2001 Changes

December 2001:

I'm finally getting to the December changes... on January 1, 2002. Oh well.

Removed some broken links from Route 178 and Route 180. Put in some preliminary information on exit numbers. Added some more information on the history behind the "Devil's Slide" name on Route 1, courtesy of Eric Rice. Added information on a business route on Route 174. Noted the passage of the following bills/resolutions:

• ACR 96: Joe A. Gonsalves Memorial Interchange: Route 605/Route 105. Chapter 129, 9/24/2001.
• ACR 98: Route 126/Route 5: 1915 Ridge Route Highway Historical Monument, Chapter 150, 10/2/2001.

Updated the legislative information page. Added some new links.

October 2001:

Updated status information on Route 71. Added some links for I-15, Route 22, Route 55, and US 101. Added new double fine information to Monterey County Sign Route G16, as a result of AB 398.

Noted the passage of the following bills:

• AB 398: Safety Enforcement Double Fine Zones: Monterey County Sign Route G16 (Carmel Valley Road). Chapter 481, 10/4/2001.
• AB 635: Route 1: Relinquishment in Dana Point between the intersection with Doheny Plaza and the city limits of the City of Laguna Beach; Relinquishement of Route 126 between I-5 and Route 14. Chapter 757, 10/11/2001
• AB 770: Study on use of cell phones in accidents. Chapter 710, 10/11/2001.
• AB 965: "In Memory Of" Highway Victim Signs. Chapter 864, 10/14/2001. This bill authorizes Caltrans to design, construct, place, and maintain, or cause to be designed, constructed, placed, and maintained, along state highways, signs that read as follows: "Please Don't Drink and Drive," followed by: "In Memory of (victim's name)." These signs shall be placed upon the state highways in accordance with this section, placement guidelines adopted by the department, and any applicable federal limitations or conditions on highway signage, including location and spacing. Signs may memorialize more than one victim.
• AB 1070: County Scenic Highways: Designation of a portion of Los Angeles County Sign Route N1: Malibu Canyon-Las Virgenes Highway in Malibu. Chapter 758, 10/12/2001
• AB 1171: San Francisco Toll Bridges Seismic Retrofit Surcharge. Chapter 907, 10/14/2001
• AB 1707: Redefinition of El Camino Real. Chapter 739, 10/11/2001.
• SB 290: Route 1: Relinquishment in Newport Beach; Route 2: Relinquishment in West Los Angeles; Route 25: Amend definition. Chapter 825, 10/13/2001
• SB 759: TCRP Funding Exchange. Chapter 759, 10/14/2001

Added or noted the following information from the October 2001 Agenda of the California Transportation Commission: (widenings are listed for information only; no changes to pages):

• 2.1c.(1). Project #108 - $6,765,000. Phases 2, 3, 4 for I-5: Add northbound lane to freeway through Mossdale "Y"; Route 205 to Route 120 in San Joaquin County.
• 2.1c.(1). Project #148.2 - $1,100,000. Phase 4 for Route 98; widening of eight miles between Route 111 and Route 7 from two lanes for four lanes.
• 2.1c.(4). Project #11 - San Francisco Bay Southern Crossing; complete feasibility and financial studies for new San Francisco Bay crossing (new bridge, HOV/Transit bridge, or second BART tube) in Alameda and San Francisco or San Mateo counties.
• 2.2c.(1). Route 5 and Route 126 in Los Angeles County: Future consideration of funding to reconfigure the interchange.
• 2.2c.(5). Route 99 in Merced County. Future consideration of funding to convert the 4-lane expressway to a 6-lane freeway.
• 2.3a. Adoption of Otay Mesa Road as a transversable highway for that portion of Route 905 from PM6.5 E of Route 805 to 1.2 miles W of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.
• 2.5b.(2). Relinquish Route 160. This is the surface street portion authorized for relinquishement.
• 2.5c.(2). New Route 56 Freeway Right of Way Project: Carmel County Road to Black Mountain Road.

