March / April / May 2013 Updates to California Highways

[cahwyguy]

What did you do over Memorial Day weekend? Me — I updated the highway pages.

It’s been a busy time, and time for highway page updates have been few and far between. As always, you can keep up to date with me by following my blog at California Highways (just follow the “Roadgeeking” category). There you will find bi-monthly collections of articles related to California Highways, as well as other items of interest. There is also a California Highways Facebook group, where you can post updates.

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; I’ve given up on misc.transport.road. This resulted in changes on the following routes, with credit as indicated [my research^(*), contributions of information or leads (via direct mail) from Mike Ballard⁽¹⁾, Henry at AARoads⁽²⁾, Xuan Luo⁽³⁾, Robert J. Pachinger⁽⁴⁾, Curtis Reeves⁽⁵⁾, Joel Windmiller⁽⁶⁾]: Route 1^(*), Route 2^(*,1), Route 4^(*), I-5^(*), Route 12^(*), I-15^(*), Route 19^(*), Route 23^(*), Route 27^(*), Route 29^(*), Former US 40^(*,6), Route 48^(4,5), US 50^(*), Route 79^(*), I-80^(*), Route 91^(*), Route 99^(*,6), US 101^(*), Route 103^(*), Route 133^(*), Route 134^(*), Route 135^(*), Route 148⁽⁶⁾, Route 156^(*), Route 170⁽¹⁾, Route 178^(*), Route 241^(*), I-280^(*),I-405^(*), I-580^(*), I-680^(*),I-710⁽¹⁾, I-805^(*), I-880^(*), El Camino Real⁽³⁾. For a number of the larger routes, I made an effort to get the status and structures into the correct geographical order; specifically, this was done for US 50, Route 99, Route 299. I plan to do it for a few of the larger ones (such as US 101) as time permits.

Added a link to the Western Map Co Freeway and Artery Map of Los Angeles (1963). Added a link to the Unbuilt Freeways of San Francisco⁽²⁾. Updated the links to Mike Ballards SCV Resources page.

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. The legislature has been busy introducting bills and resolutions (over 1,000 of them in the Assembly, and almost 700 in the State Senate). However, none of them has reached the point where they have been sent to the Governor for signature.

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