Bizarre Routings/Strange Route Transitions

Started by fillup420, May 03, 2017, 10:16:44 AM

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hbelkins

Quote from: kphoger on May 03, 2017, 03:01:30 PM

Examples in that same neck o' the woods:
US-421 near Frankfort
US-127 near Frankfort

About those two examples...

Up until the Frankfort East-West Connector (KY 676) was built in the late 1970s/early 1980s, US 421 intersected US 60 at an at-grade intersection here and the two routes were concurrent to the northwest of what was Kentucky's first SPUI.

As for the US 127 routing, it used to come to a T intersection at US 60 west of downtown, then was concurrent with US 60 into the downtown area before the split after crossing the Capitol Avenue bridge. US 127 continued out what is now KY 2261. When the western connector was built, it tied into US 60 at the US 127 intersection and the decision was made to put 127 on the connector to route through traffic out of downtown. So these intersections aren't really that bizarre.


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DandyDan

For my old state of Nebraska, two oddball highways are NE 70 and NE 7.  Iowa mostly makes sense, but not IA 136 or IA 415.  If you want to write a book about bizarre routings, you would have to dedicate a good chunk of it to Wisconsin, with a smaller part for Minnesota.
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Quote from: RobbieL2415 on May 04, 2017, 08:14:05 PM
In NC, why isn't I-587 signed with US 64/264 to Raleigh?  Seems like a pointless gap.

Because AFAIK US 64 is (Southern) I-87, though not signed yet.
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Quote from: MNHighwayMan on May 04, 2017, 03:15:32 PM
I've always found it really interesting that US-169's concurrency with US-10 on both ends involves a junction with another highway (MN-47 to the east, MN-101 S to the west). MN-47 doesn't even end there; it goes concurrent with US-10 to the south/east of its junction. In other words, US-10 swaps concurrencies at a single interchange in Anoka.

MN 68 follows three different concurrencies in about 20 miles between Sleepy Eye and New Ulm. It joins MN 15, then in downtown New Ulm it swaps from MN 15 onto US 14 while those two begin their own pairing, then MN 68 joins MN 4 in Sleepy Eye.
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 08, 2017, 01:59:32 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on May 04, 2017, 03:15:32 PM
I've always found it really interesting that US-169's concurrency with US-10 on both ends involves a junction with another highway (MN-47 to the east, MN-101 S to the west). MN-47 doesn't even end there; it goes concurrent with US-10 to the south/east of its junction. In other words, US-10 swaps concurrencies at a single interchange in Anoka.

MN 68 follows three different concurrencies in about 20 miles between Sleepy Eye and New Ulm. It joins MN 15, then in downtown New Ulm it swaps from MN 15 onto US 14 while those two begin their own pairing, then MN 68 joins MN 4 in Sleepy Eye.

Good catch. That's the area of the state I'm least familiar with, to be honest, so it's not surprising that I'd forget about it.

Edit: Another good one is the three consecutive concurrencies (with MN-4, MN-30, and MN-15) on MN-60 from St. James to Madelia. Not to mention MN-30 runs concurrent with MN-4 north of 60, and with MN-15 south of 60...

bob7374

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on May 04, 2017, 09:44:12 PM
Mass 145 has a very bizarre routing.
How so? Because it loops around through Winthrop back to MA 1A? There are several MA routes that do this in coastal communities. MA 139 heads east to MA 3A in Marshfield has a concurrency, then continues east to the coast where it doubles back to cross 3A again and ends at MA 14. MA 127 meets MA 128 in Gloucester heads northeast to Rockport then doubles back again to meet 128 2 miles north of the other intersection and ends.

Max Rockatansky

FL 15 in Orlando between FL 50/U.S. 17/U.S. 92 to FL 551 is really weird.   15 goes down several one-way neighborhood streets, one-way frontage roads of the 408, around parks, and on several two-lane roads with no shoulders.  Really it could be realigned on a better route if it FDOT and city did a maintenance exchange.

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Quote from: bzakharin on May 04, 2017, 05:10:23 PM
At this intersection NJ 70 East turns into NJ 35 North while NJ 35 North turns into NJ 34 North for some reason.
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roadman65

US 4 if you plot its end points you will see that NY 7, VT & NH 9 are more direct.  US 4 goes north from its end near Albany then goes east. and then southeast making a long arc. Most people using it are either locals or regional users.

Its western end is weird too, because going west on US 4 (though signed as south, but in reality its from US 4 WB in VT) it goes into US 20 E Bound and not to continue a westward trek.  Most of US 4 was old US 9 which is why that end is the way it is, but still US 4 is not a great long distance US route due to its awkward routing.
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