Ventura Freeway

State Route 134
State Route 134
Location	Pasadena–Los Angeles
Length	14 mi (23 km)
Existed	1957–present

Ventura Freeway
Ventura Freeway
	SR 134 highlighted in red; US 101 in blue
Route information
	Maintained by Caltrans
Component; highways	US 101 from the Santa Barbara/Ventura county line to North Hollywood; SR 1 (unsigned) from the Santa Barbara/Ventura county line to Sea Cliff, and from Solimar Beach to Oxnard; SR 134 from North Hollywood to Pasadena
Major junctions
West end	US 101 at the Santa Barbara–Ventura county line
	SR 33 in Ventura; SR 126 in Ventura; SR 1 in Oxnard; SR 23 in Thousand Oaks; I-405 in Sherman Oaks; US 101 / SR 134 / SR 170 in North Hollywood; I-5 in Los Angeles; SR 2 at the Los Angeles–Glendale line
East end	I-210 in Pasadena
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Counties	Ventura, Los Angeles
Highway system
	State highways in California; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; History; Pre‑1964; Unconstructed; Deleted; Freeways;
	Southern California freeways

The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California, United States, that runs from the Santa Barbara/Ventura county line^[1] to Pasadena in Los Angeles County. It is the principal east–west route (designated north–south) through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. From the Santa Barbara County line to its intersection with the Hollywood Freeway in the southeastern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles (the Hollywood Split), it is signed as U.S. Route 101 (US 101), which was built in the late 1950s and opened on April 5, 1960.^[3] The segments from the Santa Barbara County line to Sea Cliff, and from Solimar Beach to Oxnard, are also concurrent with State Route 1 (SR 1), although no signs mention SR 1 there. East of the Hollywood Freeway intersection, the Ventura Freeway is signed as State Route 134 (SR 134), which was built by 1971.

Before the construction of a new alignment in 1971, the portion east of the Golden State Freeway was known as the Colorado Freeway after nearby Colorado Boulevard, a historic thoroughfare in Pasadena and northeastern Los Angeles.

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^ Kevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 3.

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[3] Kevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 3.

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