This week's Throwback Thursday takes us back to October 2003 to Hamilton, Ontario. As you may be aware, a number of provincial highways in Ontario were downloaded to local control on January 1, 1998 (or decommissioned, if you will). One of those highways was the Ontario King's Highway 2, which was downloaded to municipalities with the exception of a short stretch near Gananoque in the Thousand Islands. When I took this photo on King's Highway 6 in Hamilton, it was a sign that remained from before the downloading.
Near the eastern City Limit of Oakland high in the Berkeley Hills one can be find the ruins of the Kennedy Tunnel at the intersection of Old Tunnel Road and Skyline Boulevard. The Kennedy Tunnel opened in 1903 and was the first semi-modern automotive corridor which crossed the Alameda County-Contra Costa County Line. The Kennedy Tunnel even saw service briefly as part of California State Route 24 before the first two bores of the Caldecott Tunnel opened in 1937. Part 1; the history of the Kennedy Tunnel The genesis point for California State Route 24 ("CA 24") being extended into the San Francisco Bay Area begins a couple years before the Sign State Routes were announced when Legislative Route Number 75 ("LRN 75") was added by 1931 Legislative Chapter 82. According to cahighways.org the original definition of LRN 75 was as simply "Walnut Creek to Oakland." The instigator for the adoption of LRN 75 was construct a replacement route for the Ken
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