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State Route 480 (SR 480) was a state highway in San Francisco, California, United States, consisting of the elevated double-decker Embarcadero Freeway (also known as the Embarcadero Skyway), the partly elevated Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge and the proposed and unbuilt section in between.
The Embarcadero continues north past the Ferry Building at Market Street, Pier 39, and Fisherman's Wharf, before ending at Pier 45. A section of The Embarcadero which ran between Folsom Street and Drumm Street was formerly known as East Street. For three decades, until it was torn down in 1991, the Embarcadero Freeway dominated the
The Embarcadero Freeway, which had only been constructed from Broadway along the Embarcadero to the Bay Bridge, was universally panned with many locals comparing it to the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. Demands to demolish the freeway were proposed as early as 1963 with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors supporting the proposal.
Warren Freeway A highway entirely in the Oakland Hills and travels north from Interstate 580 to Route 24, where the freeway portion ends. Beyond SR 24, SR 13 is Berkeley's Ashby Avenue. Interstate 238 Route 238 Mission Boulevard An arterial from Fremont to Hayward, along the base of the hills, then becomes a freeway near Oakland. Route 4 John ...
Interstate 480 (California), the former Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco, California Interstate 476 , designated as Interstate 480 back when I-76 was I-80S Topics referred to by the same term
Embarcadero Freeway Montgomery Block, 1862 Henry Coe skyline. The Embarcadero Freeway (pictured) opens in San Francisco, the same year the San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes to cancel seven of ten planned freeways; The Montgomery Block building (pictured) in San Francisco is demolished
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