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Highways with normal exits and at-grade intersections

Started by someone17, July 31, 2020, 03:09:31 PM

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someone17

I'm wondering if there's any freeway or highway that has exits and at-grade intersections. This probably fits more with US highways and state roads, and not Interstate freeways.


ilpt4u

If there are at-grades, a road is not a freeway, at least not on that segment

Is the question if there are roads with Freeway and non-Freeway segments? If so, a whole bunch of them. Lake Shore Drive/US 41 in Chicago is a pretty famous example. IL 83/Kingery Highway out in the Chicago western suburbs is another example

Max Rockatansky

CA 198 between Hanford west to NAS Lemoore is signed as a freeway.  There is an at-grade intersection which can be found at 16th Avenue.  The median is blocked off which essentially maintains limited access. 

hotdogPi

MA 2 in/near Leominster has a few at-grades. MA/RI 146 also has two segments (one in each state) with several at-grade intersections.
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Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

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1995hoo

This strikes me as extremely common. VA-286 is an example near me. US-29 in Virginia is another example (freeway bypasses of several towns or cities, at-grade most of the rest of the way).

The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.
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hotdogPi

Then you have the at-grade border crossings along the US/Canada border. Look at A-15 or A-55 in Quebec, barely on the Canadian side of the border, and you will see an at-grade intersection.
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Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New: MA 14, 123

Scott5114

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

Not I-40 and I-10 in West Texas?
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1995hoo

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2020, 03:28:47 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

Not I-40 and I-10 in West Texas?

I haven't been on either one of those, so they didn't occur to me.
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GaryV

US-127, just in Michigan alone, has several different segments.  From the north it starts as a freeway, turns into a divided highway with a few controlled access interchanges mixed in, back to a freeway, then down to a 2-lane road.

US-131 is a 2 lane road at each end, with a freeway in a long portion of the middle.  Plus a section as a divided highway near the southern end.

Ketchup99

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2020, 03:28:47 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

Not I-40 and I-10 in West Texas?
They have at-grades???

Scott5114

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jmacswimmer

A few that come to mind for me in MD: US 301 on the eastern shore, MD 4 & MD 5 southeast of the Capital Beltway, US 15 from Frederick up to the PA border.

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
This strikes me as extremely common. VA-286 is an example near me. US-29 in Virginia is another example (freeway bypasses of several towns or cities, at-grade most of the rest of the way).

The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

I had no idea what this was referring to, so I googled "interstate 366", and the top hit was an old thread from this same forum.  5 minutes of light reading later, I understood....Thanks for brightening my afternoon :-D
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roadman

Quote from: 1 on July 31, 2020, 03:18:33 PM
MA 2 in/near Leominster has a few at-grades. MA/RI 146 also has two segments (one in each state) with several at-grade intersections.

The only remaining at-grade intersection on MA 2 in the Leominster area is Mt. Elam Road.  And the full intersection was removed in the early 1990s.  It's now just a pair of ROROs (right off, right on).  Likewise, most of the at-grade intersections on MA 146 in Millbury and Sutton have also ben converted to ROROs.  The only remaining full at-grade intersection on the MA segment is at Boston Road.
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kphoger

Quote from: Ketchup99 on July 31, 2020, 03:55:44 PM

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2020, 03:28:47 PM

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

Not I-40 and I-10 in West Texas?

They have at-grades???

There's a whole thread about them.
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Quote from: kphoger on July 31, 2020, 04:07:48 PM
Quote from: Ketchup99 on July 31, 2020, 03:55:44 PM

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2020, 03:28:47 PM

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

Not I-40 and I-10 in West Texas?

They have at-grades???

There's a whole thread about them.

Yes, go there and ketch-up on it.  ;-)
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US 89

Bangerter Highway (SR 154) through the southwestern suburbs of Salt Lake City is probably the best example you'll find in Utah. Mostly at-grades, but more and more of them have been converted into single-point urban interchanges in recent years.

