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	City of Cypress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Cypress was a lush grassland fed by numerous artesian wells, one can easily envision roving bands of Gabrielinos, the dominant tribe in the area, foraging for the abundant food found in the region.
		As Cypress trees were planted around the schoolyard for a windbreak, the name of Cypress was given to the school, and ultimately to the community.
		Cypress was the first district in the county to send the sixth graders to Outdoor Camp.
	www.ci.cypress.ca.us /about_cypress/city_history.htm (3730 words)

	Cypress Freeway Replacement Project - Environmental Justice Case Studies - FHWA
		The Cypress Freeway was built in the 1950s to connect the sprawling tractlands of southern Alameda County to downtown San Francisco and Oakland's industrial waterfront.
		When the Cypress Freeway collapsed in October 1989, West Oakland residents were determined to prevent the mistakes of the past from being repeated.
		The impacts of the Cypress Freeway on the West Oakland community have been reduced, and plans for the Mandela Parkway are generating excitement and enthusiasm in West Oakland, rather than opposition.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /environment/ejustice/case/case5.htm (6301 words)

	The earthquake was a diaster
		The answer was that the section failure of the freeway that had collapsed was due to the complex geological structure of the ground conditions.
		The Cypress double deck freeway is a very busy part of the Interstate 880, which carries four lanes of the northbound traffic on the lower level and four lanes of southbound traffic on the upper level.
		The effect of this shaking on the double deck freeway was disastrous.the behaviour of the soft bay mud was investigated when the reasons of why a partially section of the Cypress viaduct collapsed.
	www.civl.port.ac.uk /comp_prog/earthquakes/Quakeof'89.htm (976 words)

	Designed for seismic stability
		Another factor in the freeway's collapse, according to the Portland Cement Association (PCA), was the lack of continuity and confinement of rebar.
		After the collapsed freeway was demolished and the rubble removed all that remained was a grassy strip of land between two local streets.
		The new Cypress Freeway follows a new route, extending north and west from the Ip;880/Ip;980 interchange to a fork, at a reconstructed West Grand Avenue interchange.
	www.roadsbridges.com /rb/index.cfm/powergrid/rfah=\|cfap=/CFID/895431/CFTOKEN/39132580/fuseaction/showArticle/articleID/453 (1216 words)

	Preliminary Observations on the Performance of Concrete Freeway Structures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Collapse of the Cypress portion of the Nimitz freeway and damage to other concrete freeway structures during the October 17, 1989 earthquake has focused attention on the safety of such structures.
		The Cypress portion of the Nimitz freeway (Interstate 880) is located in Oakland immediately south of the east end of the Oakland Bay Bridge (Fig.
		During the 17 October 1989 earthquake the upper deck of the freeway structure collapsed onto the lower deck along approximately a one-mile section of the freeway from 18th St. north to the interchange.
	nisee.berkeley.edu /loma_prieta/moehle.html (1521 words)

	REPLACING OAKLAND'S CYPRESS FREEWAY - March/April 1998 Public Roads
		The new freeway was relocated to the west along the Southern Pacific railroad corridor.
		As part of the public outreach, the Cypress Freeway Employment Clearinghouse encouraged the hiring of area residents, minorities, and women to rebuild and provide materials for the new freeway.
		The new freeway is not a double-decker, and it was constructed using the latest technology and very high standards for seismic design.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/marapr98/cypress.htm (2310 words)

	The Eisenhower Interstate System - Implementing the Project
		One of the many ill-planned roads, the Cypress Freeway in Oakland, California collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake, prompting a further investigation into strengthening and repairing our roadway system.
		Place freeways near the major cities, experts reasoned, and people would have to come downtown to go shopping, thus infusing cash into the city’s economy and improving the general cityscape.
		The freeways hastened the suburbanization of America at the expense of the major cities.
	businesscentral.ws /servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpage=page&GID=01301001151016769533006260&PG=01304001151018310976885726 (291 words)

