Interstate 880

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For the former Interstate 880 around Sacramento, California, now part of Interstate 80, see Interstate 880 (Sacramento, California).

Interstate Route 880

(legal definition)

Length:

45.05^[1] mi (72.50 km)

Formed:

May 1983 by FHWA^[2]
1984 by Caltrans (from SR 17)^[3]

South end:

I-280/SR 17 in San Jose

Major
junctions:

US 101 in San Jose

SR 92 in Hayward

I-238 in San Leandro

I-980 in Oakland

North end:

I-80/I-580 in Oakland

California State Highway Routes
< I-805		SR 905 >
Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

Interstate 880 (abbreviated I-880) is an interstate highway in the San Francisco Bay Area. For most of that distance, it runs parallel to the southeastern shore of San Francisco Bay, where it is called the Nimitz Freeway, after World War II admiral Chester Nimitz, who retired to the Bay Area. Before that, it was the southern segment of the Eastshore Freeway. Due to relatively dense land development along the I-880 corridor, a number of noise barriers have been designed to protect sensitive receptors from elevated sound levels.

The northern terminus is in Oakland at the junction with Interstate 80 and Interstate 580 (known as the MacArthur Maze), near the eastern approach of the Bay Bridge. The southern terminus is at Interstate 280 in San Jose.

1 Control cities
2 Major cities along the route
3 Intersections with other interstates
4 Exit list
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Control cities

Northbound

Oakland - between I-280 and the Oakland city limits
Downtown Oakland - between the Oakland city limits and I-980
San Francisco and Berkeley - between I-980 and I-80

Southbound

San Jose, California - between I-80 and the San Jose city limits
Santa Cruz, California - between the San Jose city limits and I-280

[edit] Major cities along the route

[edit] Intersections with other interstates

[edit] Exit list

Postmile^[1]		Municipality	#^[4]	Destinations	Notes
County	Statewide	Municipality	#^[4]	Destinations	Notes
SCL 0.00	0.00	San José	1A	SR 17 South - Santa Cruz	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
SCL 0.00	0.00		1B	I-280 South - Downtown San Jose North - San Francisco	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
SCL 0.41	0.41		1C	Stevens Creek Boulevard West San Carlos Street	Southbound exit and northbound entrance; northbound exit accessible via SR-17 North or I-280 West
SCL 1.25	1.25		1D	Bascom Avenue Santa Clara	Exits 1A (Bascom Ave - South) and 1B (Bascom Ave - North) northbound
SCL 2.08	2.08		2	SR 82 Santa Clara; The Alameda
SCL 2.67	2.67		3	Coleman Avenue San Jose International Airport
SCL 3.56	3.56		4A	First Street Downtown
SCL 4.08	4.08		4B	US-101 ^SOUTH Los Angeles
SCL 4.08	4.08		4C	US-101 ^NORTH San Francisco	Combined with Exit 4D southbound
SCL 4.28	4.28		4D	Gish Road (Old Bayshore Highway)
SCL 5.34	5.34		5	Brokaw Road
SCL 6.69	6.69		7	Montague Expressway (Santa Clara County Route G4)
SCL 7.69	7.69	Milpitas	8A	Great Mall Parkway (Tasman Drive)
SCL 8.42	8.42		8B	SR 237 ^EAST Alviso-Milpitas Road Calaveras Boulevard	Combined as Exit 8B northbound
SCL 8.42	8.42		8C	SR 237 ^WEST Mountain View	Combined as Exit 8B northbound
SCL 10.42	10.42		10	Dixon Landing Road
ALA R1.95	12.48	Fremont	12	() ^TO I-680 Mission Boulevard (SR 262); Warren Avenue
ALA 3.25	13.78		13B	Landing Parkway Fremont Boulevard (SOUTH)
ALA 4.71	15.24		15	Durham Road Auto Mall Parkway
ALA 6.24	16.77		16	Stevenson Boulevard
ALA 7.18	17.71		17	Mowry Avenue
ALA 8.85	19.38		19	SR 84 ^EAST Thornton Avenue
ALA 10.30	20.83		21	SR 84 ^WEST Dumbarton Bridge; Decoto Road
ALA 11.50	22.03		22	Alvarado Boulevard Fremont Boulevard (NORTH)
ALA 13.00	23.53		23	Alvarado-Niles Road
ALA 13.67	24.20	Hayward	24	Whipple Road Dyer Street Industrial Parkway
ALA 14.54	25.07		25	Industrial Parkway	Combined with Exit 24 northbound
ALA 15.65	26.18		26	Tennyson Road
ALA 16.71	27.24		27	SR 92 San Mateo Bridge; Jackson Street
ALA 17.60	28.13		28	Winton Avenue
ALA 18.35	28.88		29	A Street San Lorenzo
ALA 20.16	30.69		30	Hesperian Boulevard	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
ALA 20.32	30.85		30	Lewelling Boulevard San Lorenzo	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
ALA 20.69	31.22	San Leandro	31A	I-238 ^TO I-580 Castro Valley; Stockton Washington Avenue	Exit 31 southbound; Washington Avenue southbound only
ALA 20.82	31.35		31B	Washington Avenue	Combined with Exit 31 southbound
ALA 22.84	33.37		33A	Marina Boulevard East
ALA 22.84	33.37		33B	Marina Boulevard West
ALA 23.65	34.18		34	SR 61 Davis Street (SR 112)	Exits currently unsigned as either SR-61 or SR-112
ALA 24.74	35.27	Oakland	35	98th Avenue Oakland Airport
ALA 25.49 ALA 25.50	36.02 36.03		36	Hegenberger Road Oakland Airport; Coliseum	Northbound exit accessible via Edes Avenue
ALA 26.61	37.14		37	66th Street Zhone Way - McAfee Coliseum	Northbound exit accessible via Coliseum Way
ALA 27.70	38.23		38	SR 185 High Street; 42nd Avenue Alameda (SR 77)	Exits currently unsigned as either SR-185 or SR-77; Northbound exit accessible via Coliseum Way and southbound entrance accessible via Oakport Street
ALA 28.24	38.77		39A	29th Avenue Fruitvale Avenue	Northbound entrance and exit accessible via East 8th and East 9th Streets; Southbound exit accessible via Elmwood Avenue; No southbound entrance, must use East 8th St to High St
ALA 28.93 ALA 28.98	39.46 39.51		39B	23rd Avenue	Southbound exit and entrance accessible via Kennedy Street
			40	Embarcadero 5th Avenue 16th Avenue	No northbound entrance
			41A	Oak Street Lake Shore Drive	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
			41B	Jackson Street Broadway	Exit 42 southbound, accessible via 5th St from Union St; No southbound entrance, must use 5th St to Oak St
ALA 31.68	42.21		42A	I-980 ^TO SR 24 Walnut Creek
			42B	Market Street	Northbound exit only; Northbound entrance accessible via 6th Street to Union St
ALA 33.50	44.03		44	7th Street West Grand Avenue
ALA 34.52	45.05		46A	I-80 ^WEST Bay Bridge; San Francisco	Northbound left exit and southbound entrance
ALA 34.31	44.84		46B	I-80 ^EAST I-580 ^WEST Berkeley; Sacramento	Northbound exit and southbound entrance

