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UPDATE: Caltrans said I-5 is open in both directions between Highway 126 and Grapevine Road. The Lake Hughes Road and Parker Road off-ramps from northbound I-5 remain closed. ORIGINAL: Travelers ...
Interstate 5 was closed in both directions through the Tejon Pass, according to the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans. Officials advised that drivers use U.S. 101 instead. Highway 14 closed ...
I-5 links the major California cities of San Diego, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento, and Redding. The San Francisco Bay Area is about 80 miles (130 km) west of the highway. I-5 is known colloquially as "the 5" to Southern California residents and "5" to Northern California residents due to varieties in California English.
San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States Census, the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km 2) of land. [1]
Here are the many highways and freeways that are shut down across California as a result of the powerful storm —and tips for driving safely in the muck.
The Pacific Highway ran from British Columbia to San Diego, California, and was the immediate predecessor of much of US 99. The route of US 99 was in turn used as a basis for much of the route of today's I-5. A major deviation from the old US 99 route is the Westside Freeway portion of I-5 in California's Central Valley.
The California Highway Patrol said that a runaway big rig ran off the roadway around 12:15 p.m., spilling “several thousand” pieces of metal in the northbound lanes just south of Grapevine Road.
It is a spur auxiliary route of I-5 that runs from near Dunnigan south to I-80 in Vacaville. I-505 is primarily a rural Interstate, but travels through Vacaville and the city of Winters. The highway is the primary route connecting the San Francisco Bay Area and the northern Sacramento Valley, bypassing Sacramento and its