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This is an incomplete draft of California State Route 84#History
Objectives:
- To write a descriptive and factually-correct prose to the empty history section
- To get the article to a GA class
Prose
[edit]Historic routing
[edit]SR 84 was legally defined as Route 117 from SR 1 to US 101, Route 107 from US 101 to I-680, Route 108 from I-680 to SR 12, and Route 99 from SR 12 to I-80.[1] SR 84 from I-580 to SR 12 is currently unconstructed; plans were once underway to construct a six-lane tollway called the Mid-State Tollway, but were abandoned in 2001 due to community opposition.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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. 2034–2042.
- ^ "Mid-State Tollway". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ^ Weikel, Dan (July 7, 2002). "Tollway Trial at a Dead End in California". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
Disenchantment with the pay-as-you-go highways took root in 1995 when public opposition to the Mid-State Tollway began to grow. The 40-mile, $600-million route that was to run through the East Bay was abandoned in 2001.