Are there any instances you know of where a freeway (any divided road with two or more lanes/direction, speed limit minimum 55 mph) ends abruptly at either a T-intersection or dead end, or becomes another kind of road or something else?
While I do think the speed limit goes below 55 when approaching the end, the Lowell Connector in Massachusetts is notorious for its abrupt end. It's so bad that it has signs with flashing lights warning you of its end in 2000 and 1000 feet.
(https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300&location=42.631305,-71.3157365&heading=35&pitch=5&fov=40)
Interstate 65 ends at a traffic signal in Indiana. Once it crosses US 12/20, it becomes a steel mill entrance. It's not quite a T, but the road has no outlet north of the intersection.
Quote from: theroadwayone on March 06, 2018, 02:30:42 AM
Are there any instances you know of where a freeway (any divided road with two or more lanes/direction, speed limit minimum 55 mph) ends abruptly at either a T-intersection or dead end, or becomes another kind of road or something else?
San Diego has a few, including the west end of I-8, and the north end (as well as, for now, the south end) of CA 125.
It's such a common situation as to be hardly worth talking about.
NY I-990
OH 11's north end counts, I think. That one has stop signs.
There's the notorious former end of the Kansas Turnpike at the Oklahoma border that has been posted here numerous times as well.
I believe that this is common when extensions of existing freeways get cancelled. For example, Baltimore has lots of them, with I-70 dead-ending at a Park & Ride, I-83 becoming a boulevard at a city street, and old I-170 transitioning to a one-way couplet of US 40.
In Atlanta, you see this with Langford Parkway (nee Lakewood Freeway/I-420) ending at Lakewood Avenue to the east at a stop sign. And out in L.A., the infamous I-710 gap begins at a traffic signal on Valley Boulevard and extends to another signal at California Boulevard in Pasadena.
In the "becomes another kind of road" category, US 20 changes over from full freeway straight to 2 lane road east of Oberlin, OH.
And while not a full freeway, the 55 mph divided highway bypass of Royston, GA has simple T intersections at both ends, with the 4 lanes dead ending at simple stop signs at the 2 lane original alignment of GA 17.
The end of the most easterly freeway in North America: The end of the Trans Canada Highway (7200 km from Victoria) where it tapers to two lanes near Logy Bay Road in St. John's, Newfoundland.
https://goo.gl/maps/k4yakHTk9Zq
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Few around Ontario, Hwys 404, 406, 407, 427, the Hwy 17 Garden River Bypass, and Allen Rd in Toronto all end at T intersections.
Many other instances where the freeway transitions to a lower class of facility, though the north end of Hwy 115 and the temporary west end to Highway 401 are the most dramatic changes.
MD 200 ends at a continuous flow T intersection with US 1:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0653848,-76.8812974,3a,75y,351h,83.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIOQdlSJUutFtIOQXZq0jGA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Interstate 105 in Oregon ends in a T intersection. 55 MPH limit until the last half mile.
LG-TP260
US 71 in Kansas City gets diverted onto city streets for three stoplights and then becomes a freeway again, thanks to a boneheaded court order.
NJ route 55 just peters out at NJ47, going from what could be a 3DI of 76, into what ammounts to a typical south jersey state route.
Garden State Parkway ending at US9 and NJ109. Weird set of ramps, and then it becomes a local road. Used to have the stop lights in cape may county but those are long gone now.
Interstate 176 in PA: Ends at 422 abruptly.
Interstate 476: the weird 180 degree turn and trumpets. Reminant of a never built extension to New York, to be remedied via a Scranton Beltway.
US1 Freeway in both NJ and PA, expressways that just peter out into arterials and back again several times.
Low hanging fruit: I78 at the holland tunnel, Breezewood, I676 and if it does or does not go on the ben franklin bridge, I99 in PA... All these discussed to death elsewhere, so let's keep this for some of the odder ones that are not as well known.
NY 531 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.185716,-77.8510379,3a,75y,292.09h,94.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVuP1kLrkOPG3WUleVBq1fw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1). The link takes you to 2015 street view, as the 2017 street view shows construction underway. When said construction is complete, it will no longer end at a "T", though it will still qualify for this thread, IMO, as it should be extended to Brockport.
