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Title: Industry exits
Post by: cjk374 on September 13, 2017, 09:01:32 PM
We have an industry exit on I-20 next exit down from mine:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.5465458,-92.7620613,0a,75y,274.46h,90.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s8X6f-SelHELFWZ_PKl20UQ!2e0 Check out I-20 Shared via the #StreetView app

I know somewhere on I-10 in the Lake Charles/Sulfur area is an exit listed as "Sulfur Industries" (can't remember the exit number).

Are there other Industry exits out there anywhere?

Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Brandon on September 13, 2017, 10:28:35 PM
Cline Avenue (IN-912): https://goo.gl/maps/gJuy2t3xpf92
Primarily used for the steel mill, but does have other access.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Joe The Dragon on September 13, 2017, 10:37:27 PM
75th st for the most part on I-294
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7530206,-87.8719016,792m/data=!3m1!1e3
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: davewiecking on September 13, 2017, 10:50:14 PM
Does NASA Goddard count as an "industry"?

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0055953,-76.8584033,1650m/data=!3m1!1e3

I was going to suggest the CIA, but that's another in the "primarily" or "for the most part" category...

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9560114,-77.1418361,1027m/data=!3m1!1e3
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: jp the roadgeek on September 13, 2017, 10:58:55 PM
In MA, I-495 Exit 23C was built specifically for an office park.  And in RI, I-295 Exit 5 was created specifically for the RI Resources Recovery Plant. And several exits on I-890 in Schenectady were created for the GE Plant.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: ilpt4u on September 13, 2017, 11:21:06 PM
I-180 in IL was built for a Steel Factory, that closed anyway...
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: theline on September 13, 2017, 11:21:45 PM
Is this what you have in mind (U. S. Steel Gary Works exit from Indiana Toll Road)?
https://goo.gl/maps/4c7cbccE7cr (https://goo.gl/maps/4c7cbccE7cr)
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: ilpt4u on September 13, 2017, 11:26:35 PM
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7677.0

Out in Reno, NV...

From what I can tell, the road was built originally by private developers, for an industrial park (now anchored by Tesla). NV took it over and expanded, apparently
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: wanderer2575 on September 14, 2017, 12:28:15 AM
I-94 in Dearborn, MI -- exit 208 is a spur road into the Ford Motor Company plant, although from the freeway it's signed only as the exit to Schaefer Road.

https://goo.gl/maps/WkCGGvHkkby
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Sanctimoniously on September 14, 2017, 02:42:53 AM
Quote from: cjk374 on September 13, 2017, 09:01:32 PM
We have an industry exit on I-20 next exit down from mine:

I used to pass that exit all the time running between Monroe and Minden or Shreveport. Always thought it was actually a town called Industry.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: sparker on September 14, 2017, 04:26:30 AM
There's a whole slew of exits on CA 60 for the City of Industry.  Ironically, that's almost precisely what it is; the city government (what there is of it) consists of a council elected from meetings of firms located within city limits (if you don't show up, you won't get elected -- or your concerns won't be heard!).  Only about 300 people actually live within the city limits (all in a few square blocks at the western end of town near Whittier); they're invited to council meetings as well, but rarely show up (the city "piggybacks" on neighboring school and utility districts and is policed, under contract, by L.A. sheriffs).  It's also the strip-club capital of greater Los Angeles, since there's really no one in city government that objects to such activity (some actually consider those places to be a localized "perk" for employees).  When I owned a OEM speaker design/assembly business in San Dimas in the late '90's and early '00's, I had my cabinetry made in the City of Industry, and got the "skinny" on how the city operated from the owner of the cabinet shop, who had been there since the mid-70's; his father-in-law, who owned the company before him, was on the city council for a couple of years around 1980.  As incorporated cities go, it is certainly an anomaly -- extends almost 15 miles east-to-west through the Walnut Valley, centered on the UP rail main line -- but only averaging 1.5 miles north-to-south.   
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: cjk374 on September 14, 2017, 05:24:34 AM
Quote from: Sanctimoniously on September 14, 2017, 02:42:53 AM
Quote from: cjk374 on September 13, 2017, 09:01:32 PM
We have an industry exit on I-20 next exit down from mine:

I used to pass that exit all the time running between Monroe and Minden or Shreveport. Always thought it was actually a town called Industry.