[edit] Notes

[edit] Cypress Viaduct Loma Prieta earthquake 1989

Portion of the collapsed Cypress Viaduct in Oakland.

A large double-decker section in Oakland, known as the Cypress Street Viaduct, collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, causing 42 deaths, the greatest loss of life of that earthquake. Rebuilding that section of the freeway took nearly a decade, due to environmental impact concerns, the feeling that the freeway divided the neighborhood, and design considerations. The highway was rebuilt on a new route parallel to rail lines around the outskirts of West Oakland. The former path of the structure, Cypress Street, was renamed Mandela Parkway, and the median where the freeway stood became a landscaped linear park. [1]

[edit] State Route 17

South of Interstate 280 in San Jose, Interstate 880 loses its interstate designation and becomes State Route 17, which passes through the Santa Cruz Mountains and terminates in the city of Santa Cruz. Until it was given interstate status in January 1986, however, the present-day Interstate 880 was designated as SR 17 along its entire route from San Jose to Oakland, and SR 17 continued northward beyond Oakland to US 101 in San Rafael via the Eastshore Freeway, Richmond city streets, and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (now included in I-580's routing).

[edit] Sacramento bypass

Interstate 880 was at one time designated as a bypass of Sacramento. Its route is now used by Interstate 80. The old path of I-80 through downtown Sacramento is now designated Business Loop Interstate 80.

[edit] Sound barriers

Due to high sound levels generated from this highway and the relatively dense urban development in the highway corridor, CalTrans has conducted numerous studies to retrofit the right-of-way with noise barriers. This activity has occurred in Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Newark and Fremont. For example in the 1989 widening of I-880 in parts of Newark and Fremont, scientific studies were conducted to determine the need for sound walls and to design optimum heights to achieve Federal noise standards.^[5]

[edit] Flood plains

Several aspects of the I-880 facility have been constructed in designated floodplains such as the 1990 interchange improvements at Dixon Landing Road. In that case the Federal Highway Administration was required to make a finding that there was no feasible alternative to the new ramp system as designed. In that same study, the FHWA produced an analysis to support the fact that adequate wetlands mitigation had been designed into the improvement project.^[6]

[edit] Historic Business U.S. Route 50

The northern portion of I-880 was designated Business U.S. Route 50 for a time between the I-80 interchange and downtown Oakland.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways
^ California Highways: Interstate Highway Types and the History of California's Interstates
^ California Highways: Interstate 880
^ Cal-NExUS Interchange Exit Numbering
^ Acoustical study for the widening of Interstate 880 in the cities of Newark and Fremont, Alameda County, California, Earth Metrics Inc, for the Federal Highway Administration, October, 1989
^ Environmental Assessment for the I-880 Dixon Landing Road Interchange Improvement Project, Cities of Fremont and Milpitas, California, Report EMI 7360, Federal Highway Administration Publication, February, 1989

[edit] External links

AA Roads - I-880 Guide
The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake—Selected Photographs - U.S. Geological Survey
- Oakland Cypress Viaduct
Cypress Street Viaduct includes map of old MacArthur Maze with old U.S. Highway 40/U.S. Highway 50 designations
Cypress Viaduct Reconstruction from Federal Highway Administration
Western Exit Guide - Interstate 880 California

	edit Auxiliary routes of Interstate 80
I-180	Illinois - Nebraska - Pennsylvania - Wyoming
I-280	California - Illinois/Iowa - New Jersey - Ohio
I-380	California - Iowa - Pennsylvania
I-480	Iowa/Nebraska - Ohio
I-580	California - Nevada
I-680	California - Iowa/Nebraska - Ohio
I-780	California
I-880	California
I-980	California
past/ future	I-180: California - Pennsylvania - I-280: Iowa/Nebraska - Pennsylvania - I-480: California - Pennsylvania - I-580: Nebraska - I-680: Pennsylvania