The 47 Freeway was part of a larger plan set forth by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Parkway Engineering Committee in 1946.

more than 575,000 in Southern California, and more than 50,000 jobs – or 1 in 5 – in Long Beach. The Port is also one of the few U.S. ports that can handle today’s largest vessels ...

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