101 still sucks, but it used to be really dangerous: Back in the sixties, they "widened" it from three lanes to four by just repainting the lines between lanes. Everybody called it the Bloody Bayshore. Anyone with brains takes 280 instead. There's an incredible stretch of 280 with nothing but parkland for miles and miles; check it out using Google Maps or Google Earth. I used to drive it about every other day before I retired.
We couldn't imagine it with traffic lights now. And it's so built up that there's no open space around it. Interesting to see how it looked back then.
101 still sucks, but it used to be really dangerous: Back in the sixties, they "widened" it from three lanes to four by just repainting the lines between lanes. Everybody called it the Bloody Bayshore. Anyone with brains takes 280 instead. There's an incredible stretch of 280 with nothing but parkland for miles and miles; check it out using Google Maps or Google Earth. I used to drive it about every other day before I retired.
oldgringo2001 1 month ago
We couldn't imagine it with traffic lights now. And it's so built up that there's no open space around it. Interesting to see how it looked back then.
passatboi 8 months ago
So funny to hear it referred to as the "Bayshore Highway" now. It's been the Bayshore Freeway (101 Freeway) since shortly after this was made.
passatboi 8 months ago