Many people think that. When you take the exit, there is a guide sign that points you to Simsboro.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Scott5114 on September 14, 2017, 05:44:16 AM
Copying my description from the "isolated exits" thread for I-70 exit 421A in Kansas City, KS:

Quote from: Scott5114 on September 05, 2017, 08:42:31 PM
It's marked "RR Yard - No Outlet - Railroad Use Only". Legally, from there the only place you can go is to make a U turn and go back the way you came on I-70. If you continue onward, you're connected to a maze of one-lane roads that snake around the Union Pacific rail yard, some of which do come out on the other side and connect to various other Kansas City streets. But it's quite clear from the No Trespassing signs that's not something the general public is supposed to be doing.

Quote from: davewiecking on September 13, 2017, 10:50:14 PM
I was going to suggest the CIA, but that's another in the "primarily" or "for the most part" category...

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9560114,-77.1418361,1027m/data=!3m1!1e3

Interestingly, this exit appears to be signed for an FHWA facility too. Looking at the satellite, you can definitely tell how to get to the FHWA facility–it has far, far more pavement markings than any other parking lot you'll ever see!
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: froggie on September 14, 2017, 09:23:16 AM
Quote from: Scott5114Interestingly, this exit appears to be signed for an FHWA facility too. Looking at the satellite, you can definitely tell how to get to the FHWA facility–it has far, far more pavement markings than any other parking lot you'll ever see!

That would be the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center...
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: thefraze_1020 on September 14, 2017, 10:15:36 AM
Off of WA-526 in Everett, there is a full interchange to Seaway Blvd, which almost entirely serves industries. However, off of Seaway Blvd is an exit devoted to Boeing.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Everett,+WA/@47.9257266,-122.2656151,15.88z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x5490006404f52f5b:0x72449f271b24790!8m2!3d47.9789848!4d-122.2020794?hl=en
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Flint1979 on September 14, 2017, 10:29:41 AM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on September 14, 2017, 12:28:15 AM
I-94 in Dearborn, MI -- exit 208 is a spur road into the Ford Motor Company plant, although from the freeway it's signed only as the exit to Schaefer Road.

https://goo.gl/maps/WkCGGvHkkby
That's just one part of that exit. There is an exit ramp that takes you to Butler Road and then from there you can go to either Greenfield or Schaefer.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: JasonOfORoads on September 14, 2017, 08:05:55 PM
I-84 in the Columbia River Gorge has an exit devoted to the Bonneville Dam: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6343041,-121.9558404,16.25z

There are also hiking trails there, but I'd say the vast majority of traffic is dam-bound.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: cpzilliacus on September 15, 2017, 10:32:31 AM
Quote from: froggie on September 14, 2017, 09:23:16 AM
Quote from: Scott5114Interestingly, this exit appears to be signed for an FHWA facility too. Looking at the satellite, you can definitely tell how to get to the FHWA facility–it has far, far more pavement markings than any other parking lot you'll ever see!

That would be the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center...

For many, many years this exit was signed "Bureau of Public Roads" (even long after BPR had left the Commerce Department and become the Federal Highway Administration under the new USDOT) - and, of course, no mention of the Central Intelligence Agency).

It got to the point that it was a running joke, because anyone living in the Washington area knew that this was a "back door" entrance to the CIA's Langley campus.  I think it was in the 1980's or early 1990's that the CIA and the National Park Service finally agreed to signs that mentioned the CIA.

After that, the NPS installed signs on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that made reference to the "NSA" (not National Security Agency). Now there are also signs on the Parkway that point drivers to the National Cryptologic Museum, which is on the edge of the NSA campus in a former motel that NSA bought-out, and open to the public.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: cpzilliacus on September 15, 2017, 10:46:40 AM
How about Exits 215 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B009'01.2%22N+80%C2%B053'20.4%22W/@41.15034,-80.8933694,945m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x88315ed7d57c51fd:0xae3b2df58c067b14!2sLordstown,+OH!3b1!8m2!3d41.1656129!4d-80.8575849!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d41.1503395!4d-80.888992?hl=en) and 216 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B008'24.4%22N+80%C2%B052'01.5%22W/@41.1387272,-80.8725253,945m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x88315ed7d57c51fd:0xae3b2df58c067b14!2sLordstown,+OH!3b1!8m2!3d41.1656129!4d-80.8575849!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d41.1401166!4d-80.8670749?hl=en) on the I-80 section of the Ohio Turnpike?

