Talk:Interstate 580 (California)/Archive 1

MacAurthur Freeway
the MacAurtheer Freeway only refers the section between the Bay Bridge Maze and the 238 split/merge in Castro Valley. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.166.237.117 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 1 July 2005 (UTC)

Exit list?
The exit list is lovely, but it seems to have fogotten Berkeley! --Jfruh 19:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That's all part of I-80 - it seems redundant to list those exits on both articles. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates! ) 20:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, except that the main I-80 page doesn't have such a nice list ... not that I'm complaining about your fine work! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. --Jfruh 16:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Junctions
Shouldn't I-238 and I-205 be included? I'd definitely include 205 because it connects Tracy and I-5 from the north (Stockton). Stockton is a control city for 580 eastbound. Actually, the junction with I-80 in Oakland also includes I-880, a major route into the Silicon Valley. You don't have to put I-980 at all, or maybe you could call the junction the MacArthur Maze. --Geopgeop 11:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've updated the junctions to include all freeway junctions. Argyriou 23:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Collapse
Info on the 580 collapse in Oakland this weekend? (Unsigned)

This should probably be listed somewhere in the article, as it affects a major on-ramp to I-580. It was originally stuck somewhere in the middle of the History section. I moved it to the bottom of the bulleted history items, and corrected some of the information. Perhaps a separate section should be created. Tuyvan 02:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Los Angeles?
Okay, dumb question. Los Angeles is listed on the list of control cities, even though the highway is in the San Francisco bay area. Could someone explain to me how this is? Is there another Los Angeles in California that is lesser known? Or is it a typo? Hypnometal 16:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * When you're heading into Oakland from San Francisco a sign tells you to take 580 in order to get to Los Angeles (although trucks have to take a parallel route through Oakland). And then when you're approaching Tracy you're told to veer right toward the easternmost leg of 580 if you want to get to LA.  Basically, 580-to-5 is the main route between SF and LA.  If I-5 were strictly an SF-LA route it would probably follow 580's path (hence the 5 in 580). Michael Patrick 23:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Interstate 180?
Interstate 180 redirects to this article, but I couldn't find any explanation for the redirect in the article. Shouldn't that be added? VashiDonsk 16:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I can give an explanation for the non-existence of a "route I-180", because the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) opposed the concept of an interstate 180 and the already existent California State Route 180. But I recalled staring at a 1970's Thomas Bros. wall map of "Cal. Roads and Highways" and noticed a proposed "route 180" a line of small white circles stretched from Fresno to San Jose or Oakland, but that was over 30 years ago, and I doubted it will ever surface or get approval by state and federal governments.

The proposed "I-180" or route 180 starts from California State Route 99 in Fresno to turn northwest to connect with Interstate 5 as the Central Valley section was completed by 1980 near Santa Nella, which connects with California State Route 152 but turns northwest from Hollister on the east side of Santa Clara Valley to finally end at Interstate 238 (the 2 mile route was the original I-180 back in the 1960's) to end near Hayward. But I knew about the failed "Trans-Sierra Highway" project backed by then state governor Ronald Reagan in the 1970's was an easternly route to cross the Sierra Nevada range of state 180 from Fresno to Mammoth Lakes, California}Mammoth Lakes was stopped by environmentalists of the Sierra Club.

For those 30-some years, the business interests of Fresno and California'sCentral Valley wanted more interstate freeways to connect their rapid-growing urban centers (i.e. Visalia, Modesto and Stockton) with I-5 and I-80 to have an easier route for agricultural shipping and commercial traffic. The region has petitioned to get state route 99 (former US Highway 99) recommissioned as Interstate 9 from Bakersfield to Sacramento, and another plan is Interstate 7 from Sacramento International Airport to Redding. The dual-interstate plan may take effect by the year 2010, as well a proposed extension of Interstate 40 from Bakersfield to Interstate 15 in Barstow. + 71.102.10.169 (talk) 06:32, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

History Needs Work
The history section should be pruned. It's unnecessary to reiterate the details of the route, except in terms of the older highways superceded by 580. The rest of the history can be had at the articles for those older highways. There needs to be more on the MacArthur Freeway as this, along with the Nimitz and Eastshore---are among the oldest in Bay Area. Tmangray (talk) 04:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

An interesting trivia is that the Cypress structure (I-880 in Oakland) that collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake was dumped along I-580 in Castro Valley. I don't have a citation for this, so I didn't add it to the article, but if someone does, please add this. (Here's a map of the location of the dump -- I think I have the location correct). Lee (talk) 18:54, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

The 180 thing really needs to be explained
I see the section directly above talks about this, but it's over a year old.

Not only does Interstate 180 (California) redirect here, but Template:I-80 aux lists a "Interstate 180 (former)" that links here. The article really needs to explain these, or else remove it from the template, at least. --Trovatore (talk) 03:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ I took the content from the old I-180 article from before it was overwritten with the redirect to here, and added a new section under History. Ikluft (talk) 05:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks!

Reno?
Google Maps has what appears to be a section of I-580 running through Reno. See http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.512385,-119.781361&num=1&sll=39.543235,-119.822388&sspn=0.435251,0.648193&ie=UTF8&ll=39.511789,-119.785395&spn=0.054431,0.081024&z=14

Is this correct? If so, shouldn't it be noted in the article. 119.224.10.89 (talk) 23:40, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I found the relevant article in the end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_580_%28Nevada%29 119.224.10.89 (talk) 04:34, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

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