In 1970 Santa Clarita, an unincorpo...

In 1970 Santa Clarita, an unincorporated area in north looks Angeles County, was a small community, covering 200 square miles of mainly rural area.

Twenty years later, however, the community has undergone a 180-degree transformation.

In 1990 Santa Clarita consisted of 40 square miles and 130000 commonalty and a community survey showed that traffic-related issues stemming from lack of roads was the number undivided issue plaguing the valley. The city's main north/south material is San Fernando Road, also State passage 126, which bisects Santa Clarita.

This much-traveled road, which associates Santa Clarita's Saugus and Newhall communities with access to Highway 14 was nothing more than a not-so-sleepy, two-lane road, and residents living just seven miles from the freeway on-ramp claimed it took them just as in extent to get to the freeway as it did to travel to their piece of works in the San Fernando Valley.