I was poking around the Albany, New York area today on Google Maps and noticed the very strange ending of I-787 at I-87 (NYS Thruway). It appears that I-787 is connected via an exit to I-87 before I-787 ends at US-9W.
Map: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.633359,-73.777721&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16
There also appears to be some driveways backing onto I-787's tail end in streetview: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.635537,-73.777764&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.63545,-73.777791&panoid=xjGikBURcoZd4SrUkGa3Pg&cbp=12,345.93,,0,15.17
Any other really odd freeway/interstate endings out there? Other than I-587's traffic circle.
IIRC there was a proposed freeway that would parallel the Thruway from I-787 to the Northway.
I-229 SD used to become a dirt road if you continued past I-90.
Quote from: NE2 on January 10, 2014, 01:56:08 PM
IIRC there was a proposed freeway that would parallel the Thruway from I-787 to the Northway.
I-229 SD used to become a dirt road if you continued past I-90.
It still does if you go enough north
Quote from: NE2 on January 10, 2014, 01:56:08 PM
IIRC there was a proposed freeway that would parallel the Thruway from I-787 to the Northway.
That explains the strange ends of both of them then. Some sort of Albany Beltway, I presume?
I always wonder why the NJ 55 Freeway goes to a single lane before ending at NJ 42 (also freeway). It couldn't be for symmetry's sake (NJ 55's other end at NJ 47 is similar due to the southern 20 miles of it being unbuilt). Other strangeness in NJ: I-195 ends at NJ 34 before reaching the Garden State Parkway. The freeway keeps going, though, as NJ 138 and even continues I-195's exit numbers until the Parkway. I-278 and I-78 don't connect in NJ (or anywhere) despite coming within a few miles of each other. Why not multiplex one of them with the Turnpike to bridge the gap? I know that there was supposed to be a connection that wasn't built, but this is just trivial. In fact, swap the two east of the Turnpike. Then I-78 would enter NYC in a meaningful way and all X78s would connect to their parent.
(almost but not quite on topic)
I-680 east of the Missouri River at the I-29 interchange for Crescent, Iowa heads north along I-29 via a very conventional cloverleaf.
For drivers that aren't aware of I-680 heading north there, you have the 4 lanes of Interstate coming down off the overpass and immediately coming to a railroad crossing (Illinois Central/Canadian Northern) completely with planks, and blinky lights and a descending crossing arms for all 4 lanes. The road then necks down into a county paved road that goes to
{drum roll}
Crescent, Iowa.
About once a year there is a vehicle mishap with a train there.
I always loved the southern terminus of I-43 at I-90/39. A Clover Leaf, with WI-81 continuing Southwest as a surface street to the Pilot Truck Stop.
I-180 in Cheyenne works for me on both ends, since it starts at a Diamond Interchange, with traffic signals, and ends with traffic signals, with traffic signals in between.
I-70 ending at a Parking Lot on the outskirts of Baltimore is also very Bizarre.
I'd consider I-790 in Utica NY to be one big bizarre ending.
Any end in particular? I-790 is just plain odd.
The east end is abnormally odd but the fact that the west end is practically right there makes it stranger.
Quote from: Brandon on January 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
I was poking around the Albany, New York area today on Google Maps and noticed the very strange ending of I-787 at I-87 (NYS Thruway). It appears that I-787 is connected via an exit to I-87 before I-787 ends at US-9W.
It's another example in NYS of the difference between a route's public and non-public identities: Mileposts and reference markers follow this stub to US 9W, but internally, NYSDOT (agreeing with FHWA) says I-787 follows the ramps to end at I-90, and the stub to 9W is secret 912S.
QuoteThere also appears to be some driveways backing onto I-787's tail end in streetview: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.635537,-73.777764&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.63545,-73.777791&panoid=xjGikBURcoZd4SrUkGa3Pg&cbp=12,345.93,,0,15.17
At one time, this very last stretch of highway was a southerly portion of Hoffman Ave. When I-787 (or 912S) was built, the 90-degree bend here used to be even tighter than today; you can still make out its former alignment in the aerial image.
