The route starts in Los Angeles at the junction of the Interstate 5, Interstate 10, and California State Route 60. It goes west past the north side of Downtown Los Angeles towards the coast. It meets the coast near Oxnard and goes north along the coast from here. The main cities it passes through in California is Santa Maria, San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Eureka, California. In San Francisco, the route goes over the Golden Gate Bridge. The main cities the route passes in Oregon is North Bend, Florence, Newport, and Astoria. These cities are small, as no large cities are on Oregon's coast. It runs near to the Interstate 5, which goes through larger cities like Salem and Portland. In Washington, the main cities it passes through is Aberdeen, Forks and Port Angeles. It ends at the Interstate 5 in Olympia. The route is about in total.
The route used to be the main highway along the West Coast, but now most people use the Interstate 5 to go along the coast. The US 101 used to go south to San Diego, but the part of the US 101 between here and Los Angeles was totally replaced by the I-5 in the 1960s. When it first opened, the US 101 used small roads that had already been built. In 1933, a new highway with bridges and ramps was built so it was faster for people to use.
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Springleaf MRT station
Springleaf MRT station (TE4) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Yishun, Singapore. When completed, this station will serve the nearby housing estate of Springside and Nee Soon Army Camp. The tracks between this station and Woodlands South station are the longest on the Thomson-East Coast Line.
It is also the nearest MRT station towards the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and River Safari. Before this future MRT station opens, Ang Mo Kio, Woodlands and Choa Chu Kang MRT stations would serve as the nearest MRT stations.
This station was first announced on 29 August 2012. Construction began on 15 June 2014 at the former Seletar Institute.
Lentor MRT station
Lentor MRT station (TE5) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. It will be located underneath Lentor Drive, next to its junction with Yio Chu Kang Road and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4, bringing rail connectivity to residential developments in the area.
This station was first announced on 29 August 2012.
At 3:35am of 1 March 2018, a 48-year-old construction worker fell from a working platform 2.5 metres above the ground. He is working in a tunnel connecting to Lentor station. He was pronounced dead by paramedics at 4.30am.
Mayflower MRT station
Mayflower MRT station (TE6) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. It will be located around Kebun Baru Heights Estate, Kebun Baru Community Centre (CC) and near CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School.
This station was first announced on 29 August 2012. It will have the most number of exits along the Thomson-East Coast Line, with seven, making it the most accessible.
Bright Hill MRT station
Bright Hill MRT station (TE7/CR13) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line and Cross Island Line in Bishan, Singapore.
Bright Hill MRT station is a fully underground mass rapid transit station with four station entrances and exits. The station will serve the industrial estate of Sin Ming and is located near landmarks such as Peirce Secondary School and Ai Tong School. It is also located close to the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery. The monastery is Singapore's largest Mahayana Buddhist temple. The station derived its name from the temple.
On 29 August 2012, it was announced that a Mass Rapid Transit station would be built in the Sin Ming as part of the new Thomson MRT line. This underground station was given the working name "Sin Ming". The station was later renamed to "Bright Hill MRT Station" on 27 August 2014 after a public voting exercise to determine the names of Thomson Line stations. This name is the English translation of the location name "Kong Meng San" (光明山), where the Monastery is located.
Bright Hill MRT station was merged into the Thomson-East Coast MRT Line when the Land Transport Authority announced that the Eastern Region MRT Line and Thomson MRT line would be operating as a single line.
This station will become an interchange station with the Cross Island Line when the line opens in 2029.
Upper Thomson MRT station
Upper Thomson MRT station (TE8) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Bishan, Singapore. The station will be located at the traffic junction of Upper Thomson Road, Soo Chow Garden Road, Bright Hill Drive and Jalan Keli. It will provide MRT access to the nearby Thomson Plaza.
This station was first announced on 29 August 2012.
Caldecott MRT station
Caldecott MRT station (CC17/TE9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line, located in Toa Payoh, Singapore. This station will become an interchange with the Thomson–East Coast line in 2020.
As Bukit Brown MRT station is currently non-operational, the section of tracks between Caldecott station and Botanic Gardens MRT station is the longest between any two stations on the Circle line. Trains move at 80 km/h at this stretch.
When the Circle line was planned, this station was planned to be an empty station, to be opened only when the area are more developed. It was only announced quite later that this station will open other stations of Stage 4 on 11 January 2007, and the station name was renamed to "Caldecott". The station opened on 8 October 2011.
Starting from 2020, Caldecott station will be an interchange station with the Thomson–East Coast line and will serve as the terminus from 2020 to 2021, where it would be replaced by Gardens by the Bay as the Stage 3 of the line opens.
Caldecott CCL station is one of eleven stations along the Circle line designated as Civil Defence (CD) shelters, which will be activated in times of national emergency. Apart from reinforced construction, the stations are designed and equipped with facilities to ensure the shelter environment is tolerable for people.
Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
The Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery (also the "Bright Hill Pujue Chan Monastery") (), is a Buddhist temple located at Bright Hill Road in Bishan, Singapore. Built by Zhuan Dao in the early 20th century to propagate Buddhism and to provide lodging for monks, this monastery is the largest Buddhist temple in Singapore.
Between 1920 and 1921, the Monastery was built on the a plot of land in Thomson Road that was donated by Tay Woo Seng, a Chinese businessmen. It was the first traditional Chinese forest monastery to be built in Singapore. Its name was taken from Kong Meng San ("Bright Hill", formerly "Hai Nan Mountain"), the place where the monastery is located at. The original temple consisted of a two-storey building, a shrine room, a visitors' room and living quarters.
In 1980, the temple began to build Evergreen Bright Hill Home, which opened in 1983, with the donation of S$5.3 million from Hong Choon's followers, He Hui Zhong's family's company.