California State Route 94

State Route 94
Route information
Defined by S&HC § 394
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:	63.324 mi[1] (101.910 km)
Major junctions
West end:	I-5 in San Diego
	SR 15 in San Diego I-805 in San Diego SR 125 in Spring Valley SR 54 in El Cajon SR 188 near Tecate
East end:	I-8 near Boulevard
Highway system
State highways in California List Pre-1964 History Unconstructed Deleted Freeway Scenic ← SR 92 US 95 →

State Route 94 (SR 94) in the U.S. state of California is the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway from Interstate 5 in Downtown San Diego to the end of the freeway portion past Route 125 in Spring Valley; the non-freeway segment of SR 94 is Campo Road.

Route description

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System^[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System.^[3] However, it is not a scenic highway as designated by Caltrans.^[4]

SR 94 is an east–west running freeway that connects the communities of downtown San Diego (becoming the one-way F Street at freeway's westbound terminus at 17th Street; eastbound traffic enters the freeway from the one-way G Street), southeast San Diego, Lemon Grove, La Mesa, Spring Valley, Casa de Oro. The route turns into a highway at Via Mercado in Rancho San Diego. Route 94 continues through Rancho San Diego by keeping right at the Jamacha Road and Campo Road intersection. The remainder of the route connects the communities of Jamul, Dulzura, Tecate, Potrero, Campo, and Boulevard. The route ends at the east end by connecting to Interstate 8.

Perhaps due to its namesake, this highway served as part of the route of the hearse that carried the body of Coretta Scott King from San Diego to Atlanta.^{[citation needed]}

History

Prior to the 1990s construction of additional sections of Route 125 to the south of Route 94 and to the north of Interstate 8, the section of Route 125 between Route 94 and Interstate 8 was signed as part of Route 94 (even though both the sections of the current Route 94 west and east of Route 125 were also signed as Route 94). Signage at the interchange of Interstate 8 and Route 125 was later modified to add the Route 125 designation and a "TO" referring to the Route 94 signage (still present), while signs on the freeway itself were changed to Route 125 north and south, as appropriate. The signage changes were made shortly before the opening of the portion of Route 125 immediately north of Interstate 8. One relic of this alignment is that the primary traffic lanes of eastbound Route 94 lead to northbound Route 125, while southbound lanes of Route 125 lead to westbound Route 94, requiring the use of interchange ramps to continue on the route and direction prior to this interchange.

The highway was designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway by the California state legislature in September 1989, after a 2-year struggle to find a suitable tribute to King in the San Diego area.^[5] The measure specified that the new signs must be paid for by private donations, and it was 10 years before all the signs were in place.^[6]

Major intersections

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then.^[7] The entire route is in San Diego County.

Location	Postmile [7][8][9]	Exit [10]	Destinations	Notes
San Diego	1.42		I-5 south / F Street – Downtown San Diego, PETCO Park	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	1.42	1A	I-5 north (San Diego Freeway) – Los Angeles	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	1.85	1B	25th Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	2.21	1C	28th Street	Signed as exit 1 eastbound
	2.68	1D	32nd Street, Broadway	No eastbound exit
	3.17	2 A,C	SR 15 (Escondido Freeway)	Signed as exits 2A (south) and 2C (north) eastbound; westbound exit to SR 15 north is via exit 3
	3.63	2B	Home Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	4.09	3	I-805 (Jacob Dekema Freeway)	Eastbound exit to I-805 north is via exit 2C
	4.63		47th Street	Entrance ramps only
	5.14	4A	Euclid Avenue	Signed as exit 4 westbound
	5.79	4B	Kelton Road	Signed as exit 5 westbound
	6.16	5	Federal Boulevard	Westbound exit is via a U-turn at exit 5
	7.29	6A	College Grove Way	Westbound exit and entrance
Lemon Grove	7.76	6B	College Avenue, Broadway	Signed as exit 6 eastbound; no eastbound entrance
	8.27	7	Massachusetts Avenue
	8.93	8	Lemon Grove Avenue
Lemon Grove–La Mesa line	T10.11	9	SR 125	Signed as exits 9A (south) and 9B (north)
La Mesa	R10.88	9C	Spring Street – La Mesa
Spring Valley	R11.08	10A	Bancroft Drive
	R11.80	10B	Kenwood Drive – Casa de Oro
	R12.75	11	Sweetwater Springs Boulevard – Casa de Oro
	R13.33	12	Avocado Boulevard, Calavo Drive
		East end of freeway
	14.33		CR S17 (Jamacha Boulevard)
	14.86		SR 54 east (Jamacha Road)
	19.40		Indian Springs Drive, Lyons Valley Road – Lawson Valley, Lyons Valley
	24.57		Otay Lakes Road – Otay Lakes, Chula Vista, National City
	38.97		SR 188 south – Tecate, Ensenada
	52.15		CR S1 (Buckman Springs Road)
	64.23		Old Highway 80 – Live Oak Springs, San Diego	Former US 80 west
Boulevard	64.82		Old Highway 80, Jewel Valley Road – Jacumba, El Centro, Yuma	Old Highway 80 was former US 80 east
	65.38		I-8 – El Centro, San Diego	Interchange
	65.38		Ribbonwood Road	Continuation beyond I-8
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

References

External links

• California @ AARoads.com - State Route 94
• Caltrans: Route 94 highway conditions
• California Highways: SR 94