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Hierarchy of highways in your county

Started by thspfc, June 17, 2022, 02:11:08 PM

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WillWeaverRVA

My attempt at Chesterfield County, VA:

Tier 1 (freeways):

I-95
VA 288
VA 76 - Powhite Pkwy (except the portion west of SR 950)
VA 150 - Chippenham Pkwy
VA 895 - Pocahontas Pkwy (is in the county for less than a mile and has no junctions except with I-95/VA 150, but is the best way to get from Chesterfield County to RIC Airport despite the high toll)

Tier 2 (major arterials):

US 360 - Hull Street Rd (absolutely crushing traffic between VA 288 and Magnolia Green)
US 60 - Midlothian Tpke
US 1/301 - "Route 1" (yes, that is now its official name)
VA 10 - Iron Bridge Rd/Hundred Rd
VA 147 - Huguenot Rd
SR 653 (between US 60 and SR 604) - Courthouse Rd
SR 604 (between SR 653 and VA 288) - Courthouse Rd; the segment between VA 288 and VA 10 is much less important
SR 675/SR 711 (basically one continuous route) - Robious Rd, serves as a major connector between the Bon Air area and VA 288

Tier 3 (minor arterials/connectors)

SR 604 (between SR 754/SR 950 and SR 653) - Genito Rd
SR 754/SR 950 - Old Hundred Rd/Charter Colony Pkwy
VA 36/SR 602 - River Rd
SR 647 - Walmsley Blvd
VA 144 - Harrowgate Rd/Chester Rd
VA 145 - Centralia Rd
SR 618 - Rivers Bend Blvd/Meadowville Technology Pkwy (will be a fairly important truck connector to I-295 once that area is built out, a LEGO facility is scheduled to be built there)
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webny99

#26
Quote from: webny99 on June 21, 2022, 10:40:33 AM
Posting this mostly as a placeholder: It should surprise no one that I wasn't happy with a subjective answer, so I'm working on an "importance factor" for each route in Monroe County using the average AADT of the route and the mileage within the county. It's a bit time consuming so it might take a few days before I have it posted - but an interesting exercise nonetheless and a good way to become better associated with the AADT volumes of the highways in my county.

Alright, here it is.

Tier 1
1. I-490
2. I-390/NY 390
3. NY 104
4. I-590/NY 590
5. I-90

Tier 2
6. NY 31
7. NY 531
8. NY 18
9. NY 15
10. NY 252
11. NY 441

Tier 3
12. NY 15A
13. NY 33
14. NY 250
15. NY 259
16. NY 96
17. NY 33A
18. NY 383

Tier 4
19. NY 386
20. NY 31F
21. NY 65
22. NY 253
23. NY 404
24. NY 19
25. NY 286

Tier 5
26. NY 260
27. NY 64
28. NY 251
29. NY 204
30. NY 261
31. NY 36
32. NY 153

Unranked
33. NY 31A
34. NY 272

I decided to combine the interstate and state route portions of 390 and 590, and once I did that, the top tier was very predictable. I-490 blows everything else away and the rest of the top five are exactly how I had them before running any calculations. Where it got more interesting was in some of the lower tiers, where my perceptions would have overridden the data in some cases. I wouldn't have had NY 15 so high because I think of it as largely redundant to I-390 - and yet much of it is still a very busy and important route. Similarly, I never would have had NY 15A right behind NY 441 since NY 441 seems much more important, yet portions of NY 15A are just as busy and it provides critical connections for MCC and many daily commuters. I would have also been tempted to rank NY 36 higher than NY 19 because it's closer to the city, so it seems like it should be important. Yet NY 36 has the lowest average AADT of any route except for NY 272. It really doesn't serve anything significant besides Churchville, and most of the route is very rural. Meanwhile NY 19 is the main route through Brockport, a significant N/S truck route, and provides connection to the Thruway from Brockport and points north.