Another thought: I-990. Northbound it behaves like a stub. Southbound it behaves as if the freeway was always meant to end at NY 263.
Quote from: empirestate on January 10, 2014, 09:54:28 PM
Quote from: Brandon on January 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
I was poking around the Albany, New York area today on Google Maps and noticed the very strange ending of I-787 at I-87 (NYS Thruway). It appears that I-787 is connected via an exit to I-87 before I-787 ends at US-9W.
It's another example in NYS of the difference between a route's public and non-public identities: Mileposts and reference markers follow this stub to US 9W, but internally, NYSDOT (agreeing with FHWA) says I-787 follows the ramps to end at I-90, and the stub to 9W is secret 912S.
QuoteThere also appears to be some driveways backing onto I-787's tail end in streetview: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.635537,-73.777764&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.63545,-73.777791&panoid=xjGikBURcoZd4SrUkGa3Pg&cbp=12,345.93,,0,15.17
At one time, this very last stretch of highway was a southerly portion of Hoffman Ave. When I-787 (or 912S) was built, the 90-degree bend here used to be even tighter than today; you can still make out its former alignment in the aerial image.
It was a very sharp 90-degree left northbound on Interstate 787. I believe the old suggested speed was just 20 mph. Its been more than 20 years since I have travelled that route at that point.
Also, I noticed from the intersection with US 9W at the beginning of Interstate 787 (NY 912S) used to be two concrete lanes in each direction. It has changed to just one lane northbound and three lanes southbound after the steel box-girder median ends to accommodate more left turning traffic for northbound US 9W.
Quote from: bzakharin on January 10, 2014, 02:44:26 PM
I always wonder why the NJ 55 Freeway goes to a single lane before ending at NJ 42 (also freeway). It couldn't be for symmetry's sake (NJ 55's other end at NJ 47 is similar due to the southern 20 miles of it being unbuilt). Other strangeness in NJ: I-195 ends at NJ 34 before reaching the Garden State Parkway. The freeway keeps going, though, as NJ 138 and even continues I-195's exit numbers until the Parkway. I-278 and I-78 don't connect in NJ (or anywhere) despite coming within a few miles of each other. Why not multiplex one of them with the Turnpike to bridge the gap? I know that there was supposed to be a connection that wasn't built, but this is just trivial. In fact, swap the two east of the Turnpike. Then I-78 would enter NYC in a meaningful way and all X78s would connect to their parent.
NJ 55: they have plans to make it two lanes again in the future. I think it's related to traffic volumes on 42 vs. 55, and what to do with a widened 42 carrying 4 lanes into the merge. NJ has many 2+2=3 merges, but 4+2=5 may have given them pause.
I-195: NJ 34 goes through Armed Forces land, so it's on the primary whatever federal network you can end an Interstate at, but the GSP is not on that network.
I-278: Used to connect via I-478 until the West Side Highway was torn down south of 60th St.
For strange NJ endings, NJ 29 used to peter out in the Duck Island area before the I-195 connection was built. I-287 used to loop around at the north end and end at US 202. In PA, I-476 does loop around at the north end sharply (it was meant to follow the I-81 corridor to NY).
Quote from: Steve on January 15, 2014, 11:11:09 PM
I-195: NJ 34 goes through Armed Forces land, so it's on the primary whatever federal network you can end an Interstate at, but the GSP is not on that network.
Not quite - I-195 ends at NJ 34 because that's where the existing NJ 38 began and hence where Interstate funding ended. Since this was a 90% federally funded Interstate, I don't think any of the terminus limitations applied (I don't know if there even were any back then pre-NHS, but now NJ 34 is not on the NHS but the GSP is). The STRAHNET corridor to Earle comes from the north on NJ 18 and ends on NJ 34 at the border.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/nhs_maps/new_jersey/nj_newjersey.pdf
Quote from: Steve on January 15, 2014, 11:11:09 PM
I-278: Used to connect via I-478 until the West Side Highway was torn down south of 60th St.
I don't think the WSH was ever officially I-478, being so far below standards that Interstate funding would have paid for a replacement. I-78 did once connect to I-278 at the Bruckner in the early 1970s.
