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Started by GreenLanternCorps, June 09, 2022, 09:46:00 AM

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sprjus4

Quote from: skluth on June 16, 2022, 12:28:12 PM
Here's a short section of US 400 that's a freeway. There's also a short Super 2 several miles to the east and a slightly longer Super 2 north of Parsons.
All I see here is a four lane divided highway with an interchange, with intersections on either side. I'm not sure I'd call that a full freeway design.


kphoger

Quote from: skluth on June 16, 2022, 12:28:12 PM
There's also a short Super 2 several miles to the east and a slightly longer Super 2 north of Parsons.

Those are just single interchanges along an otherwise at-grade highway.
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skluth

Quote from: kphoger on June 16, 2022, 01:18:53 PM
Quote from: skluth on June 16, 2022, 12:28:12 PM
There's also a short Super 2 several miles to the east and a slightly longer Super 2 north of Parsons.

Those are just single interchanges along an otherwise at-grade highway.

In both cases, at least one nearby crossing road was eliminated to make it a short, limited-access segment. The segment north of Parsons also has a bridge over a street and rail line.

Rothman

Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

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JREwing78

It's certainly mini, at .5 miles. And, per MDOT, it's limited access. It has TWO roads that cross it on an overpass. It even has a median barrier.

US-41 in Marquette, MI.
https://goo.gl/maps/qmy9Ks347VTcgRjf7

jay8g

Fleshman Way/Bryden Canyon Rd south of Lewiston, WA/Clarkston, ID is almost there, but it has one at-grade intersection on the Washington side and one weird interchange on the Idaho side. I suppose it could be considered a couple of separate, even shorter freeway segments.

lepidopteran

OH: US-127 as a bypass around Greenville.
OH: A stretch of US-23 within Delaware?  (US-30 around Upper Sandusky and/or Bucyrus used to qualify, before it was 4-laned all the way to I-71)
There are possibly other stretches of 23, 30, or other highways that qualify, since many "wishy-washy" 4-lane divided highways can vary haphazardly between at-grades and full limited-access.

PA: The US-15 bypass around Selinsgrove.  This is expected to be connected to I-80 later this decade.

NJ: NJ-33 around Freehold.  The eastern part is a divided Super-2.  This was originally supposed to connect to the now-cancelled Driscoll Expressway.

VA: US-15/17 around Warrenton

TEG24601

Technically WA's SR 509 is like this.  It begins at SR-99's interchange/street running at the south end of the First Avenue South Bridge, becomes a freeway, meets up with SR 518 at a diamond interchange (even though the latter is a freeway for the rest of its existence), and ends near the sound end of SeaTac Airport.  Eventually is is supposed to be extended to I-5, but that has been a pipe dream for over 40 years, at this point.


WA's SR 99 through Seattle could also be considered similar.  The entire tunneled section of the roadway, and the approach ramps from Spokane St. to same are access controlled as a freeway, as well as a section of Aurora Avenue to the north, where it becomes mostly an expressway, before becoming a stroad.


US 101's bypass of Sequim, WA is a fully grade-separated Super-2 to the south of the city.  It is a bit ironic, because to the West, it is a 4-lane divides expressway.
US 101 as another similar bypass around Shelton, WA, including the 4-lane expressway segment to the south of the Super-2.
They said take a left at the fork in the road.  I didn't think they literally meant a fork, until plain as day, there was a fork sticking out of the road at a junction.

RoadRebel

US-29 Church Street viaduct in downtown Greenville, SC. It has one full interchange and one partial interchange, as well as passing over and under several streets.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/qaV1VUgPgfK9pCHBA

US-221 bypass of Marion, NC. The freeway section is just over 5 miles long and only has 2 interchanges.

US-378 bypass of Sumter, SC. It is about 6 miles long and has frontage roads running nearly the entire length. It has 5 interchanges.

US-64 bypass of Pittsboro, NC. The freeway is just shy of 9 miles and has 5 interchanges.

