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{{Infobox road
|state=CA
|type=SR
|route=55
|alternate_name=Costa Mesa Freeway
|section=355
|maint=[[Caltrans]]
|map=California State Route 55.svg
|length_mi=18
|length_ref={{Fact|date=January 2008}}
|length_round=0
|established=1964
|direction_a=South
|terminus_a={{Jct|state=CA|SR|1}} in [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]]
|junction={{Jct|state=CA|I|405}} in [[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]]<br>{{Jct|state=CA|I|5}} in [[Tustin, California|Tustin]]
|direction_b=North
|terminus_b={{Jct|state=CA|SR|91}} in [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]]
|previous_type=SR
|previous_route=54
|next_type=SR
|next_route=56
}}


Cheung-Yan Yuen (born 1940s? in China?) is an actor, director, stuntman, and fight coreographer who has worked for many years in the Hong Kong film industry. During the 1970s and early 80s, he worked with [[Yuen Woo-Ping]] (Cheung-Yan Yuen's brother) and other members of the Yuen family on several films, some of them bizarre kung fu comedies such as ''[[Shaolin Drunkard]]'' (1982) and ''[[Miracle Fighters]]'' (1983).
{| class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf;"|<big>Major cities</big><br><small>'''Bolded cities''' are officially-designated [[control city|control cities]] for signs</small>
|-
|
*'''[[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]]''' (southbound)
*[[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]]
*[[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
*[[Tustin, California|Tustin]]
*[[Orange, California|Orange]]
*'''[[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]]''' (northbound)
*'''[[Riverside, California|Riverside]]''' (northbound; via [[California State Route 91|SR 91]])
|}
'''State Route 55''' (SR 55), known locally as '''The 55''', is an 18 mile (30 km) long north-south highway in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]]. It is known as the '''Costa Mesa Freeway''' (formerly the '''Newport Freeway'''). SR 55 runs between [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]] in the south and [[State Route 91 (California)|State Route 91]] at [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]] in the north.


Cheung-Yan Yuen's acting credits include ''[[The One-Armed Swordsman]]'' (1967), ''[[Golden Swallow]]'' (1968), ''[[The Buddhist Fist]]'' (1980), ''[[Once Upon a Time in China]]'' (1991), and ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'' (2004). His directing credits include ''[[Shaolin Drunkard]]'' (1982) and ''[[Wizard's Curse]]'' (1992).
==Route description==
Starting at Finley Avenue on Newport Boulevard in Newport Beach, 0.3 mile south of [[California State Route 1|State Route 1]], Route 55/Newport Boulevard is a 4-lane expressway for approximately three-quarters of a mile to its intersection with 17th Street in [[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]]. It then follows a traditional street routing through a retail and commercial section of Costa Mesa until its intersection with 19th Street. Following the 19th Street intersection, Route 55 becomes an eight-lane below-grade freeway that bisects the northbound and southbound lanes of Newport Boulevard until the Mesa Drive undercrossing. North of Fair Drive, Route 55 is an at-grade or above-grade freeway, with the exception of a one mile stretch between the 1st Street/4th Street exit and the 17th Street exit in [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]] which is below-grade.


More recently, Cheung-Yan Yuen has worked on a fight coreographer on Hollywood films such as ''[[Charlie's Angels (film)|Charlie's Angels]]'' (2000), ''[[Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle]]'' (2003), ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' (2003), and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'' (2003).
The segment on Newport Boulevard includes a limited-access interchange at [[State Route 1 (California)|State Route 1]]. The southbound side of the Costa Mesa Freeway does not have a direct link to northbound [[Interstate 5 (California)|Interstate 5]], the [[Santa Ana Freeway]]. Route 55 is known to be crowded due to it being the primary free link from job centers in Irvine, Santa Ana and Costa Mesa to [[State Route 91 (California)|State Route 91]], which leads to commuter communities of the Inland Empire and other places northeast of Orange County.


