2 US Routes 1 City No Connection

[golden eagle]

US 51 & 61 go through Memphis and don't touch.

[Charles2]

Montgomery, AL: US 31 doesn't junction either US 231 or 331.
Gadsden, AL: US 11 doesn't junction US 411.

Come to think about it, US 231 and 331 don't junction in Montgomery, either.

And...if one considers all of Jefferson County, Alabama as Birmingham, US 411 doesn't junction US 11, 31 or 280.

[US71]

US 45 and US 90 in Mobile, AL

US 43 and US 98 in Moblie

[hbelkins]

US 51 & 61 go through Memphis and don't touch.

Speaking of Memphis, 72 and 78 don't either.

[US71]

271 and 64 here in Fort Smith (though the DID once upon a time). It's signed at 64, but doesn't officially begin until a couple miles south

Now would 71/271 count since it's Business 71? 

[SectorZ]

Not a big city, but Portsmouth NH, US 4 ends at US 1 Bypass, about one mile west of US 1.

[texaskdog]

Are there any that bounce of each other without crossing or running together?

[Pete from Boston]

Boston has three routes that don't touch.  US-1, US-3, and US-20 never touch each other at all.

US 3 never enters Boston.

[empirestate]

When US 104 existed and US 15 entered Rochester, they never touched in that city–and even as I write this, I'm doubting myself, since I know US 104 did pass through downtown at one point, where it may have intersected US 15 during the first year or two of both routes' existence.

[lepidopteran]

Do "used-to-be"s count?  In Toledo, OH, US-223 never touched US-20.

US-223 used to follow Monroe St. (now OH-51) all the way to the end downtown, then followed Summit St. (now OH-65) north at least as far as the Craig Memorial Bridge.  Sometime in the 80s, the US-223 designation was cut back to the US-23/Monroe St. interchange in Sylvania.

Yet in the late '70s, US-223 was rerouted from a point east of Blissfield, MI, to meet US-23 for a (useless?) multiplex down to the Monroe St. exit.  I think this was done to keep through traffic out of downtown Sylvania.

[CrystalWalrein]

US 202 and US 13 in Wilmington, although they and US 40 do meet in Wilmington Manor.

[hotdogPi]

US 6 and US 20 never touch, but they get very close. They are both in Gary IN and possibly several other nearby towns.

[tdindy88]

US 6 and 20 touch each other in Ohio it appears and are even multiplexed together in the Cleveland area, unless you were just talking about the Indiana area, in which case never mind.

[lordsutch]

US 23 and US 41 don't intersect in Macon, GA. Nor do Alternate US 129 and US 41.

US 41 and US 129 in Warner Robins, GA. They do multiplex for a few miles in Macon, however.

US 64 and US 70/US 79 don't meet in Arlington or Lakeland, TN, although they do meet (and multiplex) further west in Memphis and Bartlett.

[jp the roadgeek]

Maybe New Haven could count? I don't think US Routes 1 and 5 ever touch. They're both definitely within the New Haven city limits.

They don't, the south end of US 5 is at I-91 exit 5. It used to continue down State Street to end at US 1, but maintenance of that was turned back to the city of New Haven decades ago and so the designation was truncated.


If we interpret "city" to mean the strict boundaries of any municipality, then for Connecticut we also have:
- US 5 does not intersect US 6/44 in Hartford
- US 6 does not intersect US 44 in West Hartford
- US 6 does not intersect US 44 in Coventry
- US 6 does not intersect US 44 in Mansfield
- US 7 does not intersect US 44 in Salisbury
- US 202 does not intersect US 44 in New Hartford

Couple of others in MA (other than the Boston ones)

US 5 and US 20 do not intersect in Springfield
US 6 and US 44 do not intersect in Seekonk

[TheStranger]

A few past situations in LA:

- The old US 101A briefly passed through town via the Harbor Gateway neighborhood (essentially, the strip of land along Figueroa/110), while it intersected US 66 in Santa Monica!