About 4 miles of West Wendover Avenue in Greensboro, NC is a freeway.

NC-16 is a freeway from Optimist Club Rd south to Lucia-Riverbend Hwy. It only has 2 interchanges. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vro8LhXBpH7duGyX8
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Dirt Roads

It's been mentioned many other times on AARoads, but I don't believe anyone has added it to this thread yet:  TX-6 Bypass around College Station, Texas.  Part of this is multiplexed with US-190.

WillWeaverRVA

Totally forgot about the Lynchburg Expressway (US 29 BUSINESS and US 501), which exists only in the city of Lynchburg, VA and has no other freeway connections. It uses surface arterials to make the connection to the US 29/US 460 bypass (which I discuss on the Mini Freeway Networks thread Dirt Roads just started).

Lynchburg also has the Northwest Expressway, which has at-grade intersections at either end and only one interchange (Wiggington Rd). It's basically a super-2, though it does briefly widen to 4 lanes divided at its single interchange.
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Dirt Roads

Quote from: WillWeaverRVA on June 24, 2022, 09:53:39 AM
Totally forgot about the Lynchburg Expressway (US 29 BUSINESS and US 501), which exists only in the city of Lynchburg, VA and has no other freeway connections. It uses surface arterials to make the connection to the US 29/US 460 bypass (which I discuss on the Mini Freeway Networks thread Dirt Roads just started).

You forgot the Candler Mountain Road connector, which is a short freeway that connects the Lynchburg Expressway with the US-460 Richmond Highway/Lynchburg Highway.  I started to write up something about Lynchburg when this thread first started, and after thing about it for a bit, I disqualified myself.

Back when I pulled it up, the maps on Ducky back then (using Apple maps now but I'm not sure what they were using about a month ago), it was showing the Lynchburg Expressway fully interconnected with the US-29 Lynchburg-Madison Heights-Amherst Bypass.  That is certainly not the case, not even close.  They also showed the VA-210 Old Town Connector as a freeway, and that's not the case either.  So then, you can put the 12-mile freeway officially known as the Madison Heights Bypass on the list of Mini Freeways.

TheStranger

Just thought of one that I have driven on and surprisingly forgot about:

Route 99 (near former US 99E) in Yuba City, CA.  2 mile freeway segment which bypasses some residential neighborhoods but ends BEFORE 99 reaches Route 20; this short freeway also does not connect to the nearby Route 70 and Route 65 freeways (though in the past, a Route 65 bridge from Olivehurst to 99 has been proposed).

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Quote from: Dirt Roads on June 24, 2022, 10:52:05 AM
Quote from: WillWeaverRVA on June 24, 2022, 09:53:39 AM
Totally forgot about the Lynchburg Expressway (US 29 BUSINESS and US 501), which exists only in the city of Lynchburg, VA and has no other freeway connections. It uses surface arterials to make the connection to the US 29/US 460 bypass (which I discuss on the Mini Freeway Networks thread Dirt Roads just started).

You forgot the Candler Mountain Road connector, which is a short freeway that connects the Lynchburg Expressway with the US-460 Richmond Highway/Lynchburg Highway.  I started to write up something about Lynchburg when this thread first started, and after thing about it for a bit, I disqualified myself.

Back when I pulled it up, the maps on Ducky back then (using Apple maps now but I'm not sure what they were using about a month ago), it was showing the Lynchburg Expressway fully interconnected with the US-29 Lynchburg-Madison Heights-Amherst Bypass.  That is certainly not the case, not even close.  They also showed the VA-210 Old Town Connector as a freeway, and that's not the case either.  So then, you can put the 12-mile freeway officially known as the Madison Heights Bypass on the list of Mini Freeways.

