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Figueroa Street is a significant north-south road in Los Angeles County, California, spreading over from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington north to Eagle Rock. A short, detached continuation of Figueroa Street runs only south of Marengo Drive in Glendale to Chevy Chase Drive in La Cañada Flintridge.

The road is named for General José Figueroa (1792 - September 29, 1835), legislative head of Alta California from 1833 to 1835, who managed the secularization of the missions of California.

On "Mamba Day", August 24, 2020, then, at that point Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson and board part Curren Price reported plans to rename the fragment of Figueroa Street between Olympic Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue as Kobe Bryant Boulevard, out of appreciation for proficient b-ball player Kobe Bryant.[1]
Contents

    1 Route depiction
    2 History
    3 Future
        3.1 Kobe Bryant Boulevard
        3.2 "My Figueroa" advancement plan and 2028 Summer Olympics
    4 Major crossing points
    5 Transportation
    6 Notable milestones
        6.1 Education
    7 Buildings on Figueroa
    8 Appearances in mainstream society
    9 References
    10 External connections

Course portrayal
Figueroa Street (left), Harbor Freeway (focus), and S Broadway (right) night ethereal from the south, with downtown Los Angeles somewhere far off. Figueroa Street turns and become less apparent at the University of Southern California.

One of the more drawn out roads in the city, it runs in a north/south course for in excess of 30 miles (48 km) from its southern end at Harry Bridges Boulevard in the Wilmington neighborhood to Chevy Chase Drive in the city of La Cañada Flintridge at the north end.

From its south end at Harry Bridges Boulevard to Downtown Los Angeles, Figueroa Street runs north corresponding to the Harbor Freeway (Interstate 110) in South Los Angeles. The main piece of this fragment of Figueroa Street that lies outside Los Angeles city limits is in the city of Carson. South of the Los Angeles Financial District, Figueroa Street passes notable areas including the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Convention Center, and Staples Center/L.A. Live.

Between Olympic Boulevard and third Street in midtown Los Angeles, Figueroa Street shapes a one-way pair with Flower Street, with northward traffic remaining on Figueroa and southward traffic redirecting to Flower.

Subsequent to going through midtown close to Bunker Hill and South Park, the southern part of Figueroa Street closes close to the overcrossing of Sunset Boulevard over the Arroyo Seco Parkway (SR 110) in Chinatown. The northern piece of the road resumes at San Fernando Road in Cypress Park. An early directing of Figueroa Street in this space was initially important for U.S. Highway 66, today a piece of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (State Route 110).[clarification needed] The prominent Figueroa Street Tunnels were once a piece of that equivalent stretch of street.
Figueroa Street in Highland Park, Los Angeles

Subsequent to continuing at San Fernando Road, Figueroa keeps on running generally corresponding to the Arroyo Seco Parkway until it arrives at York Boulevard in Highland Park. A while later, it travels north to its end close to the Scholl Canyon Landfill simply past its intersection with the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134) in Eagle Rock. A short, detached continuation of Figueroa Street runs from a neighborhood only south of Marengo Drive in Glendale to end at Chevy Chase Drive directly over as far as possible line in La Cañada Flintridge.

Early guides delivered by the Automobile Club of Southern California estimated distances to Los Angeles from the club's central command at the convergence of Figueroa Street with Adams Boulevard.[2]
History
Entry of Grammy Museum at L.A. Live

Figueroa was initially called Calle de los Chapules (or Grasshopper Street). Chapules (or chapul in the particular structure) isn't the standard Spanish word for grasshopper which is saltamonte. Chapul is from the Nahuatl of Durango and Nayarit (otherwise called Mexicanero) and implies grasshopper.[3] Later during the 1880s it became known as "Pearl Street". Figueroa Street initially was a couple of squares west of Pearl yet joined Pearl Street further south. Pearl Street was changed to Figueroa and the northern part of the old Figueroa Street was renamed Boylston.[4] The segment of what is currently Figueroa in Highland Park above Avenue 39 was known as "Pasadena Avenue" until Figueroa was reached out through Elysian Park. The part of what is presently Figueroa between the Los Angeles River and Avenue 39 was initially known as Dayton Avenue until the Arroyo Parkway went through.[5] Prior to development of the Harbor Freeway, Figueroa St. conveyed U.S. Highway 6 to Pacific Coast Highway south from the Four-Level Interchange.

Until 1977, the Guinness Book of Records asserted Figueroa as the longest road on the planet, in line with essayist Jay Myers, it was replaced by Yonge Street in Toronto.[6]

On April 2, 2011, a part of Figueroa Street at Jefferson Boulevard was closed off for the "Orange Carpet" and the show off for the telecom of the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.