September 2001:

The usual round of link updates. Noted the chaptering/enrollment of a number of bills. The following were related to Highway Naming:

• ACR 29: Route 1: Orange County Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway, from its southern terminus in the City of San Juan Capistrano to its intersection with Golden West Street in the City of Huntington Beach.
• ACR 59: Route 32: 14 Mile House Historical Monument in Butte County.
• ACR 93: I-8: Donna P. Mauzy Memorial Freeway, from Route 67 to Greenfield Drive in the City of El Cajon.
• ACR 95: Route 37: Randy Bolt Memorial Highway, from Route 29 and Skaggs Road.
• SCR 12: Route 101: Dave Ghilarducci Memorial Highway, from Bridge No. 4-16 to Bridge No. 4-221 near Rio Dell; Route 71: Dennis Frambs Memorial Highway, from Route 60 to I-10.
• SCR 38: Route 299: Francis B. Mathews Memorial Rest Area near Salyer.

Provided updated status information on Route 90, Route 126 (courtesy of Don Hagstrom), Route 168, Route 210. Added some road quality information to Route 4. Updated HOV status on I-15, due to SB 313. Added some updated and corrected information on the El Camino Real bells that was provided by Max Kurillo, erline@covad.net. Added some historical routing updates and corrections to LRN 2, LRN 4, LRN 5, LRN 75, LRN 166, LRN 172, LRN 173, LRN 230.

August 2001:

Not that many changes this month; I've been really tied up with other volunteer activities (I do publicity, newsletter, webpage, ad book, etc) for my synagogue. In any case, here we go...

First, there was the usual series of link updates and changes. Added lots of historical information. Added the following information from the June 2001 Agenda of the California Transportation Commission: (widenings are listed for information only; no changes to pages)

• 2.2a. Comments on a Notice of Preparation of an EIR for Route 152 in Merced County - Construct a four-lane freeway around the City of Los Banos.
• 2.3c. Relinquishment Resolutions: 05-SLO-41-PM 16.0/18.4 Route 41 in the City of Atascadero; 06-Fre-168-PM R3.4/R.40 Route 168 in the City of Fremont; 07-LA-91-PM 0.2/2.5 Route 91 in the City of Redondo Beach (from Harper to Hawthorne).

July 2001:

Noted that AB 635 has been amended to apply to Route 126 as well as Route 1. Added a few new ACRs and SCRs to the legislation page. Added some more links, and updated others. Made some corrections on the signing status of County Sign Route E20 and County Sign Route E21.

Added information on the following highway names approved by the legislature:

• I-5, I-80: National Purple Heart Trail. Submit California portions of I-5 and I-80 as California's part of National Purple Heart Trail. SCR 14; Chapter 79, 7/10/2001
• Route 29: Earle W. Wrieden Memorial Highway. Portion between Napa county line and Route 175. SCR 18; Chapter 80; 7/1/2001.

Added the following information from the June 2001 Agenda of the California Transportation Commission: (widenings are listed for information only; no changes to pages)

• 2.1c.(1). Project #3 - $25,000,000. Phase 4 for Route 1010; widen freeway from four to eight lanes south of San Jose, Bernal Road to Burnett Avenue in Santa Clara County
• 2.1c.(1). Project #31 - $25,000,000. All Phases for Route 580; construct eastbound and westbound HOV lanes from Tassajara Road/Santa Rita Road to Vasco Road in Alameda County.
• 2.1c.(2). Project #11 - San Francisco Bay Southern Crossing; complete feasibility and financial studies for new San Francisco Bay crossing (new bridge, HOV/Transit bridge, or second BART tube) in Alameda and San Francisco or San Mateo Counties. Amenda application to update project schedule for the Bay Crossing Study and the Transbay Terminal Improvement Plan. No other changes to original TCR application approval of $3,200,000 under Resolution TA-00-01.
• 2.2c(3). Route 118 in Ventura County - Consideration of future funding for a project to widen the freeway in the City of Simi Valley between Tapo Canyon Road and the Los Angeles/Ventura County Line.