The south end of (future) I-41.
:bigass:
Not a freeway, but OK-58 has several bizarre endings. The southern 58 heads north out of Hydro, winds through the southwestern corner of Blaine County, and then comes to a sudden end at the Blaine—Custer county line. You can continue along on a county road signed with an OK-54 shield; it is not OK-54 but it does lead you there. OK-58 picks up again to the north; the southern terminus here is uneventful, but the northern terminus is once again at a political boundary, this time the Kansas state line. However, Kansas has no state route here to continue on from OK-58. Instead, you get another county road, this one a dirt road that bans commercial traffic!
Quote from: Scott5114 on January 16, 2014, 12:27:56 AM
Not a freeway, but OK-58 has several bizarre endings. The southern 58 heads north out of Hydro, winds through the southwestern corner of Blaine County, and then comes to a sudden end at the Blaine—Custer county line. You can continue along on a county road signed with an OK-54 shield; it is not OK-54 but it does lead you there. OK-58 picks up again to the north; the southern terminus here is uneventful, but the northern terminus is once again at a political boundary, this time the Kansas state line. However, Kansas has no state route here to continue on from OK-58. Instead, you get another county road, this one a dirt road that bans commercial traffic!
OK 58 is signed along a gravel county road?
Quote from: Steve on January 15, 2014, 11:11:09 PM
I-287 used to loop around at the north end and end at US 202.
I wouldn't really count this one since it was a temporary ending. Granted, it took a very long time for I-287 to get completed to I-87. However, there are countless examples of bizarre endings when only segments of interstates were open.
I-110 MS ends with a bridge over the Gulf of Mexico.
Quote from: bugo on January 16, 2014, 12:32:52 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on January 16, 2014, 12:27:56 AM
Not a freeway, but OK-58 has several bizarre endings. The southern 58 heads north out of Hydro, winds through the southwestern corner of Blaine County, and then comes to a sudden end at the Blaine—Custer county line. You can continue along on a county road signed with an OK-54 shield; it is not OK-54 but it does lead you there. OK-58 picks up again to the north; the southern terminus here is uneventful, but the northern terminus is once again at a political boundary, this time the Kansas state line. However, Kansas has no state route here to continue on from OK-58. Instead, you get another county road, this one a dirt road that bans commercial traffic!
OK 58 is signed along a gravel county road?
No, it's fully paved. At the south section's northern terminus, it just ends at a random CR intersection (which is of course the county line road), and traffic defaults onto another paved county road. At the north section's northern terminus, the pavement stops abruptly at the state line (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=hydro+ok&ll=36.998029,-98.291759&spn=0.055251,0.206509&oe=utf-8&hnear=Hydro,+Caddo,+Oklahoma&t=h&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.998002,-98.291792&panoid=zj9QrDwk6Bp4GEE9o9yjug&cbp=12,346.4,,0,15.8).
Quote from: bugo on January 16, 2014, 05:25:04 PM
Not an interstate, but the south ending of US
Mexico? :sombrero:
we all know about I-710's middle two ends, but the south ends in Long Beach are pretty bizarre too. as far as I know, the legislative definition includes three south branches, leading to three termini. the longest one ends at the 47 freeway at a strange right-angled interchange.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 16, 2014, 05:28:45 PM
as far as I know, the legislative definition includes three south branches, leading to three termini.
Again, no. Route 710 only takes the route to end at SR 47.
Not an interstate, but the south ending of US 169 is odd. 169 is duplexed with US 64 south of the BA, goes around a curve and merges with the Creek Turnpike. US 64 hops off the freeway at Memorial Drive and 169 simply peters out.
Not even an Expressway let alone an Interstate but the southern terminus of MA 99 in Charlestown/Boston vanishes in terms of markings/signage prior to the Charlestown Bridge.
LA 22, 75, and 942 all arrive from opposite directions and end at the same three-way intersection in Darrow. At one time LA 22 crossed the Mississippi River via ferry to end in Donaldsonville, but the opening of the Sunshine Bridge meant an end to the ferry service and this odd triple ending is left.
US 360.