- After the construction of the Golden State Freeway, but pre-1964, US 99 bypassed downtown LA via I-5 and I-10, thus avoiding US 101 (which remained, then as now, along the Santa Ana Freeway).  (This might have also been true in the past when 99 did not enter downtown but instead headed east from the San Fernando Valley towards Pasadena, depending on how older maps are interpreted)

- US 60 never touched US 6 in downtown LA, despite being less than a mile apart via US 101.  (US 70 was signed as far west as the Four-Level...as a likely implied TO from 101 south, still more noted than 60 ever was from that spot)

[US81]

Houston, US290 and US90. US59 and US90

US 290 & US 90, yes - get close without a true intersection, but US 59 & US 90 actually intersect downtown.

[pianocello]

Houston, US290 and US90. US59 and US90

US 290 & US 90, yes - get close without a true intersection, but US 59 & US 90 actually intersect downtown.

I assume he meant US 59 and US 290, which don't intersect.

Are there any that bounce of each other without crossing or running together?

US 61 and 67 in Davenport is the closest I can think of. 61 comes in from the west and leaves to the north, and 67 comes in from the south and leaves in the east without touching 61.

Oh wait, did you mean like US 14 and IL 58 at the corner of Dempster and Waukegan in the northern suburbs of Chicago? (Google map) I can't think of any of those with two US routes off the top of my head.

[froggie]

I believe US-29 and US-50 never meet in the District of Columbia. US-1 touches both of them within the District, but I believe they never touch each other.

Are there any that bounce of each other without crossing or running together?

Officially, US 1 and US 29 do not touch in DC, as 29 turns at 7th and Rhode Island Ave NW while US 1 turns at 6th and Rhode Island NW.

UNofficially, as traffic cannot legally turn left from eastbound Rhode Island Ave to northbound 7th St NW, northbound US 29 traffic must continue to 6th and Rhode Island NW to turn, so technically US 1 and northbound US 29 (but not southbound) do a "bump".

[SSOWorld]

US 51 and 14 do not intersect in Madison, though a jump-over is possible at US 12/18. (14 and 51 intersect on the outskirts of Janesville).  This is the only one I know of in WI.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Because it only passes through the very southern tip of Denver, U.S. 285 never intersects U.S. 6, 36, 40 or 287.

[golden eagle]

US 51 & 61 go through Memphis and don't touch.

Speaking of Memphis, 72 and 78 don't either.

78 also doesn't touch 61 and 70.

[cpzilliacus]

I believe US-29 and US-50 never meet in the District of Columbia. US-1 touches both of them within the District, but I believe they never touch each other.

U.S. 1 and U.S. 29 do not touch each other.  They come within a block of a touch on Rhode Island Avenue, but they never share a multiplex. 

[lordsutch]

78 also doesn't touch 61 and 70.

Pretty sure 78 on MLK/ex-Linden ends at 70 (and 64 and 79) at the 2nd/3rd couplet downtown in Memphis. Not that it's easy to follow using signage.

78 does miss 61 though, and 72 as mentioned above. 72 also misses 61.

A few more: US 278 and US 78 never intersect in Tupelo.

US 51 (which supposedly follows I-55 here) never intersects US 80 in Jackson, and just passes over it without an interchange in Flowood. US 80 and US 49 both enter Pearl but miss intersecting by a few dozen yards these days (they do intersect in west Jackson near the mall).

[US71]

78 also doesn't touch 61 and 70.

Pretty sure 78 on MLK/ex-Linden ends at 70 (and 64 and 79) at the 2nd/3rd couplet downtown in Memphis. Not that it's easy to follow using signage.

78 does miss 61 though, and 72 as mentioned above. 72 also misses 61.

A few more: US 278 and US 78 never intersect in Tupelo.

US 51 (which supposedly follows I-55 here) never intersects US 80 in Jackson, and just passes over it without an interchange in Flowood. US 80 and US 49 both enter Pearl but miss intersecting by a few dozen yards these days (they do intersect in west Jackson near the mall).

If memory serves correct, there is a bridge plaque on NB I-55 at Crump Blvd that says US 78.