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Started by Max Rockatansky, May 01, 2022, 09:11:36 AM

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Max Rockatansky

Put something together for CA 76.  Seemingly the Sign State Route came to be after Oceanside wanted something signed from the new alignment of US 395 and Palomar Observatory fully became functional circa 1951:

https://www.gribblenation.org/2022/05/california-state-route-76.html?m=1


cahwyguy

I'm working on the highway pages (and since I include AAroads, I'm catching your May posts that weren't part of the headlines). Your blog article is incomplete. You're missing the whole story about the recission of the freeway adoption E of the Oceanside city limits in 2016. See https://www.cahighways.org/ROUTE076.html :

QuoteIn the background to the freeway recission near I-15 in 2016, it was noted that Route 76 was added to the State Highway System in 1933. The portion of Route 76 from I-5 (SD R0.0) to I-15 (SD R17.3) was adopted as a freeway on January 23, 1963. Following this adoption, Caltrans executed freeway agreements with the County of San Diego on June 25, 1964 and with the City of Oceanside on April 1, 1965. Subsequently, Caltrans decided that an expressway was the most feasible alternative to meet the long term transportation needs of the City of Oceanside. Route 76 was therefore denominated from a freeway to a controlled access highway from I-5 to the Oceanside eastern city limit and is covered by two controlled access highway Agreements executed between the City of Oceanside and the Department in 1993 and 1994. Route 76 between SD R9.0 and SD R17.3 remained adopted as a freeway until the recission proposal. When Route 76 was originally identified as a future freeway it was done in part to serve planned future growth in rural areas of eastern San Diego County. Since the late 1990's the region has been moving away from new sprawling suburban developments and toward a smart growth (sustainable communities) model of development. That has resulted in a shift from new developments in the rural areas to infill projects in the urban coastal and non-coastal areas. This strategy is also consistent with the State's greenhouse gas (GHG) strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled. The conventional highway use of Route 76 was locally accepted and is in conformance with local and regional plans including the San Diego Associated Government's (SANDAG's) 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, the City of Oceanside's General Plan Circulation Element, the Bonsall Community Plan Circulation Element Road Network, the Fallbrook Mobility Element Network and the County of San Diego General Plan Mobility Element. The County of San Diego supports the Department's recommendation to downgrade Route 76 from a freeway to a conventional highway, on the condition that Route 76 continues to be retained as part of the State Highway System and continues to be maintained by the Department. In addition, the Department's Transportation Concept Report (TCR) for Route 76, which includes an assessment of both current and future operating conditions, and improvements that will be needed to meet identified operational goals on the route, identifies the post 25-year Route 76 facility as a conventional highway.

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QuoteIn March 2016, the CTC rescinded the freeway declaration for Route 76 in the county of San Diego, Post Mile R9.0 to R17.3 in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief Engineer. The background to the resolution noted that Route 76 is currently designated as a freeway from the easterly limits of the City of Oceanside to I-15, but operates as a conventional highway. There are no local or regional planning studies that contemplate Route 76 as anything but a conventional highway through the portion currently designated as a freeway. The proposal was to rescind the freeway declaration for Route 76, between the City of Oceanside's easterly limits and I-15, leaving this section as a conventional highway. It was noted that no Right of Way acquisitions were made in order to accommodate a freeway facility on Route 76, and that rescinding the freeway declaration would allow the Department to reconfigure the right of way needed in and around the I-15/Route 76 interchange as the right of way was reserved for a freeway to freeway interchange. Once the Route 76 proposed rescission is approved, new right of way lines would be established for a highway to freeway interchange and excess lands can be disposed, reducing inventory, liability, and maintenance efforts required.

In October 2016, the CTC rescinded the freeway declaration for Route 76 in the County of San Diego, Post Mile (PM) R9.0 to R17.3 in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief Engineer. Route 76 was originally identified as a future freeway it was done in part to serve planned future growth in rural areas of eastern San Diego County. Since the late 1990's the region has been moving away from new sprawling suburban developments and toward a smart growth (sustainable communities) model of development. That has resulted in a shift from new developments in the rural areas to infill projects in the urban coastal and non-coastal areas. This strategy is also consistent with the State's greenhouse gas (GHG) strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled. The conventional highway use of Route 76 is locally accepted and is in conformance with local and regional plans including the San Diego Associated Government's (SANDAG's) 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, the City of Oceanside's General Plan Circulation Element, the Bonsall Community Plan Circulation Element Road Network, the Fallbrook Mobility Element Network and the County of San Diego General Plan Mobility Element. The County of San Diego supports the Department's recommendation to downgrade Route 76 from a freeway to a conventional highway, on the condition that Route 76 continues to be retained as part of the State Highway System and continues to be maintained by the Department. In addition, the Department's Transportation Concept Report (TCR) for Route 76, which includes an assessment of both current and future operating conditions, and improvements that will be needed to meet identified operational goals on the route, identifies the post 25-year Route 76 facility as a conventional highway.

There's also work to expand the route E of I-15, which should also be mentioned. This is all due to Pala Casino.
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pderocco

Well, when their children and grandchildren have "infilled" the area around 76, they'll just have to buy it all back to make a freeway.

cahwyguy

Quote from: pderocco on May 07, 2022, 08:08:16 PM
Well, when their children and grandchildren have "infilled" the area around 76, they'll just have to buy it all back to make a freeway.

I don't think they bought anything. I think they just adopted an alignment and let it sit. So first they would figure out a new alignment.
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