Most left exits in a row

Started by bugo, April 17, 2019, 07:45:51 PM

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bugo

On eastbound I-244 in downtown Tulsa, there are three left exits in a row: the Tisdale parkway, MLK (Cincinnati)/Detroit and US 75. This picture illustrates this example of poor freeway design. I-244 is the official Left Exit Freeway with 23 left exits or entrances in its 15.75 mile length. One of the worst designed freeways in the country.



Are there any highways with four or more left exits in a row anywhere in the drives-on-the-right world?


ilpt4u

The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway

coldshoulder

Quote from: bugo on April 17, 2019, 07:45:51 PM
On eastbound I-244 in downtown Tulsa, there are three left exits in a row: the Tisdale parkway, MLK (Cincinnati)/Detroit and US 75. This picture illustrates this example of poor freeway design. I-244 is the official Left Exit Freeway with 23 left exits or entrances in its 15.75 mile length. One of the worst designed freeways in the country.



Are there any highways with four or more left exits in a row anywhere in the drives-on-the-right world?

Looks like it's actually four consecutive left exits:  Exit 5B for US 64/US 412 West, just prior to the ones shown on your photo.
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Mergingtraffic

HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.

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Brandon

Quote from: ilpt4u on April 17, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway

There were never any left exits in that stretch.  They were right exits and left entrances, at each and every block!

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kphoger

From 1951 until 1973, the southbound West Side Elevated Highway (Manhattan, NYC) had five or six consecutive left exits–depending on how you count the final split at Battery Park:

57 St
46 St
19 St
Canal St
Duane St
(Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel)
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Rothman

Quote from: Brandon on April 18, 2019, 04:56:10 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on April 17, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
The Kennedy Expressway in Downtown Chicago, just north of the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange, got rid of its Left Exits there. However, there are still 4 consecutive Left Entrances to the Expressway/Freeway

There were never any left exits in that stretch.  They were right exits and left entrances, at each and every block!

https://goo.gl/maps/TunbyhKSaWCufihRA
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bugo

Quote from: coldshoulder on April 18, 2019, 11:03:57 AM
Looks like it's actually four consecutive left exits:  Exit 5B for US 64/US 412 West, just prior to the ones shown on your photo.

Of course. I forgot about that one.

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1995hoo

I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:
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hotdogPi

Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.
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1995hoo

Quote from: 1 on April 18, 2019, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.

I didn't even see that sentence until after you mentioned it. Got sort of swallowed up below the picture–I had to look twice to confirm I wasn't seeing an autosignature.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

jp the roadgeek

Quote from: Mergingtraffic on April 18, 2019, 04:24:57 PM
HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.

Closest you have is 3 out of 4 on I-84 East in Plainville/New Britain and on I-84 West in East Hartford.  Eastbound you have Exits 33 (CT 72 West), Exit 35 (CT 72 East), and Exit 36 (Slater Rd).  Westbound you have Exit 57 (Charter Oak Bridge), Exit 55 (CT 2 East) and Exit 54 (Founders Bridge).  Each instance falls within a 2 mile stretch. 
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Mrt90

In Milwaukee County, there is a left exit for I-43/US45 off of I-41 (I-894 bypass), and if you take that left exit to get on to I-43 the first exit for 108th street is also a left exit.  I occasionally go this way to get to the VW dealer in Franklin and those consecutive left exits always feel odd to me.


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https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9571258,-88.0470428,3a,75y,225.8h,98.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2m8xQLz-sps6-mVQE2-eBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

skluth

It's only one ramp. But I-35E southbound in St Paul has one left exit that separates into four ramps - to I-94 east, US 52 southbound, Wacouta St, and 10th St East.

cwf1701

SB I-75/375 in Detroit only have 3 at exit 51. Mainline i-75 exits right onto the fisher freeway and in that area there is a left exit for Madison (Via I-375) and for Gratiot Ave (left hand on the ramp from the Chrysler to the Fisher).

shadyjay

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 19, 2019, 10:31:24 AM
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on April 18, 2019, 04:24:57 PM
HA! Connecticut is the "Left Exit State" to me.  I don't think we have three in a row but there's definitely a lot of them.  I think all of CT's expressways were designed by one individual it seems.
Closest you have is 3 out of 4 on I-84 East in Plainville/New Britain and on I-84 West in East Hartford.  Eastbound you have Exits 33 (CT 72 West), Exit 35 (CT 72 East), and Exit 36 (Slater Rd).  Westbound you have Exit 57 (Charter Oak Bridge), Exit 55 (CT 2 East) and Exit 54 (Founders Bridge).  Each instance falls within a 2 mile stretch. 

And within a few years, I-91 North will have 3 in a row, when Exit 29 gets converted.  So 29, 29A, and 32 will all be left exits (Exits 30,31 no longer exist northbound).  If you count the split ramps for Exits 32A-B, that makes 4 left exits within 1.5 miles +/-. 

X99

Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:42:13 PM
Quote from: 1 on April 18, 2019, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 18, 2019, 10:38:56 PM
I'd assume the most left exits in a row are probably on a motorway in South Africa or the UK. :bigass:

The OP explicitly excludes that.

I didn't even see that sentence until after you mentioned it. Got sort of swallowed up below the picture–I had to look twice to confirm I wasn't seeing an autosignature.
If you could find consecutive right exits in South Africa, the UK, or Australia, then you could use those. It's basically the same concept: inside exits.
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MCRoads

DFW Connector has like 7 left exits, in a row, in the DFW terminal aria alone! So... I think I win?
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