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Some freeway & highway proposals that died the death they deserved instead of marring California
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Paiute pass
There was once a push to extend Highway 168 over Piute Pass at 11,417 feet west of Bishop and then slice through the John Muir Wilderness to connect Bishop with Fresno. If it had been built, Highway 168 would have become the highest trans-Sierra highway in California.
California is considered the birthplace of the modern freeway with the opening of the Pasadena Freeway in 1938 on the Highway 110 route. But before then, the state in the 1910s through the 1930s was busy converting dirt roads between towns and trans-mountain routes that started centuries earlier as trade routes by indigenous Californians that then