🛣 Changes to the California Highway Website covering January-February 2023

[cahwyguy]

Well, I know what I did on my recent vacation, when it was raining in San Diego. A 🎩 tip to Joel Windmiller​, who provided loads of route adoption and route adoption proposals maps for me to incorporation into the pages. I think you'll find loads of new stuff. So I best let you go enjoy, and as always, "Ready, Set, Discuss".

Link to Blog Post of Change Page: https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=16527
Direct link to changes page: https://www.cahighways.org/chg2023.html#2023-02

[Max Rockatansky]

I take it that was what he was emailing you when we were talking before recording the last podcast?   That's certainly the bother load looking at how much was updated.

[cahwyguy]

I take it that was what he was emailing you when we were talking before recording the last podcast?   That's certainly the bother load looking at how much was updated.

Yup. It was about 200 messages to process. But as opposed to CHPW, it was a lot of proposed and alternative route information we don't often see.

[cahwyguy]

I take it that was what he was emailing you when we were talking before recording the last podcast?   That's certainly the bother load looking at how much was updated.

Oh, and there was also a great map of planned Sacramento freeways:

[TheStranger]

Comparing that planning map to what was eventually proposed post-1964:

1. Richards Boulevard as a planned freeway corridor!  Never knew this was ever officially suggested, though in concert with the existing Route 160 North Sacramento Freeway route stub always was one of those "seems like an interesting idea in my head" concepts.

2. A lot of the listed expressways did get built as local roads:
Arden (now Alta-Arden Expressway)
Elkhorn-North Highlands (Elkhorn Boulevard/Greenback Lane)
Florin-Elk Grove (Elk Grove-Florin Road)
Roseville-Sloughhouse (Sunrise Boulevard)
Watt Avenue
65th Street Expressway

The Routier Road expressway and the Rio Linda Boulevard expressway both fell by the wayside and those roads were never upgraded beyond their current configurations.

The "Florin-Elder Creek Expressway" listed here doesn't correspond to anything that was actually built, with both roads remaining very separate from each other.

3. Freeways that directly correspond to planned and/or built routes:

San Joaquin Freeway and Woodland Freeway (I-5 and Route 99 segments of the West Side Freeway)
El Centro (the Route 99 segment north of the airport)
El Dorado (US 50)
Stockton (Route 99 and former US 50 on the South Sacramento Freeway)
the Watt Avenue mini-freeway (now interrupted by a parclo at US 50) between Folsom Boulevard and Fair Oaks Boulevard

3. Of the new bridges listed, only the one north of the Pocket neighborhood was never constructed and the one on Bradshaw Road.  Notably missing in the plans back then is the current Howe Avenue bridge over the American River.

4. the freeway corridor never built from Bradshaw north to I-80 is approximately the northern half of unbuilt Route 143.  The Arcade Freeway planned here partially corresponds with today's I-80 (originally I-880) Northern Beltline, and both the constructed and unbuilt portions of Route 244.

5. The most intriguing of the freeways listed on the map is the Jackson corridor, as I don't know if the portion shown from I-5 east paralleling Fruitridge Road towards Watt Avenue was ever part of the legislatively proposed route (and certainly wasn't in the definition of Route 16).

[cahwyguy]

From what Joel indicated, it was a 1958 trafficways map. I attempted to OCR and transcribe the descriptions of the routes and compare them to other planning maps in https://www.cahighways.org/maps-sac-fwy.html

Comparing that planning map to what was eventually proposed post-1964:

1. Richards Boulevard as a planned freeway corridor!  Never knew this was ever officially suggested, though in concert with the existing Route 160 North Sacramento Freeway route stub always was one of those "seems like an interesting idea in my head" concepts.

2. A lot of the listed expressways did get built as local roads:
Arden (now Alta-Arden Expressway)
Elkhorn-North Highlands (Elkhorn Boulevard/Greenback Lane)
Florin-Elk Grove (Elk Grove-Florin Road)
Roseville-Sloughhouse (Sunrise Boulevard)
Watt Avenue
65th Street Expressway

The Routier Road expressway and the Rio Linda Boulevard expressway both fell by the wayside and those roads were never upgraded beyond their current configurations.

The "Florin-Elder Creek Expressway" listed here doesn't correspond to anything that was actually built, with both roads remaining very separate from each other.

3. Freeways that directly correspond to planned and/or built routes:

San Joaquin Freeway and Woodland Freeway (I-5 and Route 99 segments of the West Side Freeway)
El Centro (the Route 99 segment north of the airport)
El Dorado (US 50)
Stockton (Route 99 and former US 50 on the South Sacramento Freeway)
the Watt Avenue mini-freeway (now interrupted by a parclo at US 50) between Folsom Boulevard and Fair Oaks Boulevard

3. Of the new bridges listed, only the one north of the Pocket neighborhood was never constructed and the one on Bradshaw Road.  Notably missing in the plans back then is the current Howe Avenue bridge over the American River.

4. the freeway corridor never built from Bradshaw north to I-80 is approximately the northern half of unbuilt Route 143.  The Arcade Freeway planned here partially corresponds with today's I-80 (originally I-880) Northern Beltline, and both the constructed and unbuilt portions of Route 244.

5. The most intriguing of the freeways listed on the map is the Jackson corridor, as I don't know if the portion shown from I-5 east paralleling Fruitridge Road towards Watt Avenue was ever part of the legislatively proposed route (and certainly wasn't in the definition of Route 16).