Ted$8roadFan

Washington County, RI
a/k/a South County

US 1
RI 4
I-95
RI 2
RI 78
RI 138
RI 3
RI 112
RI 108
RI Scenic 1-A
RI 403
RI 102
RI 110
RI 91
RI 216
RI 165

Sctvhound

Charleston County, SC (3rd most populated county in SC)

Tier I: Major roads that this area can't sustain without

I-26 (major interstate, route to Columbia, Summerville to Charleston commute, gets up to 180,000 cars on weekdays at busiest)
US 17 (bisects the county, spending 75 miles, goes from rural connection and major route to/from I-95 and Savannah to lifeline through West Ashley, downtown CHS and Mount Pleasant, then goes back to mostly connection route heading toward Georgetown)
I-526 (was a bypass, but now is the major way between WA and Mt. Pleasant, 3 major bridges)

Tier II: Very important routes

SC 61 (connects plantations to downtown Charleston, goes through major parts of West Ashley)
US 52 (Rivers Ave), vital connection to local shopping areas, more suburban North Charleston, Goose Creek and north
S-10-75 (Ashley Phosphate Rd), major road through most congested part of North Charleston, connects two major routes, Dorchester and Rivers
SC 703 (Coleman Blvd) goes through older Mount Pleasant, connection to Sullivan's Island
SC 171 (Folly Rd) Major connection from West Ashley to Folly Beach, lifeline of James Island

Tier III: Moderately important routes

SC 517 (IOP Connector) main route from Mount Pleasant to Isle of Palms
SC 30 (James Island Connector) route from downtown to James Island bypassing Folly Rd draw bridge, rumored to be extended as part of I-526
SC 7 (Sam Rittenberg Blvd) major route between US 17 and North Charleston
SC 461 (Glenn McConnell Pkwy) bypass of SC 61, serves growing parts of West Ashley, rumored to extend to Summerville
SC 642 (Dorchester Rd) connection between Summerville, Joint Base Charleston and North Charleston
SC 700 (Maybank Hwy) major route between James Island and John's Island, can connect to Kiawah and Seabrook
S-10-20 (Main Rd) route from US 17 through John's Island to Kiawah and Seabrook

Tier IV: Less important routes

SC 41 (serves North Mount Pleasant, but most of its service comes in Berkeley County)
US 78 (mostly concurrent with US 52, only important above North Charleston as it connects to I-26. More important in Summerville area)
S-10-57 (Bees Ferry Rd) vital connection through West Ashley's northern area, connecting 17 to 61
SC 165 (connection from Meggett, through Ravenel and Hollywood, across 17, connecting to Summerville)
SC 162 (business route of 17, going through Ravenel and Hollywood)
SC 174 (route from US 17 to Edisto Beach, but in least populated western part of county)

Tier V: unimportant routes

SC 164 (just a connection between SC 174 and 162)
SC 45 (mostly goes through Francis Marion National Forest in its time in Charleston County)

SC does a good job assigning state routes to the important roads. If I went through every non-state important road it would take hours.

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hobsini2

#29
Will County IL (based solely on what the road is within the county)
I-80
I-55
I-355
I-57
IL 59
IL 53/Joliet Rd
US 30/Plainfield Rd/Lincoln Hwy
US 45/La Grange Rd
IL 7/159th St/Joliet Rd/Theodore St/Larkin Ave
IL 171/Archer Ave
IL 43/Harlem Ave
US 52 (This high up because of Jefferson St in Joliet)
IL 394
Weber Rd
Joliet Rd (the non IL 53 section)
IL 1
IL 126
US 6/Southwest Hwy
95th St
Wolf Rd
111th St
IL 113
IL 102
Laraway Rd/Sauk Trail
Arsenal Rd
IL 129 (One of the most useless state highways.)
Center St Joliet
Cedar Rd
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JCinSummerfield

Monroe County, Michigan

1. I-75
2. US-23
3. US-24
4. I-275
5. M-50
6. M-125
7. US-223

DTComposer

Santa Clara County, California

Tier I
US-101
I-880
I-280

Tier II
CA-17
I-680
CA-85

Tier III
CA-87
CA-237
CA-152

Tier IV
CA-9
CA-82

Tier V
CA-130
CA-35
CA-25

I might also include the county expressways in this list, since they were originally intended to be built out as freeways, and many have freeway sections. In that case, I'd put:
Lawrence in Tier II
Capitol, Almaden, Montague, San Tomas and Central in Tier III
Foothill in Tier IV.