The former MN-5 segment east of MN-120 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9972998,-92.9846814,3a,75y,56.64h,88.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgDXwbTK_5jaZ2YuCJCITtw!2e0!5s20090901T000000!7i13312!8i6656). Not a freeway, but is a four-lane, 55 MPH divided road that ended at a T-intersection with two-lane MN-120. The roadway west of there (and I don't remember to where it was intended to continue, perhaps froggie or TheHighwayMan394 can fill me in) was cancelled. If you play with the date slider on GSV you can see the new MnDOT facility that's been recently constructed on the vacant land.
The Woodhaven Road freeway in Northeast Philly ends in a dead end after a single at-grade intersection:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1112981,-75.000635,3a,75y,303.3h,89.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQ659g7v0T7eqZY52U4ZF2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1
Quote from: Finrod on March 06, 2018, 02:01:10 PM
US 71 in Kansas City gets diverted onto city streets for three stoplights and then becomes a freeway again, thanks to a boneheaded court order.
Maybe there'll be some upstanding judge who will reverse it and finally get the missing link built.
Quote from: theroadwayone on March 06, 2018, 02:30:42 AM
Are there any instances you know of where a freeway (any divided road with two or more lanes/direction, speed limit minimum 55 mph) ends abruptly at either a T-intersection or dead end, or becomes another kind of road or something else?
Corridor H's eastern end where it narrows down to a two-lane road and the speed limit drops over a short distance from 65 mph down to, IIRC, 25 mph as you enter Wardensville. I suppose that segment's other end is somewhat, though not quite, similar in that it narrows to a two-lane road and then comes to a T-intersection with a stop sign just south of Thomas.
Down in the Miami area, Gratigny Parkway (FL-924 toll road) transitions from a freeway to a city street. I don't remember the speed limit on Gratigny, but the last time I was on there my brother-in-law was driving and was doing around 90 mph.
Not an interstate, but AZ 143, the Hohokam Expressway (actually, a full freeway), has its northern terminus at the 4600E block of McDowell Rd. in Phoenix. Its southern terminus becomes S. 48th St. at I-10 (where the state highway officially ends). 48th St. is the Phoenix/Tempe city limits between I-10 and Baseline Rd., and ends at Pecos Park in Ahwatukee, south of Chandler Blvd.
The US 40 freeway east of Salt Lake City ends at a SPUI on I-80. On the other side of 80, it continues as a small neighborhood road with a 25mph speed limit.
Same story for UT-7/Southern Parkway. It is a full 65mph freeway, but it ends at a SPUI on I-15 and becomes a neighborhood collector road.
Although it’s not a full freeway, the north end of Mountain View Corridor/UT-85 (which has a speed limit of 65) is at a T-intersection at 4100 South. The south end is similar, dead ending onto Porter Rockwell Blvd from a 55 mph expressway. The highway will be extended in both directions in the future.
The south end of Bangerter Highway (UT-154) is also similar. It goes from a 60mph expressway/freeway into a SPUI on I-15, quickly becoming a 2-lane suburban road.
Also, Summerlin Parkway in Vegas is a freeway that dead-ends at the CC 215 beltway.
The US 7 expressway in Norwalk, CT dead ends at a traffic light where you have to turn right to continue. The CT 72 expressway used to dead end at CT 372, but was continued as a 4 lane divided boulevard with at-grade intersections. CT 2 (duplexed with CT 32) ends at a traffic light where you either turn right to continue or turn left at the beginning of CT 169.
Oh, and then there's CT 11: The Ultimate dead end of a highway.
In Southern California, the 91 and 55 freeways both end at a stoplight intersection with a surface routing continuing thereafter. Both were freeways that were not fully built out as originally planned. The 105 freeway ends similarly on its western end, but this was its planned terminus.
The 110 freeway ends at effectively a T intersection on its southern end and a stoplight with a continued surface routing on its northern end. The southern end was supposed to travel further south and west as originally drawn up.
Both eastern and western ends of the Marina Freeway end at signalized T intersections. The eastern end was suppposed to continue onward, but didn't.
