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Never-built highways of the Northwest
Bickendan:
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--- Quote from: TEG24601 on August 06, 2020, 01:16:07 PM ---Thinking about unbuild highways, there is the missing piece(s) of SR 501.
There is also SR 109 from Taholah to Queets.
And there is the fact that every ferry route that the state took over in 1953 was supposed to be supplanted by state funded bridges.
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Was 501 intended to be connected?
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Yes, though it's not clear whether it was via the main Columbia River shore routing or the Spur 501 routing along Lake Vancouver.
But with mainline 501 getting cut back because of erosion, the Vancouver and the Ridgefield segments will never be connected.
kkt:
--- Quote from: TEG24601 on August 06, 2020, 01:16:07 PM ---And there is the fact that every ferry route that the state took over in 1953 was supposed to be supplanted by state funded bridges.
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Really? I thought it was for safety after well-publicized accidents on the mosquito fleet and the hopes that the state would be a safer operator.
The Ghostbuster:
I doubt there was ever a proposal to extend Interstate 82 northward to the Canadian border. If such a proposal had been made, would it have been possible to build such an extension (perhaps following existing US 97 to the border, and possibly terminating at BC 97 north of Osoyoos), or would insufficient traffic counts and difficult terrain have derailed such a proposal?
Bruce:
--- Quote from: The Ghostbuster on March 25, 2021, 09:23:57 PM ---I doubt there was ever a proposal to extend Interstate 82 northward to the Canadian border. If such a proposal had been made, would it have been possible to build such an extension (perhaps following existing US 97 to the border, and possibly terminating at BC 97 north of Osoyoos), or would insufficient traffic counts and difficult terrain have derailed such a proposal?
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The mountainous terrain north of Ellensburg would make it difficult, and there's not enough traffic beyond Wenatchee to justify even a four-lane highway. Wenatchee did want to study upgrading SR 28 and SR 281 into a freeway in the early 2000s, but couldn't find the funds.
The majority of I-82 traffic is heading across the Cascades to the Seattle area anyway, so the route functions just fine in its current form.
1:
Kelowna BC is growing rapidly. Could there be a Spokane-Kelowna-Kamloops freeway connection in the near future?
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