Mini Freeways

[3467]

Sorry Mason City and Iowa City do connect to Interstate. There are several along Iowa 60 too.
Also were any supposed to be part of an unfinished project. The Iowa ones are all bypasses on expressways.
Illinois Elgin was to connect with the now 390
394 to an Illinoi1 or Illiana
Stony Island feeder to Lake Shore Drive
And 171 possibly a DesPlaines river freeway.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Alfred Harrell Hwy (Bakersfield, CA)- https://www.google.com/maps/dir/35.4127881,-118.9675282/35.4453041,-118.9221404/@35.4235937,-118.9472416,2808m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e0

[GaryA]

CA 126 has a short freeway section at its eastern end (in addition to the longer western section that connects to US 101).  This freeway section runs from I-5 westward, but the interchange with I-5 has signals. 

The one interchange on this stretch is Exit 13, which seems to only count the highway's freeway mileage (the last exit on the western section is Exit 12).

[Revive 755]

There's a few I remember from St Louis

• US 67 between the Rock Rd and Natural Bridge Rd then underneath the runway. There is a RIRO at Lone Eagle Drive, but I've seen other freeways with those.
• There are a few short limited access sections of MO 141 the longest of which is between Page and Ladue Rd
• The west end of Forest Park Blvd is limited access as is a small section in NE Forest Park
• MO 30 is a freeway across the Meramec River and MO 141
• IL 3 in Columbia is a freeway between I-255 and Main St
• MO 367 from I-270 to the Missouri River (may be too long for this thread)
• MO 79 for a short distance north of I-70

Most of those have a connection to another freeway.  The exceptions would be MO 30, parts of MO 141, and part of Forest Parkway Parkway

Additional ones for Illinois:

* IL 3/Homer Adams Parkway around Alton
* US 50 around Breese
* The north end of the SIUE access road
* I don't beleive anyone has mentioned Palatine Road yet
* IL 120 and US 41 have freeway segments where they connect, but otherwise these two segments are disconnected from any other freeways.

[index]

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9865309,-78.3244272,15.81z

Faircloth Frwy/US 421 in Clinton, NC.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1498699,-78.9608562,4471m/data=!3m1!1e3

NC 210 near Fort Bragg. This one is kind of cheating, because it does connect uninterrupted to I-295, which would disqualify it, but it does have two unused at-grade intersections.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7345797,-80.7756452,799m/data=!3m1!1e3

This part of the Lancaster, SC Bypass might count.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.383095,-80.647807,15.39z

George W. Liles Pkwy in Concord, NC. Those two past links might be bordering on just a regular road with an interchange, rather than a mini freeway. Liles Pkwy is certainly built like a freeway for that segment though.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2294116,-80.9372498,2512m/data=!3m1!1e3

Because the Billy Graham Pkwy has at-grade intersections, Josh Birmingham Parkway at CLT seems to count.

Honorable mentions:

All-American Frwy in Fayetteville before I-295.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9992846,-80.5497321,755m/data=!3m1!1e3

If it weren't for the H&R block, US 74/NC 200 in Monroe between two commercial driveways would be one.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7208102,-80.7464315,1040m/data=!3m1!1e3

If it wasn't for an access road to some warehouses and Lancaster's sewer department, part of US 521/Lancaster Bypass would count.

[wanderer2575]

In Michigan, we have the 9.9 mile M-53 freeway between Sterling Heights and Washington.

https://goo.gl/maps/g4VdR8GB3tXjMiWr8

[Beeper1]

CT-187/189 in Bloomfield. 

CT/RI-78 bypass near Westerly.

[Occidental Tourist]

Can't believe no one has mentioned CA 154 in Santa Barbara, a super-2 with one limited access interchange.

[bing101]

Richmond parkway in Contra Costa County, California has a section that resembles a freeway but overall it's an arterial road according to this article. Note that freeway section was at one point a proposed CA-93 Highway for Caltrans but that didn't pan out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Parkway_(California)

[bing101]

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/06/04/northbound-san-jose-ave-goes-on-road-diet-gains-buffered-bike-lane/
https://sfbike.org/news/a-new-ride-on-san-jose-avenue/
San Francisco has a street with a mini freeway segment on San Jose Ave.

[Bruce]

In the Vancouver area: the Knight Street Bridge and its approaches

[sbeaver44]

More PA:
- PA 8 freeway doesn't actually start at I-80, but a bit North, leading toward Franklin
- PA 924 has a freeway-like segment with an exit for Gilberton
- US 11/15 Selinsgrove Bypass (will eventually connect to PA 147 Freeway)
- US 220 Super-2 Bypass of Towanda
- US 30 Greensburg and Everett bypasses
- some of the PA 879 Clearfield Super-2

Elsewhere:
- US 48 Elkins WV
- WV 121
- KY 3174 between VA 80/Breaks VA and KY 80/Elkhorn City (Corr Q)
- US 23/119/460/KY 80 Pikeville Cut-Through
- US 13/50 Salisbury MD
- possibly DE 1, Milford
-US 15/17/29 Warrenton VA

[Dirt Roads]

Elsewhere:
- US 48 Elkins WV
- WV 121

Neither of these truly qualify, but it should be noted that modern WVDOH expressways closely resemble freeways (until the development comes alongside, which is encouraged and needed).  In the worst case, you get a situation like Corridor G in the Southridge section of Charleston (which desperately needs a bypass).

[vdeane]

^ It's too bad they don't appear to leave enough room at the intersections at least so that they could build interchanges as traffic and development increase.

