418. Route 118 is from:
(a) Route 126 near Saticoy to Route 210 near San Fernando.
(b) Route 210 near Sunland to Route 249 north of La Canada.
418.3. The commission is requested to grant high priority for
construction on uncompleted portions of Route 118 for which no
construction contract has been awarded, in order to enable the
department to award other major construction contracts, so that
construction may proceed without delay on the route until it is
completed, unless precluded therefrom by any conditions beyond the
department's control.
418.4. In recognition of the fact that increased motor vehicle
traffic uses Madera Road and Olsen Road in the City of Simi Valley to
traverse between Routes 118 and 23, the department may pay up to ten
thousand dollars ($10,000) annually to the city for the added costs
of maintenance and operation of those two roads. The payment shall
be made from funds appropriated to the department for the maintenance
of state highways.
This section shall become inoperative upon the department
certifying that construction is complete on the 1985 State
Transportation Improvement Program project on Route 23 in Ventura
County which provides the freeway-to-freeway connection with Route
118.
For Code 418.3, this as far as I know is not taking effect, since Route 118 between Route 23
and Route 210 as a freeway is complete.
For Code 418.4, it means that the city would get $10,000 to maintain these two streets,
Madera Road and Olsen Road, until construction to connect the freeways, Routes 118 and 23,
is complete. Somewhere in 1994 this portion was finally finished and open to motorist, so this
code is no longer in operation.
Entire route.
From Route 23 in Simi Valley to Route 210 in Lake View Terrace, near the city of San
Fernando.
The name of the freeway is the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway. A piece of this
route is also named the Ronald Reagan Freeway. Since the two names seem too long for the
signs to hold, and because people are just plain lazy, they don't bother with the name.
Part (b) is not signed. Either that or people keep stealing the markers in Sunland.
Route 118, before it was a freeway in the S.F. Valley, went on Devonshire St east, Sepulveda
Bl north, Brand Bl east, and then Foothill Bl east to La Canada Flintridge. If you go to Sunland
and are heading west on Foothill Bl, you may catch a sign with the Route 118 marker, having the
white state sign of olden days unlike the green ones nowadays, following Foothill Bl on the right
lane.
Route 118 from Route 23 to DeSoto Avenue near Browns Canyon.
Here's a truly unusual sight. When on the I-5 heading north, you get on the ramp to Route 118
going west to Simi Valley. Unlike many cases, the ramp drops you off on Route 118 allright, but
on the left lanes of the westbound side! Trucks (and the speedy cars on the left lane of Route 118
heading west) be very careful here.
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