Marina del Rey is only four miles from the Los Angeles
International Airport, close enough to provide easy access by car or public
transportation, yet far enough away that residents are not disturbed by the
noise. The Fisherman's Village offers a good view of Marina del Rey's dominant
feature, the largest man-made small boat harbor in the world with about 7000
pleasure boats and yachts. The marina is surrounded by many high rise luxury
Condos, hotels, apartments, shops, and restaurants, as well as the USC
Information Sciences Institute and ICANN, currently the closest thing the
Internet has to a governing organization. It is served by its own freeway, the
three-mile-long Marina Freeway (California State Route 90) which links Marina
del Rey directly to Interstate 405 and nearby Culver City. However, the freeway
does not go directly to the marina; it ends at Culver Boulevard and Highway 90
continues west as an at-grade expressway to Lincoln Boulevard (California State
Route 1). As a result, the entire area has a reputation for traffic congestion.
A Caltrans project to extend the freeway is currently underway. |