Riverside Freeway

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The Riverside Freeway is the assigned name of a segment of California State Route 91 (CA/SR-91), a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California that links the cities/communities of Orange and Riverside counties. This named segment extends from the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), in Buena Park to its eastern terminus at its junction with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10) in San Bernardino. Note that the freeway's number assignment changes to Interstate 215 (I-215) at its junction with the Pomona Freeway, California State Route (CA/SR-60) in Riverside. Thus, for the last 6 miles of its eastern alignment is the Riverside Freeway, Interstate 215. A novel feature, for California, is the presence of the toll road (the 91 Express Lanes) that shares alignment with the Riverside Freeway.

1 91 Express Lanes
2 Legal definition
3 Cities/Communities along the Riverside Freeway (west to east)
4 Major Freeways/Highways intersecting with the Riverside Freeway (west to east)

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91 Express Lanes

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Opening in 1995, the 91 Express Lanes was the first privately-funded tollway built in the United States since the 1940s, and the first fully automated tollway in the world. Tolls are collected when a vehicle carrying a transponder mounted on the inside of the vehicle's windshield passes beneath the toll 'booth' (actually a transceiver array above the toll lanes that is located at about the five-mile point of the toll road). Other characteristics of the toll road include: variable toll based on traffic volume (i.e. variable congestion pricing) with road signs alerting users to the toll to be paid; an alignment contained entirely within the median of the existing Riverside Freeway with two (2) lanes in each direction; limited access provided only at the east and west ends of the toll road (at which point the toll lanes become 'regular' carpool lanes; and separation between the regular, main lanes of the Riverside Freeway provided only by reflective yellow, 3' high, plastic lane markers (as opposed to concrete barriers or a similar 'solid' barrier).

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