Defunct Interchanges

[roadman65]

I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ.  The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally.  Now it is an at grade intersection.  The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB.  EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.

I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.

[Alps]

I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ.  The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally.  Now it is an at grade intersection.  The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB.  EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.

I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.2912061784989E-05&lat=40.2573555757968&lon=-74.5502550362798&year=1979

[roadman65]

I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ.  The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally.  Now it is an at grade intersection.  The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB.  EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.

I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.2912061784989E-05&lat=40.2573555757968&lon=-74.5502550362798&year=1979

Great aerial photo.  I see the structure over NJ 33 WB and the PRR was built in tiers rather than using long girders just like the PATH line over the NE Corridor in Harrison just east of Dock Lift Bridge.

[pianocello]

I was editing a random spot on OSM at Syracuse, and found this. Linked to from Google, though.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16

It also looks like there might have been access from EB State Fair Blvd to EB John Glenn Blvd at one point in time. I have no idea how one would make that movement now.

[DTComposer]

Former CA-275 (originally built as the freeway version of US 40 in West Sacramento, and now signed as the Downtown Sacramento exit from US-50) had its interchanges with Garden Street/Capitol Avenue and 3rd and 5th Streets removed:

http://goo.gl/maps/pXOE4

The 45-degree view has the 3rd/5th Street interchange still in place; the overhead view has it removed.

[amroad17]

I was editing a random spot on OSM at Syracuse, and found this. Linked to from Google, though.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16

It also looks like there might have been access from EB State Fair Blvd to EB John Glenn Blvd at one point in time. I have no idea how one would make that movement now.

There never was an EB-EB movement, or in the case of NY 48, a SB-EB movement.  Before the Baldwinsville bypass (now NY 690) was built, I-690 ended at the traffic light where the old Thruway entrance was and NY 48 took over there.  John Glenn Blvd. was completed around the same time NY 690 was finished in 1971, necessitating a reconstruction of the interchange seen above.  Ever since John Glenn was finished, to make the movement from SB NY 48 to EB John Glenn you had to turn left on Farrell Road and go around the old GE plant to the traffic light at Farrell and John Glenn. 

I stand corrected.  Looking at the historic aerials from 1972 shows a slip ramp from SB NY 48 to John Glenn Blvd right after it passes under the mainline for NY 690 (now I-690).  Sometime between 1972 and 1987 is when the slip ramp disappeared.  You can see where it used to be in the 2003 and 2006 aerials.

[roadman65]

I know that at the NYS Fairgrounds there was an entrance from WB State Fair Boulevard to EB I-690 that was abandoned when I-690 was relocated so the Fairgrounds parking area could be expanded.  I remember once going to the Fair as a child, seeing the entrance to the parking lot have a button copy freeway sign that had a shield and "EAST" that was evident it was on it from the fading around the area on the sign.  Then you could see we were on a curved slip ramp that once was, and then ended up parking on asphalt that was striped for a two lane freeway.  Plus the bridges inside the parking area for the Fair, if you look at them, are the same design as NY freeways use.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Solvay,+NY&hl=en&ll=43.075687,-76.217179&spn=0.001005,0.002642&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=9.892242,21.643066&oq=solv&t=h&hnear=Solvay,+Onondaga,+New+York&z=19

You can see what once was a ramp and the part of the parking area that was once EB I-690.

[WNYroadgeek]

Found some aerials showing the original Thruway/I-690 intechange:

Circa 1956: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1956

Circa 1979: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1972

And here's a semi-defunct one I just came across- Thruway Exit 51 prior to the Kensington Expressway being constructed (circa 1963): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 The interchange connected to Maryvale Drive back then.

And another, this one of pre-NY 400 Thruway Exit 54. It connected directly to NY 16 then (circa 1966): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.848155148309&lon=-78.7867940683592&year=1966

And here's the old I-90/NY 96 interchange (circa 1951): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 Turns out it was a 3/4 cloverleaf.

And another defunct one: I-90 and US (now NY) 15, prior to I-390 being constructed (circa 1971): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963

And finally, an interesting one: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 While the westernmost Thruway/I-490 interchange existed at that point (circa 1969), there appears to be a ghost ramp indicating that there was formerly a direct connection between the Thruway and NY 19.

