California State Route 94

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State Route 94

Defined by S&HC § 394, maintained by Caltrans

Length:

65.39 mi^[1] (105.24 km)

West end:

I-5 in San Diego

Major
junctions:

SR 125 in Spring Valley

SR 188 near Tecate

East end:

I-8 near Boulevard

State highways in California (list - pre-1964)
County routes in California (list)
< SR 92		US 95 >
History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

State Route 94 in the U.S. state of California is the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway from Interstate 5 in Downtown San Diego to the end of the freeway portion past Route 125 in Spring Valley; it then becomes Campo Road to Interstate 8 in Manzanita.

It is an east-west running freeway that connects the communities of downtown San Diego (becoming the one-way F Street at freeway's westbound terminus at 17th Street; eastbound traffic enters the freeway from the one-way G Street), southeast San Diego, Lemon Grove, La Mesa, Spring Valley, Casa de Oro, Rancho San Diego, Dulzura, Jamul, Tecate, Campo, and Boulevard. Perhaps due to its namesake, this highway served as part of the route of the hearse that carried the body of Coretta Scott King from San Diego to Atlanta.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to the 1990s construction of additional sections of Route 125 to the south of Route 94 and to the north of Interstate 8, the section of Route 125 between Route 94 and Interstate 8 was signed as part of Route 94 (even though both the sections of the current Route 94 west and east of Route 125 were also signed as Route 94). Signage at the interchange of Interstate 8 and Route 125 was later modified to add the Route 125 designation and a "TO" referring to the Route 94 signage (still present), while signs on the freeway itself were changed to Route 125 north and south, as appropriate. The signage changes were made shortly before the opening of the portion of Route 125 immediately north of Interstate 8. One relic of this alignment is that the primary traffic lanes of eastbound Route 94 lead to northbound Route 125, while southbound lanes of Route 125 lead to westbound Route 94, requiring the use of interchange ramps to continue on the route and direction prior to this interchange.

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System^[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System^[3].

[edit] Major intersections and exit list

Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.

The entire route is in San Diego County.

Location	Postmile ^[4]^[5]^[6]	#^[7]	Destinations	Notes
San Diego	1.42		I-5 south – Balboa Park, Downtown San Diego	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	1.42	1A	I-5 north (San Diego Freeway) – Los Angeles	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	1.85	1B	25th Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	2.21	1C	28th Street	Signed as exit 1 eastbound
	2.68	1D	30th Street	No eastbound exit
	3.17	2	SR 15	Signed as exits 2A (south) and 2C (north) eastbound; westbound exit to SR 15 north is via exit 3
	3.63	2B	Home Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	4.09	3	I-805 (Jacob Dekema Freeway)	Eastbound exit to I-805 north is via exit 2C
	4.63		47th Street	Entrance ramps only
	5.14	4A	Euclid Avenue	Signed as exit 4 westbound
	5.79	4B	Kelton Road	Signed as exit 5 westbound
	6.16	5	Federal Boulevard	Westbound exit is via a U-turn at exit 5
	7.29	6A	College Grove Way	Westbound exit and entrance
Lemon Grove	7.76	6B	College Avenue, Broadway	Signed as exit 6 eastbound; no eastbound entrance
	8.27	7	Massachusetts Avenue
	8.93	8	Lemon Grove Avenue
	T10.11	9	SR 125	Signed as exits 9A (south) and 9B (north)
La Mesa	T10.11	9	SR 125	Signed as exits 9A (south) and 9B (north)
La Mesa	R10.88	9C	Spring Street – La Mesa
Spring Valley	R11.08	10A	Bancroft Drive -- Casa de Oro
	R11.80	10B	Kenwood Drive – Casa de Oro
	R12.75	11	Sweetwater Springs Boulevard – Casa de Oro
	R13.33	12	Avocado Boulevard, Calavo Drive
	East end of freeway
	14.33		CR S17 (Jamacha Boulevard)
	14.86		SR 54 east
	38.97		SR 188 south – Tecate
	52.15		CR S1 (Buckman Springs Road)
	64.23		Old Highway 80	Former US 80 west
	64.82		Old Highway 80, Jewel Valley Road	Former US 80 east
	65.38		I-8