California State Route 22

State Route 22
Route information
Defined by Streets and Highways Code § 322
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:	14.725 mi[1] (23.698 km) SR 22's length is broken into pieces and therefore does not reflect the overlaps that would be required to make the route continuous.
Existed:	1934 – present
Major junctions
West end:	SR 1 in Long Beach
	I-405 / I-605 in Seal Beach SR 39 in Westminster I-5 / SR 57 in Santa Ana
East end:	SR 55 in Orange
Highway system
State highways in California Interstate U.S. State Pre-1964 History Unconstructed Deleted Freeway Scenic ← SR 20 SR 23 →

State Route 22 (SR 22) in the U.S. state of California is an east–west highway in southern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County. It runs between Long Beach and Orange by way of Garden Grove. The westernmost part of it is a surface street, Long Beach's 7th Street. From Long Beach to its eastern terminus in Orange, it is known as the Garden Grove Freeway. It is one of the two principal east–west routes in Orange County (the other being SR 91 approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north).

Route description

SR 22 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System.^[2] SR 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway, as named by the State Highway Commission on October 22, 1957.^[3] An 8-mile (13 km) stretch of Route 22 is named the Garden Grove Police Officers Memorial Highway to honor police officers killed in the line of duty.^[4]

SR 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Long Beach. Then, 7th Street widens from an expressway into a freeway just before crossing the San Gabriel River (and with it, the Los Angeles/Orange County line). It then merges with the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) at the Interstate 605 interchange and runs concurrently with it for approximately three miles before the two routes diverge in northeastern Seal Beach. Thereafter, the Garden Grove Freeway travels mostly within the city of Garden Grove or along its border with neighboring Westminster. Just inside the Orange city limits, the freeway enters the infamously congested Orange Crush interchange with the Santa Ana and Orange Freeways (Interstate 5 and State Route 57, respectively). It continues along the border of Orange and Santa Ana for 3 miles (4.8 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55).

History

SR 22 was originally designated in 1934, when the state highway system was first numbered. Before the freeway was built, it was routed along Garden Grove Boulevard (formerly Ocean Avenue).^[5]

Opened in 1967, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the few freeways in Southern California to have never been widened from its original alignment, eventually resulting in severe rush hour congestion, particularly as Santa Ana's population surged to over 300,000 during the 1990s.

In late 2004, in response to California's budgetary deficit, OCTA began a widening project to add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as reconfiguringe and upgrading on and off ramps to contemporary standards at several interchanges, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA. This $700 million Design-Build projected completed in a record 2 year time frame in 2007 was led by consortium composed of Granite Construction and URS Corp. as the lead designer along with several sub-consultants. A second phase to add HOV lane interchanges at the I-605 junction and at the split with I-405 was recently completed.

Major intersections

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see the list of postmile definitions).^[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

County	Location	Postmile [1][6][7]	Exit [8]	Destinations	Notes
Los Angeles LA 0.00-1.47	Long Beach	0.00		SR 1 north (Pacific Coast Highway)	West end of SR 22; no left turn to SR 1 south; 7th Street continues beyond SR 1
		0.08		To SR 1 south (Pacific Coast Highway) / Bellflower Boulevard
			West end of freeway
		1.14	1	Studebaker Road
Orange ORA 0.00-R13.16	Seal Beach	R0.37- R0.65 23.28[N 1]	2	I-405 north (San Diego Freeway) / I-605 north (San Gabriel River Freeway) – Santa Monica	West end of I-405 overlap; no exit number westbound; former SR 7; I-405 exits 23A-B; I-605 south exits 1A-B
		22.64[N 1]	22[N 2]	Seal Beach Boulevard, Los Alamitos Boulevard
	Seal Beach–Westminster line	20.75[N 1] R0.66	—	I-405 south (San Diego Freeway) – Irvine, San Diego	East end of I-405 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Garden Grove	R0.92	5	To I-405 south / Garden Grove Boulevard, Valley View Street, Bolsa Chica Road	Eastbound signage omits Bolsa Chica Rd, westbound signage omits Garden Grove Blvd
		R2.65	7	Knott Street, Golden West Street
	Garden Grove–Westminster line	R3.59	8	SR 39 (Beach Boulevard)
	Garden Grove	R4.81	9	Magnolia Street
		R5.82	10	Brookhurst Street – Garden Grove
		R6.81	11	Euclid Street – Garden Grove
		R7.83	12	Harbor Boulevard	Signed as exits 12A (south) and 12B (north) eastbound
		R8.82	13	Fairview Street, Haster Street
	Orange	R9.73	14A	The City Drive
	Santa Ana	R10.01	14B	Bristol Street	No westbound exit
	Orange–Santa Ana line	R10.48	14C	I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; I-5 north exit 106, south exits 107A-B
		R10.48	14D	I-5 north (Santa Ana Freeway) / SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Los Angeles, Pomona	Signed as exit 14B westbound; provides direct exit ramp onto Chapman Ave; I-5 north exit 107A; SR 57 exits 1B-C
	Orange	R10.99	15	Main Street
		R11.83	16	Glassell Street, Grand Avenue
		R12.87	17A	Tustin Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R13.16	17B-C	SR 55 (Costa Mesa Freeway) – Anaheim, Riverside, Newport Beach	East end of SR 22; signed as exits 17B (south) and 17C (north); SR 55 exit 13
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

• California Roads portal
• U.S. Roads portal

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to California State Route 22.

Route map: Bing / Google

• California @ AARoads.com - State Route 22
• Caltrans: Route 22 highway conditions
• California 22 @ Asphaltplanet.ca