I've always thought the I-189 ending was odd, but yet interesting.
West end of freeway segment of MA 2. Freeway fades into surface road, with no definite ending.
North end of MA 128 with two rotaries. (Not quite the end, but close.)
Quote from: TEG24601 on January 10, 2014, 05:23:43 PM
I always loved the southern terminus of I-43 at I-90/39. A Clover Leaf, with WI-81 continuing Southwest as a surface street to the Pilot Truck Stop.
Sounds similar to the western terminus of I-76 near Lodi, OH. Up until recently, the interchange was a double trumpet with US 224 continuing westward to TA and Pilot truck stops at a signalized intersection. Why a double trumpet instead of something more direct–I don't know. It's much the same today, although around 2008, ODOT added separate, gentler ramps for the Columbus/Akron movements.
Quote from: briantroutman on January 19, 2014, 03:39:05 PM
Up until recently, the interchange was a double trumpet with US 224 continuing westward to TA and Pilot truck stops at a signalized intersection. Why a double trumpet instead of something more direct–I don't know.
It was probably designed as part of the Conneaut-to-Cincinnati Turnpike, and the state saw no reason to change the plans.
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2014, 06:37:13 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on January 19, 2014, 03:39:05 PM
Up until recently, the interchange was a double trumpet with US 224 continuing westward to TA and Pilot truck stops at a signalized intersection. Why a double trumpet instead of something more direct–I don't know.
It was probably designed as part of the Conneaut-to-Cincinnati Turnpike, and the state saw no reason to change the plans.
Doubtful, as there really wasn't any space made between the trumpets for a sizable toll plaza -- if I-71 was to have been tolled..
Quote from: thenetwork on January 19, 2014, 07:18:33 PM
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2014, 06:37:13 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on January 19, 2014, 03:39:05 PM
Up until recently, the interchange was a double trumpet with US 224 continuing westward to TA and Pilot truck stops at a signalized intersection. Why a double trumpet instead of something more direct–I don't know.
It was probably designed as part of the Conneaut-to-Cincinnati Turnpike, and the state saw no reason to change the plans.
Doubtful, as there really wasn't any space made between the trumpets for a sizable toll plaza -- if I-71 was to have been tolled..
Barely more space than the original double trumpet at the New Jersey Turnpike and US 206.
Quote from: 1 on January 19, 2014, 03:19:48 PMNorth end of MA 128 with two rotaries. (Not quite the end, but close.)
Actually, MA 128 ends at the signalized intersection (aka Exit 9) w/MA 127A. (http://goo.gl/maps/FDERw)
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2014, 06:37:13 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on January 19, 2014, 03:39:05 PM
Up until recently, the interchange was a double trumpet with US 224 continuing westward to TA and Pilot truck stops at a signalized intersection. Why a double trumpet instead of something more directI don't know.
It was probably designed as part of the Conneaut-to-Cincinnati Turnpike, and the state saw no reason to change the plans.
That's always been my understanding. They could have had original plans for the ramps to be a bit bigger, but could have cut them back whenever toll plans went away.
WI-106's western end isn't at it's intersection with WI-73...but is extended another mile west to cross I-39/90 to end at Albion Road in Albion. Albion Road is a former routing of US-51.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=albion,+wi&ie=UTF-8&ei=UUfdUtj8EOKR2wXfhYD4Ag&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg
CT 2's west end is kind of confusing, if anything. Many think it just merges into I-84 West as the mainline would suggest, and it was even supposed to connect to the cancelled I-284, but officially, it bends around and ends as the Founders' Bridge and disappears at a traffic light at the end of the bridge.
CT 9's north end. The Farmington stack sat unused for 20 years, and is only partially used. Would have continued as I-291.
I-384's ending is abrupt, as it merges into the four lane divided US 6/44 just before they split off. And I-291 in MA ends at a traffic light at the Mass Pike interchange, but becomes a surface street (Burnett Rd) beyond. I-391 also has a similar ending in Holyoke, but no Mass Pike connection.
