California State Route 60

State Route 60
Pomona Freeway Moreno Valley Freeway Defined by S&HC § 360, maintained by Caltrans
Length:	70 mi[1] (112.65 km)
Formed:	1969
West end:	I-5/10 in Los Angeles
Major junctions:	I-710 in East Los Angeles I-605 in Avocado Heights SR 57 in Diamond Bar SR 71 in Pomona I-15 in Mira Loma I-215 / SR 91 in Riverside I-215 in Riverside
East end:	I-10 in Beaumont
State highways in California < SR 59 SR 61 > History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

State Route 60 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs from Interstate 10 near the Los Angeles River in Los Angeles east to I-10 in Riverside County, with an overlap at Interstate 215.

Contents 1 Route description 1.1 Pomona Freeway 1.2 Moreno Valley Freeway 2 History 3 State law 4 Exit list 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Route description

Route 60 serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of the San Gabriel Valley. The west terminus of the freeway is at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex. The east terminus is at the junction with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10) in Beaumont. The freeway is known as the Pomona Freeway west of its junction with State Route 91 and Interstate 215 in Riverside. East of this interchange the freeway is known as the Moreno Valley Freeway until its terminus at its junction with Interstate 10. Interestingly, the freeway shares the alignment of the Orange Freeway, State Route 57 for some two miles (3 km) in Diamond Bar and it shares the alignment of the Escondido Freeway, Interstate 215 for about 5 miles (8 km) in Riverside, California. The route takes its number from former U.S. Route 60. See the Pomona Freeway page for additional information.

Pomona Freeway

The Pomona Freeway is the assigned name of the majority of State Route 60 (SR 60) between its western terminus at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and its junction with the Riverside Freeway, State Route 91 (SR 91) and Interstate 215 (I-215) in Riverside. The freeway itself continues east beyond this interchange but does so as the Moreno Valley Freeway. It traverses through Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. As it passes through many of Los Angeles' east side suburbs in southern San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, it is a major transportation corridor. For the majority of its length it is generally parallel to, and south of, the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10), and generally parallel to, and north of, the Riverside Freeway. Traffic congestion is exacerbated by the rapid population growth and, therefore, residential, commercial, and industrial development in the inland communities known informally as the Inland Empire. In particular, it has become increasingly clogged of late with shipping container-laden trucks travelling from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to rail yards and warehouses in the Inland Empire.

Moreno Valley Freeway

The Moreno Valley Freeway is a freeway segment of State Route 60 and Interstate 215, connecting Riverside to communities further east in the Inland Empire and (via Interstate 10) to the Coachella Valley. Its western terminus is at the intersection of the Pomona (State Route 60) and Riverside freeways (State Route 91 and Interstate 215), near downtown Riverside. The freeway is cosigned as State Route 60 and Interstate 215 for several miles in Riverside, traveling southeast, until the border between Riverside and Moreno Valley, where Interstate 215 branches southward as the Escondido Freeway, and State Route 60 (maintaining the Moreno Valley Freeway designation) branches eastward for approximately 20 miles. After passing through Moreno Valley and the rugged hill country to the east (known as the Badlands to the locals), it ends at Interstate 10 in Beaumont. Owing to the rapid development of the Inland Empire since the 1980s, the Moreno Valley Freeway now suffers from severe congestion. The Northern most section that shares its roadbed with Interstate 215 is currently under construction to improve traffic flow.

Major cities Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs
Los Angeles (westbound) Monterey Park Montebello Rosemead South El Monte City of Industry Diamond Bar Chino Hills Pomona Chino Ontario Riverside Moreno Valley Beaumont (eastbound) Indio (eastbound; via I-10)