	News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When the Cypress Freeway collapsed during the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake, residents from the Oakland neighborhoods around it risked their lives to pull survivors out of the concrete wreckage.
		Standing on a freeway that was "unbelievably dangerous," Rich worked until nightfall and pulled about a half dozen people from their cars, many bleeding with concussions.
		The city is especially interested in getting in touch with rescuers, survivors or family members of those who died on the Cypress Freeway to collect their stories for use in the memorial.
	www.oaklandnet.com /parks/news/033104a.asp (835 words)

	Abandoned/Old U.S. 290
		There is a gap between Hockley and Cypress where there is no freeway - but a "partially" completed freeway and two lanes which will serve as a future service road (The westbound lanes were built as freeway lanes without any overpasses, probably for future upgrade to a freeway.
		The road at the immediate left is the onramp to the freeway, which is kind of interesting because at the end of the onramp is the end of the freeway!
		In this case, the freeway main lane actually goes to the right to what will some day probably be the service road.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/beautifulsavior/brenham3.html (494 words)

	Cypress: Construction jobs environmental jobs training center
		The Cypress Mandela/WIST program is endorsed by the Alameda County Building Trades Council and works in conjunction with the City of Oakland, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Peralta Community College District.
		The Cypress Mandela/WIST program is a prime recruiting source for the trades industry, consistently producing well-prepared graduates.
		The Cypress Mandela Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program was initiated in 1993 to provide local residents with training and employment opportunities in repairing damaged freeways (resulting from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake).
	www.oaklandpic.org /Cypress_Mandela-WIST.htm (511 words)

	Cypress Viaduct Freeway
		The Cypress had two levels the upper-level carried southbound traffic while the lower carried northbound traffic, with a roadway width of 52'.
		Both the Cypress and the Embarcadero Freeways both were built on fill, and in the Cypress’ case, on an ancient streambed and not into solid bedrock.
		The Cypress began to collapse when the braces holding the upper-level to the lower-level broke in two and then spilt outward sending the upper-level down on top of the lower-level with a force of approximately 2 million tons crushing auto's, trucks and buses along with their occupants.
	home.pacbell.net /hywaymn/Cypress_Viaduct_Freeway.html (941 words)

	California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Routes 880 through 980
		The City of Oakland was against rebuilding the route along the original path, as it was divisive to the community, and thus a new routing further west was constructed, and was opened in July 1997.
		The rest of the freeway, from Siempre Viva to just east of I-805 (where the current freeway begins) will go under construction in 2004, with completion set for 2007 or so.
		In October 2004, the CTC considered adoption of 1.9 kilometers (1.0 miles) of Freeway for Route 905 in the City of San Diego, San Diego County, from 0.9 kilometers (0.6 miles) east of La Media Road to the Otay Mesa Federal Port of Entry to Mexico.
	www.cahighways.org /880-980.html (3392 words)

	VenueHQ: Australia's Leading Venue Search Engine : Venue Details
		Cypress Lakes Resort enjoys a reputation as the ideal conference and incentive destination.
		Cypress Lakes Resort is a 90-minute drive north of Sydney’s CBD on the F3 freeway.
		Cypress provides event organisers with the following on-site conferencing facilities: five-star convention centre featuring contemporary styling, natural light and vineyard views as well as a permanent marquee.
	www.venuehq.com.au /venues.php?id=425 (169 words)

	South Prescott Toxics Task Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The high cost of the Cypress Freeway Replacement can not be attributed to toxic waste cleanup cost because "no cleanup" took place.
		The high cost of the freeway construction resulted from the state paying subsidies to white collar criminals who have misappropriated the cost of pollution controls onto the residents of the Chester Street-South Prescott Neighborhood.
		If the Cypress Freeway Replacement were to suffer a fate similar to its predecessor, Caltrans will be forced to relearn these lessons on environmental justice is has been so quick to forget.
	home.earthlink.net /~clearh2orev/prescott.html (961 words)