NWI_Irish96

Marshall County, IN

US 31
US 30

US 6

IN 10
IN 331
IN 17

IN 110/IN 25
IN 117
IN 106

Plymouth-Goshen Trail
Plymouth-LaPorte Trail
Michigan Road (old US 31)
Lincoln Highway (old US 30)
Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

GaryA

Ventura County, CA

Tier I:
US-101

Tier II:
CA-126
CA-118
CA-33

Tier III:
CA-23
CA-1

Tier IV:
CA-150
CA-34

Tier V:
CA-232

Bottom of the list because never built (and not expected ever to be built in the future, but still on the state highway list):
CA-257
CA-64 (would barely enter the county even if built)

ran4sh

Clarke County GA

1. SR 10 Loop
2. SR 10 (2a. US 78 Business, entirely concurrent with SR 10, but SR 10 extends beyond the end of US 78 Bus)
3. SR 15 Alternate (3a. US 129, almost entirely concurrent with parts of SR 10 Loop and SR 15 Alt)
4. US 78 (entirely concurrent with parts of SR 10 Loop and SR 10)
5. US 29/SR 8 (entirely concurrent with each other, plus concurrent with part of SR 10 Loop)
6. US 441/SR 15 (entirely concurrent with each other, plus concurrent with part of SR 10 Loop)
7. SR 72
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LilianaUwU

MRC des ÃŽles de la Madeleine, including reference routes:


  • QC 199 (the only numbered highway), the main street of the archipelago
  • Chemin de l'Étang-du-Nord, Chemin des Caps, Chemin du Grand-Ruisseau, Chemin Petitpas (reference route 99760), a loop going through the villages of L'Étang-du-Nord and Fatima
  • Chemin du Bassin (reference route 99590), a spur from QC 199 to the village of Bassin
  • Chemin de l'Aéroport (reference route 99902), a spur from QC 199 to the ÃŽles-de-la-Madeleine Airport (YGR) in Havre-aux-Maisons
  • Chemin du Quai (reference route 99766), a spur from QC 199 to the Cap-aux-Meules harbor, though not to the CTMA ferry
  • Chemin de la Rivière (reference route 99596), a gravel spur from Chemin du Bassin used by the MTQ for resources
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Hot Rod Hootenanny

Delaware County, Ohio version
1) US 23
2) I-71
3) US 36
4) OH 3
5) US 42
6) OH 257
7) OH 750
8) OH 315
9) OH 37
10) OH 61
11) OH 745
12) OH 203
13) OH 605
14) OH 229
15) OH 521
16) OH 656
17) OH 47
18) OH 4
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Hot Rod Hootenanny

Morrow County Hierarchy
1) I-71
2) OH 61
3) OH 309
4) US 42
5) OH 95
6) OH 314
7) OH 229
8) OH 97
9) OH 19
10) OH 288
11) OH 656
12) OH 746
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SkyPesos

St Louis county, with a tier system this time. US 50 and 61 aren't included as they're entirely concurrent with various other routes in the county. Also I definitely missed a few letter routes here.

A:
- I-270
- I-64/US 40
- I-170
- I-70
- I-44

B:
- US 67
- MO 141
- MO 100
- I-55
- MO 30
- MO 340
- MO D (Page Ave)

C:
- MO 364
- MO 370
- MO 367
- MO 109
- MO 180
- MO AB (Ladue Rd)

D:
- MO 115
- MO 231
- MO 267
- MO HH (Clayton Rd)
- MO JJ (Ballas Rd)
- MO N (Florissant Rd)

epzik8

Harford County, MD:


  • I-95
  • US 40
  • US 1
  • MD 24
  • MD 22
  • US 1 Bus.
  • MD 23
  • MD 543
  • MD 136
  • MD 152
  • MD 165
  • MD 7 (mainline)
  • MD 155
  • MD 147
  • MD 161
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iowahighways

#40
Using the tiered approach for Polk County, IA:

Tier 1 (Interstates)
====
I-80
I-35
I-235

I'd say all three are equally important: I-80 and I-35 for cross-country traffic and I-235 for local traffic.

