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Making US-258/W. Mercury Blvd. a Freeway

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74/171FAN:

--- Quote from: deathtopumpkins on February 04, 2009, 10:38:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: froggie on February 02, 2009, 10:11:01 PM ---
--- Quote ---I've mentioned this before, but VA/NC-168, and US-158 between Chesapeake, VA, and Nags Head, NC.
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A better case could be made for Northampton between 64 and Diamond Springs (if not all the way to Shore Dr)...


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Yeah, that would be good too. It's rather annoying getting off the interstate, sitting through a couple of traffic lights, and then back on the highway without a stoplight for the next 40 miles. This is actually one of the reasons I've stopped taking US-13 when heading north.


I came up with another good one:
US-258/W. Mercury Blvd. between VA-278/King St. and I-64. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hampton,+VA&sll=38.88306,-94.785589&sspn=147.765094,316.40625&ie=UTF8&ll=37.041819,-76.368628&spn=0.049053,0.077248&t=h&z=14) This, despite being 10 lanes wide for most of it, not counting turn lanes, is a traffic nightmare, as about 100,000 people have to use it as their most direct access to I-64 West. So I propose sacrificing the inner lane going each way from just west of King St., and in that space combined with the existing 3-lane-wide median, build an elevated 4-lane freeway with ramps at LaSalle Ave. (Google Earth says VA-167, but I've never seen it signed as a state route - An existing cloverleaf), Armistead Ave./VA-134 (The mega-intersection with the 3 left turn lanes), and a westbound offramp and eastbound onramp at Coliseum Mall (future site of Hampton Towne Center Mall), before the elevated lanes merge with I-64 WB at its existing interchange with US-258. One of these days I'm actually going to draw up a plan for all of this and maybe get something done about it.

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DTP:So how would US 258 SB traffic exit the freeway before I-64 if the freeway defaults onto I-64 WB?

deathtopumpkins:
I said in that quote, a WB (SB 258) offramp and EB (NB 258) onramp and Coliseum, which is the last intersection before the 64 interchange.

74/171FAN:

--- Quote from: deathtopumpkins on March 14, 2009, 01:49:34 AM ---I said in that quote, a WB (SB 258) offramp and EB (NB 258) onramp and Coliseum, which is the last intersection before the 64 interchange.

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  So the ramps would go to US 258 and the Coliseum I'm presuming?

froggie:
Sounds to me like he's proposing an elevated, elongated flyover that would serve the following four movements:

- EB 64 to EB Mercury (with the touchdown at King St)
- Coliseum Dr to EB Mercury (as above, with the touchdown at King St)
- WB Mercury to WB 64 (with the ramp beginning at King St)
- WB Mercury to Coliseum Dr (as above, with the ramp beginning at King St)

deathtopumpkins:
Yeah, that's it basically it froggie. But think more 'elevated freeway' not 'elongated flyover'. As I believe I previously mentioned, in addition to the ramps to 64 and it touching down at King St., there would also be ramps serving Coliseum Dr., Armistead Ave., and LaSalle Ave.

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