California State Route 22

Major cities; Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs
	Long Beach (westbound); Garden Grove (eastbound); Westminster; Orange (eastbound); Santa Ana;

State Route 22
State Route 22
Garden Grove Freeway
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Route information
	Maintained by CalTrans
Length	15 mi (24 km)
Existed	1967–present
Major junctions
	I-405 in Seal Beach; CA-39 in Garden Grove; I-5 in Santa Ana
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Highway system
	State highways in California; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; History; Pre‑1964; Unconstructed; Deleted; Freeways;

State Route 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, California (the other being the Riverside Freeway approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north).

The route

The 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 three miles (5 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55).

History

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

Planned improvement

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 to update onramps and offramps to contemporary standards, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA. This first phase of the project, scheduled to conclude in late 2006, opened May 2007. A later phase to add HOV lane interchanges at the I-605 junction and at the split with I-405 (Los Alamitos Curve) is in the planning stages, but funding has not yet been procured to start this phase.

State law

Legal Definition of Route 22: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 322 Template:CAFESAlt

Route 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.^[1]

Major intersections

The following are the major intersections along the non-freeway/7th Street portion of Route 22:

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Exit list

This exit list is for the Garden Grove Freeway section of Route 22. Postmiles are derived from^[2] and exit numbers derived from^[3].

County	Location	mi	Destinations	Notes
Los Angeles	Long Beach	LA 0.00Error: mi is not a number	SR 1	Western terminus of SR 22
		Module:Jctint/USA warning: Unused argument(s): street
		Error: mi is not a number	N. Bellflower Blvd
Error: mi is not a number		Channel Drive
Freeway until terminus (see exit list below).

County	Location	Postmile	#	Destinations	Notes
Western terminus of the freeway segment of SR 22.
Los Angeles	Long Beach	LA 1.14	1	Studebaker Road
Orange	Seal Beach	ORA 0.65	2	I-405 north / I-605 north	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; I-405 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
	Concurrency with I-405
	Westminster	ORA R0.66		I-405 south	Combined as Exit 5 westbound; I-405 joins westbound and leaves eastbound
	Garden Grove	ORA R.092	5A	Bolsa Chica Road
		ORA R.092	5B	Valley View Street
		ORA R2.69	7	Knott Avenue, Golden West Street	All ramps except westbound entrance accessible via Garden Grove Boulevard
	Westminster	ORA R3.59	8	SR 39 (Beach Boulevard)
	Garden Grove	ORA R4.81	9	Magnolia Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Avenue
		ORA R5.82	10	Brookhurst Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Avenue
		ORA R6.81	11	Euclid Street	Westbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Avenue
		ORA R7.83	12A	Harbor Boulevard South	Combined as Exit 12 westbound; eastbound exit and entrance accessible via Trask Avenue
		ORA R7.83	12B	Harbor Boulevard North
		ORA R8.82	13	Fairview Street, Haster Street, Garden Grove Boulevard
	Orange	ORA R9.73	14A	The City Drive
	Santa Ana	ORA R10.01	14B	Bristol Street	No westbound exit
	Orange	ORA R10.48	14C	I-5 south (Santa Ana Fwy) – Santa Ana, San Diego	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Orange	ORA R10.48	14D	I-5 north (Santa Ana Fwy) / SR 57 north (Orange Fwy)	Exit 14B westbound
	Santa Ana	ORA R10.99	15	Main Street – Santa Ana	Eastbound ramps accessible via Town and Country Rd; westbound ramps accessible via La Veta Avenue
	Orange	ORA R11.84	16	Glassell Street, Grand Avenue
		ORA R12.85	17A	Tustin Avenue – Orange	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		ORA R13.17	17B	SR 55 south (Costa Mesa Freeway)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; eastern terminus of SR 22
		ORA R13.17	17C	SR 55 north (Costa Mesa Freeway)