State Route 244 (SR 244) is an
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in the
U.S. state
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of
California
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located northeast of
Sacramento
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. It serves as a short
freeway
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connection between the
Interstate 80
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/
Interstate 80 Business junction and
Auburn Boulevard (the old
Lincoln Highway
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- former
U.S. Route 40/
U.S. Route 99E). SR 244 was first added to the state highway system in 1959 as Legislative Route 288, and was renumbered as SR 244 in the
1964 renumbering. Portions of this route have been removed from the system as recently as 1994.
Route description
SR 244 starts just east of the westernmost ramps to the Watt Avenue exit off I-80. Just east of this, there are several connector ramps to both I-80 and Business I-80 as SR 244 passes under the terminus of Business I-80. SR 244 terminates at Auburn Boulevard, having just entered the Sacramento city limits near
Renfree Park.
SR 244 is part of the
National Highway System,
a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the
Federal Highway Administration
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.
History
Legislative Route 288 was defined in 1959 as a proposed route from
pre-1964 Legislative Route 3 and
pre-1964 Legislative Route 242 (now I-80 and SR 51) northeast of Sacramento east to
pre-1964 Legislative Route 249 (unbuilt
State Route 65 - approximately
Sunrise Boulevard) near
Fair Oaks.
In the
1964 renumbering, this was assigned the number Route 244.
In 1965, an extension was defined from SR 65 east to
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California, to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlanti ...
. In 1972 a series of "volatile" public hearings took place where local residents protested the construction of this route among others being proposed in the Sacramento area.
The project was expected to cost $40 million to construct and the resulting freeway would be eight lanes wide.
This extension to U.S. Route 50 was removed in 1975, and the route's definition was truncated to end at Fair Oaks Boulevard near San Juan Avenue. The public forums ended in mid-1976 after the Board of Supervisors abandoned plans for all three routes.
It was truncated further to Auburn Boulevard, its present terminus, in 1994.
The bridges along the route date from 1971, a year after the bridges on I-80 to the west;
that part of I-80 was
Interstate 880 until 1981.
Exit list
See also
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References
External links
California @ AARoads.com - State Route 244Caltrans: Route 244 highway conditions
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Transportation in Sacramento, California