In South Los Angeles, Figueroa Street has the largest number of prostitution-related captures in Los Angeles.[7]

The Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Rams have involved Figueroa as the motorcade course for there separate titles in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2010 for the Lakers, 2012 and 2014 for the Kings and in 2022 for the Rams.[8][9]
Future
Kobe Bryant Boulevard

On August 24, 2020, then, at that point Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson and chamber part Curren Price reported plans to rename the 3-mile (4.8 km) fragment of Figueroa Street between Olympic Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue as Kobe Bryant Boulevard.[10][11] It would be renamed to pay tribute to proficient b-ball player Kobe Bryant, who alongside his little girl Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020.[12][13] The fragment of Figueroa among Olympic and Martin Luther King Jr. Street passes by the Crypto.com Arena, the home to the Los Angeles Lakers who Bryant played with all through his whole 20-year vocation and is named the "House that Kobe built".[14][15] In October 21, 2020, the vote to consider the proposition was postponed by the chamber, and another date presently can't seem to be expressed as of June 2021.[16]
"My Figueroa" improvement plan and 2028 Summer Olympics

The Figueroa Corridor Streetscape project is a city driven work to decorate and work on the road by adding walker amicable conveniences. The beautification project started on seventh road in Downtown Los Angeles, by Staples Center and ends at Exposition Park at USC. The venture started in 2017 and was finished before the finish of 2018.[17] It expected to further develop travel and person on foot access, safeguarded bicycle paths completely safeguarded by actual boundaries, a more coordinated and productive road by adding better signalization and signage, high-perceivability crosswalks, travel stages, more road trees, public craftsmanship and more extensive walkways. The $20 million Figueroa Corridor Streetscape project was subsidized by a Proposition 1C grant.[18] After delays, work was supposed to initiate in the mid year of 2016[19] and was supposed to be finished by March 2017, when the prop 1C award expires.[20] The Los Angeles 2028 getting sorted out board of trustees intend to utilize this passageway as an arranged "Live Site", a region committed as a focal person on foot hall, connecting all of the Downtown LA settings together during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.[21]
Significant crossing points
Area     Destinations     Notes
San Pedro     John S Gibson Boulevard     Continuation past Harry Bridges Boulevard

Harry Bridges Boulevard to I-110     Southern end of Figueroa Street
SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway)
Carson     Sepulveda Boulevard

To Main Street/I-405 south     Frontage street; no admittance to I-405 north
Los Angeles     Rosecrans Avenue
El Segundo Boulevard
Magnificent Highway
Century Boulevard
Manchester Avenue     Former SR 42
Florence Avenue
Slauson Avenue
Martin Luther King Jr. Road     South end of proposed Kobe Bryant Boulevard
Washington Boulevard
Pico Boulevard
Olympic Boulevard     North end of proposed Kobe Bryant Boulevard; south finish of one-way pair where northward traffic stays on Figueroa Street, and southward traffic joins from Flower Street then Olympic Blvd.
Wilshire Boulevard

fifth Street to SR 110 (Arroyo Seco Parkway)

third Street to SR 110 (Arroyo Seco Parkway)     North end of one-way pair where northward traffic stays on Figueroa St. furthermore, southward traffic redirects to third Street then Flower Street
Dusk Boulevard/Cesar Chavez Avenue
SR 110 north/Alpine Street
Hole in course

San Fernando Road/Riverside Drive to I-5 south (Golden State Freeway)
SR 110 south (Arroyo Seco Parkway)

Road 26 to I-5 south (Golden State Freeway)/SR 110 north (Arroyo Seco Parkway)
Colorado Boulevard
SR 134 (Ventura Freeway)
Scholl Canyon Road     Continuation past SR 134
Hole in course
Glendale     Marengo Drive
La Cañada Flintridge     Chevy Chase Drive     North end of Figueroa Street
Transportation
Metro Local Line 81 bus station at Figueroa and 65th Streets, Los Angeles, California. Metro Local Line 81 sudden spikes in demand for Figueroa Street.

The Metro C and J lines works a station under Interstate 105 at Figueroa Street. Metro Local Line 81 works on Figueroa Street between Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 105 and Torrance Transit Line 1 between Interstate 105 and the Harbor Gateway Transit Center. The Metro E Line has 5 stations close by. Two of which are imparted to the Metro A Line, one being a significant center point interfacing with the Metro B and D lines. The Metro J Line runs on Figueroa Street in Gardena and somewhere in the range of 23rd and sixth Streets in Downtown: Northbound J line excursions to El Monte Bus Station proceed with north on Figueroa Street to serve the seventh Street/Metro Center and fina

Figueroa Street es una calle principal, con dirección norte-sur, ubicada en el condado de Los Ángeles, California que se extiende desde el distrito de Wilmington al norte hasta Eagle Rock. Lleva el nombre del general José Figueroa (1792 - 29 de septiembre de 1835), gobernador de Alta California desde 1833 hasta 1835, que supervisó la secularización de las misiones de Alta California.

