Glenoaks Boulevard
Thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Glenoaks Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, which stretches some 22.4 miles as a north-south thoroughfare in Sylmar at its intersection with Foothill Boulevard to a west-east thoroughfare in Glendale before ending in the Scholl Canyon area as a minor street. It passes through much of the San Fernando Valley including San Fernando, Pacoima, and Sun Valley. It is also a north-south thoroughfare in Burbank. Glenoaks Boulevard runs east of and parallel to Interstate 5 (Golden State Freeway) in San Fernando and Burbank, and north of and parallel to State Route 134 (Ventura Freeway) in Glendale.
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Maintained by | Bureau of Street Services, City of L.A. DPW, Co. of L.A. DPW, Burbank Public Works, Glendale Public Works,Caltrans |
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Length | 22.4 mi (36.0 km) |
Northwest end | I-210 in Sylmar |
Major junctions | I-5 in Burbank |
Southeast end | SR 2 in Glendale |
The median of Glenoaks Boulevard formerly carried Pacific Electric Railway trains from Brand Boulevard in Glendale to Eton Drive in Burbank. This Glendale–Burbank Line was cut back to Cypress Avenue in 1940 and replaced by buses in 1955.[citation needed]