See that? It’s what we in LA call the Four Level, and it was one of the greatest engineering achievements in all of highwaydom, connecting the Pasadena Freeway with the Harbor and Hollywood Freeways. Here in the City of Angels we have a lot of nicknames for roads and road features, even preferring names to numbers when talking about the freeways.
Much like Laguna Seca’s storied Corkscrew many of our roads and highways have been anointed over the years with fitting appellations. There’s Sunset Boulevard’s Dead Man’s Curve, the West Side’s Miracle Mile, and a secret road bridging Pasadena and San Marino known to a select few as ‘Frankenstein’ for obvious reasons when revealed.
But not everybody is fortunate enough to reside in LA and experience both this metropolis’s many driving denominates and the horrific traffic that plies them. What then of your neighborhood, town, county or state? What road features in your neck of the woods have earned an honorific, and which of those is your favorite?
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