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Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« on: April 17, 2022, 12:43:05 PM »

I'm looking for freeway and expressway exits that are signed for residential streets. Ideally, the exit should both indicate and the exit necessarily put you on a two-way street with a speed limit below 50 km/h or 30MPH. This doesn't count exits with "a couple sharp turns" and then a major business or one-way street. No mall, stadium, amusement park, or casino parking lots either.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2022, 12:49:18 PM »

Would I-75 exit 8 with Towne St/Township Ave count? It's a residential street on both sides of the freeway, but the speed limit is 35 MPH east of I-75 and 25 mph west of it.

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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2022, 12:52:25 PM »

I-5 exit 168A in Seattle, to Lakeview Blvd:  https://goo.gl/maps/yC6RGSduCGJxhnKs9

SR 520 unnumbered exit in Clyde Hill, to 92nd Ave NE:  https://goo.gl/maps/7DG9QrsgkaFMkHnx8

I-90 exit 8 in Mercer Island, to E Mercer Way:  https://goo.gl/maps/XaECTRi7pHKXw4G49

And these're just the three I found first.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2022, 01:05:27 PM »

From my East Bay days, Broadway Terrace (Exit 5A) off CA 13 in the Oakland hills.

https://goo.gl/maps/E3KJvXJy8WpUN5RG7

Also St. Stephens Drive (Exit 10) off CA 24 in Orinda.  It accesses freeway frontage roads with 35 mph speed limits but the area is all very residential (and expensive) and the residential streets are narrow and winding.

https://goo.gl/maps/HUEG61E92ETbEg9P7
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2022, 01:09:07 PM »

I-5 exit 168A in Seattle, to Lakeview Blvd:  https://goo.gl/maps/yC6RGSduCGJxhnKs9

SR 520 unnumbered exit in Clyde Hill, to 92nd Ave NE:  https://goo.gl/maps/7DG9QrsgkaFMkHnx8

I-90 exit 8 in Mercer Island, to E Mercer Way:  https://goo.gl/maps/XaECTRi7pHKXw4G49

And these're just the three I found first.

I couldn't verify the speed limit or obvious residences on Lakeview. The exit is advised 45MPH. This looks more like a connecting road or two-way thoroughfare, but local knowledge is king.
 
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2022, 01:20:28 PM »

Exit 55 on MA 128 in Gloucester empties out into a neighborhood at Crafts Road.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2022, 01:39:20 PM »

I-5 at N 80th Street in Seattle (25 mph street that is mostly residential): https://goo.gl/maps/oYsp6p17nZH4Gjxn6
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2022, 01:41:44 PM »

The unnumbered exit on DC-295 that’s signed only for the River Terrace neighborhood immediately comes to mind.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2022, 01:47:42 PM »

The first that came to mind for New York is NY 17, exit 68. I think it fits in spirit, but doesn't meet the criteria (it's signed for a through street, albeit a very residential one). Also, this will be tough to find in New York generally, as speed limits below 30mph are uncommon–and where you do find 25mph limits, they'll be substantially no different in character than 30mph zones.

A major exception to the above will be NYC, so maybe that's the place to look. However, the two-way criterion will limit the options there.

Also, if you consider parkways as freeways, then you will find a bunch more examples.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2022, 02:51:27 PM »

The first that came to mind for New York is NY 17, exit 68. I think it fits in spirit, but doesn't meet the criteria (it's signed for a through street, albeit a very residential one). Also, this will be tough to find in New York generally, as speed limits below 30mph are uncommon–and where you do find 25mph limits, they'll be substantially no different in character than 30mph zones.

A major exception to the above will be NYC, so maybe that's the place to look. However, the two-way criterion will limit the options there.

Also, if you consider parkways as freeways, then you will find a bunch more examples.
I'm thinking the Dyckman Street exit off of 9A.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2022, 03:05:52 PM »

The first that came to mind for New York is NY 17, exit 68. I think it fits in spirit, but doesn't meet the criteria (it's signed for a through street, albeit a very residential one). Also, this will be tough to find in New York generally, as speed limits below 30mph are uncommon–and where you do find 25mph limits, they'll be substantially no different in character than 30mph zones.

A major exception to the above will be NYC, so maybe that's the place to look. However, the two-way criterion will limit the options there.

Also, if you consider parkways as freeways, then you will find a bunch more examples.

Two things:
1) I'm not sure how "parkways" work or are signed. I've not driven in New York State since 1977 nor been on ground transport outside of a New York airport since 1987. If they are limited access, stop sign free, at or near the state maximum speed limit, with at most an occasional signalized intersection, they count. If they fail on two or more of those, then certainly not. We can discuss the matter, if they fail only one of these.
2) I'm expecting this phenomenon to be fairly rare. I think that I know of such places on CASR-1 and US-101, but I'm not sure that my memory is correct (and how closely they fit the description). Monterey and Santa Rosa streets in San Luis Obispo, CA, for instance, exit into a business district that quickly becomes residential. .. and several exits make a few sharp turns as I described, but end up largely as a one-way street. Similar things happen in Monterey, but I haven't driven through or all of or taken anything like every exit in Monterey.


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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2022, 04:04:18 PM »

1) I'm not sure how "parkways" work or are signed. I've not driven in New York State since 1977 nor been on ground transport outside of a New York airport since 1987. If they are limited access, stop sign free, at or near the state maximum speed limit, with at most an occasional signalized intersection, they count. If they fail on two or more of those, then certainly not. We can discuss the matter, if they fail only one of these.

Most parkways will meet these criteria. The bigger obstacle then will be speed limits: for example, the Bronx River Parkway (and others) has a bunch of these exits, but these streets will all have at least 30mph limits, because that's the lowest areal limit allowed under state law.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2022, 04:15:15 PM »

This is pretty common around here.