Tier 2 (Other freeways and expressways)
====
US 65
IA 163 (there's a short city street segment in Des Moines but most of it is an expressway)
IA 141
IA 5 (its length in Polk County is relatively short but is a freeway for most of it)
IA 330 (overlaps with US 65)

Tier 3 (urban arterials)
====
US 69
US 6
IA 28
IA 415
IA 160 (entirely within Ankeny but connects IA 415 with I-35)

Tier 4 (rural state highways)
====
IA 44 (ends in Grimes)
IA 17 (ends in Granger)
IA 316 (begins in Runnells; segment north of there was decommissioned in 2003)
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zzcarp

Jefferson County, Colorado

Interstates:
I-70
I-76

Freeways/Expressways
US 6 (6th Avenue Freeway/expressway through Golden/major interregional highway through Clear Creek Canyon)
US 285 (Hampden Ave Freeway/mountain expressway to Confer and Park County)
C-470
US 36
CO 58

Interregional State Highways
CO 93
CO 74
CO 72

Denver Metro City Streets (mostly)
US 40 (Colfax Avenue, then an I-70 frontage road in the foothills)
CO 121 (Wadsworth Boulevard)
CO 95 (Sheridan Boulevard)
CO 319 (Kipling Boulevard)
CO 8 (Morrison Road)

Only a tiny stretch in Jeffco
CO 128
CO 119
CO 75
So many miles and so many roads

Hunty2022

Greene County, Virginia

Tier I
US 29 - most important route in the county.
US 33 - important west of US 29, but not too important east of it.

Tier II
VA 230 - the county's only state route, also connects Stanardsville to Madison.
SR 633 - connects the rural areas in the southwest to Ruckersville.
SR 810 - a scenic way to get from Stanardsville to Crozet.
SR 743 - former US 29 alignment in the 1930s.

Tier III
SR 607 - shortcut from North US 29 to East US 33.
SR 609 - former SR 243
SR 616 - a way from SR 607 West to US 29 North.
100th Post: 11/10/22
250th Post: 12/3/22
500th Post: 3/12/23
1000th Post: 11/12/23

Hunty Roads (under construction):
https://huntyroadsva.blogspot.com

Flint1979

Saginaw County, Michigan:

1) I-75/US-23, concurrent through the whole county and only called I-75.
2) I-675
3) M-46
4) M-58
5) M-84
6) M-13
7) M-83
8) M-47
9) M-52
10) M-81
11) M-57
12) M-54
13) M-15

hobsini2

In my Grandmother Novak's county of Green Lake WI:
Wis 23
Wis 73
Wis 49
Wis 44
Wis 91
Hwy K
Hwy A
Hwy E
Bus Wis 23/Lawson Dr (Green Lake)
Hwy F
Hwy D
Hwy AW
Hwy J
Hwy B
Hwy T/Farmer St (Princeton)
Hwy X
Hwy Q

In my Grandmother Hobson's county of Winnebago WI:
I/US 41
US 10
US 45
Wis 21
Wis 441
Wis 47
Wis 44
Wis 26
Wis 76
Wis 114
Wis 116
Wis 91
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jp the roadgeek

Hartford County, CT

Tier 1: I-84, I-91, CT 2

Tier 2: I-291, CT 9, CT 20 (expressway portion only)

Tier 3: I-384, US 6, US 44, CT 15 (99% of which is concurrent with US 5), CT 72

Tier 4: I-691 (90% of it is in New Haven County), US 5 (standalone portion), CT 3, CT 4, CT 10, CT 71, CT 75, CT 83, CT 99, CT 159, CT 173, CT 175, CT 185, CT 187, CT 189, CT 190 CT 218, CT 372

Tier 5: CT 30, CT 94, CT 140, CT 160, CT 167, CT 174, CT 176, CT 177, CT 178, CT 220, CT 229, CT 287, CT 305, CT 322

Tier 6: CT 17 (one town) CT 20 (non-expressway), CT 69, CT 71A, CT 179, CT 194

Tier 7: CT 66 (one town), CT 74 (ditto), CT 120, CT 191, CT 192, CT 309, CT 314, CT 315, CT 364

Tier 8: CT 168, CT 181, CT 219

US 202 is excluded, as it is 100% concurrent with other routes (US 44, CT 10)
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

flan

Cass County, ND. Not bothering with county highways.

