Interstate 80 Business (BL-80) is an
interstate
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business route
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in
Pershing County
Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,650. Its county seat is Lovelock. The county was named after army general John J. Pershing (1860–1948). It was formed from Humboldt County ...
,
Nevada
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. Serving the city of
Lovelock along Cornell Avenue, BL-80 is also cosigned along portions of two other state highways through the city,
State Route 396 (SR 396) from I-80 exit 105 to SR 856 at Airport Road and
SR 856 from SR 396 at Upper Valley Road to I-80 exit 107.
Route description
BL-80 begins at the West Lovelock interchange with
Interstate 80
Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...
and
U.S. Route 95
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, concurrent with SR 396. The route follows Cornell Avenue north into the center of the town. The highway crosses Main Street (
SR 398) and continues along Cornell Avenue to its end at a five-point intersection with 14th Street, Airport Road (
SR 856) and Upper Valley Road near the Lovelock city limits. The highway heads northeast concurrent with SR 856 as Airport Road, crossing over Upper Valley Road, an irrigation canal, and the
Union Pacific Railroad
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tracks before ending at a half-interchange with
Interstate 80
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and
U.S. Route 95
US Route 95 (US 95) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highways, US Highway in the western United States. It travels through the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho, staying inland from the Pacific Coast ...
.
History
SR 396 was originally part of State Route 1 (SR 1).
[ That route, designated with the passage of Nevada's first highway law in 1917, created a highway route across northern Nevada from ]California
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to Utah
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which passed through Lovelock.U.S. Highway System
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in 1926, US 40 was eventually added concurrently with SR 1.Nevada Department of Transportation
The Nevada Department of Transportation (Nevada DOT or NDOT) is a government agency in the U.S. state of Nevada. NDOT is responsible for maintaining and improving Nevada's highway system, which includes U.S. highways and Interstate highways within ...
was beginning to renumber its highways, eliminating the State Route 1 designation and redesignating the Lovelock portion on Cornell Avenue and Upper Valley Road as State Route 396.[
The BL-80 designation was assigned in 2000.
]
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
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U.S. Route 40