On a recent trip to the Bay Area I drove/clinched numerous highways. Some of them had oddities like not being signed, not completed as planned or even relinquished segments. None was as strange as California State Routes 112, 61 and 260 which all essentially serve as a signed version of CA 61. As completed CA 112, 61 and 260 serve as a functionally signed (mostly...) CA 61 which starts at CA 185 in downtown San Leandro and traverses northwest through Alameda to downtown Oakland at I-880. Below is a historic summary of each highway which serves to make up the signed portions of CA 61. CA 112, CA 61 and CA 260 were all part of Legislative Route Number 69 which was added to the State Highway system in 1925 according to CAhighways.org. LRN 69 originally only was part of the highway system from LRN 1 (future US 101) in San Rafael eastward to Point San Quentin where the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge would later be located. LRN 69 was extended in 1933 which ex...
Because every road has a story.