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I-80 west (Alan S. Hart Freeway west) / unsigned SR 89 spur to Donner Pass Road – Sacramento: Southern end of I-80 overlap; dumbbell interchange: 14.97 [N 3] 186: Central Truckee (Donner Pass Road) No northbound entrance: 16.29 [N 3] 188A: Truckee (Truckee Way) Northbound exit and southbound entrance: 16.60 [N 3]
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
The road passes are generally listed from north to south, with their elevation and access road. The California Department of Transportation attempts to keep Donner Summit (Interstate 80, I-80), Echo Summit (U.S. Route 50, US 50) and Carson Pass (State Route 88, SR 88) open year-round. Most other passes at higher elevation than these are usually ...
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Two cameras on S.C. Highway 544 at Dick Pond Road and Windsor Bay Road 20 cameras along U.S. 501 from Main Street in Aynor to the Intracoastal Waterway 23 cameras along U.S. 17 from the bypass ...
Construction on the highway began in 1928, which involved the boring of three tunnels. Previously, the road was signed as U.S. Route 40 Alternate, crossing the Sierra Nevada at a lower elevation than Donner Pass on US 40, now Interstate 80 (I-80). The road was renumbered SR 70 in the 1964 state highway renumbering. Today, portions of SR 70 have ...
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