What was the first highway built in California?
History of California's state highway system
A regularly recurring issue in California politics since the 1960s is whether the state should continue to aggressively expand its freeway network or concentrate on improving mass transit networks. Freeway revolts sprang up across the state in the 1960s and 1970s, killing or delaying several projects such as a freeway in San Francisco between the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, and an expansion of Interstate 710 through South Pasadena.