Interstate 780

Interstate 780 marker

Interstate 780
Route information
Defined by Streets and Highways Code § 623
Maintained by Caltrans
Length: 6.759 mi[1] (10.878 km)
History: State highway in 1935; Interstate in 1955 (As I-680); renumbered I-780 in 1973-76
Major junctions
West end: Curtola Pkwy & Lemon St in Vallejo
  I‑80 in Vallejo
East end: I‑680 in Benicia
Location
Counties: Solano
Highway system
← I‑710I‑805 →

Interstate 780 (I-780) is an Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It serves to connect Interstate 80 in Vallejo with Interstate 680 just north of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge in Benicia. Originally, this segment was part of I-680 before that Interstate was extended and rerouted to Fairfield. The city-maintained Curtola Parkway continues west from I-80 to State Route 29 in Vallejo.

Route description

The Interstate 780 state-maintained freeway begins at Lemon Street and Curtola Parkway, quickly crossing underneath I-80 at a cloverleaf interchange. The freeway passes through parts of unincorporated Solano County, then heads southeast along the Benicia State Recreation Area (a marsh). It then bypasses downtown Benicia through the hills to the north. I-780 ends at I-680 at the north end of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, with I-680 heading south through the East Bay to San Jose.[2]

History

By 1914, a paved county road connected Vallejo and Benicia north of the Carquinez Strait,[3] following the present Maine Street, Benicia Road, Columbus Parkway, and K Street.[4] Although state highways were designated to Benicia in 1910 (Legislative Route (LRN) 7, now I-680) and Vallejo in 1931 (LRN 74, now SR 29), this connection was not added until 1935, when LRN 74 (an unsigned designation) was extended east from Vallejo to Benicia and north along former Route 7 to Fairfield.[5] (A short spur connecting Vallejo to the Carquinez Bridge was added to Route 74 in 1937.[6]) LRN 74 initially entered Benicia on K Street and left on East Fifth Street, making several turns in between.[4][7] Two realignments were built in the 1940s, reducing the number of turns to one, at the corner of L and East Second Streets.[8][9]

On September 15, 1955, the Bureau of Public Roads approved the Interstate Highway System spurs and connections in urban areas. Among these was a loop around the San Francisco Bay, soon numbered I-280 and I-680. The east half (I-680) incorporated a number of existing legislative routes, including Routes 69, 108, 107, 75, and 74, crossing the Carquinez Strait on the proposed Benicia-Martinez Bridge and ending at I-80 near downtown Vallejo.[10][11] The first piece of this freeway north of the Carquinez Strait was at the I-80 cloverleaf interchange, built in the late 1950s when I-80 was upgraded through Vallejo. This was an extremely short roadway, beginning at Lemon Street, crossing under I-80 and Laurel Street, and ending at Reis Avenue and Cedar Street.[12][13] In about 1960, it was extended east to the old highway (Columbus Parkway) between the cities, and was completed to the new bridge in about 1962, the year the bridge opened.[12]

State Route 141
Location: Vallejo
Existed: 1964–1988

In the 1964 renumbering, the legislative designation of the completed Vallejo-Benicia freeway was changed from Route 74 to Route 680, reflecting its Interstate designation. The short piece of non-freeway in Vallejo, extending west from I-80 to SR 29, became State Route 141.[14] This route followed Benicia Road and Maine Street, the same alignment the state highway had always taken; it initially connected with I-780 via Lemon Street,[15] but later followed Benicia Road from I-80 north of I-780. In 1975, a proposed (and never constructed) extension west and north to SR 37 east of the Napa River was added to Route 141.[16][17] The route was to be the Waterfront Freeway, scaled down to a boulevard in 1974.[18][19]

The Federal Highway Administration approved a relocation of I-680 onto the State Route 21 freeway between Benicia and Fairfield in July 1973. To keep the route to Vallejo in the Interstate system, it was renumbered I-780;[11] the corresponding legislative changes were made in 1976.[20] As part of the project to construct a new northbound Benicia-Martinez Bridge, the I-680/I-780 interchange was rebuilt; the new span opened in August 2007.[21] Route 141 was deleted from the state highway system in 1988,[22] soon after the city of Vallejo constructed Curtola Parkway over (replacing Maryland Street) just to the south, directly connecting I-780 with a surface road to SR 29.[8]

Exit list

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment of Route 680 as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see the list of postmile definitions).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route is in Solano County.

