California State Route 149
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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]
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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 | |||
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Country | United States | |||
State | California | |||
Counties | Butte | |||
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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]