchange; former SR 7

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=1.97

|road={{jct|extra=airport}} Donald Douglas Drive to Long Beach Airport / Wardlow Road

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location1=Long Beach

|location2=Lakewood

|lspan=2

|postmile=2.97

|road=Carson Street

|notes=Former SR 214; serves Long Beach City College

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=3.98

|road=Del Amo Boulevard

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location1=Lakewood

|location2=Bellflower

|postmile=N/A

|road=Rose Street

|notes=Southern end of state maintenance on SR 19

}}

{{CAint

|location=Bellflower

|lspan=2

|postmile=5.89

|road=Artesia Boulevard – Bellflower, Long Beach

|notes=Former SR 91

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=6.05

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|91|name1=Artesia Freeway|city1=Riverside|city2=Manhattan Beach}}

|notes=SR 91 east exit 15, west exit 15A; interchange

}}

{{CAint

|location1=Paramount

|location2=Downey

|postmile=8.37

|road=Gardendale Street

|notes=Northern end of state maintenance on SR 19

}}

{{CAint

|location=Downey

|lspan=5

|postmile=8.57

|road={{Jct|state=CA|I|105|name1=Century Freeway|city1=Norwalk|location2=LAX Airport}}

|notes=I-105 exit 16; interchange

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=8.89

|road=Imperial Highway

|notes=Former SR 90

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=N/A

|road=Bellflower Boulevard

|notes=Former Legislative Route 169 (1933–1945)

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=10.38

|road=Firestone Boulevard

|notes=Former SR 42

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=12.08

|road={{Jct|state=CA|I|5|name1=Santa Ana Freeway|city1=Santa Ana|city2=Los Angeles}}

|notes=I-5 exit 125; interchange; former US 101 Bypass south

}}

{{CAint

|type=trans

|location1=Downey

|location2=Pico Rivera

|postmile=12.31

|road=Telegraph Road

|notes=North end of Lakewood Boulevard; south end of Rosemead Boulevard; former US 101 Bypass north / SR 26

}}

{{CAint

|location=Pico Rivera

|lspan=4

|postmile=N/A

|road=Slauson Avenue

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=N/A

|road=Washington Boulevard

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=15.52

|road=Whittier Boulevard – Whittier, Montebello

|notes=Former SR 72

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=16.64

|line=yes

|postmile2=1.39Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along SR 164 rather than SR 19.

|road=Gallatin Road

|notes=Southern end of state maintenance on SR 164

}}

{{CAint

|location=South El Monte

|lspan=3

|postmile=2.41

|road=San Gabriel Boulevard, Durfee Avenue

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=3.34

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|60|name1=Pomona Freeway|city1=Pomona|city2=Los Angeles}}

|notes=SR 60 exit 10A; interchange

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=4.81

|road=Garvey Avenue – El Monte, Monterey Park

|notes=Former US 60/US 70/US 99

}}

{{CAint

|location1=El Monte

|location2=Rosemead

|postmile=5.60

|road={{Jct|state=CA|I|10|name1=San Bernardino Freeway|city1=San Bernardino|city2=Los Angeles}}

|notes=I-10 exit 26B; interchange

}}

{{CAint

|location=Rosemead

|postmile=6.22

|road=Valley Boulevard – El Monte, Los Angeles

|notes=Former SR 212

}}

{{CAint

|location1=Rosemead

|location2=Temple City

|postmile=6.89

|place=Northern end of state maintenance on SR 164

}}

{{CAint

|location=Temple City

|lspan=2

|postmile=7.78

|road=Las Tunas Drive

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=N/A

|road=Callita Street

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location1=East San Gabriel

|location2=East Pasadena

|postmile=9.65

|road=Huntington Drive

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location=East Pasadena

|postmile=10.74

|road=Colorado Boulevard

|notes=Former SR 248 (US 66 post-1933)

}}

{{CAint

|location=Pasadena

|lspan=2

|postmile=10.88

|road={{Jct|state=CA|I|210|name1=Foothill Freeway|city1=San Bernardino|city2=Pasadena}}

|notes=I-210 exit 30; interchange; southern end of state maintenance

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=10.95

|road=Foothill Boulevard

|notes=Northern end of state maintenance; former Route 210 (US 66 pre-1933)

}}

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