The 261 Toll Road turns from a tollway into a divided limited access road that eventually turns into a conventional surface routing. This was planned. The western stub of the 22 Freeway similarly turns into conventional surface routing that intersects with PCH. This was not as planned, as this freeway was intended to cross the entirety of Long Beach Rather than end in East Long Beach.
The Terminal Island Freeway ends at signalized T intersections on both ends of its short route. The northern end was supposed to continue all the way to the San Diego Freeway. While the southern end wasn't originally designed to end at a freeway-to-freeway interchange, upgrades ongoing to the route mean it will eventually lose the signalized intersection and be converted to a full freeway-to-freeway interchange.
The southern end of the Glendale Freeway ends with a flyover bridge that connects it to southbound Glendale Blvd. This freeway was originally supposed to continue south and west for many more miles.
The northern end of the Long Beach Freeway ends at a signalized T intersection (albeit one created by forcing the mainline off onto what was supposed to be an offramp along the continued portion of the freeway that was never completed), while the southern end of the Long Beach Freeway turns into a surface routing heading to the eastern Long Beach port terminals and the Queen Mary.
There are 2 in Dallas:
* US 175, where it turns from Hawn Frwy. to S.M. Wright Frwy. From 1964-1988, US 175's terminus was there. In 1988, US 175 was extended up S.M. Wright to I-45 after US 75 was decommissioned south of Dallas. One time, a trucker didn't make the turn very well, and overturned right underneath an overpass and caught fire so bad that TxDOT had to have the bridge replaced. After a few decades' wait, the fix for this 'dead man's curve' is finally on the horizon. A new west terminus for US 175 at I-45 is being built, followed by a freeway-to-parkway conversion of S.M. Wright Frwy.
* The extension of Woodall Rodgers Frwy. west from I-35E across the Trinity River provided eye candy for the downtown skyline--a new suspension bridge. The freeway extension also was built with a surprise. It doesn't continue as a freeway past the far side of the river bridge. A signal light at Beckley begins a transition to Singleton Ave., an at-grade street. This transition is marked also with a big FREEWAY ENDS sign, but that initially didn't help educate those traveling west across the bridge. There were reports of drivers missing the Beckley signal or getting rear-ended by others who thought the freeway continued. Now those who venture west beyond the Trinity are finding new apartments and restaurants in an area now dubbed "Trinity Groves", even though the jarring freeway-to-street transition remains.
There are a few such instances in the Bay area; in the South Bay CA 237 terminates at El Camino Real/CA 82 at a stoplight about a half-mile after interchanging with the CA 85 freeway; the 237 alignment (called Mtn. View-Alviso Road) continues south as Grant St. in Mountain View. Also, CA 4's eastern freeway end is currently a series of signals southeast of Brentwood; current construction will bypass the westernmost of these, but the freeway is slated to terminate (at least for the time being) at Marsh Creek Road, where CA 4 turns east toward Discovery Bay & Stockton; continuing on the freeway alignment will take one onto SB Vasco Road, which crosses the hills into Livermore. Moving north, I-780 abruptly ends at an intersection in Vallejo after crossing under and interchanging with (via a terribly underpowered cloverleaf) I-80. And finally, CA 12's E-W freeway through Santa Rosa ends at a stoplight (although the configuration is one of an "offramp" and grading for some future development is evident, it's highly unlikely, given the local NIMBY factor, the cost of property acquisition (suburbs + winery country), and the general regional opposition to new freeway development, that it will be extended within anyone's lifetime.
Interstate 229 in Sioux Falls used to be infamous for turning into an unpaved road just past its northern terminus. It just becomes a paved two-lane road now, though the pavement still ends a few miles north of its terminus.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on March 06, 2018, 03:40:29 PM
The former MN-5 segment east of MN-120 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9972998,-92.9846814,3a,75y,56.64h,88.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgDXwbTK_5jaZ2YuCJCITtw!2e0!5s20090901T000000!7i13312!8i6656). Not a freeway, but is a four-lane, 55 MPH divided road that ended at a T-intersection with two-lane MN-120. The roadway west of there (and I don't remember to where it was intended to continue, perhaps froggie or TheHighwayMan394 can fill me in) was cancelled. If you play with the date slider on GSV you can see the new MnDOT facility that's been recently constructed on the vacant land.
