Ventura Blvd

The street is alive with speeding traffic. Cars, buses, and trucks drive past in a rush for the green light. The air is permeated with the smell of exhaust. Drivers wait impatiently for the lights to turn in their direction and join the caravan of traffic. Seldom is the street every mellow or quiet. A truck rattles by at high speed.

Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east–west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley, California, USA; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is one of the oldest routes in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. Route 101 before the freeway (which it is parallel to for much of Ventura Boulevard's length) was built and it was also signed as Business U.S. Route 101.