Mini Freeways

[Ned Weasel]

I just remembered about this one, and I had to skim through the thread to see if it was mentioned.  If someone did mention it and I missed it, feel free to punch me.

Woodie Seat Freeway, Hutchinson, Kansas: https://goo.gl/maps/h7CuRZCWMnefZFm57

It's not even a state highway.  Maybe it used to be part of one?  Nevertheless, it's a freeway for six short city blocks.  And it doesn't even directly connect to another freeway!  It's just in the middle of town, doing its own mini freeway thing.

The way they signed the northern end of it is pretty cool: https://goo.gl/maps/DCKWBjru5BykyTHQ8 .  And I'm guessing from the green space on the eastbound Avenue A exit sign that there used to be a state highway going on here, and it probably got re-routed because Kansas loves doing that.

I really need to make a point to drive this one sometime, since it's only four hours away from me.

[tsmatt13]

The way they signed the northern end of it is pretty cool: https://goo.gl/maps/DCKWBjru5BykyTHQ8 .  And I'm guessing from the green space on the eastbound Avenue A exit sign that there used to be a state highway going on here, and it probably got re-routed because Kansas loves doing that.

From GSV it could've also meant that the freeway was intended to continue north (to maybe 1st Ave). The playground area north of the interchange was erected after 2015, so before that there was just green space there.

[sprjus4]

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, GA 141
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9340865,-84.2637835,14.66z

Doesn't this technically connect to I-285?

The interchange with 285 is signal controlled. So, in my opinion, not as a freeway.

This Streetview shows the signal controlling the northbound 141 to westbound 285 movement, and the traffic we see on southbound 141 is waiting to get through the signal that controls movement onto eastbound 285.

Those movements are signal controlled, yes, but it looks like the connections from I-285 to the west are fully free-flowing with no at-grade crossings or signals.

So it is at least connected to I-285 in one direction.

[Hobart]

I found a rather short example in Loves Park, Illinois, near Rockford.

Illinois 251, between the railroad crossing by Cottage Avenue, and the signal at Ethel Avenue, is a six lane freeway with two interchanges and a handful of RIROs.

Further south, it goes through a few signals, and ends at a trumpet in Rockford.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2872638,-89.0681402,15.07z

[COLORADOrk]

US 20 in Cherry Valley, NY (Otsego County)
NY 5S in Frankfort to Ilion (Herkimer County)

[mrose]

IL-251 also has an interchange further north, with Rockton Rd. near Roscoe.

In Missouri, US 50 west of Jefferson City is one I thought of.

[thspfc]

MN-36 and WI-64 on either side of the St. Croix River. Soon enough MN-36 will be freeway west of Norell Ave, but the stretch between Norell and Osgood would be difficult to convert.

[DJ Particle]

MN-36 and WI-64 on either side of the St. Croix River. Soon enough MN-36 will be freeway west of Norell Ave, but the stretch between Norell and Osgood would be difficult to convert.

What about the intersection with MN-120?  Any plans to upgrade that soon?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN-36 and WI-64 on either side of the St. Croix River. Soon enough MN-36 will be freeway west of Norell Ave, but the stretch between Norell and Osgood would be difficult to convert.

What about the intersection with MN-120?  Any plans to upgrade that soon?

Even if the annoying Century signal went away, here are also other remaining minor at-grades between Hilton Trail and Lake Elmo Avenue, most of which have been replaced with RCIs in recent years.

[hobsini2]

I just remembered about this one, and I had to skim through the thread to see if it was mentioned.  If someone did mention it and I missed it, feel free to punch me.

Woodie Seat Freeway, Hutchinson, Kansas: https://goo.gl/maps/h7CuRZCWMnefZFm57

It's not even a state highway.  Maybe it used to be part of one?  Nevertheless, it's a freeway for six short city blocks.  And it doesn't even directly connect to another freeway!  It's just in the middle of town, doing its own mini freeway thing.

The way they signed the northern end of it is pretty cool: https://goo.gl/maps/DCKWBjru5BykyTHQ8 .  And I'm guessing from the green space on the eastbound Avenue A exit sign that there used to be a state highway going on here, and it probably got re-routed because Kansas loves doing that.

I really need to make a point to drive this one sometime, since it's only four hours away from me.

I believe this may have been K-14 at one point or the plan was to have 14 on it. 14 was on Main St, State St and Kansas Ave before the South and West Hutchinson Bypasses were built.

[index]

SR 381 in Johnson City, TN from US 19W to Browns Mill Rd:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3624719,-82.3898529,1415m/data=!3m1!1e3

US 321 between Elizabethton and JC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.318514,-82.3038364,3729m/data=!3m1!1e3

[Dirt Roads]

SR 381 in Johnson City, TN from US 19W to Browns Mill Rd:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3624719,-82.3898529,1415m/data=!3m1!1e3

US 321 between Elizabethton and JC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.318514,-82.3038364,3729m/data=!3m1!1e3

TN-381 certainly counts, but US-321 connects to I-26 (which I still can't help but say I-181).

[index]

SR 381 in Johnson City, TN from US 19W to Browns Mill Rd:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3624719,-82.3898529,1415m/data=!3m1!1e3

US 321 between Elizabethton and JC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.318514,-82.3038364,3729m/data=!3m1!1e3

TN-381 certainly counts, but US-321 connects to I-26 (which I still can't help but say I-181).

I interpreted that guideline as being connected to other freeways only by freeway access. I feel that's what the OP may have meant but it's up to them.