East Los Angeles Interchange
| East Los Angeles Interchange | |
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| Location | |
| Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: | 34°01′51″N 118°13′14″W / 34.0307°N 118.2206°WCoordinates: 34°01′51″N 118°13′14″W / 34.0307°N 118.2206°W |
| Roads at junction: |
 US 101
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| Construction | |
| Maintained by: | Caltrans |
| Map | |
The East Los Angeles Interchange complex is the busiest freeway interchange in the world, with its southern portion handling over 550,000 vehicles per day (2008 AADT). The northern portion, called the San Bernardino Split, is often considered a separate interchange. The interchange was named the Eugene A. Obregon Memorial Interchange, to honor U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Eugene A. Obregon.
At the time of its construction in the early 1960s, the East Los Angeles Interchange was considered a civil engineering marvel. Located along the east bank of the Los Angeles River in the Los Angeles district of Boyle Heights, east of Downtown Los Angeles, the interchange comprises six freeway segments; that is, there are six freeway paths of travel into the complex. The actual number of numbered highways intersecting at this interchange is four:
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