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The overall commute for people from south San Jose through Campbell into Mountain View and other business areas of Silicon Valley improved by roughly half an hour over previous longer routes on already crowded freeways or over miles of surface streets.

Major surface streets that had once been unnavigable during many hours of the day suddenly became — and remained — usable.

For example, eastern Blossom Hill Road had a typical load of 23, 000 cars a day before 85 opened ; as of 2004, a typical day's load was a mere 11, 000 cars.

( Conversely, Saratoga Avenue, which previously had been a fairly quiet road, now sees about 18, 000 cars a day because it is the only interchange in or near the city of Saratoga.