Bayshore Freeway is part of US 101 Route (US 101) in the San Francisco Bay Area in the US state of California. It runs along the west coast of San Francisco Bay, connecting San Jose with San Francisco. In the city of San Francisco, the highway is also known as the James Lick Freeway , named after the California philanthropist. The road was originally built as a surface path, Bayshore Highway , and later upgraded to a freeway standard. Prior to 1964, most were marked as US. Route 101 Bypass , with US 101 using State Route 82 (El Camino Real) right now.
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Route description
The Bayshore Freeway begins at the intersection of Blossom Hill Road on US 101. The freeway turns north and northwest, passing downtown San Jose to the east, and then curving west-northwest, across the I-880 and SR 87, the latter just north of San Jose International Airport. Part of the highway from San Jose to South San Francisco is relatively straight and flat, walking near the western edge of San Francisco Bay. Intersections here include SR 237 in Sunnyvale, SR 85 in Mountain View, SR 84 in Menlo Park and Redwood City, SR 92 in San Mateo, and San Francisco International Airport and I-380 in San Bruno. In South San Francisco, the highway banked northeast across Mount San Bruno, across its eastern edge in the Sierra Point, and then headed north on the crosses across the former Candlestick Cove into the San Francisco city lane.
In San Francisco, where this street is also known as the James Lick Freeway, it continues north-northwest between Bayview Park and McLaren Park, and crosses I-280 at Alemany Maze. There curved north-northeast around Bernal Heights and then northwest around Potrero Hill, met the Central Freeway on the border between the Mission District and the South of Market. The Bayshore Freeway ends at the intersection of US 101 and Interstate 80, which, although signed as Interstate 80, is not officially Interstate 80 to San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The freeway that goes from US 101 to Bay Bridge is signed as I-80 but not officially I-80 is called the San Francisco Skyway .
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History
Initial construction
Before the Dumbarton Bridge and San Mateo-Hayward were built in San Francisco Bay in the 1920s, San Francisco was bottled on the northern tip of the long peninsula, driving south on El Camino Real to San Jose as the only plausible alternative to ferries across the bay. The first of several toll roads built as an alternative to El Camino Real was the Skyline Boulevard, which was added to the state highway system in 1919. The second route, the Bay Shore Highway (Route 68), became the state highway in 1923, but only from the city limits of San Francisco to San Mateo County, where the Dumbarton Bridge will begin. Just prior to commencement of construction at the Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco's Superintendent Richard J. Welch noted that the Bay Shore Highway needs to be built along the road to San Jose as an escape valve for additional traffic to be pulled over the bridge.
The state legislature extended the highway in 1925, defining it to walk from the intersection of the Army Road (Cesar Chavez Road) and San Bruno Avenue in San Francisco to a point in San Jose. The governor approved the bill with the proviso that only the part between the city limits of San Francisco and San Jose would be the state highway. Construction between South San Francisco and Burlingame began in 1924, funded by a $ 500,000 contribution from San Francisco, and completed in 1928. The segment was cut off in northern San Mateo built by the state at the same time. It was not until February 1929 that the road was completely paved between San Francisco and Burlingame, and on October 20, 1929 the new highway was officially dedicated to San Mateo, a few months after the linked San Mateo-Hayward Bridge was opened (where Third Avenue is now). Even then, motorists had to wait until May 7, 1931 to reach Jefferson Avenue in Redwood City (near the western edge of the four-year-old Dumbarton Bridge). The road was extended to Oregon Avenue in Palo Alto in mid-1932, Lawrence Station Road in mid-1933, and to Lafayette Street near Santa Clara, across the Guadalupe River from San Jose, in 1934. The last section to Oakland Road (13th Street) in San Jose, then the main road - Legislative Route 5 and Route 17 - between San Jose and Oakland, was dedicated on June 12, 1937, more than ten years after the Dumbarton Bridge opened in January 1927.
