Decommissioned routes you have clinched

[kkt]

California I-480 (as much as was ever built) and CA 480

[Bickendan]

OR 212 west of I-205
OR 213 along Airport Way

[cl94]

Let's see (not counting routes that were renumbered)...

Massachusetts:
Business Spur I-495 (Lowell Connector)

New York:
-All rerouted sections of US 9, US 9W, US 20, US 44, US 219
-The original surface alignment of NY 17
-The original surface alignment of NY 27
-NY 25C
-NY 31B
-NY 32B
-The former middle section of NY 42
-NY 57
-NY 82A
-Former NY 115 on Long Island (Wantagh Avenue)
-NY 146B
-NY 152
-NY 153
-NY 154
-Former NY 215 in Hamlin, Monroe County
-NY 239
-NY 255
-NY 258 (was once much longer)
-NY 267
-NY 273
-NY 288
-NY 317
-NY 323
-NY 338 (both of them)
-NY 339
-NY 356
-NY 358
-NY 361
-NY 380
-NY 405
-NY 422

There are likely more in other states. I plan to get a large amount of truncated US 21 this weekend, for example.

[webny99]

^ NY 153? 
Is there another former one, or was the existing one truncated?

[cl94]

^ NY 153? 
Is there another former one, or was the existing one truncated?

There are two former ones. The one in question is near the Vermont line. Becomes VT 153.

[Max Rockatansky]

In kind of a weird way CA 276.  The route only existed on legislative paperwork but I've driven all of the adopted routing from Three Rivers to Mineral King.

[formulanone]

I can also include Georgia State Route 381; it turns out that Google Maps has many of the state's decommissioned routes still posted.

[formulanone]

Insomnia problems...

Alabama: 135, 200, 275
Indiana: 100
Iowa: 192, 988
Kentucky: US 31E Business (Mount Washington; the infamous "US 31EX")
Louisiana: 655 Spur, 1059, 3228
North Carolina: 59
Texas: Spur 537
Wisconsin: 149
Probably a few more in Florida (besides what I posted earlier) but can't think of them right now.

[Big John]

WI 74, 123, 150, 177

[TheStranger]

California:

as a driver:
pre-1964 Route 5 (now the full extent of Route 35)
176 (in 2021, so about 37 years after it was decommissioned)
30 (in 2017, about 18 years after the route stopped existing; this includes what is now Route 210 and Route 330, but not the old surface street alignment)
unsigned 105/110 near the East Los Angeles Interchange (former was always part of US 101, latter is the San Bernardino Freeway spur connecting 101/110 that used to be US 60/70/99)
former Route 204 south of Route 58
former Route 16 between Woodland and eastern Sacramento
former Route 160 within Sacramento (from I-5 in Freeport to the 12th Street Bridge in Alkali Flat)
209 (this past year, so about a decade or more since the route stopped being signed)
pre-1964 15 (so the Long Beach Freeway excluding the Pasadena stub, the Valley Boulevard stub, and most of the segment south of Route 1)
256 (ca. 2008, not sure this was ever signed in the field)
old US 40
old US 99W between Stockton and Manteca (clinched in 2020)
former Route 82 between I-880 and the 85/101 junction (near Blossom Hill Road) in San Jose
former US 101W (mixture of SF city streets and current Route 82) between San Francisco and San Jose
former Bypass US 101 along the Bayshore Freeway
Bypass US 50 in south Sacramento (14th Avenue and 65th Street)
former Business US 50/99 in Sacramento (Stockton Boulevard)
former Business US 40 in North Sacramento (Del Paso Boulevard and El Camino Avenue)
decomissioned segment of Route 160 between Freeport and the Sacramento neighborhood of Alkali Flat
former portions of (unsigned) 275
former 117 between South San Francisco and Daly City (Junipero Serra Boulevard, supplanted by I-280)
former 170 south of US 101 in Hollywood (drove it while it was still signed in 2010)
the 1964-1981 extent of Route 11 (now I-110 and Route 101)

as a passenger:
15E/unsigned 194
225
86S
pre-1936 Route 3/pre-1964 Alternate US 101 (the current Pacific Coast Highway/etc. segment of Route 1), including the original alignment in Oxnard that has been bypassed by Rice Avenue
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outside of California:

as a driver:
current I-74/future NC 192 in Winston-Salem
Philippines route 54 (EDSA) through Pasay, Makati, Mandaluyong, Quezon City - number was deprecated after the 1950s and the country currently uses a different numbering system that is not often referred to by the public

as a passenger:
I-265 in Nashville (was already 65 by then, as this was in 2006)
I-515 in Las Vegas ca. 1998

[74/171FAN]

At the top of my head, the ones I am truly aware of before decommissioning are VA 44 (as a young kid), NC 59, and VA 392.  I was very surprised that I could even clinch VA 392 as the place seemed sort of closed off with construction crews there when I clinched it in May 2022 right before it was decommissioned.

I have long-term plans to clinch the VA 4XX routes in Richmond and Virginia Beach that have been decommissioned, but of those, I have completed VA 414 (Lynnhaven Pkwy) and VA 407 (Indian River Road) in Virginia Beach.  I have some of VA 417 (Forest Hill Ave), but I do not have a complete clinch yet.

[DandyDan]

I can say I have MN 110, both before and after, and, more obscurely, MN 262 before its decommissioning. I think I have the former route of MN 212, but I don't know exactly where it ended on the west end.

The two highways I can add for Iowa are IA 105 and the last IA 134.

[Quillz]

Been on all of former CA-42. (Which is still very well signed on apps like Apple Maps).