==External links==
SR 55 was the first freeway in Orange County to receive carpool lanes, opened in 1985. The stretch of the 55 between Fair Dr. and 19th Street in Costa Mesa was opened in 1990; plans to extend the 55 freeway south from 19th Street to [[State Route 1 (California)|State Route 1]] were never realized, but in April of 2007, the [[Orange County Transportation Authority]] approved funds to study the feasibility of extending the southern freeway portion of Route 55 in Costa Mesa south to 17th Street via tunnels or flyover ramps. <ref>{{cite book | url=www.thetransitcoalition.us/newspdf/lat20070422a.pdf | title=OC Set To Study New End to 55 Freeway | publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] | pages=2 | accessdate=2007-04-22}}</ref>
* {{imdb name | name=Cheung-Yan Yuen | id=nm0950713}}


This route is part of the [[California Freeway and Expressway System]]<ref name="cafes">[http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=shc&group=00001-01000&file=250-257 CA Codes (shc:250-257)]</ref>.


[[Category:Hong Kong actors]]
==History==
[[Category:Hong Kong film directors]]
Route 55 was originally built in [[1931]] and was originally numbered as Route 43. It was built from the southern terminus of [[California State Route 1|Route 1]] (the [[Pacific Coast Highway (California)|Pacific Coast Highway]]) and continued northbound on the same route it follows today, through the cities of [[Newport Beach]], [[Tustin]], [[Costa Mesa]], and [[Anaheim]], and then went eastward through [[Riverside]] on what is known today as [[California State Route 91|Route 91]] to link with [[Interstate 215 (California)|Interstate 215]]. In [[1959]] the freeway was renumbered as Route 55, and its route was shortened from Route 1 to the also-renumbered Route 91.<ref name="SR-55 Background and History">[http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist12/sr55PAC/55background.htm SR-55 Background and History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
[[Category:Hong Kong kung fu practitioners]]

[[Category:Chinese choreographers]]
Today, Route 55 is a heavily-travelled corridor linking southern [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] with Route 91, the main corridor between the [[Inland Empire (California)|Inland Empire]] and the [[Los Angeles Metropolitan Area]], as well as [[Interstate 5]], the main north-south corridor for California. A [[HOV lane]] has been built along the entire route, with its own off- and on-ramps. However, congestion is still very prevalent throughout the day, as is the norm with many Orange County freeways; Route 55 experiences a peak daily traffic volume of 262,000 vehicles and 17,292 trucks.<ref name="2005 Average Annual Daily Truck Traffic on the California highway system">http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/saferesr/trafdata/truck2005final.pdf</ref>
[[Category:Living people]]

The entire freeway section of Route 55, approximately 16 miles, is called the Costa Mesa Freeway. It was formerly called the Newport Freeway, with the name being changed by the legislature in 1976. [[Caltrans]] did not begin changing signs to reflect the name change until the early 1990s.

==Other names==

Route 55 from Route 91 to Costa Mesa is known as the Costa Mesa Freeway, as named by Assembly Concurrent Resolution 177, Chapter 86 in 1976.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/products/2006_Named_Freeways.pdf | title=2006 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California | publisher=[[Caltrans]] | pages=59 | accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref>

