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2003 Changes


December 2003:

Again, the usual around of link updates. Significant or particularly interesting new links this month include The Expressway Site, and the addition of a multiple state area to the regional pages.

Did the usual processing of updates mailed in by Chris Sampang (focusing on the Sacramento area) and others. This resulted in changes on the following routes: Route 16, Route 17, Route 49, Route 51, Route 65, Route 70, Route 82, Route 84, Route 99, Route 121, Route 123, Route 160, Route 214, Route 275, Route 299,US 50, US 101, US 466,I-5, I-80, LRN 4, LRN 11, LRN 141, LRN 232, County Sign Route E7.

Reviewed the legislative information page. There were no new bills or changes of interest.

Reviewed the December CTC Agendas for items of interest. Noted the following items of interest:

November 2003:

Did the usual round of link updates, based on information posted on m.t.r. This included adding a link to Caltrans' Traffic Counts Website to the FAQ.

Updated information and links on the following routes, based primarily on mail in submissions, mostly from (you guessed it) Chris Sampang:Route 1, Route 11, Route 16, Route 21, Route 24, Route 29, Route 33, Route 34, Route 37, Route 51, Route 58, Route 59, Route 65, Route 68, Route 70, Route 71, Route 84, Route 91, Route 104, Route 113, Route 114, Route 118, Route 138, Route 148, Route 150, Route 157, Route 160, Route 183, Route 195, Route 198, Route 209, Route 238, Route 242, Route 271, Route 274, I-5, I-10, I-15, I-80, I-205, I-238, I-505, I-680, I-710, US 40, US 40A, US 50, US 99, US 99W, US 99E, US 101, US 395, US 399, LRN 52, San Diego County Sign Route S1.

Updated the legislative information page. There were no new bills or changes of interest.

Reviewed the October and November CTC Agendas for items of interest. Noted the following items from October; there was nothing of interest in the November meeting:

October 2003:

Updated information and links on the following routes, again, primarily based on observations and findings from Chris Sampang: Route 1, Route 4, Pre-1964 Route 6, Route 9, Route 13, Route 14 (current and pre-1964 incarnations), Route 16, Route 17, Route 18, Route 21, Route 22, Route 24, Route 25, Pre-1964 Route 26,Route 30, Route 34, Route 35, Route 39, Route 41, Route 43, Route 44, Route 48, Route 53, Route 58, Route 61, Route 65, Route 70, Route 71, Route 74, Route 77, Route 79,Route 84, Route 88,Route 92, Route 93, Route 96, Route 99, Route 110, Route 111, Route 113, Route 115, Route 117, Route 128, Route 129, Route 138, Route 149, Route 152, Route 160, Route 163, Route 165, Route 169, Route 175, Route 176, Route 177, Route 178, Route 180, Route 183, Route 206, Route 211, Route 228, Route 237, Route 242, Route 256, Route 257, Route 259, Route 260, Route 299,I-5, I-8, I-80, I-405, Former I-480, I-680, I-880,US40, US 48, US 50, US 80, US 91, US 97, US 101, US 395,LRN 14, LRN 26, LRN 43, LRN 167, LRN 191.

Updated my link pages, including adding some new recommended books and some great photolog links of motorcycle rides in California. Added some more information on highway naming. Added a graphic for the Pacific Trail, courtesy of the Highwayman. Added a new answer to the Other Frequently Asked Questions.

Updated the legislative information page. Noted the passage of the following items (not all required changes to the route pages):

Reviewed the September CTC Agendas for items of interest. Noted the following items:

September 2003

There were no changes in September due to the Jewish High Holy Days.

August 2003

Did the usual link updates, including updating references to the California portion of AARoads to refer to www.westcoastroads.com. Added some more information on the history of US Highway numbering.

