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Closest U.S Routes get without Intersecting

Started by Dirt Roads, March 23, 2021, 10:41:51 AM

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kenarmy

i cant measure these rn:
- US 43 and US 98 in the Mobile area
- US 31 and US 98 in Spanish Fort (gm doesn't show 98's new routing on Battleship Parkway)
- US 82 and US 25 near Brunswick
- did US 6 and US 60 touch?
Just a reminder that US 6, 49, 50, and 98 are superior to your fave routes :)


EXTEND 206 SO IT CAN MEET ITS PARENT.


froggie

Quote- US 43 and US 98 in the Mobile area

Prior to 2001, 43 ended at 90/98 in downtown Mobile (Broad/Government intersection).  Current end is a little over 3 miles as the crow flies from 98.

Avalanchez71

Quote from: hbelkins on March 23, 2021, 02:33:55 PM
Quote from: Mapmikey on March 23, 2021, 02:03:11 PM

US 72 comes very close to US 78 but does not touch

Chattanooga signage is problematic, but 72 also comes close to 76, doesn't it? And 27 and 127 as well? For that matter, 127 isn't too far from touching 11, 41, and 64.

How close do US 23 and US 29 come in Atlanta? Or US 22 and US 50 in Cincinnati? (For that matter, the truncated-at-the-state-line US 25 and 22, 50, and 52?)

I think I will ask TDOT if they can clarify the routing of the US highways in Chattanooga.  That place is a mess when it comes to US highways for sure.

bulldog1979

US 2 and US 23 terminate about 5.5 miles from each other on opposite sides of the Straits of Mackinac. Even closer, US 23 and US 31 are about 1.5 miles from each other south of Mackinaw City, although they previously intersected in Mackinaw City. The closest near-miss though would be US 12 and US 223 in Somerset at about 3,600 feet apart. (Previously, AASHTO considered US 223 to silently overlap US 127 up to US 12 in some logs.) Those should be the top three for Michigan

roadman65

US 3 and 20 in Boston/ Cambridge.
US 5 and US 1 in New Haven, CT.

I am not sure about this one in Norwalk, CT. I think US 7 does not intersect US there, but are close.
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Road Hog

Closest in Arkansas appears to be US 165 and US 67 in North Little Rock. US 165 terminates at US 70. US 67 follows I-40 and I-30 as a concurrency a couple of miles north and west.

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dlsterner

Quote from: jmacswimmer on March 23, 2021, 02:43:57 PM
US 30 & US 40 get within a mile or 2 of each other in Atlantic City (not including US 322 since it intersects US 30 in PA).

Quote from: Mapmikey on March 23, 2021, 02:03:11 PM
US 13 and US 301 have never touched in NC but are quite close

And following the Delaware realignment, US 301 north gets snug against US 13 as it crosses & merges into DE 1.  (Now that I think about it...this would have to be the absolute closest 2 US routes get without intersecting, right?)

Giving credit to those quoted above, I think that US 13 and US 301 is likely the answer ... it looks like in Delaware, northbound US 301 ends within 50 feet of southbound US 13 without intersecting it!  (This would depend on the minute details of the definition of the path of US 301)  Rather, US 301 ends at DE 1 which parallels US 13.

And in a cool coincidence, going about 350 miles (as the crow flies) south to Fayetteville NC, US 13 ends at I-95, less than ½ mile from US 301.  So maybe both ends may be in the top ten!

The two roads never intersect (as currently routed).

Crown Victoria

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US 209 terminates at PA 147 in Millersburg, PA, only about 1.36 miles from US 11/15, which is across the Susquehanna River.

Meanwhile in Delaware, US 202 terminates at I-95, missing US 13 also by about 1.36 miles (and misses US 13 Business by less than a mile).

And down in South Florida, US 441 parallels US 1 from about West Palm Beach down to Miami, passing within about a mile of each other at their closest approach, without touching.

hbelkins

US 42 comes within a few city blocks of US 150 in Louisville. There's a greater distance between US 42 and US 31 and US 31W, but it's not all that far down Main Street from the end of US 42 to 2nd Street. (Why not terminate US 42 at US 60 instead of having it run concurrent down to 31E)?

Also, US 460 comes within spittin' distance of US 127 in Frankfort.


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froggie

Quote from: roadman65 on March 27, 2021, 01:45:46 AM
I am not sure about this one in Norwalk, CT. I think US 7 does not intersect US there, but are close.

US 1 is north of I-95 in Norwalk.  US 7 has an interchange at US 1.

US 89

US 521 and US 701 don't intersect, but their endpoints are a block apart on US 17 in Georgetown, SC.

This wasn't always the case - 701 used to extend south into Charleston concurrent with 17. It was truncated back in 1992.

Mapmikey

Quote from: US 89 on March 28, 2021, 12:25:05 PM
US 521 and US 701 don't intersect, but their endpoints are a block apart on US 17 in Georgetown, SC.

This wasn't always the case - 701 used to extend south into Charleston concurrent with 17. It was truncated back in 1992.

Couldn't make it to reply #3 of the thread?  😬

US 89

Quote from: Mapmikey on March 28, 2021, 01:59:18 PM
Quote from: US 89 on March 28, 2021, 12:25:05 PM
US 521 and US 701 don't intersect, but their endpoints are a block apart on US 17 in Georgetown, SC.

This wasn't always the case - 701 used to extend south into Charleston concurrent with 17. It was truncated back in 1992.

Couldn't make it to reply #3 of the thread?  😬

Could swear I looked for it. Apparently not hard enough... whoops  :pan:

jmacswimmer

Quote from: Crown Victoria on March 27, 2021, 10:20:39 PM
Meanwhile in Delaware, US 202 terminates at I-95, missing US 13 also by about 1.36 miles (and misses US 13 Business by less than a mile).

I thought that US 202 actually joins I-95 for an (unsigned) concurrency to DE 141, and then overlaps DE 141 to a terminus at US 13/US 40?
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