[Ned Weasel]

Since no one who's familiar with Northeast Kansas has mentioned this one yet, I might as well take it--

Former US 56 (now called Old 56 Highway)/K-7 and K-7/Parker Street/Lone Elm Road in Olathe:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.86768,-94.834456&spn=0.004528,0.010568&gl=us&t=h&z=17

It used to be a diamond, with US 56 being the mainline highway and Lone Elm Road being the cross street.  You can still see how stuff grew/developed around the diamond.

Also, this example in Mission sort of counts because Roe Avenue and Johnson Drive used to function as part of a larger, fully grade-separated interchange (it was referred to as a pretzel interchange), whereas now they intersect at grade:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.024002,-94.639084&spn=0.009035,0.021136&gl=us&t=h&z=16

[vdeane]

Found some aerials showing the original Thruway/I-690 intechange:

Circa 1956: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1956

Circa 1979: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1972

And here's a semi-defunct one I just came across- Thruway Exit 51 prior to the Kensington Expressway being constructed (circa 1963): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 The interchange connected to Maryvale Drive back then.

And another, this one of pre-NY 400 Thruway Exit 54. It connected directly to NY 16 then (circa 1966): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.848155148309&lon=-78.7867940683592&year=1966

And here's the old I-90/NY 96 interchange (circa 1951): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 Turns out it was a 3/4 cloverleaf.

And another defunct one: I-90 and US (now NY) 15, prior to I-390 being constructed (circa 1971): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963

And finally, an interesting one: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 While the westernmost Thruway/I-490 interchange existed at that point (circa 1969), there appears to be a ghost ramp indicating that there was formerly a direct connection between the Thruway and NY 19.

A lot of those links go back to the I-90/NY 33 interchange instead of the Rochester ones.  Congratulations on taking away my afternoon.  Historic Aerials has certainly improved since the last time I looked!

EDIT: Drag the map over and check out the original Thruway exit 36 (now I-81)!  There's something I never knew about!

[amroad17]

A double trumpet involving 7th North Street!  The interchange was re-done in the late 1960's; even the 7th North interchange was re-done sometime between 1972 and 2003.

I like how I-81 was only completed between Park St. (near current day Carousel Mall) and US 11 in Mattydale in 1956.

If you look further south from the I-81/Thruway interchange, you will see that I-81 was relocated further east between the Hiawatha interchange and the 7th North interchange. (Compare 1972 to 2003)  This was done between 1976-1980.  The SB exit ramp from I-81 to Park St. used to be the SB mainline.  Apparently, NYSDOT wanted to straighten out that section of I-81 instead of having a left curve followed by a semi-sharp right curve.

[Revive 755]

Looking in Google Earth, the 1998 imagery shows a folded diamond for former US 66 at IL 17 in Dwight with tight ramps in the SW quadrant, what may have been more of a right on-right off connector in the NW quadrant lining up with Watters Drive (and tying into a frontage road), and US 66 on two separate bridges over IL 17.  The 2005 imagery shows the current at-grade intersection, complete with the southbound lanes being obliterated and the frontage road cut back.

[amroad17]

Noticed on Google Maps last evening that there used to be a half-interchange on Michigan Road and US 31 near Harris, IN (between Plymouth and South Bend) before US 31 was moved to the freeway segment.  Apparently, the section of the old US 31 expressway from the freeway to Michigan Road was abandoned, torn up, and then left to nature.

NY 96A used to have an interchange with US 20/NY 5 east of Geneva, NY.  It is now an at-grade intersection.

I may have mentioned this in another thread, but there used to be an interchange (Exit 83-sequential in Ohio) on I-75 just south of current Exit 164.  It was called Mortimer. The outline of the former diamond interchange can still be seen on Google Maps (first bridge south of Exit 164--Allen Twp Rd 109).

And finally, the old Des Moines Ave. interchange on I-264 in Portsmouth, VA--obliterated by the new VA 164, MLK Freeway interchange.

[OracleUsr]

Here's one near me:

I-40 to US 64 (Exit 153, Eastbound only) was ripped out several years ago when they widened 40 through that part of Statesville.  Now you take exit 154 in either direction onto Old Mocksvillle Road to get to 64.

[theline]

Noticed on Google Maps last evening that there used to be a half-interchange on Michigan Road and US 31 near Harris, IN (between Plymouth and South Bend) before US 31 was moved to the freeway segment.  Apparently, the section of the old US 31 expressway from the freeway to Michigan Road was abandoned, torn up, and then left to nature.

