Road Features You Won't Get in Your State

[theroadwayone]

What are some interesting or unusual design features you see on roads in other states that you wish you could get on the network in your own but know for one reason or another won't happen?

[Max Rockatansky]

75-80 MPH speed limits in California.

[hotdogPi]

1. 80 mph speed limits
2. Texas-style frontage roads
3. VMSes that actually display useful things
4. Two-way yield instead of stop signs (as in Europe)
5. Left on red from two-way to one-way

[theroadwayone]

By the way, feel free to move this if necessary. I only noticed where I put it after I hit "post."

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Cutout shields
(actual) Historical US Routes

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Actual functional high-speed freeway-to-freeway interchanges

[paulthemapguy]

HOV lanes.

A freeway grid in the Chicago metro where the spacing between freeways is less than 7 miles.

[jakeroot]

I don't think there's anything that WSDOT won't do (they're quite clever). I've spent quite a while pondering what I'd like to see in Washington State, but I'm quite happy with things. Very liberal turn-on-red laws, decent speed limits in urban areas (always 60), quite a few high-speed flyover ramps (with more coming in time), HOV and toll lanes, etc.

As for what I'd like to see:

- More APL signs (WSDOT just doesn't sign option lanes anymore).
- Better designed on-ramps (currently using CA style, but I'd prefer add-lane + merge like BC).
- Better, more thorough road markings (like edge-extension markings or cross-hatching in flush medians).
- More secondary traffic lights on poles or masts (more popping up every day but still not enough).
- More flashing yellow arrows (way too many single-lane protected lefts on state highways (local agencies use a lot of FYAs now))

[Brandon]

HOV lanes.

A freeway grid in the Chicago metro where the spacing between freeways is less than 7 miles.

Add to that:

Michigan Lefts
Four-level stack interchanges
IDOT freeways wider than six-lanes (three per direction) outside of Chicago, Kingery Expy, and I-290 near Schaumburg.

[TheStranger]

Chicago-style road name signage on freeway pullthroughs (though those have legibility issues)
Consistent signage on surface roads (and a focus on navigation, not "who maintains this road", for signed routes to begin with)
Routes without extensive gaps

[GaryV]

Michigan: 

- Tunnel under the mountains
- Good roads throughout the state, unfortunately
- A trip to the UP without construction between April and October
- And hopefully, toll roads!

[US 89]

Utah:

• Four-level stacks
• Actual freeway-to-freeway interchanges, not lame SPUIs
• Signed concurrencies, especially involving state routes
• One-way pairs. Yes, I know some do exist, but I wish there were more
• A standard state route marker, not the 10+ beehive variations around today
• Four-laned rural corridors (especially US 6)

[formulanone]

Alabama:

Guardrail.

[slorydn1]

NC:

80 MPH speed limits
Streetlights on the freeways and expressways would be nice, too.

[cjk374]

Louisiana:

Speed limits higher than 55 on the 2-lane roads that can handle it.

6-lane interstates in rural areas.

Guide/distance signs big enough to read.

[paulthemapguy]

Alabama:

Guardrail.

If Alabama really doesn't have guardrail, then this trumps most anything anyone else is complaining about!  LOL!

[formulanone]

Alabama:

Guardrail.

If Alabama really doesn't have guardrail, then this trumps most anything anyone else is complaining about!  LOL!

It's lacking in a lot places in the northern half of the state, where high meets low in close proximity to the road's edge (ravines, ditches, hills) even along Interstate 65. There's times I'm more afraid to be a passenger than driver!

[Jardine]

Modern, high speed, interstate to interstate interchange at  I-29 and I-680 at Crescent.

[jakeroot]

California is least likely to get SPUI interchange.

There's one at the 215/Eucalyptus interchange in Moreno Valley? Or just widespread use?

[Great Lakes Roads]

In Indiana, we probably won't get:

• express lanes on congested corridors (I-70, I-465, I-69, and I-80/94)
• interchanges that are more than 3 levels
• stack interchanges
• freeway management system

[TheStranger]

California is least likely to get SPUI interchange.

There's one at the 215/Eucalyptus interchange in Moreno Valley? Or just widespread use?

Also can think of at least two along Route 87 in San Jose.

[thenetwork]

COLORADO: 

-  Consistently signed multiplexes
-  "Un-hiding" hidden routes on BGSs.  (Hello, US-6 along I-70!)
-  FYA's in the Northwest CO CDOT District, including Grand Junction.

[paulthemapguy]

Modern, high speed, interstate to interstate interchange at  I-29 and I-680 at Crescent.

Wow.  Dude, you're right.  I-680 definitely needs a EB-to-NB flyover

[FreewayDan]

California is least likely to get SPUI interchange.

There's one at the 215/Eucalyptus interchange in Moreno Valley? Or just widespread use?

Also can think of at least two along Route 87 in San Jose.

Add two more on the 241 toll road in Orange County: Alton and Portola Parkways

[SSR_317]

In Indiana, we probably won't get:

• express lanes on congested corridors (I-70, I-465, I-69, and I-80/94)
• interchanges that are more than 3 levels
• stack interchanges
• freeway management system

We have the latter here in Indy, thought you up in NW Indiana did too, at least on a couple of routes (Borman ?).