Illinois Route 70 ends at the south end of the town square (actually the 'End' sign is a half-block south in front of a car dealership) in Durand. At the north end of the square, Winnebago County Road 1 begins (which goes north to the WI border and turns into County T and eventually Wisconsin Highway 104 in Brodhead). Not sure if this 15-mile stretch of county road was ever part of IL or WI state highway system....
http://goo.gl/maps/cuG1K
VT 38 would be interesting, given the fact that according to VTrans, it ends at the Northwest Correctional Facility in the town of St. Albans. The problem is the signage and length puts the terminus at what looks like it once was a former ramp to the facility. The current entrance is only 3.3 miles from US 7.
Although I-49 in MO ends in Pineville, MO at a normal temporary freeway type of set up, its unusual rock formation is quite different scenery than most. Plus nearby Business US 71 ends quite bizarre being a right in and right out. Motorists heading SB on US 71 mainline have to go north a couple of miles and u turn at Secondary Road H to go south. It would not be so out of the ordinary if Missouri DOT placed a TO US 71 South shield at Secondary Road H in Downtown Pineville to avoid this double back.
OH State Route 11 in East Liverpool heading south.
US 30 joins near Rogers north of town. Then after crossing OH-7, then US-30 exits across the bridge and OH-39 continues to east to Pennsylvania. Though OH-11 is listed as ending at the state line when US-30 crosses to WV, the signage doesn't really signify it. As US-30 by then became the dominant signed route after rounding the southside of East Liverpool.
i-790 is the most bizarre interstate I've ever seen
M-185 in Michigan doesn't have endings; it's a continuous loop. It also has no junctions with any other numbered highways. And it has no cars.
http://michiganhighways.org/listings/MichHwys180-199.html#M-185
Quote from: roadman65 on February 08, 2014, 01:40:24 PM
Although I-49 in MO ends in Pineville, MO at a normal temporary freeway type of set up, its unusual rock formation is quite different scenery than most. Plus nearby Business US 71 ends quite bizarre being a right in and right out. Motorists heading SB on US 71 mainline have to go north a couple of miles and u turn at Secondary Road H to go south. It would not be so out of the ordinary if Missouri DOT placed a TO US 71 South shield at Secondary Road H in Downtown Pineville to avoid this double back.
I believe there IS a "TO 71" sign at Route H. The 71/Bus 71 Junction became Right Turn only maybe 6 months after that section of 71 opened. There were a couple fatality accidents there and locals demanded MoDOT improve the intersection. So it was converted to Right Turn Only.
But for those who know the area, there's another route: 71 Service Rd (old 71) south to Rains Rd (old MO 88) . Take Rains Rd to MO 90 at Jane or follwo it all the way back to 71 ;)
K-38's east ending was bizarre when it existed since it ended in literally the middle of nowhere and became a dirt road.
Technically, this probably doesn't count but the closest I can think of in Kansas now would be the Woody Seat Freeway in Hutchinson, which was K-96 for many years. K-96 didn't end where the freeway did at the north end. But that end of the freeway was rather abrupt at Ave. A. I don't know the story behind it, but it appears to be one of those situations where some NIMBYs forced construction to stop at that point. To continue on K-96, you had to exit, then get into the left-turn lane quickly to turn north at the next intersection. Now the freeway has no number at all and Hutchinson and South Hutchinson are responsible for their portions of it.
Google Street View of the ramp K-96 traffic had to use: http://goo.gl/maps/uAfom
And this is how little distance you had to transition from the off-ramp to turn left on Adams so you could continue following K-96: http://goo.gl/maps/rkTi4
Quote from: apeman33 on February 13, 2014, 04:39:35 PM
K-38's east ending was bizarre when it existed since it ended in literally the middle of nowhere and became a dirt road.
This happens all over Arkansas.
Quote from: bugo on February 13, 2014, 08:15:01 PM
Quote from: apeman33 on February 13, 2014, 04:39:35 PM
K-38's east ending was bizarre when it existed since it ended in literally the middle of nowhere and became a dirt road.
This happens all over Arkansas.
got any examples?