You are correct. Also demolished was the ramp and overpass that carried northbound Michigan Rd. over southbound US 31. Michigan Road had a rather dangerous left side merge with 31 that exists no longer.

[roadman65]

Exit 241 on I-44 near Tulsa.  It once connected to the Will Rogers Turnpike before the Creek Turnpike was built.  The ramps and bridges for the old Y split of OK SH 66  E Bound and I-44 are still evident there with a sign bridge and an empty assembly that once supported the once pull through for I-44 and the Turnpike.

[CapeCodder]

* MO 370 at Taussig Road - Replaced with a new interchange to the west.  Old grading for one of the ramps is still visible:  http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.779589,-90.413189&spn=0.007067,0.016512&t=h&z=17

* US 40 at Laclede Station Road in Richmond Heights, Missouri - Removed due to spacing issues when this section of highway was rebuilt.

* US 40 at Oakland in St. Louis - a former half diamond with WB on/EB off; removed when this section was rebuilt.  There was a design alternative which would have kept the EB exit as a braided ramp, but the cost and ROW impacts were too great IIRC.

* The little spur freeway from US 40 to Chouteau in St. Louis used to have a 3/4 diamond with Vandeventer; removed when the Chouteau viaduct was replaced and the spur was truncated to Vandeventer.

* US 40 at Vandeventer:  Historic Aerials is showing a half diamond (EB on/WB off) here; seems to have been removed when the WB lanes were put on the viaduct over the EB lanes.

What is/was the purpose of that little freeway spur to Vandeventer? I remember the slip ramp to get onto 40/64 WB off of Gratiot St.

[ari-s-drives]

I-580 in Livermore, CA used to have an incomplete (eastbound exit, westbound entrance) interchange with Portola Ave, but this was removed around ten years ago because it was too close to the newly constructed interchange with Isabel Ave (CA SR84).

Grading for the former interchange is visible on the satellite view.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6997755,-121.7988243,1946m/data=!3m1!1e3

[Revive 755]

What is/was the purpose of that little freeway spur to Vandeventer? I remember the slip ramp to get onto 40/64 WB off of Gratiot St.

IIRC the freeway spur was actually the mainline highway prior to the extension eastward.  I also recall reading somewhere that at one time there was a study or plan (cannot recall whether it was in another study or an old newspaper article) to route the freeway along (maybe over?) Chouteau Avenue.

[Declan127]

17N on the EB Belt Parkway in Queens. Had a WB entrance.

[Declan127]

to cross bay blvd north. this created a left/straight/right lane on the 17(S) ramp.

[wanderer2575]

As long as this has been revived...  There used to be an abomination of an interchange at M-63 and Klock Road near St. Joseph MI.  Chris Bessert has a great animation of aerial photos showing the interchange and the area after its removal on his Michigan Highways website:  http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/M-63_Klock_Interchange.html

[Hwy 61 Revisited]

Soon Exit 306 off I-80 in Pennsylvania will be removed as part of the Stroudsburg reconstruction project.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

In St. Paul, the interchange on I-35E at Pennsylvania Avenue was eliminated and replaced with one to the north at Cayuga Street when 35E was rebuilt and widened several years ago.

[machias]

A double trumpet involving 7th North Street!  The interchange was re-done in the late 1960's; even the 7th North interchange was re-done sometime between 1972 and 2003.

I like how I-81 was only completed between Park St. (near current day Carousel Mall) and US 11 in Mattydale in 1956.

If you look further south from the I-81/Thruway interchange, you will see that I-81 was relocated further east between the Hiawatha interchange and the 7th North interchange. (Compare 1972 to 2003)  This was done between 1976-1980.  The SB exit ramp from I-81 to Park St. used to be the SB mainline.  Apparently, NYSDOT wanted to straighten out that section of I-81 instead of having a left curve followed by a semi-sharp right curve.

This was actually done around 1981-1982 and at the same time I-81 from Exit 24 to US 11/Mattydale was widened to its current configuration. When exiting from I-81 NB to NY 57 there was a sign that said "(left arrow) NY 57 Liverpool / Old Liverpool Rd (right arrow)"  at the split. When NY 57 was decommissioned in 1981, NYSDOT slapped a guide sign style NY 370 marker over the "NY 57"  that was there for a year or two before the entire interchange was rebuilt. I also remember the outline marker for NY 57 being covered up with a newer style NY 370 marker on the guide signs on I-81 NB.