Candlers Mountain Road isn't a freeway since it passes through two signalized intersections and some at-grade RIROs between the interchanges at the Lynchburg Expressway and Jerry Falwell Parkway.

lepidopteran

Did anyone mention the William Lehman Causeway (SR-856) in Miami-Dade County, FL?  1.7 miles.  Goes between a signalized T-intersection with US-1 and a partial interchange with SR-A1A.

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CtrlAltDel

Quote from: Dirt Roads on June 24, 2022, 08:57:43 AM
It's been mentioned many other times on AARoads, but I don't believe anyone has added it to this thread yet:  TX-6 Bypass around College Station, Texas.  Part of this is multiplexed with US-190.

I thought about that, but it is almost 40 miles long. It isn't connected to anything else though.
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Dirt Roads

Quote from: Dirt Roads on June 24, 2022, 08:57:43 AM
It's been mentioned many other times on AARoads, but I don't believe anyone has added it to this thread yet:  TX-6 Bypass around College Station, Texas.  Part of this is multiplexed with US-190.

Quote from: CtrlAltDel on July 06, 2022, 10:36:55 PM
I thought about that, but it is almost 40 miles long. It isn't connected to anything else though.

Everything really is bigger in Texas.

ethanhopkin14

Sorry I am late to the party, but wouldn't any US or state highway that has a freeway constructed bypass of a town be considered for this thread?  The list of those is astronomically long. 

Tom958

Georgia:

The Athens Perimeter, GA 10 Loop. The 44-foot median of the newer sections suggests that GDOT considered it an at-grade expressway with a lot of interchanges, and there was one signalized interchange until a few years ago, but it's full freeway now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9475838,-83.4096784,13.12z

The Monroe bypass, US 78
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7991289,-83.7193595,14.69z

The Rome three-bladed throwing star, US 27 and US 411
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2314199,-85.1537208,14.17z

The Bainbridge bypass, US 27 and US 84
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9065664,-84.5794671,14.48z

Liberty Boulevard in Albany, US 19, US 82, GA 300, and GA 520
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.5863538,-84.1584972,12.92z

The Chicamauga Park bypass, US 27
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9227868,-85.2470866,13.18z

Harry S. Truman Parkway in Savannah, unnumbered
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0266384,-81.0686978,12.66z

Ronald Reagan Parkway, unnumbered and closed to trucks, so does it qualify?
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8977791,-84.0777417,13.7z

Sugarloaf Parkway, unnumbered. It connects to GA 316 at one end, but it'll be a while before 316 is upgraded to freeway. Initially, it was also closed to trucks, but it's not anymore.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.949218,-83.9225722,13.44z

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, GA 141
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9340865,-84.2637835,14.66z

The Griffin Bypass, US 19-41
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2471974,-84.2849811,13.88z

sprjus4


Dirt Roads

Quote from: Tom958 on July 09, 2022, 12:01:51 PM
Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, GA 141
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9340865,-84.2637835,14.66z
Quote from: sprjus4 on July 09, 2022, 12:10:57 PM
Doesn't this technically connect to I-285?

The [westbound] freeway lanes connect to the I-285 Outer Perimeter but there is that left-turn from the [eastbound] lanes across the [westbound] lanes to the ramp for the I-285 Outer Perimeter.  Either way, GA-141 is not a complete freeway to reach the I-285 Inner Perimeter.

RobbieL2415

I-587 (NY)
US 7 freeway/super 2, Bennington to Manchester, VT
MA 116, Amherst
US 6 in Truro, MA has a short Super 4 segment with one unnumbered exit
NH 9, Keene

Tom958

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Quote from: sprjus4 on July 09, 2022, 12:10:57 PM
Quote from: Tom958 on July 09, 2022, 12:01:51 PM
Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, GA 141
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9340865,-84.2637835,14.66z
Doesn't this technically connect to I-285?

The interchange with 285 is signal controlled. So, in my opinion, not as a freeway.

This Streetview shows the signal controlling the northbound 141 to westbound 285 movement, and the traffic we see on southbound 141 is waiting to get through the signal that controls movement onto eastbound 285.



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