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Title: Most left exits in a row
Post by: bugo on April 17, 2019, 07:45:51 PM
On eastbound I-244 in downtown Tulsa, there are three left exits in a row: the Tisdale parkway, MLK (Cincinnati)/Detroit and US 75. This picture illustrates this example of poor freeway design. I-244 is the official Left Exit Freeway with 23 left exits or entrances in its 15.75 mile length. One of the worst designed freeways in the country.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8657/16550049376_ca9c06e910_c.jpg)

Are there any highways with four or more left exits in a row anywhere in the drives-on-the-right world?
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: ilpt4u on April 17, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: coldshoulder on April 18, 2019, 11:03:57 AM
Quote from: bugo on April 17, 2019, 07:45:51 PM
On eastbound I-244 in downtown Tulsa, there are three left exits in a row: the Tisdale parkway, MLK (Cincinnati)/Detroit and US 75. This picture illustrates this example of poor freeway design. I-244 is the official Left Exit Freeway with 23 left exits or entrances in its 15.75 mile length. One of the worst designed freeways in the country.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8657/16550049376_ca9c06e910_c.jpg)

Are there any highways with four or more left exits in a row anywhere in the drives-on-the-right world?

Looks like it's actually four consecutive left exits:  Exit 5B for US 64/US 412 West, just prior to the ones shown on your photo.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: Mergingtraffic on April 18, 2019, 04:24:57 PM
HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.

Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: Brandon on April 18, 2019, 04:56:10 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on April 17, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway

There were never any left exits in that stretch.  They were right exits and left entrances, at each and every block!

https://goo.gl/maps/TunbyhKSaWCufihRA
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: kphoger on April 18, 2019, 05:30:06 PM
From 1951 until 1973, the southbound West Side Elevated Highway (Manhattan, NYC) had five or six consecutive left exits–depending on how you count the final split at Battery Park:

57 St
46 St
19 St
Canal St
Duane St
(Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel)
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: Rothman on April 18, 2019, 05:32:51 PM
Quote from: Brandon on April 18, 2019, 04:56:10 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on April 17, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway

There were never any left exits in that stretch.  They were right exits and left entrances, at each and every block!

https://goo.gl/maps/TunbyhKSaWCufihRA
I miss the Cave.  Dated a girl from Darien and she took me through there.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: bugo on April 18, 2019, 09:48:20 PM
Quote from: coldshoulder on April 18, 2019, 11:03:57 AM
Looks like it's actually four consecutive left exits:  Exit 5B for US 64/US 412 West, just prior to the ones shown on your photo.

Of course. I forgot about that one.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on April 18, 2019, 10:22:01 PM
I-110 in Baton Rouge. (2 SB, 3 NB)
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: hotdogPi on April 18, 2019, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:42:13 PM
Quote from: 1 on April 18, 2019, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.

I didn't even see that sentence until after you mentioned it. Got sort of swallowed up below the picture–I had to look twice to confirm I wasn't seeing an autosignature.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: jp the roadgeek on April 19, 2019, 10:31:24 AM
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on April 18, 2019, 04:24:57 PM
HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.

Closest you have is 3 out of 4 on I-84 East in Plainville/New Britain and on I-84 West in East Hartford.  Eastbound you have Exits 33 (CT 72 West), Exit 35 (CT 72 East), and Exit 36 (Slater Rd).  Westbound you have Exit 57 (Charter Oak Bridge), Exit 55 (CT 2 East) and Exit 54 (Founders Bridge).  Each instance falls within a 2 mile stretch. 
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: Mrt90 on April 19, 2019, 11:12:08 AM
In Milwaukee County, there is a left exit for I-43/US45 off of I-41 (I-894 bypass), and if you take that left exit to get on to I-43 the first exit for 108th street is also a left exit.  I occasionally go this way to get to the VW dealer in Franklin and those consecutive left exits always feel odd to me.


https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9625995,-88.0334282,3a,75y,297.47h,91.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4HtkkW8qedhRsh6TMSX76Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9571258,-88.0470428,3a,75y,225.8h,98.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2m8xQLz-sps6-mVQE2-eBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: skluth on April 19, 2019, 05:11:35 PM
It's only one ramp. But I-35E southbound in St Paul has one left exit that separates into four ramps - to I-94 east, US 52 southbound, Wacouta St, and 10th St East.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: cwf1701 on April 20, 2019, 05:59:33 PM
SB I-75/375 in Detroit only have 3 at exit 51. Mainline i-75 exits right onto the fisher freeway and in that area there is a left exit for Madison (Via I-375) and for Gratiot Ave (left hand on the ramp from the Chrysler to the Fisher).
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: shadyjay on April 20, 2019, 09:12:37 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 19, 2019, 10:31:24 AM
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on April 18, 2019, 04:24:57 PM
HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.
Closest you have is 3 out of 4 on I-84 East in Plainville/New Britain and on I-84 West in East Hartford.  Eastbound you have Exits 33 (CT 72 West), Exit 35 (CT 72 East), and Exit 36 (Slater Rd).  Westbound you have Exit 57 (Charter Oak Bridge), Exit 55 (CT 2 East) and Exit 54 (Founders Bridge).  Each instance falls within a 2 mile stretch. 

And within a few years, I-91 North will have 3 in a row, when Exit 29 gets converted.  So 29, 29A, and 32 will all be left exits (Exits 30,31 no longer exist northbound).  If you count the split ramps for Exits 32A-B, that makes 4 left exits within 1.5 miles +/-. 
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: X99 on April 28, 2019, 06:13:45 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:42:13 PM
Quote from: 1 on April 18, 2019, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.

I didn't even see that sentence until after you mentioned it. Got sort of swallowed up below the picture–I had to look twice to confirm I wasn't seeing an autosignature.
If you could find consecutive right exits in South Africa, the UK, or Australia, then you could use those. It's basically the same concept: inside exits.
Title: Re: Most left exits in a row
Post by: MCRoads on May 06, 2019, 09:44:25 AM
DFW Connector has like 7 left exits, in a row, in the DFW terminal aria alone! So... I think I win?