Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard is the principal east-west arterial road in Los Angeles, California. Running 16 miles from Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles to Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, it has been called "the backbone of Los Angeles." Many of the post-1956 skyscrapers in Los Angeles are located along Wilshire; indeed, one of the oldest and tallest is known simply as "One Wilshire."

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Arterial road - Los Angeles, California - Downtown Los Angeles - Santa Monica - Skyscraper

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One particularly famous stretch of the boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea Avenues is known as the Miracle Mile. The area just to the east of that is referred to as the Park Mile.

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Fairfax - Miracle Mile

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All of the boulevard is at least four lanes in width, and most of the portion between Hoover Street and Robertson Boulevard has a raised center median. The widest portion is in the business district of central Westwood, where mobs of pedestrians crossing Wilshire at Westwood Boulevard must traverse ten lanes (including two left-turn pockets).

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Lane - Westwood

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The Los Angeles Metro Red Line subway runs along Wilshire Boulevard from just past the 7th/Figueroa Street stop to its western terminus at Western Avenue in Koreatown; the Hollywood spur splits off from the main line at Vermont Avenue. Considerable discussion is underway to extend the Red Line to Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, following Wilshire for most of its route: during the 2005 campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles, ultimately victorious candidate Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to begin construction of the Wilshire Boulevard subway.

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Los Angeles Metro Red Line subway - Koreatown - Hollywood - 2005 campaign - Mayor of Los Angeles - Antonio Villaraigosa

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