LocationPostmile
[1][12][23]		Exit
[24]		DestinationsNotes
Vallejo7.44Curtola Parkway – VallejoContinuation beyond Lemon Street
7.44Lemon StreetAt-grade intersection
7.191 I‑80 – Sacramento, San FranciscoSigned as exits 1A (west) and 1B (east); west end of I-780; I-80 exit 30A
7.071CLaurel Street, Cedar Street
6.001DGlen Cove Road
Benicia4.773AColumbus ParkwayServes Benicia State Recreation Area
4.003BMilitary West
2.964Southampton Road
2.025East Second Street – Central Benicia
1.586East Fifth Street
0.687 I‑680 – Fairfield, Sacramento, Martinez, San JoseEastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 7A (north) and 7B (south); east end of I-780; I-680 north exit 58A, south exit 58
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. 1 2 3 California Department of Transportation. "State Truck Route List". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (XLS file) on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ Google Maps street maps and USGS topographic maps, accessed February 2008 via ACME Mapper
  3. ↑ Grinnon, Edmund (15 May 1914). "Road News from All Over The State". Oakland Tribune. Vallejo to Benicia. paved road; to Napa, paved to county line, rough to one mile beyond city of Napa;
  4. 1 2 Official Automobile Blue Book, Volume Eight, 1917, pp. 146, 180
  5. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act...relating to State highways". Fifty-first Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 274 p. 959, 281.: "Route 74 is from a point on Route 8 near the Napa Y to Cordelia via Vallejo and Benicia."
  6. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act to amend section 374 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to State Highway Route 74". Fifty-second Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 219 p. 515.: "Route 74 is from a point on Route 8 near the Napa Y to Cordelia via Vallejo and Benicia, including a connection from Vallejo to Route 7 near the Carquinez Bridge."
  7. ↑ United States Geological Survey, Carquinez Strait (scale 1:62500), 1940
  8. 1 2 National Bridge Inventory database, 2006: the bridges on East Second Street north of Benicia are dated 1942 and 1944; the pedestrian bridge over Curtola Parkway is dated 1987
  9. ↑ United States Geological Survey, Benicia (scale 1:24000), 1950
  10. ↑ Bureau of Public Roads, General Location of National System of Interstate Highways, 1955: San Francisco
  11. 1 2 California Department of Transportation, State Highway Routes: Selected Information, 1994 with 1995 revisions, pp. 342, 348
  12. 1 2 3 California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
  13. ↑ United States Geological Survey, Benicia (scale 1:24000), 1959
  14. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act to add Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, and to repeal Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, the...". 1963 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 385 p. 1182, 1189.: "Route 141 is from Route 80 to Route 29 in Vallejo." "Route 680 is from Route 280 in San Jose to Route 80 in Vallejo passing near Warm Springs, Mission San Jose, Scotts Corners and Sunol, and via Walnut Creek and Benicia."
  15. ↑ Division of Highways, San Francisco and Vicinity, 1963
  16. ↑ California Department of Transportation, San Francisco and Vicinity, 1986
  17. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act...relating to state bridges and highways...". 1975–1976 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 1078 p. 2638.: "Route 141 is the westerly extension of Route 680 from Route 80 to Route 37."
  18. ↑ Vallejo Times Herald, No Freeway for Waterfront Blvd, April 25, 1974
  19. ↑ Vallejo Times Herald, Vallejo Approves Measure to Speed Waterfront Boulevard Construction, August 20, 1974
  20. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act to amend Sections 143.2, 186, 253.1, 253.2, 253.4, 253.5, 253.6, 263.1, 263.5, 263.7, 311, 312, 333, 360, 374, 375, 378, 381, 384, 388, 411, 417, 422, 440, 441, 460, 506, 559, 563, 582, and 620 of, to add...". 1975–1976 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 1354 p. 6178.: "Route 780 is from Route 680 at Benicia to Route 80 in Vallejo."
  21. ↑ Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Rep. George Miller to Keynote Celebrations for Completion of New Benicia-Martinez Bridge, August 23, 2007
  22. ↑ California State Assembly. "An act to add and repeal Sections...of the Government Code, to amend Sections...of, the Streets and Highways Code...". 1987–1988 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 106 p. 443.
  23. ↑ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
  24. ↑ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, I-780 Eastbound and I-780 Westbound, accessed February 2008

External links

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