Alondra Boulevard

Alondra Boulevard is a west-east thoroughfare in the counties of Los Angeles and Orange.

Alondra Boulevard
Maintained byLocal jurisdictions
West endVermont Avenue in Los Angeles
Major
junctions		 I-710 in Compton
SR 19 in Bellflower
I-605 in Norwalk
East end CR N8 in Buena Park

Route description

Alondra Boulevard begins at Vermont Avenue in the city of Los Angeles. It passes major streets like Long Beach Boulevard, Avalon Boulevard, Alameda Street, Atlantic Boulevard, Lakewood Boulevard and Valley View Avenue. The thoroughfare terminates at La Mirada Boulevard (Los Angeles County Route N8) in Buena Park.

The street passes over Interstate 110 and Interstate 5 but does not have interchanges with them. Previously, Alondra Boulevard had an entrance at Interstate 5, but this was removed in 2014 with the widening of the freeway. Alondra Boulevard also had an interchange with the Harbor Freeway (formerly State Route 11, now Interstate 110), but this was replaced with the Redondo Beach Boulevard interchange in the 1980s.[1]

Compton/Woodley Airport is situated along Alondra Boulevard.[2]

History

The Alondra Avenue concrete T-beam bridge which crosses over the San Gabriel River in Bellflower was constructed in 1952 and was rehabilitated in 1972.[3]

Incidents

In February of 2020, an unnamed man was killed while another was wounded in a car-to-car shooting at the intersection of Alondra Boulevard and Poinsettia Avenue in Compton.[4]

On November 16, 2020, a dead body was reported at the 12800 block of Alondra Boulevard in a landscaped median. The corpse was highly decomposed, suggesting that it had already been there for an extended period of time.[5]

On November 17, 2020, 19-year-old Carl Lewis, a basketball player for the Sudbury Five, was shot and killed while sitting in his car parked on Alondra Boulevard in a reportedly gang related incident.[6]

Transportation

Alondra Boulevard is serviced by Metro Local line 128.

References
  1. "Alondra Boulevard Bridge". my5la.com.
  2. "Airport History". Aviation Airports. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  3. "Alondra Boulevard San Gabriel River Bridge". Bridge Hunter. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  4. Salahieh, Nouran (February 2, 2020). "Man Killed, Another Wounded in Car-to-Car Shooting in Compton". KTLA 5. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  5. Martin, Erika (November 16, 2020). "Decomposing body found in Norwalk; homicide detectives investigating". KTLA 5. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  6. Arreola, Annette (November 19, 2020). "'It's Senseless': 19-Year-Old Rising Star Athlete From Compton Shot and Killed". NBC 4 Los Angeles. Retrieved January 17, 2021.


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