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Santa Clara County Expressway SystemThe Santa Clara County expressway system is a system of expressways in Santa Clara County, California. The routes were built by the county and carry county route numbers beginning with G. The expressways are as follows: - Almaden Expressway
- north-south route from near Downtown to the Almaden Valley in San Jose. Intersects with CA-87, Capitol Expressway, and CA-85.
- Capitol Expressway
- north-south route from Berryessa to Santa Teresa in San Jose. Intersects with US-101, CA-82, CA-87, and Almaden Expressway.
- Central Expressway
- n east-west route from Santa Clara, through Sunnyvale and Mountain View, to Palo Alto. Intersects with San Tomas Expressway, Lawrence Expressway, CA-85, CA-237, and Oregon Expressway.
- Foothill Expressway
- n southeast-northwest route running diagonally from Los Altos to Palo Alto. Intersects with I-280 and Page Mill Road/Oregon Expressway.
- Lawrence Expressway
- north-south route from Mountain View through Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose to Saratoga. Intersects CA-237, US-101, Central Expressway, CA-82, and I-280.
- Montague Expressway
- n east-west route from Milpitas through San Jose's North Valley neighborhood, to Santa Clara. Intersects with I-680, I-880 and US-101. Continues from the western terminus as San Tomas Expressway.
- Page Mill Road/Oregon Expressway
- north-south route in Palo Alto. Intersects with US-101, Central Expressway, CA-82, Foothill Expressway, and I-280. Formally called Page Mill Road to the west of El Camino Real and Oregon Expressway to the east (but given a single county route number, unlike San Tomas and Montague).
- San Tomas Expressway
- north-south route from Santa Clara through San Jose, to Campbell. Intersects with US-101, Central Expressway, CA-82, and CA-17, and continues from the northern terminus as Montague Expressway.
Like all California expressways, the county expressways have minimal driveway access but are dominated by at-grade intersections. There are also a few true grade-separated intersections and interchanges, but only Central Expressway has several such intersections in consecutive order, so that portions of it are like a small freeway. Unlike freeways, nearly all county expressways have bike lanes. The county expressways are frequently confused by bewildered visitors with freeways, so that they often characterize Silicon Valley as overrun with freeways when half the lines on the map are really expressways. See the articles on freeways and expressways for more information. Plans to convert the expressways to freeways became politically infeasible after the tax revolt movement of the 1970s. Since then, the county has concentrated on maintaining the existing system and making incremental improvements like adding carpool lanes and adding grade-separations at the most congested intersections. External Links
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