Although the highway was designed and built for what, by then, the high standard, with a wide 100-foot (30 m) wide in most places, was prone to accidents because it lacked a median barrier. One segment of the so-called "Bloody Bayshore" is "Boneyard Hill", a steep grade through the Visitacion Valley near the San Francisco city line, running past a bone flour mill. Causes of accidents include reversing the conflict at the intersection, and speeding the driver across the midline to use the oncoming lane as a passing lane. The road is fully in-class except for railroad crossing. This generally follows the current alignment of the Bayshore Freeway, but is deviated in several places: the Old Bayshore Highway in San Jose, Veterans Boulevard on Redwood City, Bayshore Highway in Burlingame, part of a ruined road through San Francisco International Airport, and the Airport and Bayshore Boulevards of South San Francisco via Brisbane to San Francisco. Inside the city, a new highway runs three miles (5 km) along Bay Shore Boulevard to Army Street (Cesar Chavez) and Potrero Avenue.
When the Bayshore Highway was completed in 1937, the US Route 101 signs were removed from El Camino Real, and El Camino became Alternative US Alternative Route. Business with El Camino created the El Camino Real Association to protest the move and result in the loss of business, and by 1939 the main route had been relocated, with the Bayshore Highway being the US Bypass Route 101. Both routes are split in San Jose at the junction of First and Second Roads near Keyes Street, with the El Camino route largely following the SR 82 and Bayshore routes using Second Streets, Reed, and Fourth locally managed to achieve state maintenance. Bayshore Highway. In San Francisco, they rejoined the Alemany Maze location now, with the El Camino route following Alemany Boulevard from near the city line; from there US 101 continues north on Bay Shore Boulevard, Potrero Avenue, and 10th and Fell Streets to Van Ness Avenue, met with Bay Bridge approach (US 40/US 50) at Bryant and Harrison Streets. The one-way Bryant/Harrison couples were added to Route 68 (which included the bridge) in 1937 and removed in 1947 along with the bridge; In 1961, the new expressway approach became part of Route 68, which was extended back through the bridge to Route 5 on the mainland of Oakland.
The construction of an extension to Route 115 (Santa Clara Street, now SR 130) at 30th Street in San Jose began in 1939, and was completed in late 1940. Like the portion between Fourth and 13th Streets, it was not marked as a route numbered. The state legislature allowed an extension outside San Jose back to El Camino Real near Ford Road in 1947, which was already under construction, and completed that year. This is the first segment built with interchanges, and includes a median barrier. However, most crossings are in grade; only two ends on Route 115 (Santa Clara Street) and the regular bridge of US 101 including, diamond intersection of the former and the last simple split with additional access to Ford Road. It also crosses Coyote Road, though without access, just south of the Coyote Creek bridge. The original 1947 bridge over Coyote Street remains, though widened in 1990, and is one of the oldest class separations of roads on this highway.
Reconstruction
In 1940, at the beginning of the freeway era, the state made plans to convert the Bayshore Highway into ten Bayshore Freeway paths between San Francisco and Palo Alto. The first part to be built is from Peninsula Avenue on the San Mateo-Burlingame line to South San Francisco. This six-lane highway, completed in 1949, followed the existing highway to Broadway in Burlingame, but then took a further land line passing through San Francisco International Airport, and crossed the old streets of South San Francisco, walking eastwards up near the southern end of the cut at Sierra Point. Construction began in San Francisco in 1950 and completed in 1958; a new crossroad crossing Candlestick Cove, connecting the completed section of South San Francisco with San Francisco, dedicated in mid 1957. In 1951, the state legislature renamed the interior of San Francisco after James Lick, a California pioneer and philanthropist.
A move to make the four "Unbroken Bloody Bayshore" lines become safer until San Jose starts in Palo Alto. As a temporary measure, the state lowers the speed limit, installs traffic signals, closed intersections, and left bans that are banned in some places. The public convinced the state to extend the six-lane freeway, which was completed in 1962. The freeway continued to end at El Camino Real long-time joining Ford Road until the early 1980s, when the South Valley Freeway was built.
Exit list
Except where it begins with letters, postmiles are measured on the street as in 1964, based on the existing harmony at the time, and do not necessarily reflect the current mileage. R reflects the alignment in the route since then, M denotes a second rearrangement, L refers to overlap due to correction or change, and T denotes postmiles are classified as temporary (for a complete list of prefixes, see postmil definition list). Segments that remain unconstructed or have been released to local controls can be removed. The numbers are reset at the county line; the initial and final posts in each county are given in the county column.
See also
- California Street Portal
- San Francisco Bay Area Portal
References
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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