1. I-94 / U.S. 52
2. I-29 / U.S. 81
3. U.S. 10
4. ND 294
5. ND 18
6. ND 46
7. ND 38
8. ND 10

US 89

Leon County, FL - not accounting for portions of state routes that are silently concurrent with US highways.

Tier 1: Interstates
- I-10

Tier 2: US Highways
- US 27
- US 319
- US 90

Tier 3: Interregional State Highways
- SR 61
- SR 363
- SR 20

Tier 4: Urban Arterials
- SR 263
- SR 366
- SR 265
- SR 371
- SR 373
- SR 155

Tier 5: Rural roads that stay rural
- SR 59
- SR 267

Tier 6: Unsigned minor city streets
- SR 61A
- SR 157

achilles765

An early attempt at Harris County, Texas (Houston)

Tier A:
Interstate 10
Interstate 45
Interstate 69/US 59
US 290
Interstate 610
FM 1093

Tier B:
SH 6
SH 288
SH 225
West park Tollway
US 90 Alternate
Beltway 8
FM 1960
FM 2920

Tier C:
SH 3
SH 146
SH 99
SH 249
Hardy Toll Road
US 90

Tier D:
SH 35
FM 518
FM 521
FM 525
Other FM routes
I love freeways and roads in any state but Texas will always be first in my heart

Dirt Roads

#49
Orange County, North Carolina has some interesting results:

I-85/I-40 (The Spine)  AADT 113,000 (2019)

I-40  82,000 (2017)
I-85  56,000 (2019)
NC-54 East (Raleigh Road)  50,000 (2019)

US-15/501  49,500 (2019)
US-15/501 Fordam Boulevard  45,500 (2019)
US-15/501 South  36,000 (2019)
NC-54 Bypass  35,000 (2019)
NC-86 Martin Luther King, Jr. (Airport Road)  28,000 (2019)
South Churton Street (Old NC-86) 25,000 (2018)

Churton Street (Bus US-70/NC-86) 20,000 (2017)
NC-86 North to NC-57  18,500 (2019)
US-70 East  15,500 (2019)
Bypass US-70  14,000 (2019)
NC-54 West  13,000 (2019)
Erwin Road North  12,500 (2019)
Hillsborough Road (Carrboro)  12,000 (2019)
Buckhorn Road North  12,000 (2016)
Estes Drive East  12,000 (2017)
Smith Level Road  11,500 (2019)
Jones Ferry Road  11,500 (2019)
NC-86 North  11,000 (2016)
Ephesus Church Road  11,000 (2017)
Cornelius Street (Bypass US-70)  10,500 (2019)
Sage Road  10,500 (2019)

Orange Grove Road North 9,500 (2019)
NC-86 South  9,300 (2018)
US-70A (NC-86 and Bus US-70)  9,200 (2017)
Center Street (US-70)  9,100 (2019)
Eubanks Road  8,700 (2017)
Homestead Road  8,100 (2017)
Mt. Willing Road  8,100 (2017)
Bus US-70 (Bennett Place)  7,500 (2019)
Erwin Road South*  7,500 (2019)
Old Number 10  AADT 6,800 (2018)
Merritt Mill Road  6,600 (2016)
Hillsborough Street (Carrboro)  6,500 (2019)
NC-57  6,400 (2016)
Efland-Cedar Grove Road  6,300 (2018)
I-85 Connector (US-70X)  5,900 (2018)
Old Durham Road*  5,500 (2019)
Stagecoach Road  5,000 (2020)

*Erwin Road South had an AADT of 12,000 back in 2007 before completion of the Michigan Left project on US-15/501 at Erwin Road.  Similarly, Old Durham Road had an AADT of 7,000 before this same project, even though the project did not change southbound traffic patterns on Old Durham Road.  But the traffic congestion during the construction of the Michigan Lefts permanently changed traffic volumes northeast of Chapel Hill. 

Note that the traffic volumes recorded in 2020 are much lower and not used by NCDOT.  The largest recorded volume was used over the past 5 years, except in the one case where the most recent data was older.  These tiers match the NCDOT color codes, but individual routes might not be shown as the same color code due to my methodology. 



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