CA-86S

[The High Plains Traveler]

Driving through Indio this week, westbound on I-10, I noticed that CA-86S has been desuffixated. Westbound, there is only an indirect connection to that highway, and the "S" had been peeled off the exit sign, leaving a badly asymmetrical number inside the spade. Eastbound, I noticed that new 86 signs had been overlaid on the signage.

Since 86S was obviously a temporary designation, I guess this suggests that the northernmost part of 86 must have been eliminated and transferred to the expressway route. I always wondered why the "supplemental (S)" route was the suffixed route, instead of the old route, which if it had to continue to be designated as a state highway could have received the same "U" (unrelinquished) designation as CA-14U along Sierra Highway near Santa Clarita.

[ARMOURERERIC]

I wish that they would swap 86 and 111 north/west of Brawley, having 111 exit itself from a freeway/expressway to go onto a 2 lane country road and leaving the expressway going to Westmoreland sucks.

[mrsman]

I started a thread about this issue in Fictional Highways:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=11063.msg273028#msg273028

[Desert Man]

well...someone came by in the area where I live (best time of year weather-wise and we had a fairly warm Feb. except rain last weekend). CA86 is a badly-needed highway before it's completion in the early 1990s to replace the two-lane highly accident-prone road (Harrison Street). I read mrsman's thread on this topic and I can say rural areas (the Coachella/Imperial valleys have grown to become metro in some way) need modern roads as much as larger urban areas (Riverside-San Bernardino and LA-the OC).