You forgot MN 77 in Apple Valley, MN (south MStP suburbs) - It is a typical well-engineered late 20th Century urban/suburban freeway that drops down to a major surface arterial (Cedar Ave) just south of McAndrews Rd in Apple Valley, with no visible provisions to further extend the freeway within the foreseeable future.
Mike
BTW, the OP needs to find the photo of the original end of the Kansas Turnpike for the ultimate "where'd my freeway go?" scene.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 08, 2018, 11:44:29 AM
BTW, the OP needs to find the photo of the original end of the Kansas Turnpike for the ultimate "where'd my freeway go?" scene.
Need one of the old end of the Mass Pike too. Same deal when it used to end at MA 102 a few feet short of the NY line. Can still see the ghost ramps, but it's not the same as an actual pic.
I-675 (Ohio) goes from a 4 lane interstate down to two lane Spangler Road just north of the cloverleaf with I-70.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8656586,-83.9934867,3a,15y,-0.96h,90.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snHjmVAU-4YxucwyXf8kn1A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Spangler Rd. was chopped up into three pieces and re-routed due to 675. One orphaned section was renamed Roehner Dr.
Lived near there and remember the construction near my house circa 1970-1974...
Mississippi Highway 740: the Fun-Sized freeway in Senatobia.
(https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=MS-740&zoom=14&scale=1&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap&format=png&visual_refresh=true&markers=size:mid%7Ccolor:0xff0000%7Clabel:%7CMS-740)
Quote from: mgk920 on March 08, 2018, 10:40:34 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on March 06, 2018, 03:40:29 PM
The former MN-5 segment east of MN-120 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9972998,-92.9846814,3a,75y,56.64h,88.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgDXwbTK_5jaZ2YuCJCITtw!2e0!5s20090901T000000!7i13312!8i6656). Not a freeway, but is a four-lane, 55 MPH divided road that ended at a T-intersection with two-lane MN-120. The roadway west of there (and I don't remember to where it was intended to continue, perhaps froggie or TheHighwayMan394 can fill me in) was cancelled. If you play with the date slider on GSV you can see the new MnDOT facility that's been recently constructed on the vacant land.
You forgot MN 77 in Apple Valley, MN (south MStP suburbs) - It is a typical well-engineered late 20th Century urban/suburban freeway that drops down to a major surface arterial (Cedar Ave) just south of McAndrews Rd in Apple Valley, with no visible provisions to further extend the freeway within the foreseeable future.
It's a freeway that drops down to surface roads at both ends, really. The north terminus at MN-62 in Minneapolis is even worse, if less traveled.
I-140 in Maryville, TN ends in a T-junction with TN-33. The interstate is meant to continue to US 321, but has been stuck in limbo for a while.
Speaking of fun-size freeways, NJ 133's western terminus is a traffic light. The roadway continues beyond there as a 35 MPH 2-lane road before ending at a stop sign shortly thereafter.
Syracuse has a few. Both ends of the NY 5 Camillus bypass and the north end of NY 690 Baldwinsville bypass.
Quote from: SteveG1988 on March 06, 2018, 02:25:45 PM
Interstate 176 in PA: Ends at 422 abruptly.
It ends at US 422 via a trumpet interchange. US 422 is the Reading Bypass freeway there.
I have a weird obsession with I-176. It's always relatively empty, and only has a few exits. Plus, its former section (SR 2089) connecting to PA 10/PA 23 still exists from when Morgantown was a mini-Breezewood.
Nexus 6P
Also in PA:
-US 219 just east of Somerset is a forced exit onto a 2-lane road. PennDOT is working on linking Somerset to Meyersdale
-US 11/15 at the US 522 junction in Selinsgrove is another forced exit
-US 219 freeway ends at a T intersection north of Ebensburg
-PA 43 goes from 70 mph freeway to sharp mandatory left turn onto Jefferson Blvd to connect to PA 51 at its northern end in Jefferson Hills.
