Question: State Route 445 connects a metropolitan area to a geographic sink of what basin?
Context: Route 67 is a short state highway entirely within the community of Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey.  It is part of the original alignment of U.S. Route 9W.  The road runs 1.86 mi from an intersection with Central Boulevard in Fort Lee (also designated as Route 5) down Palisade Avenue in downtown Fort Lee.  There it becomes known as Lemoine Avenue, terminating at an interchange with U.S. Route 9W, the Palisades Interstate Parkway and New Jersey Route 445S in Fort Lee.  The route was designated originally as a portion of State Highway Route 18N in 1923, and was split up in 1929 as part of current-days New Jersey Route 63, U.S. Route 9W and Route 67 for Routes S-1, 1 and Route S1A.  Route S-1-A remained intact on Palisades and Lemoine Avenue until the 1953 state highway renumbering when it was switched over to Route 67.  The route has remained virtually intact since. Former State Route 8A (SR 8A) was a two-part state highway in the U.S. state of Nevada, running from California State Route 299 in a general easterly and southeasterly direction via Vya and Denio to US 95 north of Winnemucca, and south from US 40 at Battle Mountain via Austin to US 6 near Tonopah.  It was a branch of State Route 8, which followed US 95 north from US 40 at Winnemucca to Oregon.  The part northwest from US 95 towards the Oregon state line later became State Route 140, part of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.  In the late 1970s renumbering, the north–south portion became State Route 305 (Battle Mountain to Austin) and State Route 376 (Austin to Tonopah), but the portion from SR 140 west to California did not remain in the state highway system.  (SR 140 was to be renumbered to State Route 291, but this was not carried through.)  However, signs remain on that segment, and so SR 8A still "de facto" connects SR 140 with California. The Salton Sink is a geographic sink within the Salton Trough in the Coachella and Imperial valleys of southeastern California.  It is in the Colorado Desert subregion of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion.  Drainage to the endorheic sink collects in the Salton Sea, which occupies the lowest area of the sink. Alkali Lake is a geographic sink in Lake County, Oregon, United States.  It is in the Alkali Subbasin of the Summer Lake Basin watershed in southeastern Oregon, located 26 miles east of Christmas Valley, Oregon, northeast of Lake Abert, to the immediate west of Abert Rim and Highway 395. State Route 445 (SR 445) is a 42 mi state highway in Washoe County, Nevada.  The route follows "Pyramid Way", a major thoroughfare in the city of Sparks, and connects the Reno metropolitan area to Pyramid Lake.  The route is designated a Nevada Scenic Byway. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi northeast of Reno. Maryland Route 445 (MD 445) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.  The highway runs 11.96 mi from Eastern Neck Island in the southwest corner of Kent County north to MD 21 near Tolchester Beach.  MD 445 connects Tolchester Beach and Eastern Neck Island with Rock Hall, where the highway intersects MD 20.  The first piece of MD 445 was constructed as part of MD 20 around 1920.  The remainder of the highway was built around 1930.  MD 445 was reconstructed in the mid-1960s and early to mid-1970s. Kentucky Route 445 (KY 445) is a 1.276 mi state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky.  The highway travels through mostly urban areas of Campbell County.  Its entire length is in the city limits of Fort Thomas. Pennsylvania Route 445 (PA 445) is a 12 mi state highway located in Centre County, Pennsylvania.  The southern terminus is at PA 45 in Millheim.  The northern terminus is at PA 64 in Nittany. A geographic sink is a depression within an endorheic basin where water collects with no visible outlet.  Instead of discharging, the collected water is lost due to evaporation and/or penetration (water sinking underground, e.g., to become groundwater in an aquifer).  If the sink has karstic terrain, water will sink at a higher rate than the surface evaporation, and conversely if the lakebed or sink bed has a layer of soil that is largely impervious to water (hardpan), evaporation will predominate.  Since dry lakes in sinks with hardpan have little penetration, they require more severe aridity/heat to eliminate collected water at a comparable rate as for a similar sink with appreciable penetration.
Answer: Truckee River Basin