Rothman

Quote from: roadman on July 31, 2020, 04:07:23 PM
Quote from: 1 on July 31, 2020, 03:18:33 PM
MA 2 in/near Leominster has a few at-grades. MA/RI 146 also has two segments (one in each state) with several at-grade intersections.

The only remaining at-grade intersection on MA 2 in the Leominster area is Mt. Elam Road.  And the full intersection was removed in the early 1990s.  It's now just a pair of ROROs (right off, right on).  Likewise, most of the at-grade intersections on MA 146 in Millbury and Sutton have also ben converted to ROROs.  The only remaining full at-grade intersection on the MA segment is at Boston Road.
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TheHighwayMan3561

MN 62 is probably the best metro example. At-grade west end, freeway from Beach Rd to the east end of its duplex with MN 55, then the former MN 110 portion of 62 is at-grade except for the east end interchanges with MN 3 and I-494.
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kphoger

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dvferyance

There are some at grade intersections on US-13-58-460 by Suffolk VA despite being marked as a freeway.

jeffandnicole

Quote from: dvferyance on July 31, 2020, 05:12:44 PM
There are some at grade intersections on US-13-58-460 by Suffolk VA despite being marked as a freeway.

Who marks it as a freeway?  If it's a mapmaker or online mapping system, they are often prone to errors.

jp the roadgeek

Quote from: jmacswimmer on July 31, 2020, 03:59:21 PM
A few that come to mind for me in MD: US 301 on the eastern shore, MD 4 & MD 5 southeast of the Capital Beltway, US 15 from Frederick up to the PA border.

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2020, 03:21:00 PM
This strikes me as extremely common. VA-286 is an example near me. US-29 in Virginia is another example (freeway bypasses of several towns or cities, at-grade most of the rest of the way).

The only "Interstate" that readily comes to mind as qualifying for this, setting aside Breezewood, is the legendary I-366 in Virginia.

I had no idea what this was referring to, so I googled "interstate 366", and the top hit was an old thread from this same forum.  5 minutes of light reading later, I understood....Thanks for brightening my afternoon :-D

You want some more "light reading" ?  Try this thread.
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7720.0
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

Revive 755

Assuming a road with just one interchange doesn't count, jughandles/one quadrant interchanges don't county, and trying (but probably not succeeding) to avoid roadways with freeways bypasses of towns connected by expressway segments:

Illinois
* US 12 in Lake County (two interchanges with IL 59, one with IL 176, really could use many more interchanges)
* US 41 in Lake County
* US 50 from Lebanon to Caryle
* US 67 north of I-72 to the end of the four lane section near IL 100
* IL 83 in DuPage County
* IL 251 north of downtown Rockford
* Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
* Palatine Road in Cook County

Missouri
* The Avenue of the Saints/US 61/MO 27 corridor
* US 36 from I-29 to the eastern interchange with US 24
* US 50 around Jefferson City (roughly California to Linn)
* US 54 from Mexico to wherever the four lane ends near Lake of the Ozarks
* US 60 between US 65 and I-55
* US 63 from US 54 north to the end of the four lane section near Macon
* US 65 near Warsaw
* US 67 between I-55 and Poplar Bluff
* MO 7 between I-49 and Clinton
* MO 13 between Clinton and I-44
* MO 141 between I-44 and MO 364

I am sure there's a good number missing.

skluth

Quote from: jeffandnicole on July 31, 2020, 05:41:07 PM
Quote from: dvferyance on July 31, 2020, 05:12:44 PM
There are some at grade intersections on US-13-58-460 by Suffolk VA despite being marked as a freeway.

Who marks it as a freeway?  If it's a mapmaker or online mapping system, they are often prone to errors.

I wondered that, too. I lived in Portsmouth from 2003-07 and nobody I knew considered it a freeway between Bowers Hill and the Suffolk center bypass, just a very nice, flat stretch of four lane road with no stops. It's no different than US 17 near the NC border, just a different edge to the Great Dismal Swamp.



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