Popular Street

Popular Street is a major north-south street in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, located in East Los Santos.

Description[]

The street runs from Hawick Avenue, Hawick in the north to Buccaneer Way, Terminal in the south. From north to south, the street passes through the areas of Hawick, La Mesa, Cypress Flats and ends just before Terminal. The avenue runs parallel to the Los Santos River.

Notable locations on Popular Street include the La Mesa Police Station, two Ammu-Nation stores, Darnell Bros., the Pisswasser Factory and the LS Car Meet warehouse. It is one of the main streets within the industrial area of Los Santos and serves as a major backbone to the areas of La Mesa and Cypress Flats and a major connector to Terminal from the north.

Popular Street is based mostly on Soto Street. It may also be partially based on Alameda Street in Los Angeles.

From north to south, Popular Street has the following intersections:

Location	Type	Road	Notes
Hawick		Hawick Avenue	Above the Mirror Park Rail Yard shelters.
La Mesa		Del Perro Freeway
La Mesa		Supply Street	Intersection corners for Casey's Diner
La Mesa		San Andreas Avenue Bridge	Nearby 744 Popular Street, Otto's Auto Parts, the Big G Goods Warehouse and Darnell Bros.
La Mesa		Vespucci Boulevard	Intersection corners for RON gas station, Darnell Bros., National Transfer & Storage Co. and entrance to Los Santos Customs.
La Mesa		Supply Street	Intersection corners for Liquor Market.
La Mesa		Olympic Freeway	Off-ramp and on-ramp for west-bound traffic.
La Mesa	/	Olympic Freeway	Under-passage intersection entrance to The Secure Unit storage facility complex.
La Mesa		Olympic Freeway	Off-ramp and on-ramp for east-bound traffic. Intersection corners for La Mesa Police Station and Soyler Textile.
La Mesa		Capital Boulevard	Intersection corners for Los Santos Bag Co. and La Mesa Police Station.
La Mesa/Cypress Flats border		Innocence Boulevard	Intersection corners for Fridgit Processing Unit and Pisswasser Factory.
Cypress Flats		Dutch London Street/El Rancho Boulevard.	Intersection corners for Pisswasser Factory and Ammu-Nation.
Cypress Flats		Dry Dock Street.	Intersection corners for Ammu-Nation and CMC factory.
Cypress Flats		Hanger Way/Chum Street/Buccaneer Way	Intersection corners for CMC factory and Cypress Warehouses.

At the Hawick Avenue end of Popular Street across from the Glory Way intersection, a large billboard can be seen on the sidewalk, featuring a digital display of the word "TEMP" and a fish-shaped design repeated over and over. This sign was not originally present in the original release of Grand Theft Auto V^[1], but was present on the 1.0 release of the Enhanced Edition^[2], and can be seen in every subsequent release of the game^[3], including Expanded & Enhanced Edition^[4].