Good-Latimer Expressway

[bugo]

Is this just a city street?  I haven't driven it, but from the looks of things it's just a normal 4-6 lane street with an occasional median north of I-30.  It was once US 75, but was it just a half-assed bypass of downtown?

[Brian556]

See this topic:https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=6517.msg144865#msg144865

US 75 originally passed thru downtown Dallas on the west end. it came up Lamar, turned NE on Ross, then north on Greenville.
When Central Expy was built, 75 passed thru the east end of downtown on Central/Pearl Expy (city streets). To the south, a temporary connection to it from Lamar was established. Due to inconsistant maps, I am not sure if it was one two way street or a one-way pair.

I am not sure when Good- Latimer was built, but it seems to have been soon after S Central Expy was built. The maps are a little inconsistant, but it appears to have been built before US 75 was moved from Lamar to the (now US 175/ SH 310) corridor.

It remained US 75 until the 1987 decomissioning of US 75 from Dallas to Galveston. At that time it became SPUR 599, until that was decomissioned in 1991. it's now just a city street.

[bugo]

75 hopped off the Central Expressway as late as 1987? Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

[Brian556]

I believe that 75 did indeed continue to use Good-Latimer up to 1987.
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/ss/ss0559.htm

As for I-345 being signed, I dunno.

[txstateends]

Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

Never, to my knowledge.

[Road Hog]

Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

Never, to my knowledge.

I-345 does not exist in signage. The freeway is signed I-45 Houston from the north and U.S. 75 McKinney from the south.

[txstateends]

Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

Ooops, that's what I get for posting without some of this !!

I just saw the "was I-345 north signed" part....

Never, to my knowledge.

I-345 does not exist in signage. The freeway is signed I-45 Houston from the north and U.S. 75 McKinney from the south.

[TXtoNJ]

75 hopped off the Central Expressway as late as 1987? Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

A few years ago, driving on old South Central Expy, now Cesar Chavez, I saw an old button copy sign designating it as US 75 Business.

[austrini]

Good-Latimer was part of the Central Boulevard plan in 1942. There were two sections of it, Good-Latimer and Preston-Pearl/now Cesar Chavez and they both opened in late 1956. They split at the south end of the expressway section near Live Oak and re-converged between Grand and Forest/now MLK. 

The city called it the Latimer Expressway in initial plans, named after Latimer Street which it ran over (named for Weck Latimer, editor of the Dallas Herald). It also went over Good Street, and the relatives of John Jay Good (early mayor) asked the city to perpetuate the street name they added it on.

[bugo]

Was I-345 north signed US 75 north as it is today?

Never, to my knowledge.

It's signed as US 75 today.