bajalera
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Road query for David K
Some time ago you indicated on one of your posts that the main Baja road was no longer called Highway One. I didn't know a change had been
made--what's the new number?
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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David K
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That's news to me Lera... Please post my mistake unless it was some confusion of terms.
Mexico Highway #1 is the Baja Transpeninsular Highway from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas... and I would consider it the 'main Baja road'.
It was also to be named after Benito Juarez, but I never saw much in print about that after 1974.
[Edited on 3-14-2006 by David K]
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bajalera
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I must have misunderstood you--it was in your reply to my post about the wacky reversed road sign for Santa Maria and Guerrero Negro. Glad I was
wrong, Highway 1 has a nice ring to it.
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David K
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Oh, this?:
posted on 3-6-2006 at 06:56 PM
"Yes, I got a laugh out of that!
Big new overhead sign for south bound traffic where the former Highway 1 route rejoins the newer detour route... This is the south paved access to
Cielito Lindo in the area known as Santa Maria."
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The former Highway 1 ROUTE is correct...
Highway 1 originally went straight south from San Quintin/ Lazaro Card##as and at the junction to Cielito Lindo was the first Parador (remember
those?)... then the highway passed through Santa Maria and turned to the southeast and went past Pabellon's road (at Nuevo Odesia).
After repeated washouts north of the parador at the river crossing, they MOVED Highway one inland, up that hill (where the liquor store sits) then
curves south over the big bridge, past Los Pinos plant (at the Cielito Lindo/ La Pinta extended driveway)...
... the newer Highway 1 route rejoins the former where that new overhead sign (that points the wrong way) is located.
Does this help make my post clear?
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bajalera
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Thank you, DK, it does. What you meant as former route, I interpreted as former name--probably because I wasn't aware the road had been moved inland.
Whatever, I'm glad they haven't changed the name, and that the Benito Juarez Ruta Memorial--or whatever that alternate was--has apparently been
forgotten. That would have been quite a mouthful.
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David K
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10-4 Lera!
Mexicans don't seem to mind long names, however! Take, for example, the little town on Hwy. 3 between Ensenada and San Felipe called EJIDO DE LOS
HEROES DE LA INDEPENDENCIA...
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