California's Route 24

324.  Route 24 is from:
   (a) Route 580 in Oakland to Route 680 in Walnut Creek.
   (b) Route 680 in Walnut Creek to Route 4 near Pittsburg.


      Entire Route


      Entire Route


      Route 242 must have once been Route 24.  If you get on Route 680 between these two
routes from the surrounding places, you might see signs that lead to the onramp.  They seem
to have a gap to the right with a squared blotch that might have once held the Route 24 marker.
      Within Route 24 runs the ever-so-famous BART Train.  To get on it, you can exit in La Fayette
or Orinda, where you'll find a station and, here's the biggie, PARKING!!!
      Heading westward to Oakland, you'll soon enter the Caldecott Tunnel. (Heading eastbound,
it's called "Caldecott Tunnels" since there are two tunnels serving that direction.)  Try counting
down the well-lit number boxes on the side of the tunnel.  When it gets to "1", you should be
exiting the tunnel in two seconds.  If you don't see the end when you see this box as you head
west, you are not in the Caldecott Tunnel!  Really!
      This is one of those freeways with what I call the "disco look".  In this case, the signs are
backed up by a peach-colored board with shadowing vertical stripes.  The post holding these signs over
the freeway are also peach-colored.  The overpass guard rails are made of one or two horizontal bars
of steel that are held by yet other thinner vertical bars.  This look was fairly prevalent in freeways
that were in full swing in the late '70s, hence I call it the "disco look".


      Route 24 from the Alameda-Contra Costa county line to Route 680 in Walnut Creek.

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