History

Before 1964, U.S. 60 ran from Los Angeles to the Arizona state line, where it continued its nationwide trek, often overlapping U.S. 99 and U.S. 70 along the way. The advent of Interstate 10 created a situation where, at one point, four different signed routes would run along the state-maintained highway. In 1964, California implemented a plan to simplify its highway-numbering system, where one state highway had only one route number and concurrencies were sternly discouraged. As a result, the U.S. 60 designation (along with U.S. 70 and U.S. 99) was removed. Interstate 10 (as Route 10) superseded U.S. 60's alignment from Beaumont and towards the Arizona state line, even though the routing was only partly a freeway. This left the officially designated Route 60 from Beaumont to Los Angeles orphaned from its original U.S. Highway (which to this day begins at a point on Interstate 10 east of Quartzsite, Arizona). This new Route 60 was provisionally signed as a U.S. Highway since the designation would guide motorists from Los Angeles to Arizona in the absence of a completed freeway for Interstate 10; when all of Route 10 was upgraded to a freeway, the U.S. Highway designation disappeared. The stretch of Route 60 along the Moreno Valley Freeway made national headlines in April, 2004, when five-year-old Ruby Bustamante of Indio and her 26-year-old mother, Norma, were reported missing. Their car had left the road, apparently unwitnessed, between the gap in two guard rails on April 4. It then crashed underneath a tree in a deep ravine. Though Mrs. Bustamante lost her life, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncooked Top Ramen noodles and bottles of Gatorade which were in the car. The parent companies of both products, Nissin Foods and Quaker Oats respectively, have each pledged $5000 toward Ruby's college education.

State law

Route 60 is part of the Freeway and Expressway System, as stated by section 253.1 of the California State Highway Code.

Exit list

County	Location	Postmile[1]	#[2]	Destinations	Notes
Westbound traffic defaults onto I-10 west
Los Angeles	Los Angeles	LA 0.00	1A	I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) – Santa Monica	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA R0.54	1A	I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		LA 0.00	1B	Mateo Street, Santa Fe Avenue	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; part of East Los Angeles Interchange
		LA R0.54	1C	I-5 north (Golden State Freeway) / US 101 north (Santa Ana Freeway) – Los Angeles, Sacramento	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA R1.26 LA R1.48	1D	Whittier Boulevard, Lorena Street	Signed as exit 1B eastbound
		LA R1.94	2	Indiana Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA 2.59	3A	3rd Street; Downey Road
		LA R3.24	3B	I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) – Pasadena, Long Beach
	Monterey Park	LA 4.43	4	Atlantic Boulevard
	Montebello	LA R5.16	6A	Findlay Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		LA R5.60 LA R.89	6B	Garfield Avenue, Wilcox Avenue	Signed as exit 6 westbound; Eastbound ramps accessible via Via Campo, westbound ramps accessible via Pomona Blvd
		LA R7.77	8	Paramount Boulevard - Montebello
	Rosemead	LA R8.55	9	San Gabriel Boulevard - Rosemead	Eastbound ramps accessible via Town Center Dr.
		LA 9.52	10A	SR 19 (Rosemead Boulevard)
	South El Monte	LA 10.23	10B	Santa Anita Avenue - South El Monte
		LA 11.00	11	Peck Road; Durfee Avenue
	Industry	LA 11.71	12	I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway) – Irwindale, Seal Beach
		LA 12.63	13	Crossroads Parkway
		LA 14.26	14	7th Avenue - Industry	Split into exits 14A (south) and 14B (north) eastbound
		LA 15.63	16	Hacienda Boulevard
		LA 17.97	18	Azusa Avenue
		LA 19.46	19	Fullerton Road
		LA 20.43	20	Nogales Street
		LA R21.48	21	Fairway Drive - Walnut
	Diamond Bar	LA R22.97	23	Brea Canyon Road	Eastbound ramps accessible via Golden Springs Dr.
		LA 23.56	24A	SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) – Santa Ana	SR 57 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
		Joined with SR 57
		LA R24.45	24B	Grand Avenue - Diamond Bar
		LA R25.46	25	SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) to I-210 west (Foothill Freeway) – Pasadena	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; SR 57 joins westbound and leaves eastbound
		Split from SR 57
		LA R25.56	26	To SR 57 north / Diamond Bar Boulevard	Westbound ramps accessible via Sunset Crossing Rd
	Pomona	LA R28.04	28	Phillips Ranch Road
		LA R29.38 LA R29.40	29A	SR 71 south (Chino Valley Freeway) – Corona	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			29B	To SR 71 north / Garey Avenue	Signed as exit 29A westbound
			29B	SR 71 (Chino Valley Freeway) – Corona, Pomona	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		LA R30.33	30	Reservoir Street
San Bernardino	Chino	SBD R1.37	32	Ramona Avenue
		SBD R2.37	33	Central Avenue
		SBD R3.60	34	Mountain Avenue
	Ontario	SBD R4.57	35	SR 83 (Euclid Avenue) – Ontario
		SBD R5.86	36	Grove Avenue
		SBD R6.86	37	Vineyard Avenue
		SBD R7.87	38	Archibald Avenue
		SBD R8.90	39	Haven Avenue - Ontario Airport
		SBD R9.94	40	Milliken Avenue, Hamner Avenue	Signed as exit 41A westbound
Riverside		RIV R0.49	41	I-15 (Ontario Freeway) – Barstow, San Diego	Signed as exit 41B westbound
		RIV R1.80 RIV R1.99	42	Van Buren Boulevard, Etiwanda Avenue, Mission Boulevard
		RIV R3.03	43	Mission Boulevard, Country Village Road
		RIV R4.55	45	Pedley Road
		RIV R5.58	46	Pyrite Street
	Rubidoux	RIV 7.53	48	Valley Way, Mission Boulevard - Rubidoux
		RIV 9.54	50	Rubidoux Boulevard - Rubidoux	Eastbound entrance accessible via 30th St.
	Riverside	RIV 11.07	52A	Market Street - Downtown
		RIV 11.73	52B	Main Street	Westbound exit accessible via Oakley Ave
		RIV 12.20	53A	SR 91 west (Riverside Freeway) – Beach Cities
			53B	I-215 north (Riverside Freeway) – San Bernardino, Barstow	I-215 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
		Concurrency with I-215
		RIV R12.20	58	I-215 south (Escondido Freeway) – San Diego	I-215 joins westbound and leaves eastbound
		RIV 13.31	59	Day Street
	Moreno Valley	RIV 14.32	60	Frederick Street, Pigeon Pass Road	Westbound exit accessible via Hemlock Ave
		RIV 15.34	61	Heacock Street
		RIV 16.35	62	Perris Boulevard	Eastbound ramps accessible via Sunnymead Boulevard
		RIV 18.37	64	Nason Street
		RIV 19.12	65	Moreno Beach Drive
		RIV 20.37	66	Redlands Boulevard - Moreno
		RIV 21.37	67	Theodore Street
		RIV 22.10	68	Gilman Springs Road - Hemet, San Jacinto
	East end of freeway
			74	Jack Rabbit Trail	At-grade intersection
	Beaumont	RIV 30.50		I-10 west (Redlands Freeway) – San Bernardino, Los Angeles; Beaumont (6th St)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
				I-10 east (Redlands Freeway) – Palm Springs, Indio	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Eastbound traffic defaults onto I-10 east

