FREEWAY, HIGHWAY PROPOSALS THAT DIED INSTEAD OF MARRING CALIFORNIA - Oakdale Leader

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FREEWAY, HIGHWAY PROPOSALS THAT DIED INSTEAD OF MARRING CALIFORNIA

From a 36-lane SF Bay crossing floated in the 1940s to a 2002 proposal for a quicker way to San Jose via Del Puerto Canyon

There was a push to extend Highway 168 over Piute Pass at 11,417 feet west of Bishop and then slice through the John Muir Wilderness.

Piute Pass — There was a push to extend Highway 168 over Piute Pass at 11,417 feet west of Bishop and then slice through the John Muir Wilderness.

California is considered the birthplace of the modern freeway with the opening of the Pasadena Freeway in 1938 on the Highway 110 route.

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