Índice

1 Ruta
2 Historia
3 Educación
4 Juegos Olímpicos 2028
5 Referencias
6 Enlaces externos

Ruta

Se trata de una de las calles más largas de la ciudad, con una extensión en largo de 40 km desde su terminal sur en Harry Bridges Boulevard, en el distrito de Wilmington, hasta Chevy Chase Drive, en la ciudad de La Cañada Flintridge, al norte. Desde su extremo sur en Harry Bridges Boulevard hasta el centro de Los Ángeles, corre paralela al norte de la autopista Harbor (Interstate 110) en el sur de Los Ángeles. Al sur del distrito financiero de Los Ángeles, pasa por lugares conocidos como la Universidad del Sur de California, el Centro de Convenciones de Los Ángeles y el Staples Center. Después de pasar por el centro de Los Ángeles cerca de Bunker Hill y South Park, la parte sur de Figueroa St. termina cerca del cruce de Sunset Boulevard sobre la Arroyo Seco Parkway (SR 110) en el barrio chino. La parte norte de la calle se reanuda en San Fernando Road en Cypress Park. Una ruta temprana de Figueroa en esta área fue originalmente parte de la ruta 66 de los EE. UU., Hoy parte de la ruta verde Arroyo Seco (ruta estatal 110).

Los túneles de Figueroa Street fueron una vez parte de ese mismo tramo de carretera. Después de reanudar en San Fernando Road, Figueroa continúa corriendo más o menos paralela a Arroyo Seco Parkway hasta llegar a York Boulevard en Highland Park. Luego, se dirige hacia el norte hasta su término cerca del vertedero Scholl Canyon, justo después de su unión con la autopista Ventura (ruta estatal 134) en Eagle Rock. Una continuación corta y desconectada de la vía principal se extiende desde un área residencial al sur de Marengo Drive en Glendale para terminar en Chevy Chase Drive, justo por encima del límite de la ciudad en La Cañada Flintridge.1​

Los primeros mapas producidos por el Club de automóviles del sur de California midieron las distancias a Los Ángeles desde la sede del club en la intersección de Figueroa con Adams Boulevard.

Historia

Figueroa originalmente se llamaba Calle de los Chapules (Grasshopper Street en inglés). Más tarde, en la década de 1880, se conoció como "Pearl Street", Calle Perla en español. La sección de lo que ahora es Figueroa en Highland Park sobre la avenida 39 se conocía como "Pasadena Avenue" hasta que Figueroa se extendió a través de Elysian Park. La porción de lo que ahora es Figueroa entre el río Los Ángeles y la avenida 39 se conocía originalmente como avenida Dayton hasta que la ruta del Arroyo pasó.2​

Educación

Luther Burbank Middle School
Florence Nightingale Middle School
Optimist High School
Sycamore Grove School
University of Southern California

Juegos Olímpicos 2028

Staples Center: Calle 12 y Calle Figueros en el Centro de Los Ángeles.

El proyecto Figueroa Corridor Streetscape es un esfuerzo liderado por la ciudad para embellecer y mejorar el bulevar al agregar servicios amigables para peatones. El proyecto de embellecimiento comenzó en la 7ma calle en el centro de Los Ángeles, por el Staples Center y termina en Exposition Park en la USC. El proyecto comenzó en 2017 y se completó a fines de 2018. Su objetivo era mejorar el tránsito y el acceso peatonal, carriles para bicicletas protegidos totalmente protegidos por barreras físicas, una calle más organizada y eficiente al agregar una mejor señalización y señalización, cruces peatonales de alta visibilidad, plataformas de tránsito, más árboles callejeros, arte público y aceras más anchas.3​ El proyecto de $ 20 millones de Figueroa Corridor Streetscape fue financiado por una subvención de la Proposición 1C.4​

Después de los retrasos, se esperaba que el trabajo comenzara en el verano de 2016 y se espera que se complete en marzo de 2017, cuando expire la subvención prop 1C.5​

El comité organizador de Los Ángeles 2028 planea usar este corredor como un "Sitio en vivo" planeado, un área dedicada como un corredor peatonal central, que une todos los lugares del centro de Los Ángeles durante los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos de 2028.6​7​

Figueroa Street è una strada nella Contea di Los Angeles che prende il nome da José Figueroa (1792-9 settembre 1835) generale e governatore della Alta California dal 1833 al 1835 che supervisionò la secolarizzazione delle missioni della California.

È una delle strade più lunghe presenti a Los Angeles e corre in direzione nord-sud per più di 48 chilometri tra le comunità di Eagle Rock e Wilmington. Si snoda da Harry Bridges Boulevard a San Pedro fino a nord della Ventura FreeWay ad ovest della città di Pasadena con una interruzione tra la San Fernando Road nel quartiere di Cypress Park e College Street nel quartiere di Chinatown.