Interstate 11

[triplemultiplex]

And my snark setting was too high.

[DenverBrian]

After driving US-95 northwest of Las Vegas, it seems like it would be relatively cheap to extend I-11 to just past the Clark/Nye county line. There are precious few intersections; it's already four lane divided with interstate-standard shoulders and grades; I'd guess fewer than 10 interchanges to be built.

If this were in Texas, they'd already have it done, and if they had to start today, they'd have it finished in six months.

[Max Rockatansky]

A lot of that expressway was purpose built to facilitate the military installation at Mercury and the wider Nevada Test Site.  Traffic drops considerably north NV 157 and usually can be fairly well timed to the typical 7 AM-4 PM military admin day. 

[Sub-Urbanite]

A lot of that expressway was purpose built to facilitate the military installation at Mercury and the wider Nevada Test Site.  Traffic drops considerably north NV 157 and usually can be fairly well timed to the typical 7 AM-4 PM military admin day.

Yep. Back then, most civilian workers at the test site – and there were a lot of them – commuted from Las Vegas.

[Max Rockatansky]

A lot of that expressway was purpose built to facilitate the military installation at Mercury and the wider Nevada Test Site.  Traffic drops considerably north NV 157 and usually can be fairly well timed to the typical 7 AM-4 PM military admin day.

Yep. Back then, most civilian workers at the test site – and there were a lot of them – commuted from Las Vegas.

It is also a common pattern to see expressway and freeway segments built to facilitate commutes to bases.  That was the large driver for a freeway and expressway alignment of CA 198 being built to NAS Lemoore from Hanford.  Likewise there is a four lane expressway segment of US 1 from Key West to Boca Chica Key where the flight line for NAS Key West is.

[ClassicHasClass]

Or Air Base Parkway in Fairfield for Travis AFB.