Special routes of U.S. Route 50
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Several special routes of U.S. Route 50 exist. In order from west to east they are as follows.
California
Oakland business loop
U.S. Route 50 Business (US 50 Bus.) was a business route of US 50 in Oakland, California. It existed when US 50 use to extend west to San Francisco. The business loop's western terminus was at the MacArthur Maze interchange. From there, it ran concurrently with State Route 17 (present-day Interstate 880) along Cypress Street, later the Cypress Freeway, to Broadway in Downtown Oakland. US 50 Bus. then headed north on Broadway and then east on Grand Avenue towards the end of Lake Merritt. The business route then turned south on El Embarcadaro and then east on Lakeshore Avenue before rejoining US 50 at MacArthur Boulevard, later the MacArthur Freeway. The business route was decommissioned when US 50 was truncated back to West Sacramento and Interstate 580 replaced the US route through Oakland.
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