Freeways / Expressways given ordinary street names

[1995hoo]

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In Virginia, VA-28 was recently upgraded to full freeway between the signalized entrance to Lawrence Park and its northern terminus at VA-7.  (The RIRO entrance to the Sully Plantation was relocated to the museum interchange)  Yet it still seems to be called Sully Rd.

Yes, VA 28 is still Sully Rd through there.

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Indeed when I check the online statement for my E-ZPass account it refers to the Route 28 toll plaza as "Sully Rd" (if I hover over the plaza code). I can't say as I recall the last time I heard anyone actually use that name, though, other than when I used it myself about two weeks ago (but only because Ms1995hoo and I were in the car on that road and I commented that I remember when it was a two-lane road out in the sticks and people knew it as "Sully Road"....she did not remember those days).

[route56]

In Kansas City: Bruce R. Watkins Drive. (AKA, the reason why I-49 ends at the Triangle). Planned as a freeway, built as a partial freeway/partial expressway by consent decree. I think most of you know the story by now

[Bickendan]

Cedar Avenue in MN. No one refers to it as highway 77 (it's freeway segment), county 23, or county 152.

True on the last one...One occasionally hears the other two, especially south of Apple Valley for County 23.  It's not common on the Hwy 77 stretch, though.

It should also be noted that, in light of NE2's comment, the stretch of MN 77/Cedar Ave from the Mall of America down to I-35E was all new-alignment construction, not an "ordinary street given freeway upgrade".

The amusing thing about the southern Cedar Ave freeway alignment is that Cedar Ave retains its name south of the end of the freeway, technically displaced from the grid from its northern at-grade portion in Minneapolis, unlike other arteries like, say, Portland Ave and Nicollette Ave.

[froggie]

Has to do with the old Cedar Ave bridge (ca. 1890) being in place before the streetnaming grid.

[Ned Weasel]

Wichita's one example is semi-famous:  Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400), which despite the name is a full freeway for 13 miles.

Ya beat me to it! You think they will ever just call it Kellogg Expressway? I hope not. How about a new name? This could carry over to the Central States....

ICTRds

This is one case where a previous regular surface street was progressively upgraded over the years to become a full freeway.  These upgrades are still under way.

Mike

I usually refer to it as "The Kellogg Freeway," and if you Google those words, inside quotation marks, you'll find that I'm not the only one.

[Ned Weasel]

What about expressways that have no route number whatsoever, and are only designated as city streets?  Shawnee Mission Parkway in Shawnee, KS, between Pflumm Road and KS 7, is one such example.  Any others?  Is there already a thread for this?

http://maps.google.com/?ll=39.011048,-94.792614&spn=0.068827,0.169086&t=m&z=13

[vtk]

A section of Henderson Road in Columbus has the access-control characteristics and high speed (for an urban arterial) of an expressway, but not breakdown lanes or Chapter 2E signage.  Similar with Alum Creek Drive from I-270 to Rickenbacker. 

[webfil]

London, Ontario has a 5-km expressway that connects the core of the city to ON-401 named "Highbury Avenue".

http://goo.gl/maps/9lpsm

[Molandfreak]

U.S. 52 expressway, St. Paul to Rochester:

(Lafayette Freeway),
Courthouse Bouleverd,
Clayton Avenue,
Coates Boulevard,
Emery Avenue,
Rochester Boulevard,
(Highway 52 Boulevard),
(U.S. 52).

I don't know why Dakota County has to make things so difficult.

[route56]

What about expressways that have no route number whatsoever, and are only designated as city streets?  Shawnee Mission Parkway in Shawnee, KS, between Pflumm Road and KS 7, is one such example.

Shawnee Mission Parkway is the former K-12, née K-10, and is likely a special case.

In KCS, the Turner Diagonal formerly carried US 40 and K-132, but is now a KCK roadway north of Kaw Drive/K-32.

[lepidopteran]

Don't forget MD-200, the "Inter-County Connector".  Of course, "connector" isn't really an ordinary street name, but it seems a little unsung for a TOLL expressway.  Same could be said about the "Dulles Greenway", part of VA-267 and also a toll road.

[roadman65]

Padre Island Drive is one of the Texas freeways that has an ordinary street name to it.

[jwolfer]

Don't forget MD-200, the "Inter-County Connector".  Of course, "connector" isn't really an ordinary street name, but it seems a little unsung for a TOLL expressway.  Same could be said about the "Dulles Greenway", part of VA-267 and also a toll road.

