History
Highway 87, as defined legislatively, would have extended from its current northern terminus, skirting the edge of San Francisco Bay as the Bayfront Freeway to San Francisco. This would have provided an eastern bypass to U.S. Highway 101 along the Peninsula (Highway 101 itself being originally a bypass to El Camino Real along the Peninsula). The route would have ended at Highway 480 (the Embarcadero Freeway) practically underneath the Bay Bridge, and it would also have connected to the approaches to the unconstructed San Francisco Bay Southern Crossing. Along with Route 61, a similar project on the eastern shore of the Bay, this portion of Route 87 was abandoned due to local opposition to the project that would have destroyed a nearly pristine wildlife habitat.
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