-PA 576 South ends at a T intersection with the US 22 East ramp.
-PA 283 West ends at a traffic light with Eisenhower Blvd and a Wendy's just west of I-283
-US 30 exits itself in Exton into an intersection, having been the Coatesville-Downingtown Bypass. Staying on the freeway results in merging onto the US 202 freeway.
-PA 63/Woodhaven Road has a freeway that abruptly ends at US 1 in Philadelphia. PA 63 then continues on US 1 for a bit.
-US 13 freeway ends and continues past US 1 as Pine Grove Rd in Morrisville
-PA 33 freeway ends at a traffic light with PA 611 and a shopping center in Bartonsville
New York
-US 220 and its freeway end just past NY 17 in Waverly at a T intersection with Chemung Ave. This is about 1500 feet from the PA line.
Nexus 6P
Quote from: sbeaver44 on March 13, 2018, 08:05:05 PM
Quote from: SteveG1988 on March 06, 2018, 02:25:45 PM
Interstate 176 in PA: Ends at 422 abruptly.
It ends at US 422 via a trumpet interchange. US 422 is the Reading Bypass freeway there.
I have a weird obsession with I-176. It's always relatively empty, and only has a few exits. Plus, its former section (SR 2089) connecting to PA 10/PA 23 still exists from when Morgantown was a mini-Breezewood.
The new I-176 connection to the Turnpike is an ideal place and it has a PA-10 local interchange north of the town.
The original I-176 connection to west of the town is still very useful, as it connects to PA-10 and PA-23 segments west of the town and obviates needing to go thru the town to connect between those routes.
Quote from: sbeaver44 on March 13, 2018, 08:31:07 PM
New York
-US 220 and its freeway end just past NY 17 in Waverly at a T intersection with Chemung Ave. This is about 1500 feet from the PA line.
I'd say the freeway ends further south than that. The US 220/NY 17 interchange is
not freeway/freeway. Also, US 220 was recently truncated and no longer enters NY.
Quote from: sparker on March 07, 2018, 04:27:13 PM
There are a few such instances in the Bay area; in the South Bay CA 237 terminates at El Camino Real/CA 82 at a stoplight about a half-mile after interchanging with the CA 85 freeway; the 237 alignment (called Mtn. View-Alviso Road) continues south as Grant St. in Mountain View. Also, CA 4's eastern freeway end is currently a series of signals southeast of Brentwood; current construction will bypass the westernmost of these, but the freeway is slated to terminate (at least for the time being) at Marsh Creek Road, where CA 4 turns east toward Discovery Bay & Stockton; continuing on the freeway alignment will take one onto SB Vasco Road, which crosses the hills into Livermore. Moving north, I-780 abruptly ends at an intersection in Vallejo after crossing under and interchanging with (via a terribly underpowered cloverleaf) I-80. And finally, CA 12's E-W freeway through Santa Rosa ends at a stoplight (although the configuration is one of an "offramp" and grading for some future development is evident, it's highly unlikely, given the local NIMBY factor, the cost of property acquisition (suburbs + winery country), and the general regional opposition to new freeway development, that it will be extended within anyone's lifetime.
To this list, I can add I-280 in SF, which ends at 5th and King Streets, and continues as King; and the Central Freeway, which terminates abruptly at Market and continues as Octavia Blvd (US 101 actually exits the freeway a little earlier at Mission St). There is a freeway section of CA 1 south of SF that ends at a stoplight in Pacifica and continues as a surface street.
In NYC:
Jackie Robinson Parkway ends at a stoplight in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.
NY 9A (Henry Hudson Parkway and West Side Highway) alights to a surface road with a traffic signal around 57th Street.
Northbound, the FDR Drive / Harlem River Drive ends at a signaled intersection with 10th Ave and Dykman Street.
North of NYC, the I-684 freeway continues north from I-84 as NY 22 briefly, before becoming a surface road.
And then there are both ends of I-587 near Kingston :D
(This seems to be a rather common phenomenon, at least in my home states of NY and CA)
Can we count the east end of I-89? It ends at at T-intersection with NH 3A but its also right after a trumpet interchange with I-93?