June 2001:

Added some additional resource links from the SCAG Commuter Pocket Guide. Added links into Jeff Stapleton's pages. Updated status information on Route 1. Added extensive history information on US 395, courtesy of Casey Cooper. Added some status information on Route 39. Updated information on some of the early freeway plans in San Francisco. Updated information on Route 680. Added historical information on interstate submissions. Added information on Route 58 and Route 905 plans.

Added the following information from the June 2001 Agenda of the California Transportation Commission: (widenings are listed for information only; no changes to pages)

• 2.1a.(18). [Nothing was added to the page; I'm just listing this one because it is interesting] STIP Amendment 00S-039 - Action. Delays $68,681,000 of a $86,026,000 Grandfathered Regional Improvement Program (GF-RIP) funded interim High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane project on Interstate 5 (I-5) in Los Angeles County from FY 2001-02 to FY 2003-04 and combines it with three related Regional Improvement Program (RIP), Local, TEA-21 Demonstration and Traffic Congestion Relief Program (TCRP) funded adjacent projects on the same route to form a corridor to construct the ultimate widening to provide for mixed flow lanes and HOV lanes. The availability of up to $196,000,000 in TCRP funds for this segment of I-5 has resulted in revising the original scope of the interim projects to ultimate widening.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #4. $60,000,000 Phases 1, 2, 4 for Route 680; add northbound HOV lane over Sunol Grade, Milpitas to Route 84 in Santa Clara and Alameda Counties.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #5. $5,000,000 Phase 4 for Route 101; add northbound lane to freeway through San Jose, Route 87 to Trimble Road in Santa Clara County.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #17. $15,000,000, Phase 4 for Route 101; add reversible HOV lane through San Rafael, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard to North San Pedro Road in Marin County.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #40. $12,500,000, Phases 1,2 for I-10; add HOV lanes over Kellogg Hill, Route 605 to Route 57.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #41. $50,000,000, Phases 2, 3, 4 for I-5; add HOV lanes from Route 170 to Route 14.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #52. $25,000,000. Phase 4. Route 405. Add HOV and auxilliary lanes from Waterford Ave to I-10.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #57. $25,000,000. Phase 4. Route 215: Add HOV lanes from Route 10 to Route 30.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #58. $10,000,000. Phases 1,2 3 for I-10. Widen to 8 lanes from Route 30 to Ford Street in SBD County.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #62. $20,000,000. Phase 4 for Route 91. Add HOV lanes through downtown Riverside, Mary Street to Route 60/Route 215 junction.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #70. $174,9000,000. Phases 2, 3, 4 for Route 22. Add HOV lanes from Route 405 to Route 55.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #86. $25,000,000. Phases 3, 4 for Route 905. Build new 6-lane freeway from Route 805 to Mexico port of entry.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #105. $5,000,000. Phases 2, 3 for Route 99; build 2 mi of 6 lane freeway, Madera Cty line to Buchanan Hollow Road in Merced County.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #107. $25,000,000, Phase 4 for Route 205. Widen to 6 lanes, Tracy to I-5.
• 2.1c.(1) Project 122. $3,500,000. Phases 1,2 for Route 65. Wident from 7th Standard Road to Route 190.
• 2.1c.(1) Project #127. $3,500,000. Phase 4 for Route 85/Route 87 interchange completion.
• 2.1c.(2) Project #44. Route 47: Construct Ocean Blvd Overpass in Long Beach.
• 2.2c.(2) Route 101 in Marin. Future consideration fro HOV between Lucky Drive and N San Pedro Road (TCRP #17)
• 2.2c.(6). Route 133 in Orange County. Adoption of Findings for future consideration of funding and route adoption for a project to widen and realign the existing 2-lane highway to 4 lanes in Irvine and Laguna Beach.
• 2.3a. Adoption of a state highway for that segment of Route 133 in the City of Irvine and County of Orange from PM 4.1 at Route 73 to PM 8.1 0.3mi S of I-405.
• 2.3c. Relinquishment Resolutions: 04-Ala-580-PM R29.9/M31.1 Route 580 in Alameda County; 05-SBt-156-PM 8.1/14.3 in San Benito County; 05-SBt-156-PM 9.2/13.1 in Hollister; 05-SLO-41-PM 16.0/18.4 in Atascadero; 05-SLO-41-PM 18.4/19.6 in San Luis Obispo County; 06-Fre-168-PM R1.8/R3.4 in Fresno; 07-LA-19-PM 8.4/12.3 in Downey; 11-SD-209-KP 4.2/11.9 in San Diego; and 11-SD-274-PM 0.0/5.8 in San Diego. Most of these are probably older surface routings; there are no corresponding changes in the legislative definitions. However, the Route 209 relinquishment may be in advance of a legislative relinquishment.

