Within the counties north of San Francisco Bay there are numerous California State Routes that are little more than lines on paper. Some of these "Paper Highways" are unbuilt portions of active State Routes whereas other never were more than a line on a map or a piece of a State Legislation. These Paper Highways include; CA 12, CA 17, CA 37, CA 181, CA 251, and CA 281. Note; despite these highways existing in limbo on paper for over half a century none of them have been Legislatively cancelled. Part 1; the logical original terminus of CA 12 and it's unbuilt reroute alignment CA 12 was one of the original run of Sign State Routes announced in a August 1934 Department of Public Works Guide . CA 12 originally had a western terminus at CA 1 in Jenner of Sonoma County via Legislative Route 104 west of Santa Rosa. CA 12 can be seen ending at Jenner and CA 1 via LRN 104 on the 1963 Division of Highways State Map. During the 1964 State H...
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