Cities with the most relics of unbuilt expressways

[Mergingtraffic]

Which cities have the most relics of unbuilt but planned expressways?

Such as cleared land, stubs, bridges to nowhere etc.

[Chris]

Hartford does have a lot of stub ramps for a city of it's size.

[WISFreeways]

Um, Milwaukee does have a lot of unbuilt freeways. There's even some stubs: Mequon Ave. overpass (Belt Freeway), park-and-ride (Stadium Freeway),...

Rockford has some grading for the proposed Wallenberg Expressway, meant to put the downtown back on the west side

[njroadhorse]

Newark, NJ has a lot of unbuilt evidence, including Exit 56 on I-78 (intended for NJ 75), NJ 58 abandoned concrete, and the Eisenhower Parkway (even though that's not really in Newark, but near it.)

[deathtopumpkins]

Baltimore and D.C. each have their fair shares... (I-170, I-70, S.E. Fwy, etc.)

[Alps]

Staten Island has four different ghost interchanges.  There's 440 at 440 (Willowbrook Expwy/Richmond Pkwy), where the southern stub is a Park and Ride.  There's the end of Richmond Pkwy at Richmond Blvd. where there are long stubs continuing into the park.  The southern end of the MLK Expwy. (Bayonne Bridge) is a stub where Richmond Pkwy would have tied in.  And there's a ghost interchange on I-278 where the East Shore Expwy. would have begun.  (There's also a ghost underpass of the Staten Island RR for that one.)  NY 440 itself has several ghost stubs on service roads because they stop and start several times instead of being continuous (there's not much out there).

[Bryant5493]

Portions of unbuilt I-485 in Atlanta were used to build Freedom Parkway/S.R. 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQhSrRqUDeQ

Also, there's a stub of where S.R. 166 was to be extended as I-420 to I-20, near Gresham Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iqu5riUKK4

The stub's at about 4:00.


Be well,

Bryant

[mgk920]

^^
Not only that, but the Carter Presidential Library was built on the interchange ROW where I-485 and GA 10 were planned to meet.  You can easily see how this is laid out on aerial images (Google Earth, Bing, etc).

Interestingly, though, I will contend that in fact 'I-485' *WAS* built, only that it was built in the form of all of those lanes that were added to I-75/85 through central Atlanta in its latest rebuild.

This is similar to the über-wide express/local setup on ON 401 in Toronto - upgraded7 that way because the planned paralleling Eglinton Ave expressway was never built.

Mike

[Mike_OH]

In the Cincinnati area, there are several planned highways that never happened.  The most notable evidence is if you travel I-74 Westbound and get off at US 27/Colerain Ave (Exit 18), you can see a partial ramp that would have been the Colerain Expressway.  The website Cincinnati-Transit.net has several photos of never built Highways.

[Marc]

Though it may not have the most, Memphis has/had quite a bit. There were several ghost ramps (due to Sam Cooper Blvd's incompletion) at the I-40/I-240 near downtown. There's also a newer ghost ramp on the city's northeast side at the other I-40/I-240 interchange that was built in the early 2000s and has yet to be completed. The "Jackson Miss" ramp from I-40 west to I-240 south has been complete for probably five years or so now, but the "Little Rock" ramp from I-40 west to I-40 west has yet to be finished.

[mightyace]

but the "Little Rock" ramp from I-40 west to I-40 west has yet to be finished.

what???? 

[froggie]

TDOT never got around to Phase 2, which would have added 2-lane flyovers for the I-40 through movements through the interchange.  That's what Marc was referring to.

[kurumi]

Quick count of Hartford area (and only of the plans with visible evidence): 8
- SR 500 (I-284)
- SR 598 (I-484)
- SR 503 (CT 189)
- SR 504 (Cedar Ridge Connector)
- SR 501 (Trout Brook Connector)
- I-291 ramps, Rocky Hill
- I-291 stack, Farmington
- SR 508 (CT 4), Farmington

[mgk920]

How many 'loose ends' are there in the Kansas City metro freeway system, especially along I-70 east of downtown Kansas City, MO?  Where were some of those loose ends proposed to go?

Mike