Other freeways that end abruptly: CT 25 (stoplight), CT-2 (stoplight), I-990 (stoplight though stub is "active"), CT 11 (stub), the various US 7 freeways in CT and VT (transition to surface street or stoplight), MA 57 (stub, though "active"), I-291 (MA & CT, stoplights), I-391 (stoplight), Hutchison River Parkway (technically ends and the Bruckner interchange but is signed to side streets adjacent to I-678 by NYCDOT, then loops around underneath the Whitestone Bridge), I-495 (NY, stub), I-290 (MA, transitions to two-lane sfc street)
Quote from: formulanone on March 08, 2018, 01:40:55 PM
Mississippi Highway 740: the Fun-Sized freeway in Senatobia.
(https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=MS-740&zoom=14&scale=1&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap&format=png&visual_refresh=true&markers=size:mid%7Ccolor:0xff0000%7Clabel:%7CMS-740)
Actually 740's not a freeway - the marker is right at an at-grade intersection.
I-170's south end in St. Louis used to crash into a shopping center just south of I-64/US 40, but that was fixed (or at least improved a bit) as part of the I-64 rebuilding project a few years ago.
Bronx River Parkway southern terminus at Story Ave.
Quote from: lordsutch on March 15, 2018, 12:52:34 AM
Quote from: formulanone on March 08, 2018, 01:40:55 PM
Mississippi Highway 740: the Fun-Sized freeway in Senatobia.
Actually 740's not a freeway - the marker is right at an at-grade intersection.
I-170's south end in St. Louis used to crash into a shopping center just south of I-64/US 40, but that was fixed (or at least improved a bit) as part of the I-64 rebuilding project a few years ago.
You're right, I drove on it last week and thought it had the potential for grade separations throughout its length.
Two city-owned freeways in Tulsa: the freeway sections of the LL Tisdale Parkway and the Gilcrease Expressway end at a traffic light between the two roads.
CA-244 in Sacramento, although Caltrans and motorists often treat it instead as a long on/off ramp between Auburn Boulevard and I-80/I-80-Business.
The west end of I-90 ends in two pieces now. One is a loop ramp to a T-Intesection with 4th Avenue on the East Side of Century Link Field. The other, connects to Edgar Martinez Dr., just West of the interchange between 4th Avenue and Edgar Martinez Dr/I-90 East, then down a ramp to 1st Ave/Dave Neihaus Way.
Portland's I-405 just ends at a Hospital in NE Portland.
Quote from: TEG24601 on March 18, 2018, 04:33:59 PM
Portland's I-405 just ends at a Hospital in NE Portland.
Check the street view. It clearly goes to I-5 north. The ramp to the hospital is signed as an exit.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 08, 2018, 11:44:29 AM
BTW, the OP needs to find the photo of the original end of the Kansas Turnpike for the ultimate "where'd my freeway go?" scene.
Kansas Turnpike at Oklahoma border, 1956. Courtesy of the "Odd Temporary Endings to Freeways..." chain (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21328.0)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fericgartner.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F07%2Fks_turnpike.jpg&hash=d1fc23b3331829b0736ddba3b137b3165646cd01)
Similar submission: the north end of Arkansas's I-49 at the Texas border:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5180672,-94.0439474,898m/data=!3m1!1e3
Quote from: vdeane on March 18, 2018, 07:31:35 PM
Quote from: TEG24601 on March 18, 2018, 04:33:59 PM
Portland's I-405 just ends at a Hospital in NE Portland.
Check the street view. It clearly goes to I-5 north. The ramp to the hospital is signed as an exit.
Yeah, it's definitely an exit, with a gore sign and everything. Should be Exit 4B actually, but Oregon has an aversion to numbering exits at highway termini for some reason.
Fun fact: 405 was supposed to continue NE from the terminus as the Rose City Freeway. That got cancelled during the Freeway Revolts of the 1970s.
