Ever struggled to give directions to out-of-town friends trying to navigate to your house on our byzantine freeways and name-changing roads? Perhaps your task has become a little easier.

P7100014_crIn late June, CalTrans updated the exit sign for the Bird Avenue ramp off of southbound Interstate 280, and it’s got an exit number … Exit 3B! (the northbound exit sign is still “unnumbered”).

Of course, all of California’s freeway exits have already been designated numbers; it’s just a matter of replacing the old signs over time. When the Highway 87 widening project is complete, those exits into WG will also have new numbers …

But don’t get too excited. By a fluke of geography, the Curtner ramp from Highway 87 north will also be Exit #3 … and from Hwy 87 southbound, 3B is Almaden Expressway and 3A will be Curtner. And Highway 87 itself (north and/or south) is already exit 3A off of I-280.

So maybe things may not really get any easier when those new exit numbers arrive. :-(

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