Truck Bypass - California

Care to elaborate?

There are certain cities that have routes bypassing them, often requiring through trucks to use the bypass instead of going through town & needlessly adding to congestion. But those are hardly unique to California so I'm not sure what you're getting at...

 

Ooooh you're talking about i5 on the grapevine... Going northbound the truck bypass is a more gradual grade & puts slower traffic (trucks & cars exiting to highway 14) on the same 'track.'

Going southbound, there is a major highway merge (99 & i5) and rather than have a 3-4 lane freeway merge through the two lanes of trucks -- they put the trucks on a bypass where they eventually merge directly onto the right side of the combined highway while the other part of the road loops the cars over onto the left side of the combined highway.

 

Calif has several freeway transition ramps which trucks are required to take. The purpose is seperate trucks from heavy car traffic. Only problem I have is they allow 4-wheelers to use them.

 

Come on now hey, does anything in California make sense?

 

There's another one from the 215 south to 60 east.

 

Pennsylvania has one on US219 northbound north of Du Bois.

 

There is one NB I5 in Portland Oregon.

 

4 wheelers use them all the time and I agree. It's a pain in the ###.