Another fun fact: Once the Rose City Freeway was cancelled, ODOT was planning on taking the Kelly Avenue/Hospital ramps out. However, the hospital successfully lobbied to keep them, since it drastically sped up response times for accidents on the bridge.
the old end of the EOE at rohlwing rd
Quote from: JasonOfORoads on March 19, 2018, 06:02:34 PM
Fun fact: 405 was supposed to continue NE from the terminus as the Rose City Freeway. That got cancelled during the Freeway Revolts of the 1970s.
Another fun fact to add to the PDX freeway saga file: The original I-80N (the change to I-84 occurred after the crux of the freeway revolts) plans were to jettison the old Banfield alignment west of I-205, "weave" the lanes of I-80N south along 205 (some of those provisions are still there), and then turn it west parallel to Powell on the path of the "Mt. Hood" freeway, with the latter portion multiplexed with US 26. Some planners thought that route was a bit convoluted (which it obviously
was), so an alternate suggestion was made to reroute the Interstate along the "Rose City" freeway, which would have intersected the eastern reaches of I-80N at the north I-205 interchange segment, snake around the north side of the hill, and then make a more or less "beeline" to the north I-5/405 interchange. However, before any changes to the plans, which would necessarily include AASHTO/FHWA approval of such a change, could be finalized, the freeway revolt occurred in the interim -- with everything east of I-5 (that wasn't the Banfield) cancelled. The expansion of the Banfield to 6 lanes to serve as I-84 occurred much later.
Quote from: davewiecking on March 19, 2018, 04:02:20 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 08, 2018, 11:44:29 AM
BTW, the OP needs to find the photo of the original end of the Kansas Turnpike for the ultimate "where'd my freeway go?" scene.
Kansas Turnpike at Oklahoma border, 1956. Courtesy of the "Odd Temporary Endings to Freeways..." chain (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21328.0)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fericgartner.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F07%2Fks_turnpike.jpg&hash=d1fc23b3331829b0736ddba3b137b3165646cd01)
Similar submission: the north end of Arkansas's I-49 at the Texas border:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5180672,-94.0439474,898m/data=!3m1!1e3
I'm going to go dig up a picture of CA-905 ending at Britannia Blvd. which looked rather similar, before the two sections were connected.
Quote from: sbeaver44 on March 13, 2018, 08:31:07 PM
Also in PA:
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-PA 63/Woodhaven Road has a freeway that abruptly ends at US 1 in Philadelphia. PA 63 then continues on US 1 for a bit.
Nexus 6P
The end of PA-63.
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Granted that it's a short freeway stub off of CA 210, but CA 330 is a freeway between 210 and just north of Highland Ave in Highland, CA. It quickly narrows to a twisty 2-lane mountain road to climb the 4500' or so to Running Springs.
https://goo.gl/maps/hind1Dd7ooM2
The inglorious eastern end of the 6th Ave Freeway in Denver, east of I-25. Within about a mile and a half, 6th Ave sees the speed limit drop to 45 MPH as it rides a viaduct over the railroad tracks, has an exit for Osage St (which just serves a warehouse/industrial area, then climbs another viaduct over more railroad tracks (including light rail), then has another speed limit drop to 35 before a light at Kalamath St.
6th Ave continues east as a one way street eastbound (with the 8th Ave one way WB cohort joining at Kalamath, which is one way SB). The BGS approaching Kalamath shows the left lane becoming a left-turn land for Santa Fe Dr one block futher, with the remaining lanes showing "thru traffic", with left turns at Lincoln St north and right turns at Kalamath, Broadway, and Speer Blvd south (another few blocks away for Lincoln, Broadway, and Speer).
https://goo.gl/maps/5nwPiLSazdC2
https://goo.gl/maps/Kx8WVKFF26L2
"Freeway Ends 1/2 Mile" sign: https://goo.gl/maps/yu1jeh2exqw
Overhead gantry sign advising where to turn for Denver Health Medical Center and Signal Ahead: https://goo.gl/maps/GZw4WKeQtbp
Overhead gantry with upcoming intersections before the light at Kalamath: https://goo.gl/maps/f3miw2paus22
The end of the freeway (at Kalamath St intersection): https://goo.gl/maps/e1t3TRnmEsu
Another one in Denver: US 285 northbound (which is actually on an E/W alignment) in Sheridan. The freeway was never constructed past this point, so the freeway portion becomes an expressway on Hampden Ave ahead of the light at Lowell Blvd, then an exit at Federal Blvd, and another light at River Point Pkwy before another interchange at S Santa Fe Dr (US 85).
