50 Interstate Oddities

[vdeane]

Does anyone have the text from the 50 Interstate Oddities site that was at this url: http://home.wi.rr.com/jhouk/50IO.htm but is now gone?  It was a nice list but unfortunately the Internet Archive does not have that page.

[Michael]

Check this page.  I have no idea what the original looked like, though.  It's a little ways down the page.

[vdeane]

Thanks!  It's great to know it's not completely gone.

[Voyager]

Sadly most highway pages seem to fade into the mist

[Revive 755]

Quote from article regarding I-465:

First of all, the I-465 freeway crosses, intersects or runs concurrent with four separate freeways (five if you count the I-865 spur to the northwest of Indy).

Should be seven if I-865 is counted; they forgot the short whatever the Airport Expressway has been renamed to freeway, and the freeway section of Shadeland Avenue.  If US 31 gets upgraded north of Indy, it will be eight.


The I-270/I-255 loop around St. Louis beats this, with I-55, I-44, I-64, MO 364, I-70, MO 370, I-170, and the new MO 367 freeway section.  If the section of I-270 from I-255 to I-55/I-70 (per Kurumi's site as a once proposed I-870) and IL 255 are counted, the total for the St. Louis loop is 10.  Had the IL 3 and US 460/IL 15 freeways not been canceled, it would be 12, but depending what happens with the Gateway Connector corridor from the southern I-255/IL 3 interchange to the I-55-70/US 40 interchange, it could still reach 11.

Kansas City's I-435 loop has 9:  I-35, KS 10, the freeway section of the Shawnee Mission Parkway (need to see if that one was once planned to connect to I-35), I-70, MO 152, I-29, I-470, US 71, and US 69.  I believe US 169 on the north side of KC is planned to be upgraded to a freeway, and a new spur to connect the NE corner to I-35 is supposed to be studied per the long range transportation plan for KC, so it could reach 11.

There's probably some place with more I have checked yet.

[Alps]

I-287 (NYC) has: NJ Tpk, future NJ 18, I-78, NJ 24, I-80, I-87, Palisades Pkwy, Taconic Pkwy, Sprain Pkwy, I-684, Hutchinson Pkwy, I-95 (NY Thruway).  So it's 11 now, 12 soon.  (Bronx River Pkwy is not a freeway when it crosses 287)

[Bryant5493]

Well, this isn't an Interstate oddity -- it's a freeway oddity.

On Paul Broun Parkway/Athens Perimeter Highway (SR 10 Loop/422 Loop), there's a gap in the freeway, just north of US 78 and just south of US 29. This segment has a traffic light (Peter Street/Olympic Drive).

Here's a video of it. Cue the video to 3m30s (or watch the whole thing -- it's good! ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzIxSyNz2s


Be well,

Bryant