  One correspondent noted, regarding the 156 relinquishment: "I believe these MP are the sections of Route 156 that was bypassed when Route 156 was cut in a bypass around the city of Hollister. The reason for the break would be that Route 25 runs for a about 1.2 mile section coming north out of town and then angles off to the NW." Regarding Route 168 in Fresno, he notes: "I believe the 1.8-3.4 mile section would be Shaw Ave and Clovis Ave through the city of Clovis as the new Route 168 freeway is now the third angle of a triangle."

• 2.3d. Vacation Resolution: 11-SD-209-KP0.3/8.5 in San Diego.
• 2.5 Item 6. Route 37. Napa River to Route 29 Freeway Project. R8.0/R10.5. $23,993,000.
• 2.5 Item 8. Route 180. New Freeway Project. In Fresno from Hughes/West Diagonal to Teilman Avenue, then to Route 99. Construct a 4 lane expressway and 6 lane freeway.

Added information on the following highway names approved by the legislature:

• I-10: Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway. The Coachella Valley portion from a point just west of the Route 111 cutoff in the Palm Springs area to a point at the bottom of the grade east of the City of Coachella. ACR 25; Chapter 58, 6/4/2001.
• Route 16: Stanley L. Van Vleck Memorial Highway. Segment between Dillard Road in Sacramento County and the Amador County line. ACR 4; Chapter 61, 6/7/2001
• Route 99. Kern County Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway. Segment from the southern terminus of Route 99 to County Line Road (County Sign Route J44). ACR 46, Chapter 54, 5/31/2001.
• Route 168: Peter Hillman Memorial Interchange. Bullard Avenue Interchange in the City of Clovis. ACR 28; Chapter 59; 6/4/2001
• Route 198: George Alan Ingalls Memorial Highway. Segment between Seventh Avenue and Twelfth Avenue in Hanford. ACR 47; Chapter 60, 6/4/2001.

May 2001:

(Late May). Added one more member to the cahighways.org family: sanfrancisco. I"ve only got space for two more. (My domain provider allows me to create 15, of which I had 13 free for the cahighways.org family). Added some more various links in all categories.

Added information on the naming of Route 71 between I-10 and Route 60 as the Pomona Police Officer Daniel T. Fraembs Memorial Highway. It was dedicated 5/11/01, but this was jumping the gun, as the naming legislation (SCR 29) has not yet left committee. Thanks to Hank Fung for calling this to my attention.

Added history information to Route 14, courtesy of a posting on the subject by Mike Ballard in la.transportation. Added information on Temporary I-15. Added a logo for the Victory Highway. Added status information on the Route 92/I-880 interchange and Route 37 from a posting on m.t.r by James Lin. Added some more history to US 101. Added status reports on Route 41, Route 168, and Route 180 from Joe Rouse, based on an m.t.r posting.

(Early May) Added three new members to the cahighways.org family: ushighways, highwayman, and wannabe.

Link changes: On the regional links pages, corrected the Georgia state flag to the new state flag. Added information on regional planning agencies to the resource links page (lots of new links). Added Don Hagstrom's "Friends of Southern California Highways" and the Spaghetti Junction pages to the highway resources page. Added a new page on legislative activity.

