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State Route 17 (SR 17, locally known as Highway 17) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from State Route 1 in Santa Cruz to I-280 and I-880 in San Jose. SR 17, a freeway and expressway , carries substantial commuter and vacation traffic through the Santa Cruz Mountains at Patchen Pass ("The Summit") between Santa Cruz ...
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The first bus services over the Santa Cruz Mountains began operation in the early 20th century, taking advantage of continuously improving roads. A direct predecessor of the Highway 17 Express service was an Oakland–San Jose–Santa Cruz bus line operated by Peerless Stages, which began operation in the 1910s [7] or early 1920s. [8]
A tornado touched down in the Northern California town of Scotts Valley near Santa Cruz ... The National Weather Service classified it as a weak EF1 tornado that touched down at 1:39 p.m. at the ...
Patchen Pass lies on the border between Santa Clara County to the north of the pass, and Santa Cruz County to the south. [3] It is traversed by California State Route 17, which runs from north to south through the pass, [1] and is the eastern terminus of California State Route 35, which runs along the ridgeline to the west of the pass and continues to the east as Summit Road.
Amid recent reports of two mountain lions dying on the highway, many communities are turning to wildlife crossings and fencing to reduce roadkill. A wildlife crossing is proposed for Highway 17 in ...
Prior to 1984, the route known as I-880 used to be part of SR 17, which was US 48 [33] from current I-238 to US 101 from 1926 to 1931, then US 101E from 1929 to the mid-1930s. SR 17 used to run from Santa Cruz all the way through San Jose , Oakland , and then continued north via the Eastshore Freeway ( I-80 ) through Richmond to the Richmond ...
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