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==Exit list==
:''Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, [[postmile]]s were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.''
The entire route is in [[Orange County, CA|Orange County]].
{| class=wikitable
!Location
![[Postmile]]<br><ref name=trucklist>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/trucks/truckmap/truck-route-list.xls State Truck Route List] ([[XLS file]]), accessed February 2008</ref><ref name=bridgelog>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/brlog2.htm Log of Bridges on State Highways], July 2007</ref><ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/ All Traffic Volumes on CSHS], 2005 and 2006</ref>
![[Exit number|#]]<ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [[California Numbered Exit Uniform System]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/fiftyfivenorth.pdf SR-55 Northbound] and [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/pdf/fiftyfivesouth.pdf SR-55 Southbound], accessed February 2008</ref>
!Destinations
!Notes
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]]
|0.00
|
|Newport Boulevard
|Continuation beyond SR 1
|-
|0.27
|1
|{{Jct|state=CA|SR|1|name1=[[Pacific Coast Highway (California)|Pacific Coast Highway]]|city1=Laguna Beach|city2=San Diego|city3=Long Beach}}
|No exit number northbound
|-
|rowspan=9|[[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]]
!colspan=4|South end of freeway
|-
|2
|2
|Newport Boulevard
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|-
|R2.77
|3
|Victoria Street, 22nd Street
|
|-
|R3.78
|4
|Del Mar Avenue, Fair Drive
|
|-
|R4.73
|5A
|{{jct|state=CA|SR|73|name1=[[Corona del Mar Freeway]]|dir1=north|to2=to|I|405|dir2=north|name2=[[San Diego Freeway]]|city1=Long Beach}}
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|-
|R4.73
|5A
|{{jct|state=CA|SR|73|name1=[[Corona del Mar Freeway]]|dir1=south|city1=San Diego}} via toll road
|
|-
|R5.34
|5B
|Baker Street
|
|-
|R5.99
|6A
|{{Jct|state=CA|I|405|name1=[[San Diego Freeway]]|dir1=north|city1=Long Beach}}
|Southbound exit and northbound entrance
|-
|R5.99
|6B
|{{Jct|state=CA|I|405|name1=[[San Diego Freeway]]|dir1=south|city1=San Diego|city2=John Wayne Airport}}
|Signed as exit 6 northbound
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
|R6.99
|7
|MacArthur Boulevard, Main Street
|
|-
|R7.85
|8
|Dyer Road
|Signed as exits 8A (east) and 8B (west) southbound
|-
|R9.44
|9
|Edinger Avenue
|
|-
|rowspan=7|[[Tustin, California|Tustin]]
|R9.96
|10A
|McFadden Avenue – [[Tustin, California|Tustin]]
|Signed as exit 10 southbound
|-
|10.45
|10B
|{{Jct|state=CA|I|5|name1=[[Santa Ana Freeway]]|dir1=north|city1=Santa Ana}}
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|-
|10.45
|11A
|{{Jct|state=CA|I|5|name1=[[Santa Ana Freeway]]|dir1=south|city1=San Diego}}
|
|-
|10.98
|11B
|4th Street, Irvine Boulevard
|
|-
|11.79
|12
|17th Street – [[Tustin, California|Tustin]], [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
|Signed as exits 12A (east) and 12B (west) southbound
|-
|12.97
|13
|{{Jct|state=CA|SR|22|dir1=west|name1=[[Garden Grove Freeway]]|city1=Long Beach}}
|
|-
|13.70
|14
|Chapman Avenue – [[Orange, California|Orange]]
|Signed as exits 14A (east) and 14B (west) northbound
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Orange, California|Orange]]
|15.24
|15
|Katella Avenue ([[County Route S18 (California)|CR S18]] south)
|
|-
|16.98
|17
|Lincoln Avenue, Nohl Ranch Road
|
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]]
|R17.88
|18
|{{Jct|state=CA|SR|91|name1=[[Riverside Freeway]]|city1=Riverside|city2=Los Angeles}}
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance; signed as exits 18A (west) and 18B (east)
|-
|R17.88
|
|[[91 Express Toll Lanes]]
|Northbound exit and southbound entrance
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{LA_Freeways}}

[[Category:State highways in California|055]]
[[Category:Southern California freeways|055]]
[[Category:Transportation in Orange County, California|State Route 055]]

Revision as of 07:29, 12 October 2008


Cheung-Yan Yuen (born 1940s? in China?) is an actor, director, stuntman, and fight coreographer who has worked for many years in the Hong Kong film industry. During the 1970s and early 80s, he worked with Yuen Woo-Ping (Cheung-Yan Yuen's brother) and other members of the Yuen family on several films, some of them bizarre kung fu comedies such as Shaolin Drunkard (1982) and Miracle Fighters (1983).

Cheung-Yan Yuen's acting credits include The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), Golden Swallow (1968), The Buddhist Fist (1980), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), and Kung Fu Hustle (2004). His directing credits include Shaolin Drunkard (1982) and Wizard's Curse (1992).

More recently, Cheung-Yan Yuen has worked on a fight coreographer on Hollywood films such as Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

External links

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