I have never had reason to exit here, but it seems that these exist mostly to serve traffic coming to and from the General Motors Lordstown Assembly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordstown_Assembly) complex.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Joe The Dragon on September 15, 2017, 08:15:20 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on September 13, 2017, 11:21:06 PM
I-180 in IL was built for a Steel Factory, that closed anyway...
was also part of a much bigger plan look near peoria il for where it was to go.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Bitmapped on September 16, 2017, 08:58:07 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on September 15, 2017, 10:46:40 AM
How about Exits 215 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B009'01.2%22N+80%C2%B053'20.4%22W/@41.15034,-80.8933694,945m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x88315ed7d57c51fd:0xae3b2df58c067b14!2sLordstown,+OH!3b1!8m2!3d41.1656129!4d-80.8575849!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d41.1503395!4d-80.888992?hl=en) and 216 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B008'24.4%22N+80%C2%B052'01.5%22W/@41.1387272,-80.8725253,945m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x88315ed7d57c51fd:0xae3b2df58c067b14!2sLordstown,+OH!3b1!8m2!3d41.1656129!4d-80.8575849!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d41.1401166!4d-80.8670749?hl=en) on the I-80 section of the Ohio Turnpike?

I have never had reason to exit here, but it seems that these exist mostly to serve traffic coming to and from the General Motors Lordstown Assembly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordstown_Assembly) complex.

The exit was built because of GM's Lordstown Assembly plant, but it connects to the local road network including SR 45. It's the way to get to the Turnpike from downtown Warren.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: JJBers on September 17, 2017, 12:19:30 AM
Exit 46 on CT 8 has a bunch of industry, with not that much outside of it.
Also I guess Exit 43 on I-395...
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: MCRoads on September 17, 2017, 02:19:42 PM
Quote from: davewiecking on September 13, 2017, 10:50:14 PM

I was going to suggest the CIA, but that's another in the "primarily" or "for the most part" category...

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9560114,-77.1418361,1027m/data=!3m1!1e3


CIA exit also happens to lead (somehow) to the Federal Highway Administration...
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.954374,-77.1387385,3a,18.3y,-10.47h,93.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suRVCWbSBiWCW2tBr2V-hJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: bing101 on September 17, 2017, 02:43:47 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road

Sand Hill road exit off I-280 in the southern portion of San Mateo County.

That is an industry exit for the Venture capital companies.

Also there's Air Force Parkway Exit in Fairfield,Ca because of Travis Air Force Base halfway from both San Francisco and Sacramento. Some defense contractors are in the area though in association with the Air base.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Roadgeekteen on September 17, 2017, 07:30:22 PM
37c on I-93
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: hotdogPi on September 17, 2017, 07:36:57 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 17, 2017, 07:30:22 PM
37c on I-93

A commuter rail station is not an industrial center.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: SectorZ on September 17, 2017, 09:21:48 PM
Quote from: 1 on September 17, 2017, 07:36:57 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 17, 2017, 07:30:22 PM
37c on I-93

A commuter rail station is not an industrial center.

Or a Target, Petsmart, etc.

In fact, it actually goes to very little industry out of anything it serves.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: mwb1848 on September 18, 2017, 06:10:13 PM
Nissan Parkway north of Jackson, Mississippi:
https://goo.gl/maps/K1uEHUmHfZU2

"Industrial Park" as a control city for MS 611 at US 90 in Pascagoula, Mississippi:
https://goo.gl/maps/RYYXPEECXzN2
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: dvferyance on September 18, 2017, 06:25:16 PM
The Aresnel Rd interchange off of I-55.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: roadfro on September 19, 2017, 02:02:33 AM
One in Nevada, about 45 miles northwest of the outskirts of Las Vegas on US 95, is the isolated exit for Mercury. This is an exit that leads to the Nevada Test Site, infamous for the majority of the US's atomic bomb testing. Mercury is the name of the closed town within the test site that housed workers at the test site.) The site no longer tests weapons, but subcritical nuclear testing and research activity is still carried out there.


Quote from: ilpt4u on September 13, 2017, 11:26:35 PM
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7677.0

Out in Reno, NV...

From what I can tell, the road was built originally by private developers, for an industrial park (now anchored by Tesla). NV took it over and expanded, apparently

It's actually about 13 miles east of the Reno-Sparks metro area on I-80, and in another county. But yes, the northernmost 6-ish miles of USA Parkway were originally constructed by the developer of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. NDOT assumed ownership of the road as part of the state's Tesla deal, brought it up to state highway design standards, and recently completed it's extension to US 50.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: CapeCodder on September 20, 2017, 11:37:28 AM
There's an exit off of 170 in MO that goes to Boeing.
Title: Re: Industry exits
Post by: Brandon on September 20, 2017, 04:10:28 PM
Quote from: dvferyance on September 18, 2017, 06:25:16 PM
The Aresnel Rd interchange off of I-55.

That one serves far more than just industry.  In fact, the reason the industry is there is because of the interchange.