Unlike most business routes in California, which run along locally-maintained streets through a downtown area, I-80 Bus was not assigned to the prefreeway alignment of US 40, but to a freeway. The existence of two freeways, both numbered 80, caused some confusion, and, in 1996, the full route was given the Capital City Freeway name at the request of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. The route is referred to as Business 80, Biz 80, Capital City Freeway, Cap City Freeway, and US 50 by residents and mapmakers.

• The I-80 Bus/US 50/unsigned I-305 segment then runs approximately 5.63 miles (9.06 km) from I-80 west to SR 99 southeast of Downtown Sacramento.
• Caltrans refers to the western half as US 50 and the eastern half as SR 51 for traffic condition reporting.
• The new freeway’s southern terminus was the surface roads at 29th and 30th streets.
• The next year, the California State Legislature extended US 50 west to cover the western half of old I-80, and the eastern half was assigned the new SR 51 number and designated as I-80 Bus.

Between 1968 and 1975, a 5.2-mile (8.4 km) bypass was proposed that was to straighten the alignment of I-80 and increase its capacity. The Sacramento City Council voted in September 1979 to delete the I-80 bypass freeway from the Interstate System. The next year, the California State Legislature extended US 50 west to cover the western half of old I-80, and the eastern half was assigned the new SR 51 number and designated as I-80 Bus. The signage change from I-880 to I-80, and the previous I-80 to I-80 Bus was installed in November 1983.

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The Division of Highways went on to complete the Fort Sutter Viaduct along the 29th Street/30th Street corridor in 1968, which led the Division of Highways to convert the Elvas Freeway from four to six lanes in 1965. The Sacramento River Viaduct was completed in 1966, the Southside Park Viaduct was completed in 1967, and the rest of the W-X Freeway was completed in 1968. The Elvas Freeway was connected to the W-X Freeway to the west and US 50 to the east, in 1968 and 1971, respectively. The western segment ran concurrently signed with US Route 50 and also carried the unsigned designation of I-305. The eastern segment was assigned the unsigned designation of State Route 51 .

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Despite Caltrans’s official signage and reporting practices, mapmakers may still show the I-305 and SR 51 designations, as well as the I-80 Bus/US 50 concurrency on the western segment. The SR 99 concurrency, running along US 50 and I-5 to northern Sacramento, is also not officially designated by Caltrans, but mapmakers will still also often show it as such. Beginning in 2016, signs along the western segment were being updated to remove references to I-80 Bus and instead sign the route only as US 50. However, Caltrans still lists this segment under the I-80 Bus exit list instead of the US 50 one, and most Rand McNally road atlases to this day continue to sign both the eastern and western sections as I-80 Bus. LocationSacramento, CaliforniaLength6 mi(9.7 km)The western section of I-80 Bus begins in West Sacramento at I-80, where I-80 leaves the West Sacramento Freeway onto the Beltline Freeway .

Raley Business Park Is Conveniently Located Minutes From I

It is doubtful that FAU 6380 was ever planned to become Interstate 380, since I-380 in San Francisco was established in 1969 and the old alignment did not meet Interstate standards. The Camellia City Viaduct Rehabilitation project rebuilt the 1968-built viaduct along the WX Freeway with wider shoulders, improved lighting and extended the service life of the structure for 20 years. Raley Business Park is conveniently located minutes from I-80 off of the Marysville/Raley Blvd exit.

Business Loop I-80 was established in 1982 and renamed the Capital City Freeway in 1996. The western leg of the route is generally signed as U.S. 50 and doubles as unsigned Interstate 305. The remainder of the route northeast through Sacramento is unsigned SR 51. At the interchange southeast of Downtown Sacramento, I-80 Bus turns north onto unsigned SR 51 near its southern end.

The first in a series of on-ramps to Business Loop I-80 west joins the freeway from 29th and H Streets. Caltrans developed plans in 1998 to construct HOV lanes on the 29/30th portion of Business Loop I-80. Forming a 15 mile system of continuous HOV lanes, they begin near E Street and continue southward onto California 99 to link with the existing California 99 HOV lanes. Completed in 1999, Caltrans added HOV lanes to those viaducts by repaving and restriping the lanes.

The elevated freeway carrying I-80 Bus east of downtown is between 29th and 30th streets, and an older section beginning at A Street and continuing northeast was originally known as the Elvas Freeway . On this section of freeway, I-80 Bus crosses the American River before its northeast-bound merge with the North Sacramento Freeway . It originally carried mainline I-80 through Sacramento until the early 1980s. The eastern half, originally known as the Elvas Freeway, was initially grandfathered into the Interstate Highway System; however, plans to upgrade or realign this portion to meet Interstate Highway standards were canceled. As such, the I-80 designation through Sacramento was moved to a northern bypass of the city that had previously been signed I-880, and the former routing was then designated as Business 80.

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This interchange in West Sacramento is also the current west end of US 50, as well as the unsigned I-305. The I-80 Bus/US 50/unsigned I-305 segment then runs approximately 5.63 miles (9.06 km) from I-80 west to SR 99 southeast of Downtown Sacramento. During the 1970s, Northern California Interstate construction and planning proceeded, albeit with many changes along the way.