In the San Diego area, drove the entirety of what used to be CA-209 and CA-274. The former is nice if you ever want to visit La Jolla.

[roadman65]

I-265 in Nashville even before it became I-65. I drove it in 1990.

[Max Rockatansky]

Probably most notable on my last trip was former Hawaii Route 21 in Hilo.

[1995hoo]

I had forgotten this thread existed. It prompts me to note a partially decommissioned route that a fair number of us have clinched: VA-244, Columbia Pike, in Fairfax County and (formerly) Arlington County. The decommissioned part is still fairly thoroughly signed with the number, at least on routes intersecting or interchanging with it.

[Max Rockatansky]

Some I forgot were former Hawaii Route 1970 and 240.  240 was recently relinquished to Hawaii County and is still signed.  You wouldn't know it was a county Route without checking the HIDOT 2022 Route log.   Of course that doesn't get into the nominal signage differences between Hawaii Routes and what the counties maintain.  They even use the exact same signage, including the Hawaii Route spade.

[JayhawkCO]

Including those with official designations that were never signed in the field. Also only doing interstates and CO state highways as that's all I'm familiar with. For the interstates, I'll bold if I traveled them when they were signed as that number.

I-15W (ID)
I-35W (KS)
I-70S (PA)
I-70N (MD)
I-75E (FL)
I-80N (UT)
I-80N (OH)
I-82S (ID/UT)
I-82N (ID)
I-90N (NY)
I-180N (ID)
I-210 (AL)
I-410 (AZ)
I-410 (LA) x 2
I-515 (NV)
I-415 (UT)
I-425 (CO)
I-326 (SC)
I-130 (AR)
I-440 (OK)
I-244 (MO)
I-255 (TN)
I-164 (IN)
I-265 (TN)
I-876 (PA)
I-479 (PA)
I-180 (CA)
I-880 (CA)
I-280 (NE/IA)
I-280 (PA)
I-480 (PA)
I-680 (PA/NJ)
I-895 (DE)
I-495 (PA)
I-197 (MD)

CO3
CO4
CO5
CO6
CO11
CO16
CO18
CO18
CO19
CO20
CO20
CO21
CO23
CO24
CO25
CO27
CO29
CO31
CO32
CO33
CO33
CO36
CO38
CO40
CO49
CO50
CO51
CO51
CO54
CO55
CO68
CO70
CO73
CO76
CO78
CO80
CO81
CO84
CO85
CO87
CO98
CO99
CO100
CO102
CO106
CO107
CO111
CO118
CO122
CO123
CO126
CO128
CO146
CO146
CO147
CO153
CO160
CO163
CO166
CO176
CO182
CO187
CO197
CO254
CO256
CO279
CO293
CO353
CO382
CO398
CO789

oh, and FL9A, since I'm certain of that one.

[SEWIGuy]

WI 74, 123, 150, 177

Wisconsin (before they were decommissioned): 62, 74, 99, 109, 115, 123, 143, 150, 159, 199, 341, 351

There is just too many after. Dozens really.

[TBKS1]

Even though this road was like two miles long, I did clinch AR 132 like two weeks before it got turned back.

[74/171FAN]

I had forgotten this thread existed. It prompts me to note a partially decommissioned route that a fair number of us have clinched: VA-244, Columbia Pike, in Fairfax County and (formerly) Arlington County. The decommissioned part is still fairly thoroughly signed with the number, at least on routes intersecting or interchanging with it.

Yeah I redrove Columbia Pike east of VA 120 again recently because of the realignment by Arlington National Cemetery.

[1995hoo]

I had forgotten this thread existed. It prompts me to note a partially decommissioned route that a fair number of us have clinched: VA-244, Columbia Pike, in Fairfax County and (formerly) Arlington County. The decommissioned part is still fairly thoroughly signed with the number, at least on routes intersecting or interchanging with it.

Yeah I redrove Columbia Pike east of VA 120 again recently because of the realignment by Arlington National Cemetery.

When I went that way eastbound earlier this fall, I noted an error US-27 shield at the eastern end of the realignment. Didn't manage to get a picture as I was paying more attention to where I was going, given that it was my first time on the new routing.

[74/171FAN]

I had forgotten this thread existed. It prompts me to note a partially decommissioned route that a fair number of us have clinched: VA-244, Columbia Pike, in Fairfax County and (formerly) Arlington County. The decommissioned part is still fairly thoroughly signed with the number, at least on routes intersecting or interchanging with it.

Yeah I redrove Columbia Pike east of VA 120 again recently because of the realignment by Arlington National Cemetery.

When I went that way eastbound earlier this fall, I noted an error US-27 shield at the eastern end of the realignment. Didn't manage to get a picture as I was paying more attention to where I was going, given that it was my first time on the new routing.

I did. (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?msg=2949538)


I want to note that I also clinched former VA 237 east of VA 120 due to it still being partly signed (at least as of June 2022).

[roadman65]

Northern part of US 113 from Milford to the Dover AFB.

Then I have to say US 221 in Perry, FL.


Oh and VA 162 in Williamsburg, VA.

[pderocco]

I've made a habit of trying to drive every bit of pavement that looks like it used to be part of US-101, US-99, US-395, western US-66, western US-80, and western US-6, even if it's no longer part of any numbered route, business route, or signed historic route. That's not the sort of thing that you can really know if you've "clinched" or not. But there's a lot of interesting pavement out there. In the Owens Valley, US-395 has so many old alignments that it's hard to keep track of them. Some are overgrown with weeds, and some are still lightly used. Following current and former US-6 alongside I-70 in Colorado is fun, too. And of course US-66 has lots of kitsch and memorabilia along it, and a lot of people doing the same thing as me.