U.S. Route 80 Alternate (Abilene-Weatherford, Texas)

U.S. Route 80
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Replaced

U.S. Route 80 Business
Location:	Winterhaven, California to Yuma, Arizona
Existed:	1957–1976

Alternate US Highway 80
Location:	El Paso
Existed:	1939–1964

Alternate US Highway 80
Location:	Abilene–Weatherford
Length:	130 mi (210 km)
Existed:	1932–1943

U.S. Highway 80 Truck
Location:	Minden, Louisiana

U.S. Highway 80 Truck
Location:	Gibsland, Louisiana

U.S. Highway 80 Truck
Location:	Arcadia, Louisiana

U.S. Route 80 Business
Location:	Selma, Alabama

A total of six special routes of U.S. Route 80 exist or did exist in the past.

U.S. Route 80 Business ran from Winterhaven, California, crossed the 1916 Ocean to Ocean Bridge over the Colorado River into Arizona and met up with mainline US 80 again in Yuma. Prior to 1957, this was the mainline route of US 80. The Ocean to Ocean Bridge is still open to traffic as a one lane bridge with traffic lights at either end.

U.S. Route 80 (Alternate) in El Paso ran southbound from the junction of Farm To Market Road 260 and U.S. 80, following Doniphan Drive through the former community of White Spur (now part of Northwest El Paso). The route continued southbound until Doniphan Drive ended at Paisano Drive, in Smeltertown. U.S. 80 (Alternate), and Paisano drive then followed the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway along the eastern bank of the Rio Grande until Union Station in Downtown El Paso. U.S. 80 (Alternate) then rejoined U.S. 80 at Texas Avenue in Downtown El Paso. U.S. Route 85 now follows this routing from Paisano Drive's current junction with Interstate 10.

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