Added information on the Vicente "Vince" Andrade Memorial Bridge on Route 78, which was named by SCR 9 on 4/30/2001.

Added updated status information on the following routes: Route 74 (the new proposed routing between I-15 and I-215), I-80 (HOV status in Sacramento), Route 119 (construction E of Taft).

Added the following information from the May 2001 Agenda of the California Transportation Commission:

• 2.1c. Project 62. Phases 1,2. Route 91; add HOV lanes through downtown Riverside, Mary Street to Route 60/Route 215 junction in Riverside County. $15.7M.
• 2.1c. Project 84. Phases 3,4. Route 52; build four miles of new six-lane freeway to Santee, Mission Gorge to Route 67 in San Diego County. $45M.
• 2.1c. Project 91. Phases 2,3,4. Route 180; build new expressway east of Clovis, Clovis Avenue to Temperance Avenue in Fresno County. $20M.
• 2.1c. Project 111. Phase 2. Route 198; build 10 miles of new four-lane expressway from Route 99 to Hanford in Kings and Tulare County. $853K.
• 2.2c.(1). Route 5 in Los Angeles County - Consideration of future funding for a project to construct High Occupancy Vehicle lanes between Route 134 and Route 118 in the Cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Los Angeles (Portion of TCRP #41).

April 2001:

Added some speculations regarding the 1965 routing of Route 117. Usual regional link updates. Added some information on finding US 60 from I-10 (from an m.t.r posting). Added some more status information to Route 65. Added exit list links to Route 60, Route 91, I-5, I-10, I-710, I-405, and I-5, thanks to Jeff Stapleton. Added a link for SANBAG. Added some information to the US 395 page about the dogleg that once ran along I-15 and Route 74. Added some information on the old Southern National Highway plank road off old US 80 to the US 80 and I-8 pages; the information came from John W. Murphey, Architectural Historian, New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division. Added some information to Route 33. Added some information about TCRP projects in District 7 to I-5, I-10, Route 71, and I-405. Updated the links page for the new http://www.roadfan.com/. Added some links to the excellent UC Berkeley exhibit on Bridging the Bay, which is at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/bridge/.

March 2001:

Added a search engine to the site, thanks to Freefind. [I've added similar search engines to my other sites, the Soc.Culture.Jewish FAQ (http://www.scjfaq.org/), and the Liberal Judaism Mailing List (http://www.mljewish.org/).

Added some more regional links. Added information on the "Old Spanish Trail" to Route 80 (the US 80 portion). Updated some status information on US 101. Noted the signing of Historic US 40 in West Sacramento. Added some more information on Alternate US 50 and old Business Route US 50. Updated status information on Route 22 and Route 168. Made a minor correction in the signage of the first part of US 50. Added information on the signing of Route 262. Updated information on unrelinquished routings for Route 54, Route 170, Route 217, Route 224, Route 229, Route 252, Route 274, and I-880. Updated historical information on LRN 237 and Route 117. Added some information gleaned from a variety of CTC Agendas:

