November / December 2013 Update to California Highways

[cahwyguy]

It’s the end of the year. I’m sure snow is on the ground somewhere, and so it is time for the final set of updates to the highway pages.

Updates were made to the following highways, based on my reading of the papers (which are posted to the roadgeeking category at the “Observations Along The Road” and to the California Highways Facebook group) as well as any backed up email changes. I also reviewed the the AAroads forum — sad to say, I’m not seeing much there other than discussions about topics that aren’t the sort of information I capture here.^† I’ve given up on misc.transport.road. This resulted in changes on the following routes, with credit as indicated [my research⁽¹⁾, contributions of information or leads (via direct mail) from Eric Armoror⁽²⁾, Douglas Bright⁽³⁾, Chris Sampang⁽⁴⁾]: I-10^(*), Route 11⁽²⁾, Route 23⁽¹⁾, Route 24⁽¹⁾, Route 29⁽⁴⁾, Route I-710⁽¹⁾.

Reviewed the Pending Legislation page. The new California Legislature site is very nice, but it occasionally switches to another bill when moving tabs. As usually, I recommend to every Californian that they visit the legislative website regularly and see what their legis-critters are doing. We seem to be in the quiet months — there were no substantive changes, and no new bills or bill passages.

Reviewed the Traversable Highways document on the Caltrans website. Updated information for the following highways: Route 12, Route 13, Route 14, Route 18, Route 19, Route 24, Route 36, Route 37, Route 39, Route 47, Route 48, Route 52, Route 54, Route 56, Route 57, Route 64, Route 65, Route 74, Route 77, Route 81, Route 84, Route 87, Route 90, Route 92, Route 93, Route 100, Route 102, Route 104, Route 109, Route 118, Route 122, Route 127, Route 128, Route 130, Route 142, Route 143, Route 148, Route 152, Route 162, Route 164, Route 169, Route 170, Route 179, Route 180, Route 181, Route 190, Route 211, Route 217, Route 227, Route 230, Route 234, Route 235, Route 238, Route 239, Route 249, Route 251, Route 257, Route 258, Route 270, Route 276, Route 280, Route 281, Route 285, I-380, I-605, Route 710, Route 905. Traversable highways are existing roads or streets between the termini of and approximately along the State highway routes described in the Streets and Highways Code. Most traversable highways do not comply with state highway standards and cannot be adopted into the state highway system. Whenever a traversable highway is complete over its entire route and constructed to State highway standards. The California Transportation Commission must adopt the constructed facility and the Department must maintain it with funds from the State Highway Account. If a traversable highway exists over a portion of a route is constructed to State highway standards and connects to an already maintained state highway, the Commission may adopt the constructed facility. After the Commission adopts the facility, the Department maintains that facility with funds from the State Highway Account. An existing facility meets State highway standards if it provides an acceptable level of traffic service and does not require restoration.

I checked the CTC Liaison page for the results of the CTC meetings the December 11, 2013 meeting. The following items were of interest (note: ° indicates items that were below the level of detail for updating the specific route pages) :

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