La Cienega Boulevard
highway in California
La Cienega Boulevard is a major north–south arterial road in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that runs from the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in the north to El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne in the south. It was named for Rancho Las Cienegas, literally "The Ranch Of The Swamps," an area of marshland south of Rancho La Brea.
Landmarks along La Cienega Boulevard include Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, Restaurant Row, the Beverly Center mall and other shops in the La Cienega Design Quarter, and its intersection with Beverly Boulevard that is traditionally considered the epicenter of the studio zone.
Route description
La Cienega Boulevard's northern terminus is the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. It runs as a surface street in a due south direction through Beverly Hills and a section known as "Restaurant Row" for its historic tradition of upscale restaurants. South of Olympic, La Cienega runs through between the Pico-Robertson, South Carthay, and Crestview neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. South of the Santa Monica Freeway, the I-10, it briefly borders Culver City, and passes the La Cienega/Jefferson station of the Metro E Line.
Between Obama Boulevard and Centinela Avenue, most of La Cienega Boulevard is a divided, limited access expressway with few traffic signals. In the late 1940s, as part of the proposed Laurel Canyon Freeway, La Cienega was constructed to freeway standards with several grade-separated interchanges. Emergency call boxes like those found along the area's freeways were also installed along that stretch in the early 1970s.
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