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		Anyone who lives near a freeway (remember, no Caltrans executives do!) knows that freeway noise is continuous and debilitating, at all hours of the day and night.
		Freeway structures built 90 feet in the air, as this one is planned to be [see, e.g., Exh.3-4.4], are extremely precarious!
		On p.VI-52 is the absurd statement that "Projected air quality at locations closer to the freeway than the playground indicates that federal and state air quality standards will not be exceeded...; therefore, no air quality impacts would occur." First of all, the air quality standards only cover a few pollutants.
	home.pacbell.net /mjvande/cypress1.htm (2985 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| News \| A Train Bound for Nowhere \| 2002-11-27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Built in 1957, the original Cypress structure bisected the low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood, and many residents saw it as a symbol, if not the cause, of their economic woes.
		Caltrans demolished the Cypress and made plans to build the new one through the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific rail yards.
		By the time the new Cypress Freeway opened in September 1998, its price tag had ballooned from $200 million to $1.25 billion, or around $4,000 an inch, making it the most expensive few miles of road ever built in California.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2002-11-27/news/cityside.html (1745 words)

	1989 Cypress Freeway Response - Part II
		Engine Co. 5 was positioned on the west side of the Cypress Freeway near a burning automobile, and with the aid of citizens, a small fire hose was used to put out this blaze.
		As the crew of Engine Co. 5 drove along Cypress Street, they came upon more citizens on the freeway yelling that a man was trapped in a vehicle in the center of the structure opposite 26th Street.
		Because of limited space, the stretcher containing the victim was dragged across the pavement toward the aerial ladder where it was tied with rope and lowered to the street and waiting paramedics.
	www.sfmuseum.org /cypress/response2.html (2582 words)

	Saving Lives Through Better Design Standards
		The part of the Cypress freeway structure in Oakland, California, that stood on soft mud (dashed red line) collapsed in the 1989 magnitude-7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake, whose epicenter was 55 miles to the south.
		The collapse of the Cypress freeway, built in the 1950's, emphasized the importance of having accurate knowledge of the destructive forces a structure may face.
		The collapse of the part of the Cypress structure that stood on soft soil was clearly due to the stronger shaking of that ground type.
	quake.wr.usgs.gov /prepare/factsheets/BetterDesign (1180 words)

	Loma Prieta Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the most famous reports of damage caused by this earthquake is of the Cypress freeway collapsing.
		This incident killed an estimate 42 people, most of which were smashed in their cars on the lower deck of the freeway.
		It is believed that this freeway collapsed because of the materials it was made out of and the incredibly soft ground it was built on.
	t3.preservice.org /T0401436/loma.htm (235 words)

	Interstate 880
		In 1964, the Nimitz Freeway was renumbered to 680 only, and 17 was moved to Oakland Road; but vocal public outcry resulted in restoration of the 17 numbering on the Nimitz.
		On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta quake caused the upper deck of the Cypress viaduct (north of I-980, Oakland, between 18th and 34th streets) to collapse on the lower, crushing 42 motorists.
		The Cypress section, $1.25 billion for 5 miles, is the most expensive freeway in California history at almost $4,000 an inch.
	www.kurumi.com /roads/3di/i880.html (2203 words)

	Picture This: Post Vietnam Era
		Their focus on those areas most devastated rekindled visions of the 1906 earthquake, which is represented in textbooks by images of the entire city of San Francisco on fire.
		Sixty-three people, died (42 on the Cypress Freeway), 3,757 reported injuries, and the earthquake caused an estimated $6-10 billion in property damages.
		The best example of this is found in West Oakland, where the original construction of the I-880 Cypress Freeway had bisected a lower income, predominantly African-American section of the city, in effect destroying the local community.
	www.museumca.org /picturethis/6_12.html (590 words)

	Fontana Cypress Overcrossing
		Once an overcrossing at Cypress is completed it will allow residents, police, fire, and other emergency personnel to cross the freeway without having to wade through the traffic at the current interchanges.
		With the rapid growth occurring throughout the area, the existing traffic demand has created backup congestion on the freeway entrance and exit ramps and even causes congestion on adjacent roadways.
		The City plans on widening Cypress Avenue to a four-lane road from Slover to Valley.
	www.fontana.org /main/comm_conn/cyp_over_0105.htm (512 words)

