Talk:Interstate 280 (California)/Archive 1

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I would argue that the 280 is scenic before Los Altos Hills as well. Also, to expand article, could mention points of interest along the way, or intersecting freeways. Points of interest in the "scenic portion" could include: Foothill College Stanford University Stanford Linear Accelerator Lake (name?) by CA-92 Junipero Serra statue --Srini91 09:53, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, the road is scenic, but it's only a designated "Scenic Route" in San Mateo county from San Bruno to the Santa Clara county line, where there's a sign that says "Scenic Route Ends" or something like that. So that excludes Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, but I think the Father Serra statue is north of the county line.Torc 07:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

"The majority of the population of the San Francisco Peninsula lives somewhere between Interstate 280 and U.S. 101. Residents of Foster City and East Palo Alto are the exceptions; their communities lie to the east of U.S. 101." -- These two sentences together pose a problem, as Foster City and East Palo Alto are not the only exceptions; what about Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, and technically, all of Western San Francisco?--Srini91 10:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * You can take out that sentence (if you haven't already; I don't have time to check right now), but "the Peninsula" never includes SF (even though, yes, geographically it could) and rarely any of the Pacific coast communities. As the term is used, it means the bayside communities south of San Francisco.  But to avoid confusion, remove the offending sentence.  As for your other edits, we'll have to work out a compromise later.  You took out some vital information with your edit to the first graf.  Moncrief 16:47, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * In my previous edit, I moved most of the "vital" information to the next paragraph, to make the scenic vs. urban information flow better with paragraph after it.. The only things I had removed completely were the references to Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, which are also already part of the scenic portion of the 280.  The counties and peninsula links are in a later paragraph.  I will not revert back to my version yet, as you seem to have your own opinion on the issue.  On the other hand, I am removing that last sentence, as it is confusing as currently stated, not differentiating geographic vs. local association with the term San Francisco Peninsula.  --Srini91 21:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't I-280 in Illinois go through Moline as well, and end near Geneseo?


 * Yep, fixed. Thanks. --SPUI (talk) 15:23, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

According to and the Caltrans photolog, Route 280 continues north from the end of I-280 along King Street, the Embarcadero and Harrison Street (?) to the Bay Bridge ramps. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates! ) 10:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Control cities paragraph - Sacramento???
I think that Sacramento might refer to one of streets either in San Jose or San Francisco. To the best of my knowledge, 280 does not extend to Sacramento, CA which is linked in that paragraph. Mostly likely this is the street in San Francisco. Ronbo76 23:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Just re-read it. It refers to the connector 680 which eventually joins 80 east into Sacramento. Reading that it is Southbound threw me for a loop because if you are taking 680 towards Sacramento, you are driving northeast bound. Ronbo76 23:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Joint project tags
The SFBA and WP:CAL tags are co-existing tags. The SFBA is a separate project. As such its tags are allowed to co-exist with the larger California project. I am a member of both projects. As such, I will now revert and rate both projects. Ronbo76 12:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

El Camino Real?
The article El Camino Real (California) claims that the San Francisco portion of I-280 corresponds to the old route of El Camino Real. Is that for real? I don't find it mentioned at this article, and no evidence is cited at the El Camino article. --MelanieN (talk) 23:53, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oops, I should have looked before I asked. It looks like the State of Caifornia is the source. --MelanieN (talk) 23:55, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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Name in San Francisco
The article says "However, no one ever calls it the John F. Foran Freeway; all San Franciscans still refer to it as the Southern Freeway." I don't call it the Southern Freeway, and the only time I've referred to it as such is in this sentence. (I call it 280.) I'm going to remove the statement from the article. Molinari (talk) 21:07, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Having lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades and having listened to hundreds, if not thousands of commute-time traffic reports, I've never heard the terms "John F. Foran Freeway" or "Southern Freeway" being used. It's called "two-eighty" or "interstate two-eighty" by radio announcers, travelers and the California Highway Patrol. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 17:31, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Added citation needed tag. One thing to describe the historically and formally accurately names (a factual claim), another to state without basis that they're 'more commonly' used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.254.67 (talk) 19:34, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Interstate 109 listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Interstate 109. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 07:20, 19 July 2019 (UTC)