Examples of Airfields that got Re-Purposed as Highways?

[kernals12]

I'm not referring to that urban legend that says interstate highways are designed to serve airfields in case of war, I mean old runways getting restriped to become parts of highways. Has that ever happened?

[TheStranger]

The streets surrounding Ayala Triangle Park in Makati in the Philippines all are former runways of the pre-1948 international airport Nielsen Field:

- Makati Avenue on the southeast side
- Ayala Avenue on the southwest side
- Paseo De Roxas on the north side
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Makati,+Metro+Manila,+Philippines/@14.5561597,121.0210612,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x3397c90264a0ed01:0x2b066ed57830cace!8m2!3d14.554729!4d121.0244452!16zL20vMDFkdnp5?entry=ttu

[hotdogPi]

Abington/Weymouth MA: a combination of roads and housing

[ilpt4u]

I wouldn't say "highways" exactly but a runway at Old Wright Patterson AFB/now the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH has a street on an old runway: Loop Rd W. Spaatz St is on an old taxiway

[pderocco]

From watching so many car ads, I wonder if the main runway at sleeply little Inyokern Airport in California has more car traffic on it than aircraft.

[kernals12]

I swear that I read somewhere that a stretch of German Autobahn was built like this but i can't find it anywhere on the internet. Just my imagination?

[freebrickproductions]

The old runways and taxiways from the original Huntsville airport were reused as access roads to Joe Davis Stadium and the park/fields/golf course just south of it, with a two-lane road being striped down the middle of one of them, though sometime within the past 10 years the city went through and ripped all those up and redid that area with proper roads. Old satellite and street view imagery still shows them though, IIRC.

[epzik8]

A couple of the streets in the Moore's Orchard subdivision of Perry Hall, Maryland follow the old path of the runway of the Baltimore Airpark on which the subdivision was built.

[GaryV]

Roger B Chaffee Blvd in Grand Rapids is built on the runway of the old GR airport.

[jdb1234]

The old runways and taxiways from the original Huntsville airport were reused as access roads to Joe Davis Stadium and the park/fields/golf course just south of it, with a two-lane road being striped down the middle of one of them, though sometime within the past 10 years the city went through and ripped all those up and redid that area with proper roads. Old satellite and street view imagery still shows them though, IIRC.

You mean John Hunt Park.

[SEWIGuy]

In the Madison, WI area, I believe Broadway (old Beltline) at least in part goes over a portion of the original airport - Royal Field.

[SectorZ]

NAS Alameda got repurposed as a temporary highway for the second Matrix movie, along with Mythbusters using it dozens of times in its 13 year run.

[freebrickproductions]

The old runways and taxiways from the original Huntsville airport were reused as access roads to Joe Davis Stadium and the park/fields/golf course just south of it, with a two-lane road being striped down the middle of one of them, though sometime within the past 10 years the city went through and ripped all those up and redid that area with proper roads. Old satellite and street view imagery still shows them though, IIRC.

You mean John Hunt Park.

Yeah, but at least one of the roads that goes through there, along with the road that brought you to Huntsville's old public golf course, were just striped on top of at least parts of the old runways, with some of the other roads around John Hunt Park being on the former taxiways.

[bing101]

The neighborhood now known as Cebu IT Park has some of its streets on areas that at one point were runways of the former Lahug Airport in Cebu City, Philippines.



https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/29223/remembering-lahug-airport

https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2019/08/28/1947018/lahug-cebu-national-airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_IT_Park

[kphoger]

Thread merge?

Abandoned runways turned into roads

[Avalanchez71]

Check out Gadsden, AL.  Looks like Raines Boulevard was once the Gadsden Air Force Depot according to the Geological survey historical maps.