California State Route 82
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| Length: | 52 mi (83 km) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Major cities: | San Jose, CA Santa Clara Sunnyvale Mountain View Palo Alto San Mateo San Carlos Millbrae Colma Daly City San Francisco |
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State Route 82 runs from U.S. Route 101 at Blossom Hill Road in San Jose to Interstate 280 in San Francisco following the San Francisco Peninsula. It forms part of El Camino Real.
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[edit] Route description
Route 82 begins its journey at US 101 and Blossom Hill Road, where it heads north onto Monterey Highway, later known as Monterey Road north of Capitol Expressway. At Alma Avenue the road becomes South First Street, and Route 82 veers onto Market Street upon approaching downtown San Jose just north of Interstate 280 (which has no direct interchange with Route 82). In less than a mile, Route 82 turns west on San Carlos Street past Downtown San Jose's hotels and convention center, then soon turns north on Montgomery Street and Autumn Street where it quickly turns again west onto The Alameda at the HP Pavilion.
Once it enters Santa Clara, Route 82 bends northward around the city's downtown and onto El Camino Real, where it continues for the remainder of its trip up the San Francisco Peninsula. Route 82, referred to by local residents almost always as "El Camino," runs through a number of cities on the Peninsula, including Palo Alto, San Carlos, San Mateo, and Millbrae, and it is a central artery of the Peninsula communities through which it passes.
In Daly City, Route 82 becomes Mission Street, connecting with San Francisco's Mission Street, but flowing onto San Jose Avenue, meeting Alemany Boulevard, and terminating at I-280.
Route 82 takes an inland course paralleling the Bayshore Freeway (US-101). The entire route is at street level with at least four lanes of traffic; no portions of it exist as a freeway, although the route is occasionally a divided highway. The Bayshore Freeway and the Junipero Serra Freeway (I-280) tend to provide faster alternatives than Route 82 even during traffic jams on those freeways.
From 1964-1968, Route 82 continued past its current end north on Alemany Boulevard to Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco (see below).
[edit] State law
Legal Definition of Route 82: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 382
[edit] History
Originally a segment of U.S. Highway 101 (and before that, the historic El Camino Real), rapid growth of the San Francisco Bay Area after World War II, including urbanization of the towns along its path, made it completely inadequate for the needs of traffic. The Bayshore Highway to the east was later upgraded to a freeway and was originally built as "Bypass U.S. 101".
In 1964, U.S. Highway 101 was officially moved onto the Bayshore Freeway (now Route 101), and its former alignment on El Camino Real became Route 82. It was defined as two portions: From Route 101 near Ford Road south of San Jose to Route 101 in San Francisco (which today corresponds to the Alemany Maze), and from Route 101 near Alemany Boulevard to Route 87 (current unbuilt State Route 230) in San Francisco. In 1968, the portions from Route 280 (at current Route 82) to Route 101 and from Route 101 to Route 87 were transferred to Route 280. Route 82 today is designated as part of El Camino Real.
[edit] See also
- El Camino Real (California)
- U.S. Route 101
- State Route 72, Route 82's sister route in Southern California.
[edit] External links
- sr82.com Listing of businesses along El Camino Real
- Caltrans: Route 82 highway conditions
- California Highways: Route 82
- The Big Highways Page: California Route 82
[edit] Points of interest
- The Tech Museum of Innovation (Market Street and Park Avenue, San Jose)
- San Jose Museum of Art (Market Street at Plaza de César Chávez, San Jose)
- HP Pavilion[1] (formerly San Jose Arena and Compaq Center, at The Alameda and Autumn Street)
- Santa Clara Vanguard (Scott Street, Santa Clara)
- Triton Museum of Art (Lincoln Street, Santa Clara)
- Santa Clara University
- Mission Santa Clara de Asis (Lafayette Street, Santa Clara)
- Palo Alto High School
- Stanford University[2] (Palo Alto)
- Bay Meadows Racetrack (south of Route 92)
- Hillsdale Shopping Center (San Mateo)
