[1] This interchange of the Santa Ana (Interstate 5), Garden Grove (State Route 22), and Orange (State Route 57) freeways was listed in the 2002 Guinness World Records book as the most complex road interchange in the world.
The name of the interchange, credited to KNX Radio traffic and weather reporter Bill Keene,[2] is a play on the name of the Orange Crush soda.
The interchange comprises four freeway segments and 13 bridges (i.e. there are five freeway "paths" of travel into the complex) of three major highways: The 2002 edition of the Guinness World Records book cites this as the most complex road interchange in the world, stating that it is an intersection of 34 different routes, when taking into account collector/distributor roads, surrounding on- and off-ramps (such as Bristol Street/La Veta Avenue, Broadway/Main Street), and direct carpool-to-carpool flyovers.
Its bike path offers bicyclists an alternative route through the Orange Crush, avoiding signals backed up with vehicles getting on or off freeways there during rush hour.
Significant construction funded by Measure M in the late 1990s and early 2000s has greatly added capacity and increased the safety of motorists traveling through the interchange.