Junipero Serra Boulevard

Junipero Serra Boulevard is a major boulevard in and south of San Francisco. Within the city, it forms part of the route of State Route 1, the shortest connection between Interstate 280 and the Golden Gate Bridge. The remainder, in San Mateo County, has been bypassed or replaced by I-280, the Junipero Serra Freeway, and now serves mainly local traffic. The boulevard was one of several new roads built along the San Francisco Peninsula before the age of freeways, and became a state highway (Route 237) in 1956, receiving the State Route 117 designation in the 1964 renumbering, only to be deleted from the state highway system the next year. Two other such highways - Bayshore Highway and Skyline Boulevard - have also been upgraded into or...