Former Business Loop I-10 West - Coachella to Indio

Business Loop I-10 overlays Dillon Road south from the diamond interchange (Exit 148) with Interstate 10 in Coachella.

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Interstate 10 heads west from Dillon Road and Coachella into Indio en route to Palm Springs and San Bernardino.

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05/07/06

The first shield for Business Loop I-10 west stood along Dillon Road at the exchange with Interstate 10. It was removed after 2016.

03/14/09

The next left turn from westbound Business Loop I-10 (Dillon Road) connects with Interstate 10 east to Blythe and Phoenix, Arizona.

03/14/09

The Santa Rosa Mountains rise along the southern horizon. Traffic lights were added at the succeeding intersection with Harrison Place by 2012.

03/14/09

SR 86 branches southeast from I-10 along an expressway to Desert Shores-Salton City, Brawley and El Centro.

03/14/09

SR 86S was a temporary designation applied to the expressway along SR 86 at Coachella until 2012. A diamond interchange joins SR 86 with Dillon Road.

03/14/09

Highway 111 branches west from Indio Boulevard ahead of the Golf Center Parkway viaduct. A Historic U.S. 99 sign followed the separation. It was removed by 2012.

05/07/06

The Business Loop I-10 confirming marker posted along Indio Boulevard westbound between Highway 111 and Golf Center Parkway was removed by 2012. Following the decommissioning of U.S. 60 in 1964, Indio Boulevard was part of SR 86. SR 86 was truncated south to SR 111 by the late 1990s.

05/07/06

The addition of a sidewalk along Indio Boulevard west after 2007 coincided with the removal of the U.S. 99 historic sign posted between Requa Avenue and Grace Street.

05/07/06

Continuing northwest from Civic Center Drive, Indio Boulevard (Historic U.S. 60-70-99) pass under the Jackson Street viaduct spanning the Union Pacific Railroad.

05/07/06

Landscaping lines the median of Indio Boulevard as it advances northwest.

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A Union Pacific locomotive comes into view alongside Indio Boulevard by Sun Gold Street.

05/07/06

Fred Waring Drive stems west from Indio Boulevard to connect with Monroe Street south of the viaduct spanning Historic U.S. 60/70/99 and the UP Railroad. The bridge was built in 1990.

05/07/06

The succeeeding traffic light on Indio Boulevard west of Monroe Street operates at Hoover Street south.

05/07/06

Indio Boulevard next meets Clinton Street at this traffic signal.

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West of Clinton Street, Indio Boulevard crosses the Whitewater River on this 1956 bridge. The Whitewater River spans the length of the Coachella Valley and empties into the Salton Sea. A companion 1925 bridge carries the southbound (eastbound) traffic.

05/07/06

A Business Loop I-10 route marker used to be posted along Indio Boulevard between the Whitewater River and Madison Street.

05/07/06

Curving northwest, Indio Boulevard meets Jefferson Street. Historically due to the proximity of I-10 and the Union Pacific Railroad, the northern segment of Jefferson Street was not accessible from here. That changed with 2015-17 construction of a new parclo interchange with Interstate 10.

05/07/06

Indio Boulevard originally split into separate roadways leading into a modified diamond interchange with Interstate 10. This roadway system was replaced with a realignment of Jefferson Street.

05/07/06

The northern section of Jefferson Street previously ties into Varner Road, a north side freeway frontage road to I-10 at Exit 139.

05/07/06

The bridge taking Indio Boulevard north across the Union Pacific Railroad was built in 1936. The companion spans along Indio Boulevard eastbound was built in 1956.

05/07/06

Business Loop I-10 (Indio Boulevard) westbound crossed Interstate 10 on this two-lane bridge. This exchange was formerly the north end of SR 86.

05/07/06

Business Loop I-10 (Indio Boulevard) concluded along the directional ramp joining westbound I-10 after the separation with the ramp to Jefferson Street north.

05/07/06

The direct ramp onto I-10 west from Indio Boulevard was replaced with a loop ramp from the realignment of Jefferson Street.

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