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Interstate 235 in Oklahoma

Started by FakeMikeMorgan, August 09, 2021, 05:11:33 AM

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Quote from: SkyPesos on August 13, 2021, 11:03:11 PM
^ Interesting that there used to be three cities with both US 40 and US 50 (considering that they're both x0), San Francisco, Kansas City and St Louis. Also that US 40/50 used to cross a major body of water in the US together twice, as those two used to have a concurrency on the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River, as well as the Bay Bridge pictured above.

US x0's had a penchant for multiplexing with each other:  20 & 30 through western Idaho, 30 & 40 with a functional eastern common terminus at Atlantic City, 40 & 50 as cited above, 60 & 70 in AZ and CA, with the infamous "triplex" of 60/70/80 in greater Phoenix, followed by 70 & 80 in southern NM.  While US 90 originally ended at US 80, it was otherwise "free of involvement" with the other X0's.  That left US 10 as the only x0 that never intersected with another x0!


TheStranger

Quote from: SkyPesos on August 13, 2021, 11:03:11 PM
^ Interesting that there used to be three cities with both US 40 and US 50 (considering that they're both x0), San Francisco, Kansas City and St Louis. Also that US 40/50 used to cross a major body of water in the US together twice, as those two used to have a concurrency on the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River, as well as the Bay Bridge pictured above.

Don't forget that the two routes (40 and 50) bounced off each other at the edge of downtown/midtown Sacramento for some time as well!  Basically around where N Street and 15th Street intersect (which also was the historic start of the 99W/99E split).

Chris Sampang

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Also for a good 20 years, US 40 and 50 were concurrent between West Wendover and the Salt Lake City area. That wasn't in the original plan, but the road across the deserts between Ely and Delta was in terrible shape at the time.

A new, better road between Ely and Delta was built by the early 1950s, and US 50 was moved to that ... but an Alternate US 50 was designated at that time along the old 50 alignment through Salt Lake, still concurrent with 40 between Wendover and Salt Lake. Alt 50 lasted through the mid-1970s, when it was decommissioned along with US 40 west of its I-80 junction near Park City.



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