Editing Interstate 980 (section)

==History==
The route known as I-980 was originally added to the state highway system in 1947 as part of [[Legislative Route 226 (California pre-1964)|Legislative Route 226]] (LRN&nbsp;226)<ref>{{cite CAstat|year=1947|ex=1|ch=11|p=3798}}: "Route 226 is from a point in the vicinity of the intersection of Webster Street and Santa Clara Avenue in Alameda to a point on Route 5 [I-580] in Oakland."</ref> and to the [[California Freeway and Expressway System]] in 1959.<ref>{{cite CAstat|year=1959|ch=1062|p=3114}}: "Route 226 [SR 61, SR 260, and I-980] from Route 258 [SR 13] near San Leandro to Route 5 [I-580]."</ref> This segment of LRN&nbsp;226 became part of [[State Route 24 (California)|SR&nbsp;24]] in the [[1964 state highway renumbering (California)|1964 state highway renumbering]].<ref>{{cite CAstat|year=1963|ch=385|p=1173}}: "Route 24 is from: (a) [[SR 17 (CA)|Route 17]] near Castro Street in Oakland to [[I-580 (CA)|Route 580]]..."</ref>

Construction on a Highway 24 freeway connecting Downtown Oakland with the [[Caldecott Tunnel]] in the Oakland Hills began in the 1960s. It was also originally intended to serve the [[Southern Crossing (California)|Southern Crossing]] and a regional shopping mall in Oakland, neither of which were ever built. While the freeway was completed from the tunnel to I-580 and 27th Street, construction of the segment extending it further west to the [[Nimitz Freeway]] (present-day I-880) resulted in community opposition due to about 503 homes in the freeway's path (and thus slated to be demolished or moved). In 1972, a federal lawsuit halted its construction until [[Caltrans]] agreed to build replacement housing. With city officials still pushing for the freeway's completion, a compromise was also reached to change the design from an elevated freeway to a depressed freeway, decreasing noise.<ref name="could"/>

To help complete the freeway with federal funding, the [[Federal Highway Administration|FHWA]] approved the addition of the segment to the [[Interstate Highway System]] in January 1976, with the Interstate money only used west of [[California State Route 123|SR&nbsp;123 (San Pablo Avenue)]].<ref>[[California Department of Transportation]], [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/products/state_highway_routes_selected_information_1995_revised.pdf State Highway Routes: Selected Information], 1994 with 1995 revisions</ref> The segment's number was legislatively changed from Route 24 to I-980 in 1981,<ref>{{cite CAstat|year=1981|ch=292|p=1419}}: "Route 980 is from Route 17 in Oakland to Route 580."</ref> and it finally opened in 1985.<ref name="could"/>