Was CA 22 supposed to continue to Long Beach?

[thsftw]

Was having a hard time finding information about it, but the way the freeway ends after the San Diego Freeway interchange sure makes it seem like they had planned to connect it via downtown Long Beach to Terminal Island and 710? Anyone know anything about these plans? Not sure it would have ever been necessary even, but not all of Los Angeles Freeway plans always made sense.

[Max Rockatansky]

It was definitely studied to reach the Pacific Coast Freeway, see Photos 28-29:

https://www.gribblenation.org/2022/02/california-state-route-22-orange-crush.html

A lot of the 710 Terminal Island stuff is relatively modern.  The Long Beach Freeway from Pacific Coast Highway to Broadway was actually completed as a Long Beach owned facility by 1959.

Photos 55-56 are more what you are looking for in regards to CA 22 being extended through Long Beach.

[mrsman]

There were plans for a coast freeway that is closer to the Ocean than 405.  So I imagine an extended CA-22 to connect to that and then reaching the northern parts of Downtown long Beach and then heading on a coastal alignment towards Santa Monica, essentially paralleling PCH.

Here is what a quick search yields:

https://metroprimaryresources.info/lost-parkways-of-los-angeles-the-1946-proposed-interregional-regional-and-metropolitan-plan/278/

[The Ghostbuster]

Could any of you imagine a CA 22 freeway west of Interstate 405? It would have been quite a challenge to extend a freeway westward, even if it only went to Interstate 710.

[mrsman]

Could any of you imagine a CA 22 freeway west of Interstate 405? It would have been quite a challenge to extend a freeway westward, even if it only went to Interstate 710.

Sure.  Difficult.  but somewhat useful.

A better connection to Downtown Long Beach from the east as well as basically a new east-west freeway (combining with existing infrastructure in Terminal Island) would be quite useful though.

[DTComposer]

You can see some remnants of the adopted route:

https://goo.gl/maps/A2hYaMtDps5oKZRX7

Follow Parima Street and Greenway Street SW from 7th to PCH and the curved property line of the church at PCH and Colorado. This is even better highlighted by looking at the 1972 photo on Historical Aerials.

From there it would have paralleled Colorado, then gone up the former Pacific Electric ROW to somewhere around 10th Street, then headed due west, which would have taken out hundreds of homes.

[froggie]

From there it would have paralleled Colorado, then gone up the former Pacific Electric ROW to somewhere around 10th Street, then headed due west, which would have taken out hundreds of homes.

Does "former Pacific Electric ROW" = the NW-SE running corridor partially occupied by Appian Way?