After completing California State Route 227 I headed south into Santa Barbra County to check out an old alignment of US 101 which is now partially incorporated into California State Route 135. CA 135 is a 21 mile state highway looping from US 101 in Santa Maria southeast to Los Alamos. As stated above the alignment of CA 135 was largely part of early US 101 which was replaced in the 1930s. CA 135 is signed along Broadway in Santa Maria and is co-signed as the US 101 Business Route within the city. CA 135 has a junction with CA 166 in downtown Santa Maria. Interestingly there is a large pedestrian bridge south of the CA 166 junction on CA 135. CA 135 crosses a set of rails in downtown Santa Maria and approaches Betteravia Road where it once met former CA 176. CA 176 was a short route which ended in Sisquoc to the east. CA 135 becomes an expressway exiting Santa Maria on the approach southward to Orcutt. The original ali...
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