Roads & Highways
Construction
City of Milpitas Transportation Information
As a prominent gateway to the Silicon Valley, the City of Milpitas' Traffic Engineering section has an integral role in maintaining the City's economic vitality and creating safe and livable neighborhoods that are pedestrian and multi-modal friendly. View the current projects.
I-680 Southbound Express Lane project
Plan to widen the freeway and structures to meet current standards, construct auxiliary lanes, rehabilitate the roadway, and implement the first High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lane facility in northern California which will allow single occupant vehicles to use the HOV lane for a toll.
Plan For The Roads Ahead
The City of Milpitas is considering the following projects.
Filing a claim against Caltrans
Did you get a nail in your tire in a highway construction zone? Here's information and the form for filing a claim.
Governmental
Agencies
CalTrans
California Department of Transportations, District 4 (includes
Santa Clara County). Lots of local information and pictures about
Bay Area Bridges.
Metropolitan
Transportation Commission
Regional planning group for our highways here in Silicon Valley
and around the Bay.
Scenic
Drives
Bay
Area Backroads
Go "day tripping" to places near and far. KRON TV offers
hundreds of ideas in the South Bay Area and further away.
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Calaveras Road to Sunol
Calaveras Road varies from 2 lanes in Milpitas and the 84/680
end in Fremont down to 1 lane in the middle. The south half was
recently repaved from Milpitas to the Alameda County line, about
2/3 of the entire ride.
Calaveras - Sierra Rd Loop
A GOMILPITAS ARTICLE
Scenic drive in the snowy mountains east of Milpitas and San
Jose, California.
California Roadside Rest Areas
Plan your rest stops in rural areas.
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Mt. Hamilton Road
Take this mountain road between Alum Rock and Patterson. Do fill
up your thirsty steed because if you decide to continue east
down the other side of the mountain, it will be another 70 miles
to the next gas station.
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Santa Cruz Mountains Roads
A lovely drive is the one through the redwoods from Woodside, over to the coast, down to Santa Cruz, and back over Rt. 9 through Boulder Creek and Big Basin State Park to Saratoga.
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