Updated information on the following routes, primarily based on observations and findings from Chris Sampang (who's been sending me about five updates a day!): Route 1, Route 2, Route 4, Route 18, Route 19, Route 21, Route 24, Route 30, Route 33, Route 35, Route 36, Route 38, Route 42, Route 46, Route 58, Route 60, Route 75, Route 77, Route 78, Route 79, Route 84, Route 87, Route 92, Route 93, Route 98, Route 99, Route 107, Route 109, Route 117, Route 121, Route 125, Route 159, Route 163, Route 164, Route 168, Route 169, Route 185, Route 200, Route 225, Route 228, Route 229, Route 244, Route 251, Route 266, Route 271, Route 275, Route 285, US 48, US 50, US 101, US 395, I-5, I-10, I-15,I-80, I-205, I-280, I-380, I-880, Tulare County Sign Route J40, San Diego County Sign Route S7, San Diego County Sign Route S8, San Diego County Sign Route S21, San Diego County Sign Route S29, Imperial County Sign Route S78, Pre-1964 Route 10, Pre-1964 Route 26, LRN 105, LRN 130, LRN 184, LRN 255. Chris also provided some good information to update the History of San Francisco's Freeways, and a great link for the History of Sacramento's Freeways. Updates were also done to the page on the El Camino Real.

Updated the legislative information page. Noted the passage of the following items:

Reviewed the August CTC Agendas for items of interest. Noted the following items:

July 2003:

Updated information on the following routes, again, mostly based on observations from Chris Sampang: Route 1, Route 9, Pre-1964 Route 14, Route 17, Route 20, Route 21, Route 22, Route 28, Route 33, Route 41, Route 58, Route 60, Route 63, Route 67, Route 74, Route 79, Route 94, Route 98, Route 99, Route 107, Route 109, Route 130, Route 135, Route 145, Route 163, Route 168, Route 185, Route 195, Route 228, Former Route 245, Route 259, Route 274, Former US 40, US 101, US 199, I-5, I-10, I-380. Did the usual round of link updates.

Updated the legislative information page. Noted the passage of the following items:

Reviewed the June and July CTC Agendas for items of interest. Noted the following items:

June 2003:

The June 2003 updates started late, due to various factors including temple, home remodeling work on the weekends, a kitchen remodel, and most importantly, my breaking my foot (actually, the latter helped with the updates, as I couldn't drive or do home remodeling work on the weekends).

Added a new question to the FAQ: How to find the date a highway was constructed. Did the usual set of link updates.

Updated information on the following routes: Route 1, Route 25,Route 57, Route 60, Route 74, Route 75, Route 99, Route 125, Route 146, Route 163, Route 180, US 101, I-710, I-980. Updated the stats pages, the old-to-new numbers pages, and the chronology. Most of these updates were based on observations from Chris Sampang.

Updated the legislative information page. Noted the passage of the following:

May 2003:

As usual, link updates galore. Captured updated status and some fixes to the following highways: Route 2, Route 30, Route 56, Route 57, Route 60, Route 79, Route 86, Route 96, Route 99, Route 125, Route 138, Route 157, Route 171, Route 195, Route 252, Route 267, Former US 40, US 50, US 101, I-5, I-80, I-710, I-905. Thanks to the folks on misc.transport.road for a number of these updates.

Added some information "behind the names" to Route 68.

Updated the Interstate History Page based on information provided by Stephen Summers—note that there are still date discrepancies between Caltrans' history of the Interstates and the letters. This resulted in changes or reference updates on the following routes (routes shown with ¤ were never interstates in California, although the number at one time was proposed as an interstate): I-3¤, I-5, I-7¤, I-8, I-9¤, I-10, I-11¤, I-12¤, I-13¤, I-14¤, I-15, I-30¤, I-40, I-72¤, I-76¤, I-80, I-102¤, I-105, I-106¤, I-109¤, I-110, I-112¤, I-113¤, I-115¤, I-205, I-210, I-280, I-380, I-405, I-480, I-505, I-580, I-605, and I-680.

Added some more links to sites on California's Trolley Systems; for those interested, http://www.snowcrest.net/marnells/trolleys.htm is a great place to start. Added a pointer to Ron Dickson's Aviation History of the San Fernando Valley. This site has some great aviation information, as well as a good selection of old maps of the San Fernando Valley area, which also just happen to show highways as well :-).