See also

• Interstate 10
• U.S. Route 60
• U.S. Route 70
• U.S. Route 99

References

External links

• Caltrans: Route 60 highway conditions
• Cal-NExUS: Route 60 East
• Cal-NExUS: Route 60 West
• California Highways: Route 60
• California @ WestCoastRoads.com - State Route 60
• The 60/91/215 Freeway Improvement Project

•  • e Freeways in Greater Los Angeles
Radial	Hollywood (US 101/SR 170) • Golden State (I-5) • Antelope Valley (SR 14) • Glendale (SR 2) • Pasadena (SR 110) • San Bernardino (I-10) • Pomona (SR 60) • Santa Ana (I-5/US 101) • Laguna (SR 133) • Corona del Mar (SR 73) • Long Beach (I-710) • Terminal Island (SR 103) • Seaside (SR 47) • Harbor (I-110) • Marina (SR 90) • Santa Monica (I-10)
Circumferential	Ventura (US 101/SR 134) • Foothill (I-210) • San Gabriel River (I-605) • Orange (SR 57) • Costa Mesa (SR 55) • Artesia (SR 91) • Garden Grove (SR 22) • Century (I-105) • Gardena (SR 91) • San Diego (I-5/I-405) • Moorpark (SR 23) • Ojai (SR 33) • Ronald Reagan (SR 118) • Santa Paula (SR 126)
Inland Empire	Chino Valley (SR 71) • Moreno Valley (SR 60) • Riverside (I-215/SR 91) • I-15 • I-40 • I-215 • SR 210 • SR 259 • SR 330
Toll	Eastern (SR 133/SR 241/SR 261) • Foothill (SR 241) • San Joaquin Hills (SR 73) • 91 Express