 State Route 149 | ||||
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 SR 149 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Caltrans | ||||
| Length | 4.623 mi[1] (7.440 km) | |||
| History | State highway in 1933; numbered in 1964 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  SR 70 near Oroville | |||
| North end |  SR 99 near Chico | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | California | |||
| Counties | Butte | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Route 149 (SR 149) is a short state highway in the U.S. state of California that helps to connect Oroville and Chico through rural Butte County. Connecting State Route 70 at Wicks Corner with State Route 99 east of Durham, it forms part of the primary north–south highway through the eastern Sacramento Valley, a Focus Route of the Interregional Road System.[2]
SR 149 was formerly part of the Oroville-Chico Highway; the majority of the latter was merged into other routes. In the mid-1970s, the highway was reallocated onto a newer two-lane alignment. A project to widen the two-lane road to a four-lane expressway was completed in late 2008, removing the bottleneck from the Oroville-Chico highway.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
trucklistwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ California Department of Transportation, Focus Routes, January 2005
- ^ California Department of Transportation, Butte 70/149/99 Highway Improvement Project. Retrieved February 2008.