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The following is a list of roads defined by the Streets and Highways Code, sections 250–257, as part of the California Freeway and Expressway System. [1] Some of the routes listed may still be in the planning stages of being fully upgraded to freeways or expressways. State Route 1 (part) State Route 2 (part) State Route 3 (part) State Route 4 ...
California is home to San Bernardino County, the largest county in the contiguous United States, as well as Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States. The counties of California are local arms of the State of California, described by the Supreme Court of California as agents ("the county is merely a political subdivision ...
Each highway is assigned a Route (officially State Highway Route [1] [2]) number in the Streets and Highways Code (Sections 300–635). Most of these are numbered in a statewide system, and are known as State Route X (abbreviated SR X). United States Numbered Highways are labeled US X, and Interstate Highways are Interstate X.
Shortest Interstate highway in contiguous United States I-87: 333.49: 536.70 I-278 in New York City: A-15 at Canadian border in Champlain, New York: 1957: current New York only Associated routes: I-287, I-587, I-787: I-88: 140.60: 226.27 I-80/IL 92 in East Moline, Illinois: I-290/IL 110 in Hillside, Illinois: 1987: current Illinois only I-88: ...
Under the code, the state assigns a unique Route X to each highway and does not differentiate between state, US, or Interstate highways. California still uses a version of the 1961 U.S. Route shield, featuring a simplified cutout shield containing only the outer border, "U S," and the route marker. All other U.S. states adopted the 1971 version ...
This list does not include these state routes as they are listed separately. A few cases exist, such as SR 110, where a defined California State Route partially overlaps with a federally defined Interstate Highway, while the remaining portion is signed as a state highway. This table only addresses the portion signed as a California State Route ...
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 ...
A freeway "name" may refer to portions of two or more differently numbered routes; for example, the Ventura Freeway consists of portions of U.S. Route 101 and State Route 134, and the San Diego Freeway consists of portions of Interstate 5 and the full length of Interstate 405. When Southern California freeways were built in the 1940s and early ...