California State Route 149
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Length | 4.623 mi[1] (7.440 km) | |||
History | State highway in 1933; numbered in 1964 | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | SR 70 near Oroville | |||
North end | SR 99 near Chico | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | California | |||
Counties | Butte | |||
Highway system | ||||
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State Route 149 (SR 149) is a short state highway in the U.S. state of California that helps to connect Oroville and Chico through rural Butte County. Connecting State Route 70 at Wicks Corner with State Route 99 east of Durham, it forms part of the primary north–south highway through the eastern Sacramento Valley, a Focus Route of the Interregional Road System.[2]
SR 149 was formerly part of the Oroville-Chico Highway; the majority of the latter was merged into other routes. In the mid-1970s, the highway was reallocated onto a newer two-lane alignment. A project to widen the two-lane road to a four-lane
Route description
State Route 149 begins at Wicks Corner as a divided highway, at an interchange with
SR 149 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System,[6] and is part of the National Highway System,[7] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.[8]
History
By the late 1910s, a "natural prairie road" linked
In the 1950s and 1960s, about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway was absorbed by other routes.
SR 149 was relocated onto a new two-lane alignment in the mid-1970s, leaving behind Openshaw Road.
Ground was broken for the highway project in April 2006, with major construction beginning in May.[22] Caltrans estimated completion in late 2009 for the completion of the four-lane expressway, including a new directional interchange at each end, at which State Route 70 and State Route 99 will exit and enter to the right of the main Oroville-Chico movement. Most access was closed, with Shippee Road providing the sole at-grade crossing of the expressway, and an overcrossing near State Route 70 giving access to local property. Shippee Road was relocated to the southeast, allowing for the future construction of an interchange. In addition, State Route 70 was relocated to the west between SR 149 and State Route 191, and local access on State Route 99 between SR 149 and the Durham Dayton Highway interchange was replaced by frontage roads.[3][23] The entire project was completed in November 2008,[24] at a cost of $125 million.[5]
Major intersections
Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary ( ).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The entire route is in Butte County.
Location | Postmile [1][16][25] | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Wicks Corner | 0.00 | SR 70 to SR 191 – Paradise, Quincy, Oroville, Marysville | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; west end of SR 149 | ||
| North end of freeway | ||||
| R3.11 | Shippee Road, Openshaw Road | |||
| R4.62 | SR 99 – Yuba City, Chico, Red Bluff | Interchange; northbound exit and southbound entrance; east end of SR 149 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
- California Roads portal
References
- ^ a b c California Department of Transportation. "State Truck Route List". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (XLS file) on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
- ^ California Department of Transportation, Focus Routes, January 2005
- ^ a b California Department of Transportation, Butte 70/149/99 Highway Improvement Project. Retrieved February 2008.
- ^ ACME Mapper 2.0 (Map). ACME Maps. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ a b Staff (December 28, 2008). "Making headlines: Recounting our best stories of 2008". Chico Enterprise-Record. Chico, California: MediaNews Group. Archived from the original on April 17, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- ^ "Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Division 1". California Streets and Highways Code. Sacramento: California Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
- ^ Federal Highway Administration (March 25, 2015). National Highway System: California (North) (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ^ Natzke, Stefan; Neathery, Mike & Adderly, Kevin (June 20, 2012). "What is the National Highway System?". National Highway System. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ^ Automobile Club of Southern California, Automobile Road Map of California, 1917
- ^ Official Automobile Blue Book, Volume Eight, 1919, pp. 222-223
- ^ Oakland Tribune, Near-Beer Will Christen New Road, June 18, 1926
- ^ California State Assembly. "An act to amend sections 2, 3 and 5 and to add two sections to be numbered 6 and 7 to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the acquisition of rights of way for and the construction, maintenance..." Fiftieth Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 767 p. 2035.: "State Highway Route 3 near Chico to State Highway Route 21 near Oroville."
- ^ California State Assembly. "An act to establish a Streets and Highways Code, thereby consolidating and revising the law relating to public ways and all appurtenances thereto, and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts specified herein". Fifty-first Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 29 p. 282.: "Route 87 is from: (a) Route 7 near Woodland to State Highway near Yuba City. (b) Route 15 near Marysville to Route 21 near Oroville. (c) Route 21 near Oroville to Route 3 near Chico."
- California Highways and Public Works, State Routes will be Numbered and Marked with Distinctive Bear Signs, August 1934
- ^ United States Geological Survey, Oroville (1944)[permanent dead link] and Chico (1949)[permanent dead link] (scale 1:62500): these maps show the road before it was absorbed
- ^ a b c California Department of Transportation (July 2007). "Log of Bridges on State Highways". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation.
- ^ California Department of Transportation, Index to California Highways and Public Works, 1937-1967, June 1997, p. 75
- ^ Oakland Tribune, Bridge Dedicated, August 15, 1962
- ^ Oakland Tribune, Man, Machines Change Face of Earth in Gigantic Dam Project at Oroville, June 8, 1964
- H.M. Gousha Company, California, 1963
- ^ California State Assembly. "An act to add Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, and to repeal Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, the..." 1963 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 385 p. 1183.: "Route 149 is from Route 70 near Wicks Corner to Route 99 near Chico."
- ^ a b Chico Enterprise-Record, Project has taken a long time to get to this point Archived 2011-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, July 21, 2006
- ^ Chico Enterprise-Record, Closing the gap: The Highway 149 project (map) Retrieved February 2008.
- ^ Weston, Mary (20 November 2008). "Highway 49: a reason to celebrate". Chico Enterprise-Record. Chico, California. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ^ "All Traffic Volumes on CSHS". California Department of Transportation. 2005–2006. Retrieved February 10, 2008.
External links
- Caltrans: State Route 149 highway conditions
- Caltrans Traffic Conditions Map
- California Highway Patrol Traffic Incidents
- California Department of Transportation, Butte 70/149/99 Highway Improvement Project
- California Highways: State Route 149
- California @ AARoads.com - State Route 149