Updated the legislative links page, and noted the passage of the following bill:

Incorporated items from the May 2003 CTC Meeting Agenda:

April 2003:

April updates were minimal, as I was tied up with negotiations on our Rabbi's contract at Temple, which took most of my weekend update time. A few link updates and changes were done. Added some information on Chester Warlow to Route 99. Updated the FAQ answer regarding obtaining photos from about California Highways. Added a new FAQ answer regarding CHP jurisdiction.

March 2003:

A relatively quiet month. First, we had the usual link updates and changes. Status and update changes were made on the following routes: I-5, I-15. Updated the legislative tracking page. Incorporate the following items from the February, March, and April CTC agendas, which for some reason I was not mailed. You can find the agendas online at http://www.catc.ca.gov/meetings/index.htm.

February 2003:

(part 1) Added a few more name explanations (thanks to all those that got me names, including the reference librarian at the Naval Academy and Shirleigh Brannon at the Caltrans Library):

Did the usual link updates. Updated status information on I-680. Reviewed the January 2002 CTC Agenda for information for the site, but there is nothing of significance (due to the state budget crisis). Broke the regional links page into multiple pages. Updated the legislative information page. Added some status information to US 101 and Route 130.

Did an extensive link verification pass (DSL is great!). A link update razzberry to the folks at AARoads, who moved all of their California Pages around without telling me. You'll now see the following symbols near broken or quasi-broken links:

[Road Closed] Link Down or Disappeared. If you know to where this link has moved, please send me email. If I haven't heard anything, it may be removed at the next round of updates. Often, these are kept on the list in anticipation of their returning. The original URL is retained as an HTML comment.
[Under Construction] Site is up, but is undergoing extensive renovation. If you are aware of renovation being completed on this site, please let me know.
[Rough Road: Site May Be Down] Site may be down. The name was there, but the site was non-responsive at the last check. If you have further status on this site, please let me know.
[Dead End] No Longer Maintained. This site is still up, but is no longer being maintained.

(part 2). Added some more name information and link information (quite a bit, as a matter of fact—folks have been busy). In particular, created a new 3LD: http://aaroads.cahighways.org/which points to California Highways @ AARoads, which is replacing Andy Field's San Diego site.

Updated status information on Route 39, Route 84, Route 92, US 101, Route 130, Route 118, US 395, I-405. Added a new question to the Frequently Asked Questions: How Do I Get Pictures of Highways in California?

January 2003:

Did the usual beginning of year housekeeping (i.e., changing all the copyright dates), as well as the usual process of link maintenance.

Added a Index to the Names given to all the state highways. This was in response to an idea germinated from an article in the Caltrans Journal of Sep-Oct, as well as a recent Behind the Wheel column in the Los Angeles Times. Added background on highway names to almost all highways. I'm still lacking information on the following; feel free to look them up and let me know who they are named after (and thanks to D. Thomas for finding the story behind four names for me):

[Note: Names for which stories have been found have been struck out]

Reworked the front page to broaden the sense of El Camino Real to Roads and Trails, to better capture the inclusion of the De Anza highway. Of course, since this effected the top navigation bar, it meant a change to every page in the site as well.

Updated the legislative information page. Although we'll probably see the same level of namings, major transportation work will likely be less this fiscal year, given the drastic budget cuts being imposed by Governor Davis.

Did minor status updates to the following routes: Route 1, Route 14,Route 19, Route 39, US 50 (I-305), US 97, Route 99, Route 164, Route 275, and I-680. Added information on a new bypass to Route 88. Added some history to US 101.

Added one book to the recommended reading list, and did a bit of web searching (DSL is a wonderful thing) to find some cover pictures for some of the books that didn't have them. Alas, some of the really great books are so long out of print that covers are not available.

Added information to the Interstate information page based on the FHWA Interstate Route Log.


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