- City:
- Banning, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agency:
- Unknown
Description
16.5 miles of former continental U.S. Route 60, US Route 79, and US Route 99 was graded and the pavement widened between Banning and White Water under federal sponsorship totalling $150,000. All three highways were eliminated under the renumbering that occured in 1964, and the completion of Interstate 10 in California in 1974.
Source notes
January 1935 issue of California Highway & Public Works magazine.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on August 21, 2014.
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