Longest Overpasses!

Started by MCRoads, October 01, 2017, 01:53:22 PM

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MCRoads

Someone had to do it...

Anyway, here is my nominee:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZXkzNqHNkLm

I-10 in New Orleans. Why is it SOOO long?
I build roads on Minecraft. Like, really good roads.
Interstates traveled:
4/5/10*/11**/12**/15/25*/29*/35(E/W[TX])/40*/44**/49(LA**)/55*/64**/65/66*/70°/71*76(PA*,CO*)/78*°/80*/95°/99(PA**,NY**)

*/** indicates a terminus/termini being traveled
° Indicates a gap (I.E Breezwood, PA.)

more room plz


jp the roadgeek

I nominate the East Main St. overpass in Meriden, CT.  Passes over 4 lanes of I-91 and 6 lanes + a merge lane of CT 15.

https://goo.gl/maps/DcYiWW4EAdu
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

ColossalBlocks

I am inactive for a while now my dudes. Good associating with y'all.

US Highways: 36, 49, 61, 412.

Interstates: 22, 24, 44, 55, 57, 59, 72, 74 (West).

Brian556

Quote from: MCRoads on October 01, 2017, 01:53:22 PM
Someone had to do it...

Anyway, here is my nominee:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZXkzNqHNkLm

I-10 in New Orleans. Why is it SOOO long?

Somebody else noted years ago on this forum that Louisiana sometimes does this instead of the typical dirt approach ramps

wanderer2575

My nominee:  Eight Mile Road (M-102) over the Lodge Freeway (M-10) and Greenfield Road on the Southfield-Detroit border:
https://goo.gl/maps/yZBMQthS1MD2

There are also two or three of these oddballs on I-75 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula:
https://goo.gl/maps/Eeq1Me7LSGr

jeffandnicole

It won't be the longest, but it's an oddball one for its length.  Many have been on it but few beneath it.

https://goo.gl/maps/febvJZTBsqM2

The overpass in NJ carries US 322 over a few local roads, just west of the Commodore Barry Bridge.  On the near side is Main Street, which continues past the southern terminus of NJ 44.  On the far side is a small road (Mechanic St) that leads into a cul-de-sac with only one or two homes...and there appears to be 2 dirt roads from Main Street that will take you back there anyway. 

https://goo.gl/maps/H4v26DoTfEN2

So for about 80% of its length, the bridge probably isn't really needed.

Jardine


jwolfer

Quote from: Brian556 on October 01, 2017, 09:21:48 PM
Quote from: MCRoads on October 01, 2017, 01:53:22 PM
Someone had to do it...

Anyway, here is my nominee:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZXkzNqHNkLm

I-10 in New Orleans. Why is it SOOO long?

Somebody else noted years ago on this forum that Louisiana sometimes does this instead of the typical dirt approach ramps
I assumed that this was due to swamps soil in Louisiana.  Why put all the weight on top of swampy ground only leads to subsidence

Z981


MCRoads

I build roads on Minecraft. Like, really good roads.
Interstates traveled:
4/5/10*/11**/12**/15/25*/29*/35(E/W[TX])/40*/44**/49(LA**)/55*/64**/65/66*/70°/71*76(PA*,CO*)/78*°/80*/95°/99(PA**,NY**)

*/** indicates a terminus/termini being traveled
° Indicates a gap (I.E Breezwood, PA.)

more room plz

plain

Emerson St passing over four carriageways of the NJ Turnpike/I-95, plus ramps.
Ridgefield Park, New Jersey just north of US 46

https://goo.gl/maps/yaTXpFR6f9K2
Newark born, Richmond bred

jeffandnicole

I think the longest overpass* on the NJ Turnpike may be over 2.6 miles in length!  It's I-78; starts just west of the mainline at Exit 14, then becomes a regular bridge before touching down and becoming an overpass again before ending next to NJ 440.

(* - of course, overpass may not equal bridge in this case, but either way, it's a helluva long overpass over roads and marshland)

MCRoads

Quote from: jeffandnicole on October 03, 2017, 11:18:54 AM
I think the longest overpass* on the NJ Turnpike may be over 2.6 miles in length!  It's I-78; starts just west of the mainline at Exit 14, then becomes a regular bridge before touching down and becoming an overpass again before ending next to NJ 440.

(* - of course, overpass may not equal bridge in this case, but either way, it's a helluva long overpass over roads and marshland)

I think we have to discount that, as even if the road wasn't there, it would probably be more or less the same length.

Here are some criteria for what counts as an "overpass":


  • over a road, or rail. If a small waterway happens to be there, it still counts
  • a bridge built because of a waterway, canal, swamp, natural valley, or gorge does not count
  • if the bridge is over multiple roads in succession(such as in a downtown) that is an "elevated highway/freeway/road. this does NOT discount divided highways, or highways with service roads.
  • bridges for interchanges don't count, unless they are unrelated to the interchange(such as a local road going over 1 or more of the highways/ramps.
I build roads on Minecraft. Like, really good roads.
Interstates traveled:
4/5/10*/11**/12**/15/25*/29*/35(E/W[TX])/40*/44**/49(LA**)/55*/64**/65/66*/70°/71*76(PA*,CO*)/78*°/80*/95°/99(PA**,NY**)

*/** indicates a terminus/termini being traveled
° Indicates a gap (I.E Breezwood, PA.)

more room plz

jcn

The South Wilmington Viaduct which carries I-95 in Wilmington, DE, if it counts, is pretty long.

sparker

Technically, the 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles could be considered an overpass (and is logged into the state system as such) because it crosses US 101 (the northern end of the Santa Ana Freeway, just north of the ELA interchange).  This applies to the old and now removed concrete structure (the site of many a film chase sequence -- and even a makeshift runway in the Sam Jackson-starring S.W.A.T. film remake of several years ago) and the new bridge currently under construction. 



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