 State Route 94 | ||||
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 SR 94 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Caltrans | ||||
| Length | 63.324 mi[1] (101.910 km) | |||
| Existed | 1933[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  I-5 in San Diego | |||
| East end |  I-8 near Boulevard | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | California | |||
| Counties | San Diego | |||
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State Route 94 (SR 94) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that is 63.324 miles (101.910 km) long. The western portion, known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway, begins at Interstate 5 (I-5) in downtown San Diego and continues to the end of the freeway portion past SR 125 in Spring Valley. The non-freeway segment of SR 94 that continues east through the mountains to I-8 near Boulevard is known as Campo Road.
The Campo road served as a wagon road providing access to eastern San Diego County as well as Imperial County. The road was added to the state highway system in 1933, and signs for Route 94 were posted along local roads later that decade. Efforts to convert the western half of the route to a freeway got underway in the 1950s, and the freeway was complete by 1962 west of the road that became SR 125. Construction continued east to Avocado Road over the next few years. Various proposals for widening the highway have come from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), but local opposition resulted in the delay or cancellation of many of these proposals.