MN 62 at Tracy Ave, 28th Ave, 34th Ave, Bloomington Ave, Portland Ave
I-35W at 46th St, 35th/36th Sts
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2022, 04:19:05 PM »

Also, this will be tough to find in New York generally, as speed limits below 30mph are uncommon–and where you do find 25mph limits, they'll be substantially no different in character than 30mph zones.

However, you might find a few more if 30 mph is inclusive. Commercial St (East Rochester) would be one such example, although as the name would suggest, it is more commercial than residential.

Pennsylvania seems in theory like a better spot to look for this sort of thing, but they seem to usually use the town name instead of the road name in these cases.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2022, 04:35:53 PM »

A very rare Nevada example:  Bellevue Road (I-580 Exit 12).  East of the freeway there's only the parking area with access to the west shore of Washoe Lake (or Washoe Mud Hole when it dries up).  Bellevue Road west of the freeway has a 25 mph speed limit as it passes through a neighborhood of ranchettes to connect with US 395 Alternate.

https://goo.gl/maps/cN7VXNsjBmDDYbhj6
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2022, 09:43:23 PM »

The only one on the Interstate system in West Virginia is the Montrose Drive exit (Exit 56) on I-64 in South Charleston.  And that exit functions much differently, as it is intended to serve as the main exit to US-60 east of downtown South Charleston directly serving the huge Dow (formerly Union Carbide) chemical plant.  But Montrose Drive was entirely residential before the construction of I-64, and still remains residential south of the Interstate.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2022, 09:53:02 PM »

Dearborn Street in Detroit (Exit 44 off I-75).
5th and 6th Avenues in Saginaw (part of exit 2 off I-675).
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2022, 10:23:38 PM »

Beltline and Todd Drive in Madison
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2022, 12:24:42 AM »

In Louisiana: I 10 at Louise Street/Washington Street in Baton Rouge
I 10 and Bonnabel Blvd in Metarie

It's rather uncommon here in Texas since most exits actually dump you onto a frontage road, and there is constant Development  along those..but sometimes one of the intersecting streets is a neighborhood street
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2022, 04:16:40 AM »

The one I was familiar with was the 150th Street exit on US 6 in Omaha. It appears to have undergone some modifications since I last lived in Omaha in 2016, so it may not perfectly fit the criteria anymore.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2022, 09:51:03 AM »

I'm looking for freeway and expressway exits that are signed for residential streets. Ideally, the exit should both indicate and the exit necessarily put you on a two-way street with a speed limit below 50 km/h or 30MPH. This doesn't count exits with "a couple sharp turns" and then a major business or one-way street. No mall, stadium, amusement park, or casino parking lots either.


My sister-in-law used to live two houses off the 68th Street I-94 exit ramp in Milwaukee.  I could name about a dozen similar exits in the Milwaukee area.  This has to be pretty common right?
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2022, 10:04:55 AM »

Indiana I-65 Exit 110A Morris St/Prospect St.

No businesses anywhere nearby.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2022, 10:08:33 AM »

CT I-84 Exit 36 Slater Rd.  Used to be one shopping plaza there, but it is now a bank processing center.  Otherwise, not much else off the exit other than neighborhood streets.  And it's a trumpet interchange to boot.

CT 2 Exit 5B that just closed recently let off into the middle of a neighborhood. 
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2022, 10:30:42 AM »

I'm looking for freeway and expressway exits that are signed for residential streets. Ideally, the exit should both indicate and the exit necessarily put you on a two-way street with a speed limit below 50 km/h or 30MPH. This doesn't count exits with "a couple sharp turns" and then a major business or one-way street. No mall, stadium, amusement park, or casino parking lots either.


My sister-in-law used to live two houses off the 68th Street I-94 exit ramp in Milwaukee.  I could name about a dozen similar exits in the Milwaukee area.  This has to be pretty common right?

I actually lived on a on-ramp to CASR-99 in Sacramento, but the street wasn't a "residential" street. It was mostly commercial and the posted speed limit was either 35 or 40 MPH. In Sacramento, Howe and Watt Aves (which are both expressway or even freeway at the location) have exits for La Riviera Dr, which is basically residential, but it is posted at 35 MPH. What I am looking for is close to the San Luis Obispo and Monterey examples that I gave elsewhere. The 9th Street exit (signed "San Francisco") from I-880 is close, but I believe that it is one-way near the exit and posted 35MPH.
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Re: Exits signed for "neighborhood" streets
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2022, 11:21:12 AM »

I'm looking for freeway and expressway exits that are signed for residential streets. Ideally, the exit should both indicate and the exit necessarily put you on a two-way street with a speed limit below 50 km/h or 30MPH. This doesn't count exits with "a couple sharp turns" and then a major business or one-way street. No mall, stadium, amusement park, or casino parking lots either.


My sister-in-law used to live two houses off the 68th Street I-94 exit ramp in Milwaukee.  I could name about a dozen similar exits in the Milwaukee area.  This has to be pretty common right?

I actually lived on a on-ramp to CASR-99 in Sacramento, but the street wasn't a "residential" street. It was mostly commercial and the posted speed limit was either 35 or 40 MPH. In Sacramento, Howe and Watt Aves (which are both expressway or even freeway at the location) have exits for La Riviera Dr, which is basically residential, but it is posted at 35 MPH. What I am looking for is close to the San Luis Obispo and Monterey examples that I gave elsewhere. The 9th Street exit (signed "San Francisco") from I-880 is close, but I believe that it is one-way near the exit and posted 35MPH.


Here's the house in question.  Rotate it one way and you see an interstate.  Rotate it the other, and you see a perfectly normal residential street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0294809,-87.9973663,3a,75y,272.69h,89.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXuo3kzJzaF5-6lmRbwxKKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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