Grove-Shafter Freeway

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The Grove-Shafter Freeway is the segment of Interstate 980 and State Route 24 in California between Interstate 880 and the Caldecott Tunnel. It lies entirely within the city limits of Oakland. The freeway is named for two city thoroughfares it closely parallels, Grove Street (since re-named "Martin Luther King Jr. Way") and Shafter Avenue.

The Grove-Shafter was constructed in the late 1960s. It replaced Broadway and Ashby Avenue as the principal connector between the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge approaches and the Caldecott Tunnel.

[edit] Legal status

Legally, "Grove-Shafter Freeway" is the former name for the freeway. [1] Assembly Concurrent Resolution 52, Chapter. 61 in 1977 renamed the segment of I-980 as the "John B. Williams Freeway" after an Oakland community leader.[2] Then in 1980, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 137, Chapter. 92 renamed the portion of SR-24 from Interstate 580 to the Caldecott Tunnel as the "William Byron Rumford Freeway" after a State legislator.[2]

[edit] Major Intersections

Freeways intersecting with the Grove-Shafter Freeway include:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Caltrans District 4: Timeline of Events. Retrieved on 2006-06-11.
  2. ^ a b Caltrans Facts - Bay Area. Retrieved on 2006-06-11.
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