Check this one out, too:
https://www.theojaivortex.com/home/lost-highway
— Written by Andy Carlson
Halfway down the page … Author Andy Carlson says …
“All this additional drainage work was done in concert with the 1950s/1960s planned extension of the Ojai Freeway up to Rice Road in Meiners Oaks, utilizing Lomita Road. Lomita, however, stopped short of Rice at Luna Drive, near the Meiners Oaks Fire Station. CalTrans solved this problem by purchasing the residential house of the James Hall Family, and after that obstacle was removed, Lomita Road was extended down to Rice Road. Knowing its intended purpose, travelers now may understand why that road is so broad. “
Further down, he shows a map of where the Ojai Freeway was supposed to to but never did …
He goes on to write:
“CalTrans wasn’t finished, as the proposed freeway traffic would be hampered by making the hard ninety-degree north turn of Lomita Avenue, going past the elementary school and up three blocks to El Roblar. The plans called for extending Lomita out directly to the Maricopa Highway. This is why the Maricopa Highway was remade into a divided four-lane highway, complete with the aforementioned intersection to nowhere, the preliminary infrastructure for what was to be the last Ojai Freeway off-ramp, exiting to Lomita Road. But the freeway extension was never built.”
See the map of the Ojai Freeway that never was … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4af9776db2ae648d5eeca9/2715b23f-3add-4ac3-b68b-5317ef9fc06b/Map+of+fwy.jpg?format=1500w
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