Editing Central Freeway (section)

{{short description|Elevated freeway in San Francisco, California, United States}}
{{About|the freeway in San Francisco|the freeway in Seattle|Central Freeway (Seattle)|the freeway in Texas|Central Freeway (Texas)}}
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{{Infobox road
| state        = CA
| type         = US
| route        = 101
| name         = Central Freeway
| maint        = [[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]]
| map          = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Central Freeway}}}}
| map_custom   = yes
| map_notes    = Central Freeway highlighted in red
| length_mi    = 1.2
| length_round = 1
| length_ref   = <ref name=Google-dd>[[Google Maps]] [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=6714868554614515401,37.765940,-122.404910%3B12726028982684193479,37.771340,-122.422960&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Central+Fwy%2FUS-101+N+%4037.765940,+-122.404910&daddr=37.771877,-122.423379&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=17&sll=37.772199,-122.423208&sspn=0.005987,0.011265&ie=UTF8&z=17&om=0 driving directions], accessed November 2007</ref>
| established = 1959<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfgov.org/site/octavia_blvd_index.asp?id=236 |title=SFGov: Octavia Boulevard: History |access-date=2007-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929014528/http://www.sfgov.org/site/octavia_blvd_index.asp?id=236 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| direction_a = South
| terminus_a  = {{jct|state=CA|I|80|US|101}}
| direction_b = North
| terminus_b  = [[Octavia Boulevard]]
| allocation = {{jct|state=CA|US|101}} from {{jct|state=CA|I|80|noshield=y}} to [[Mission Street]]
|county = San Francisco
}}

The '''Central Freeway''' is a roughly one-mile (1.5&nbsp;km) [[elevated freeway]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], [[United States]], connecting the [[Bayshore Freeway|Bayshore]]/[[James Lick Freeway]] ([[U.S. Route 101 in California|US 101]] and [[Interstate 80 in California|I-80]]) with the [[Hayes Valley]] neighborhood. Most of the freeway is part of US 101, which exits at [[Mission Street]] on the way to the [[Golden Gate Bridge]]. The freeway once extended north to Turk Street, and initially formed part of a loop around downtown (along with the [[Embarcadero Freeway]]), but was damaged along with the Embarcadero in the 1989 [[Loma Prieta earthquake]]; both highways have since been replaced with the surface-level [[Octavia Boulevard]] (north of Market Street) and [[Embarcadero (San Francisco)|Embarcadero]], respectively.