	California Route 880
		The Cypress Freeway Viaduct was a section of I-880 that carried between 140,000 and 160,000 vehicles per day and provided for eight lanes of mixed-flow traffic.
		It severely damaged the double-decked Cypress Viaduct, completely destroying the section of the freeway between 18th and 34th streets in Oakland.
		The $900 million budget of the project, consisting mainly of federal emergency relief funds, is divided into approximately $550 million for construction, and $350 million for right-of-way acquisition, railroad and utility relocation, traffic management, transit enhancement, and a number of commitments to the City of Oakland.
	www.geocities.com /bennyp81/ca880.html (701 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (The Fair Shake) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, a car thief was found crushed to death under a collapsed freeway overpass in the vehicle he'd stolen.
		The car is found crushed under the collapsed Nimitz freeway or San Francisco Bay Bridge, totalled in an accident on the Santa Monica freeway, or beneath the rubble of a building the quake had brought down.
		Those who pass along this legend are often vague about whom it happened to (details about the thief or victim are rarely given), yet a full description of the car is an integral part of the narrative.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/freakish/quake.htm (840 words)

	On the Cypress Freeway, Strangers Joined Together for a Snap in Time / Famous photo shows one of many heroic rescues
		On the Cypress Fwy, strangers joined for a snap in time.
		The Cypress freeway in Oakland just after 5:04 p.m., Oct. 17, 1989, was the embodiment of hell on Earth to all who saw it or were on it.
		And the photo is kept in their living rooms, firehouses, or keepsake boxes as a visual reminder frozen on paper.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/12/MN48A14.DTL (1145 words)

	Exploratorium: Life Along the Faultline: Loma Prieta/page 5 of 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Forty-two people died in the collapse of the double-tiered Cypress freeway.
		In these two video clips, a traffic news helicopter was over the 880 freeway moments after the quake ended.
		On the pancaked section of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland, hundreds of commuters were feared dead.
	www.exploratorium.edu /faultline/loma_prieta/loma5.html (496 words)

	1989 Cypress Freeway Response
		Oakland fire Lt. William R. Jarrett first knew of the disaster at the Cypress freeway a few moments after the earthquake when he and the crew of Fire Engine No. 5 saw large columns of dust and smoke rising from the area of 32nd Street at the Cypress Freeway.
		Vehicles at street level were crushed by falling concrete and steel or appeared to have fallen from the upper deck of the freeway." The rescue work of the ladder truck company was further complicated because "travel along Cypress Street was blocked by fallen rubble," he said.
		This blockage of Cypress street by wrecked automobiles and thousands of tons of rubble was of grave and immediate concern because it severely hampered the initial rescue and firefighting efforts.
	www.sfmuseum.org /cypress/response.html (1529 words)

	California Highways (www.cahighways.org): 2002 Changes to Listings
		ACR 156: Route 8: Kumeyaay Freeway (from Greenfield Drive on the eastern city boundary of El Cajon to Nimitz Boulevard in Mission Bay; extends 1997 definition).
		STIP project for Route 210 (former Route 30) to construct a six lane freeway with two HOV lanes from 2.3 KM W of Sierra Avenue to 0.1 KM E of Linden Avenue in Fontana and Rialto.
		Programs $4,629,000 in FY 2001-02 for three new projects: an HOV lane extension on I-405, a freeway connector project on I-405, and a project to add on mixed flow and one HOV lane to Route 71, and convert the 4-lane expressway into 6-lane freeway.
	www.cahighways.org /chg2002.html (5154 words)

	Club Nai
		5 Freeway to 17th Street - West on 17th Street to Bristol - School Is on corner of 17th and Bristol - Gym is on far west corner of campus.
		5 Freeway South to the 805 South to the 163 South - Proceed on the 163 to Genesee Ave.
		Exit the 57 Freeway at Yorba Linda - East on Yorba Linda - North on Valencia - School is between Yorba Linda and Bastanchury, on Valencia
	www.avhub.net /ADclubNaiasiteDIRECTIONS.htm (5308 words)

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