Georgia seems to like " xxx Connector"   Around Atlanta they seem to be at least expressways. I know here in Jacksonville we have the "Wonderwood Connector" which is at least an expressway for much of the route.  ( here in Jacksonville Expressway=Freeway for natives, but I mean expressway in the the California sense)

[DandyDan]

In Omaha, US 6 west of I-680 is officially West Dodge Road, although everyone calls it Dodge Street, largely because it is a westward extension of what is officially Dodge Street.

[roadman65]

Jacksonville, Florida did call part of the freeway section of US 1 Alternate the 20th Street Expressway.  20th Street itself was the arterial section that is mainline US 1 after US 1 Alternate ended and continued under I-95 transforming from freeway to street status.  However, the signs on I-95 for US 1 South leading to US 1 Alternate did say 20th Street as well as US 1 Northbound at Exit 354 the transitioning point.

Now that it is all the Martin Luther King Parkway both US 1 and its child, I am sure they do not call that section of freeway the M.L.K Parkway Expressway as Parkway is a common name for a freeway, hence New York State.

[txstateends]

In Amarillo, I-27/US 60/US 87 south of I-40 is officially Canyon Drive (although most locals spiff it up a bit, with the majority dubbing it "the E-way"); north of downtown, US 87/US 287 is officially Dumas Drive.  Why the city never updated the names to include their current condition/type, I don't know.

[national highway 1]

A few from Sydney
Homebush Bay Dr, Concord
http://goo.gl/maps/l5gCE
Silverwater Rd, Ermington
http://goo.gl/maps/obORQ
Southern Cross Dr, General Holmes Dr and Foreshore Rd near Sydney Airport
http://goo.gl/maps/SXLEM

[BakoCondors]

CA-204 (old US 99) in Bakersfield is a freeway from F Street northwest to its junction with CA-99 west of Airport Drive but to the locals and on the southbound 99 signage it is Golden State Avenue.

Fresno, I believe also has a short stub of old US-99 named Golden State Boulevard, between Ventura Ave & Church Ave, that's darn near a freeway, or at least a very long exit/entrance ramp.

[froggie]

(Lafayette Freeway),
Courthouse Bouleverd,
Clayton Avenue,
Coates Boulevard,
Emery Avenue,
Rochester Boulevard,
(Highway 52 Boulevard),
(U.S. 52).

Clayton Ave is not official...it refers to the frontage roads, not US 52 itself.  On the other hand, US 52 is Emery Ave through Hampton.

[Molandfreak]

(Lafayette Freeway),
Courthouse Bouleverd,
Clayton Avenue,
Coates Boulevard,
Emery Avenue,
Rochester Boulevard,
(Highway 52 Boulevard),
(U.S. 52).

Clayton Ave is not official...it refers to the frontage roads, not US 52 itself.  On the other hand, US 52 is Emery Ave through Hampton.

Doesn't Flint Hills have a Clayton Ave address?

[PAHighways]

I-579/Crosstown Boulevard in Pittsburgh

[jwolfer]

Jacksonville, Florida did call part of the freeway section of US 1 Alternate the 20th Street Expressway.  20th Street itself was the arterial section that is mainline US 1 after US 1 Alternate ended and continued under I-95 transforming from freeway to street status.  However, the signs on I-95 for US 1 South leading to US 1 Alternate did say 20th Street as well as US 1 Northbound at Exit 354 the transitioning point.

Now that it is all the Martin Luther King Parkway both US 1 and its child, I am sure they do not call that section of freeway the M.L.K Parkway Expressway as Parkway is a common name for a freeway, hence New York State.

The freeway portion of US1 was 20th St Expressway on the east-west portion and the Haines St Expressway on the north-south portion.  Haines street expressway has service roads and buesinesses for most of the length but the 20th street expressway did not have services.  When they changed the name to MLK Parkway the service roads were kept as Haines Street so the businesses didn't have to change their addresses

[golden eagle]

GA 154/166 was known as Langford Parkway, but my American Map atlas shows it named as Lakewood Freeway.

[lordsutch]

GA 154/166 was known as Langford Parkway, but my American Map atlas shows it named as Lakewood Freeway.

It was originally the Lakewood Freeway (and supposed to be part of I-420), now it's Langford Parkway.

[NE2]

Parkway is pretty ordinary for a freeway.