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Started by Max Rockatansky, May 12, 2019, 02:56:30 PM

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Hurricane Rex

Delta Highway in Eugene is not a state highway and maintained by eugene and Lane County despite it being a full freeway.

Airport way by PDX is a partial freeway maintained by PBOT to my knowledge (less confident on that one).

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sprjus4

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https://www.google.com/maps/dir/36.5766261,-79.4062094/36.6006087,-79.4154496/@36.5899513,-79.4083632,3590m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e0

This stretch of VA-86 in Danville is a full freeway. It would extend another mile south, though there's a traffic signal with Broad St between the US-29 Business interchange and the VA-293 interchange.

I've always enjoyed that stretch. It's an old school type of freeway. And it serves only local traffic as thru traffic uses the modern interstate-grade US-29 bypass that completely bypasses the city.

Beltway

Quote from: sprjus4 on June 08, 2019, 09:11:59 PM
... thru traffic uses the modern interstate-grade US-29 bypass that completely bypasses the city.

Most of it runs -thru- the city, the segment between N.C. and VA-360.

That is why it was named the Danville Expressway and not the Danville Bypass.

I will grant that it bypasses the Danville urbanized area.
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sprjus4

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Quote from: Beltway on June 08, 2019, 09:38:52 PM
Most of it runs -thru- the city, the segment between N.C. and VA-360.

That is why it was named the Danville Expressway and not the Danville Bypass.

I will grant that it bypasses the Danville urbanized area.
8 miles through the city, and 6 miles outside the city.

But yeah, I was referring to the expressway bypassing the urban area. The freeway mainly traverses rural forested land.

Similar to the north part of the Chesapeake Expressway. The Great Bridge Bypass & Oak Grove Connector segments bypass the urban strip developments of VA-168 Business and the town-like (not technically a town) community of Great Bridge. The southern half is mainly a relocation of the pre-existing 2-lane road, and a bypass of the little Hickory area, though it's not more than 1/2 mile long. But all of the expressway is in the City of Chesapeake nonetheless - hence the name.

NE2

Quote from: Beltway on June 08, 2019, 09:38:52 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on June 08, 2019, 09:11:59 PM
... thru traffic uses the modern interstate-grade US-29 bypass that completely bypasses the city.

Most of it runs -thru- the city, the segment between N.C. and VA-360.

That is why it was named the Danville Expressway and not the Danville Bypass.
Bullshit. Danville did not annex the bypass until 1988 (see page 59/213 of http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5576&context=etd). The Danville Expressway name was in use by 1972 (http://books.google.com/books?id=C8E1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR9-IA3).
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Beltway

Quote from: NE2 on June 09, 2019, 08:50:40 AM
Quote from: Beltway on June 08, 2019, 09:38:52 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on June 08, 2019, 09:11:59 PM
... thru traffic uses the modern interstate-grade US-29 bypass that completely bypasses the city.
Most of it runs -thru- the city, the segment between N.C. and VA-360.
That is why it was named the Danville Expressway and not the Danville Bypass.
Bullshit. Danville did not annex the bypass until 1988 (see page 59/213 of http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5576&context=etd). The Danville Expressway name was in use by 1972 (http://books.google.com/books?id=C8E1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR9-IA3).

I am well aware that its planning name in VDH literature in the early 1970s was Danville Expressway, because I saw them back then.

I wasn't aware of the exact sequencing of the annexations of county land by the city.
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sprjus4

Quote from: TheStranger on June 12, 2019, 03:06:53 PM
In Hutchison, KS, there's a short road with two interchanges named the "Woodie Seat Freeway"

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodie+Seat+Fwy,+Hutchinson,+KS/@38.0413572,-97.9405878,15.46z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x87a4c81f35269745:0x15e840db4e387758!8m2!3d38.0431721!4d-97.9380429

There is a recent plan to remove the norther interchange at the freeway's terminus and replace it with a roundabout

http://www.hutchpost.com/council-in-agreement-concerning-federal-grant-for-woody-seat-project/
Might as well just demolish the entire freeway and replace it with a surface boulevard. Doesn't appear to a major route or anything.

crispy93

The freeway section of the Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County is owned by the county. It becomes NYSDOT when you enter the Bronx.
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Gnutella

In Georgia, Gwinnett County has two limited-access parkways. Ronald Reagan Parkway is an express route from Lilburn to Snellville that's existed since the 1990s. Earlier this decade, Sugarloaf Parkway had a limited-access extension built from Grayson to Dacula along the right-of-way of the proposed (and moribund) Northern Arc. There are also plans to extend this parkway north along that right-of-way to the Mall of Georgia, including an interchange with I-85. Interestingly, the Sugarloaf Parkway extension is built to (or very close to) Interstate standards, while Ronald Reagan Parkway is not.

cwf1701

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 16, 2019, 11:11:46 PM
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on May 16, 2019, 06:23:34 PM
Gardiner Expressway (which now includes a small segment that was part of the original QEW that was added to it after the 1997 download), Don Valley Parkway, & Allen Road in Toronto, Ontario.

Keeping with the Ontario theme; Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway and Red Hills Valley Parkway are maintained by the City of Hamilton.

And the E.C. Row Expressway in Windsor.



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