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Old Posted Nov 30, 2009, 6:19 AM
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I just wanted to call attention to that jog in the 101 freeway, the one that went around the old brewery that's been now long-demolished.

For years the freeway went right up against the brewery building and I remember as a child that I felt it was weird that the building would be right up against the freeway.

Here's what Beaudry posted some pages back:


At the top center of the photo you can see old brewery building, not as tall as it was originally, right up against the freeway and the lanes curving around the edge of it. After the brewery building was demolished, the jog in the freeway was still there.

On Friday, I took a picture of that area of the freeway from the new Metro Gold Line extension:


You can see that the on and off-ramps to the freeway have been re-aligned, and that cars no longer have to negotiate that jog. Though the freeway lanes are straighter now, there is still a jog at the edge of the roadway shoulder.
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