Freeways / Expressways given ordinary street names

[mrose]

This is meant to be a compliment to the "Highways that are city streets" thread.

I'll start with two here in Denver - 6th Ave (US 6) and Pena Blvd. (the airport spur). Both are full freeways.

[J N Winkler]

Wichita's one example is semi-famous:  Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400), which despite the name is a full freeway for 13 miles.

[MBHockey13]

In Greensboro, Fordham Boulevard is I-40, Preddy Boulevard is Business (Green) I-85/US-29/US-70, and the new I-840 Loop will be Painter Boulevard. US-29 is called O.Henry Boulevard and is full freeway from I-40 to the city limits. Plus, Bryan Boulevard is almost full controlled access for its entire length, and Wendover Avenue is controlled access between Spring Garden and US-220.

[briantroutman]

Philadelphia has Roosevelt Boulevard (US 1), which does continue on as a surface street, but is a freeway for about three miles from the Schuylkill Expressway to 9th Street. The freeway portion is technically called "Roosevelt Expressway", but in my experience, nearly everyone calls it Roosevelt Boulevard–and sometimes just "the Boulevard".

New York has both FDR Drive and Harlem River Drive–basically two sections of the same freeway–on the east side of Manhattan Island.

San Francisco has (had) Doyle Drive, which I suppose could be considered a freeway, but is currently being dismantled. I have not seen a definite answer yet on whether the old name will be applied to the new Presidio Parkway.

[amroad17]

I-44 in Tulsa is named Skelly Drive.
The spur from exit 289 on I-40 to I-440 in Raleigh is named Wade Ave.
The freeway portion of US 70 in Durham is named Muldee Street.

[elsmere241]

When I-90 in Seattle was a Super-2, it was called Lake Way.  Its RIRO intersections had street signs.

[PHLBOS]

Also in Philly, I-676 is referred to as either the Vine St. Expressway or Vine Expressway.

[1995hoo]

A portion of Wade Avenue in Raleigh is freeway-grade, although back before they built the hockey arena they used to park cars on the grass median for NC State football games.

A small portion of Allen Road in Toronto is a freeway.

[oscar]

In southwest Anchorage AK, the south end of Minnesota Dr., and the west end of O'Malley Rd., form a single L-shaped freeway, which is about five miles long and has six exits.  The freeway doesn't have its own name, nor is it assigned a route number, but the northern leg is sometimes known as the Minnesota Dr. Bypass.

[silverback1065]

SR 912 in Gary, known as Cline Ave.

[3467]

The Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago(290) was originally the Congress street expressway. All the Chicago expressways/Freeways and Tollways have names now but I think only the IKE held an actual street name.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Avenue Souligny in Montréal is a freeway between Dickson and Honoré-Beaugrand.

[Brandon]

The Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago(290) was originally the Congress street expressway. All the Chicago expressways/Freeways and Tollways have names now but I think only the IKE held an actual street name.

True, but it was the "Congress Street Expressway" for its full name.  When I-55 was built in 1956 through DuPage County, I think the name may have just been "Joliet Road" as that is what it replaced from Exit 268 to Exit 276C.

Part of the Calumet Expressway began as Doty Avenue; however, I am not sure from the maps I've seen where the name changed or if any of the expressway portion was "Doty Avenue".

Of course, there's always "Lake Shore Drive" which is mostly expressway or freeway.

Then we have the odd names such as the "Ohio Street Feeder Ramp".

[Pete from Boston]

"Drive" seems to be the most common manifestation in urban areas, but when Boston's Storrow Drive reaches turns northeast at Beacon Hill it becomes either Embankment Road or David G. Mugar Way, depending on who you ask.

At its western end near the B. U. Bridge, it changes again to Soldiers Field Road. 

[3467]

Some buildings even have an LSD address . That may be inner drive not outer drive

[Brandon]

Some buildings even have an LSD address . That may be inner drive not outer drive

It's both, even if there is no way to get to the Drive from the building.  It's more a matter of prestige than functionality.

[Big John]

I-43 bridge in Green Bay is referred as the "Tower Drive bridge" as the freeway was built where Tower Drive used to be.  But the pre-freeway road never crossed the Fox River.

[A.J. Bertin]

All the Chicago expressways/Freeways and Tollways have names now

I don't think I-57 does.

[Brandon]

All the Chicago expressways/Freeways and Tollways have names now

I don't think I-57 does.

Technically, it does, as does I-80.

I-57 is the West Leg of the Dan Ryan Expressway.
I-80 is the Moline Expressway west of the Tri-State Tollway (I-294).

[Henry]

I-695 in Washington, DC crosses the Anacostia River on the 11th Street Bridges.

[AsphaltPlanet]

Toronto's Allen Road is an expressway, as is Hamilton's Burlington Street.

[huskeroadgeek]

I think in most cases, freeways with street names are either former surface streets that have been upgraded to freeway status or freeway extensions of surface streets. I wonder how many of the above were just given street-like names without falling into one of those two categories?

[Pete from Boston]

In the Philly chatter above I thought the first one that came to me was mentioned, but it wasn't: Woodhaven Rd.

[NE2]

I wonder how many of the above were just given street-like names without falling into one of those two categories?

Those are probably usually in large developments such as airports or Disney.

[WichitaRoads]

Wichita's one example is semi-famous:  Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400), which despite the name is a full freeway for 13 miles.

Ya beat me to it! You think they will ever just call it Kellogg Expressway? I hope not. How about a new name? This could carry over to the Central States....

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