The speed limit then drops to 35 MPH as Hampden proceeds thru downtown Englewood.
Here is the Google Maps for the area:
https://goo.gl/maps/qtcLKnjpNkA2
"Freeway Ends--1 Mile" signs just past the interchange with Sheridan Blvd:
https://goo.gl/maps/NmTKc7BTd6s
Lowell Blvd & Knox Ct--3/4 mile "exit" advance sign:
https://goo.gl/maps/xcEcGoCiEAm
Speed limit decreases from 65 to 55 (with advance sign for next 3 "exits" in the background--only one of which is an actual exit):
https://goo.gl/maps/dgMJndvgemA2
"Signal Ahead" signs with flashers:
https://goo.gl/maps/WPhtr7ryzNK2
1/2 mile advance sign for Federal Blvd (CO 88) exit:
https://goo.gl/maps/6kW7LqGiYkF2
Technical end of freeway at Lowell Blvd (south) and Knox Ct (north):
https://goo.gl/maps/KUoyZwPgosC2
Federal Blvd exit:
https://goo.gl/maps/N2FHf7wqf6N2
Eastbound RIRO "interchange" to access an RV park and self-storage facility (and advance sign showing speed limit decreases to 45):
https://goo.gl/maps/8dAPLiFMqjP2
Intersection at River Point Pkwy (south) and Hampden Ave (frontage rd paralleling highway to the north):
https://goo.gl/maps/dbXk8g1ERMU2
1/2 mile advance sign for Santa Fe Dr (US 85) exit:
https://goo.gl/maps/VG1UeUjJj4H2
Exit for Santa Fe Dr (US 285 is the through route, interchange is a modified folded diamond on the west side of Santa Fe...to the east lie light rail tracks):
https://goo.gl/maps/gtBLKMxr3cR2
The stretch before Lowell where the speed limit is reduced to 55 used to be all the way to 45 and was a notorious speed trap where the City of Sheridan used to make a lot of revenue--including some from me. I'm not sure when it was changed (I don't often get out that way any more), but I'm sure glad it was. Not sure if Sheridan PD or the City would agree with me, however.
What would be the northern terminus of G1012 in northeastern China: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.3649853,134.7277532,1540m/data=!3m1!1e3
Or, better yet, here's the current north end of the A31 in Italy. It was supposed to connect with the A22 highway, but community opposition is stopping that from happening.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7592316,11.4482479,560m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0
That would have been a hell of an undertaking, even without community opposition o.0
SH 249 in Texas is currently being extended to go from a 6 lane tollway to a 2 lane road. And the 2 lane road with at grades will be new construction as well.
Quote from: Bickendan on March 26, 2018, 03:19:03 AM
That would have been a hell of an undertaking, even without community opposition o.0
How so?
The ending of old "I-695" in DC.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8768619,-76.9860796,3a,75y,64.56h,76.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shLPFpHOBg20CwDnDUCa07A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0
In 2009 street view, as that area had changed somewhat since then. The freeway ends at Pennsylvania Avenue, but another lane would go under the bridge and abruptly become an one land road. It was actually interesting, and you could easily circle back to get back onto the freeway.
Quote from: MrAndy1369 on March 29, 2018, 11:23:55 PM
The ending of old "I-695" in DC.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8768619,-76.9860796,3a,75y,64.56h,76.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shLPFpHOBg20CwDnDUCa07A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0
In 2009 street view, as that area had changed somewhat since then. The freeway ends at Pennsylvania Avenue, but another lane would go under the bridge and abruptly become an one land road. It was actually interesting, and you could easily circle back to get back onto the freeway.
I'm sure I read some plans back in the mid-90s to connect this with DC 295 as the Barney Circle Freeway. Does anyone have a map or drawings of the proposal?
For another couple of years, anyway: I-490 @ E. 55th St. in Cleveland until the Opportunity Corridor (extended OH-10) is completed.