[interstate73]

NY-13 in Ithaca fits the bill, with the freeway portion lasting just 3.6 miles between the Willow St light in the Flats and the Warren St light by the Airport.

[Dirt Roads]

^ It's too bad they don't appear to leave enough room at the intersections at least so that they could build interchanges as traffic and development increase.

Don't let the politics fool you.  By and far, West Virginians are quite friendly.  They would like you to come an stay a spell.  Tourism (particularly scenic tourism) is one of the main economic drivers for the state.  No reason for you to blow right on by, but interchanges at major intersections will make your visit a little bit easier.

[DJ Particle]

NY-13 in Ithaca fits the bill, with the freeway portion lasting just 3.6 miles between the Willow St light in the Flats and the Warren St light by the Airport.

IMHO NY-13 needs to be a freeway from I-86 all the way to Ithaca.  Even back in the early 1990s traffic levels between NY-13 and (then) NY-17 were horrendous.

[mgk920]

NY-13 in Ithaca fits the bill, with the freeway portion lasting just 3.6 miles between the Willow St light in the Flats and the Warren St light by the Airport.

IMHO NY-13 needs to be a freeway from I-86 all the way to Ithaca.  Even back in the early 1990s traffic levels between NY-13 and (then) NY-17 were horrendous.

I'd go all the way to I-81 at Cortland, NY.

Anyways, didn't the self-actualized NIMBYs at Cornell put the kibosh on any further upgrades to NY 13?

Mike

[cockroachking]

NY-13 in Ithaca fits the bill, with the freeway portion lasting just 3.6 miles between the Willow St light in the Flats and the Warren St light by the Airport.

IMHO NY-13 needs to be a freeway from I-86 all the way to Ithaca.  Even back in the early 1990s traffic levels between NY-13 and (then) NY-17 were horrendous.

A full freeway is overkill, certainly south of Ithaca, where traffic counts are mostly in the 7000s. South of NY-34/96, they could add more turn lanes and maybe give it the 2+1 treatment. The 13/34/96 section should be 4 lanes +TWLTL. North of Ithaca, twin NY-13, bypass Dryden and Cortland, tie it in with Exit 12, and turn anything that is/would be signalized into an interchange.

[webny99]

As to NY 13, I would say corridor upgrades are much more pressing for Ithaca-Cortland than they are for Ithaca-Elmira. Fortunately, NY 366 and CR 105 provide some redundancy, but there's still much more traffic to/from I-81 at Cortland than there is to/from I-86.

[Rothman]

Outside of NIMBYism, the 366 "bypass" and locally-known bypass around the main intersection in Dryden keep calls for a full freeway on NY 13 down to a minimum.

If anything, I find driving through Ithaca itself to be much more miserable than the drives to and from it, but an Ithaca bypass would be far too destructive to the terrain and gorges in the surrounding area.

[michravera]

CA 77 fits this thread perfectly:

https://www.gribblenation.org/2019/02/california-state-route-77-real-shortest.html?m=1

Nothing quite as short as CASR-77, but there are freeway sections of both CASR-1 and US-101 in California that don't connect to any other freeways. Now, both of those ROUTES eventually connect to other freeways, but several freeway portions do not.

Watt Avenue, Howe Avenue, and Sunrise Bvld in Sacramento County all have short freeway portions (along with, in some cases, designated freeway sections further out that haven't been built as freeway), but all connect to US-50.

The Watt section:
Two interchanges (La Riviera Drive, American River Drive); prior to about 2010-2011, there was a cloverleaf with US 50 itself.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sacramento,+CA+95826/@38.5644026,-121.3846691,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x809ac4cac6626f59:0xd5574d7ea6648b2a!8m2!3d38.5499634!4d-121.3884671

The overpasses of Watt above La Riviera and American River Drive are due to Watt crossing the American River itself.  IIRC this was all built as part of the US 50 freeway project, with the section of Watt from US 50 to Jackson Road (so south of the mini-freeway) originally proposed as a Route 16 reroute that never happened.

Howe has one interchange with La Riviera northbound past US 50 but I don't think this really counts as a mini-freeway as there are no other interchanges after.

Sunrise doesn't appear to be a mini-freeway at all.

At the time of the Building of US-50, Watt stopped at Folsom Blvd. Howe was designated as part of CASR-16. Sunrise has (or at least had) interchanges over the river and in sections between US-50 freeway and the river.

[3467]

I can add 4 more to the 4 downstate previously
US 50 @ Indiana line
US 20 Freeport Bypass
US 67 Jacksonville Bypass
IL 110 Macomb Bypass
I found 7 spurs under 20 miles downstate.
I'm addition to the 5 unconnected in Chicago area I find 11 connected.
For Iowa 27 unconnected  bypasses. 7 connected.

[skluth]

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.

[JayhawkCO]

According to Rand McNally, we basically have four examples in Colorado:
CO47 which is a partial beltway of Pueblo that doesn't connect to anything else while still a freeway. It has a stoplight at its intersection with I-25.
US50 in Pueblo which is a freeway between Troy Street and 4th Street.
CO21 which is a freeway on the northeast side of Colorado Springs.
US285 is limited access between Santa Fe (US85) and Federal (CO88) for a bit before it goes back to open access for about a half a mile then back to limited access all the way to C-470 and a bit beyond.

It looks like others have slightly looser requirements to call it a freeway than me, so then I can also add the following:
US160 by Mesa Verde is divided and has an exit
CO83 off of I-25 has a stoplight at the exit off of I-225 (therefore, not "connecting"), but then has two consecutive exits.