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Interstate 805 (I-805) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California.It is a bypass auxiliary route of I-5, running roughly through the center of the Greater San Diego region from San Ysidro (part of the city of San Diego) near the Mexico–U.S. border to near Del Mar.
The U.S. Congress approved a $4.3 million request by Immigration and Naturalization Service, in 1978, to build a fence along the border to replace an existing 27-mile (43 km) fence near San Ysidro, California, and El Paso, Texas, and then build an additional 6 miles (9.7 km) of new fence.
The entirety of Interstate 5 in California is defined in the California Streets and Highways Code as Route 5, which is defined as such in section 305: [4]. Route 5 is from the international boundary near Tijuana to the Oregon state line via National City, San Diego, Los Angeles, the westerly side of the San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento, and Yreka; also passing near Santa Ana, Glendale, Woodland ...
It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry; [13] the primary border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, and the busiest border crossing in the world. [ 14 ] In the mid-19th century, Smuggler's Gulch had marshland and ponds of water.
The section east of San Antonio was completed 20 years earlier in 1972. [4] The opening of a 6-mile (10 km) section of I-27 in 1992 completed the Interstate Highway System in Texas. [5] Planning is ongoing for a proposed extension of I-69 southward from its original terminus in Indiana through Texas to the United States–Mexico border. [6]
Longer bridges can reduce the width of both shoulders to 4 feet (1.2 m). Existing bridges can remain part of the Interstate system if they have at least 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) lanes with 3.5-foot (1.1 m) shoulder on the left and a 10-foot (3.0 m) shoulder on the right, except that longer bridges can have 3.5 feet (1.1 m) shoulders on both sides.
The first phase of the project cost $86 million, which included the purchase of the SD&AE, 14 light rail vehicles, construction of a single-tracked electrified light rail line along the 14.2-mile (22.9 km) SD&AE Main Line and construction of a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) section of new street running tracks in downtown San Diego. [8]
There is an urban legend that in the 1930s, a group of little people who appeared in Hollywood films such as The Wizard of Oz, came to San Diego, where they built miniature houses on Mount Soledad. [4] [5] The legend gained traction due to the fact several houses were built on steep slopes overlooking the Pacific.