• March 2001 CTC Agenda [for March, I'm putting in the agenda item text]:
  • 2.1b.(7). Replaces $49,655,000 of Local funds with Regional Improvement Program (RIP) funds and programs an additional $5,152,000 in RIP funds, for a total of $54,807,000 from Los Angeles County's Unprogrammed Share Balance for a $68,690,000 Route 10 High Occupancy Vehicle Project in Los Angeles County.
  • 2.1c.(1). Project 70, $29,700K, Phases 2, 3, and 4. Route 22: Add HOV lanes from I-405 to Route 55 in Orange County.
  • 2.1c.(1). Project 154, $100K, Study. Route 134/I-5 Interchange Study.
  • 2.2c.(1). Negative Declaration EIR: Route 4 in Contra Costa County — Widen the freeway in the City of Pittsburg.
  • 2.2c.(2). Negative Declaration EIR: Route 47 in Los Angeles County — Construct an interchange at Route 47 and Ocean Boulevard on Terminal Island in the Port of Long Beach.
  • 2.2c.(4). Negative Declaration EIR: Route 23 in Ventura County — Construct mixed-flow lanes in the median between Route 101 and Route 118 in the city of Thousand Oaks.
  • 2.3c. Relinquishment: 4-SM-101-PM 22.1/23.9 Route 101 in the City of South San Francisco
  • 2.3c. Relinquishment: 11-SD-52-PM 12.6/13.1 Route 52 in the City of San Diego.
  • 2.3d. Vacation: 7-LA-14-PM R27.0 Route 14 in the City of Santa Clarita.
  • 2.5b(1). Item 5. $19,100K, 11S-Imp-111. Near Brawley and Imperial at Worthington Road to Keystone Road: Construct 4-lane expressway (NAFTA). (Phase 2 of Corridor Project; Balance of $61,000 in CON to be transferred to Phase 3 of Corridor Project)
• February 2001 CTC Agenda:
  • Information on a study about a cross connector freeway between I-680 and I-880 in Santa Clara County (note: this is not Route 262, as Route 262 is in Alameda county)
  • Information about another study to extend Route 180 westward from Mendota to I-5.
  • Relinquishment of original routings of Route 980 near PM 12.0 in San Diego County.
  • Relinquishment of original routings of Route 99 from KP 20.5 to KP 29.1 in Sutter County
• August 2000 CTC Agenda:
  • Adoption of a route for Route 7 in Imperial County from PM 1.2 at Route 98 to PM 6.8 at I-8.

I've also been scanning the legislative front. Boy, has the California legislature been busy. Over 2000 bills, assembly and senate combined, in two months. None have been signed by the Governor yet, so no page changes, but I'm watching.

February 2001:

Some minor changes in the San Francisco freeway history pages. Minor status and information updates to Route 1, I-5, Route 28, Route 35, Route 42, US 48, Route 60, Route 65, Route 84, Route 90, Route 91, Route 93, US 101, I-110, Route 139, Route 180, Route 220, LRN 223, Route 238, I-380, I-405, I-680, and I-710. The usual link changes, especially with the loss of TWU. Went through a massive link validation exercise. Quite a few links were deleted because they appeared to be broken, or the sites had moved somewhere that I couldn't find them. If your site disappeared as a result of this exercise, please let me know at webmaster@cahighways.org. Added a link to Better Roads magazine.

Added another member to the cahighways.org family: Mike Ballard's Historical Highways of Central and Southern California, now at http://santa-clarita.cahighways.org/. Incorporated some information from Chris Sampang's site into Route 1, Route 35, I-80, Route 82, Route 87, Route 230, Route 241, I-280, I-480, and I-980. Added links to Mike Ballard's East LA Interchange page. Added information on signing of US 66.

Updated business route information for Route 54. Added some information on tunneling plans to Route 1, Route 101, and I-80. Added some historical information to I-105.

January 2001:

Usual set of link updates. Status information updates to Route 1, Route 5, Route 17, Route 56, Route 90, Route 95, and Proposed San Diego County Sign Route 680, based on postings on m.t.r. Link additions to Route 30, Route 58. Added a link to the CalTrans Traffic Manual and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Added some more historical information to the San Francisco Freeway History page (information from Calvin Sampang). Started adding in BASE meta tags to catch when pages are framed by accident or intent. Add some more business routes to US 101. Added more information to Route 11. Added a link to Route 110.

Added some information from the January 2001 Calfornia Transportation Commission agenda:

• Deletion of a planned truck passing lane project on Route 17 in Santa Cruz County, with the funds going back to the Interregional Improvement Program.
• Construction of an overpass at Ocean Boulevard on Route 47.
• Construction of southbound truck climbing lanes on I-15 in San Bernardino County.
• Plans for a Route 49 bypass of Sutter Creek and Amador City.

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