LA 1's end in Grand Isle is somewhat unusual. The road logically ends at the water's edge, but it just dies out in a random location in an industrial area - no marker, no intersecting roads, nothing. Not what you'd expect for such a major route. A better ending would be at the entrance to the state park which is not too far away, and where most traffic is headed to on that end of the island.
Of course it isn't all that unusual for Louisiana state routes, even major ones, to begin/end unceremoniously, but this route terminus comes off as more unusual than others.
Quote from: Urban Prairie Schooner on February 13, 2014, 09:06:44 PM
LA 1's end in Grand Isle is somewhat unusual. The road logically ends at the water's edge, but it just dies out in a random location in an industrial area - no marker, no intersecting roads, nothing. Not what you'd expect for such a major route. A better ending would be at the entrance to the state park which is not too far away, and where most traffic is headed to on that end of the island.
Of course it isn't all that unusual for Louisiana state routes, even major ones, to begin/end unceremoniously, but this route terminus comes off as more unusual than others.
ME 24 is similar.
The northern end of NY 14 is a cul-de-sac: http://goo.gl/maps/pE9Ln
Since no one has mentioned it yet, US 41 also ends at a cul-de-sac, near the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. http://goo.gl/maps/hiYIb Note that there is a seasonal road that continues on into the woods. Curiously, when I was there last May, the wooden sign that commemorates the highway's route south to Miami was missing, although the frame was still present.
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on February 13, 2014, 09:53:37 PM
The northern end of NY 14 is a cul-de-sac: http://goo.gl/maps/pE9Ln
True, but then so is the eastern end of NY 27.
Quote from: Brandon on January 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
I was poking around the Albany, New York area today on Google Maps and noticed the very strange ending of I-787 at I-87 (NYS Thruway). It appears that I-787 is connected via an exit to I-87 before I-787 ends at US-9W.
Map: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.633359,-73.777721&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16
There also appears to be some driveways backing onto I-787's tail end in streetview: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.635537,-73.777764&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.63545,-73.777791&panoid=xjGikBURcoZd4SrUkGa3Pg&cbp=12,345.93,,0,15.17
Any other really odd freeway/interstate endings out there? Other than I-587's traffic circle.
If we're on the topic of Albany, then how about the southern end of the Northway, where you have to get off an exit to stay on I-87? Same for I-90 when going east.
You have to love the END US 169 sign on the Creek Turnpike.
SR-291/Engle Road in suburban Cleveland is a nice example of a bizarre ending"
It's northern terminus is at the intersection of SR-17/Brookpark Road (nothing wrong with that).
However, it's southern terminus ends at a county-maintained road (Fowles Road).
Why ODOT never routed SR-291 along Fowles Road east just a 1/2 mile more to meet with US-42/Pearl Road remains a mystery. BTW, SR-291 is one of the rare state routes in Ohio that not only does not end at another signed route on one end, but it does does not even cross any other signed routes along it's alignment.
Quote from: silverback1065 on February 13, 2014, 08:45:31 PM
Quote from: bugo on February 13, 2014, 08:15:01 PM
Quote from: apeman33 on February 13, 2014, 04:39:35 PM
K-38's east ending was bizarre when it existed since it ended in literally the middle of nowhere and became a dirt road.
This happens all over Arkansas.
got any examples?
AR 375 south of Mena. AR 369 north of Langley. AR 240 west of Hopper. AR 370 east of Board Camp. AR 84 west of US 71. AR 379 between Mount Ida and Pencil Bluff (two separate sections with a dirt road connecting the two), AR 248 east of Waldron, AR 295 south of Crosses...they're all over the mountainous areas of the state.
Quote from: thenetwork on February 14, 2014, 10:53:47 PM
SR-291/Engle Road in suburban Cleveland is a nice example of a bizarre ending"
It's northern terminus is at the intersection of SR-17/Brookpark Road (nothing wrong with that).
However, it's southern terminus ends at a county-maintained road (Fowles Road).
Why ODOT never routed SR-291 along Fowles Road east just a 1/2 mile more to meet with US-42/Pearl Road remains a mystery. BTW, SR-291 is one of the rare state routes in Ohio that not only does not end at another signed route on one end, but it does does not even cross any other signed routes along it's alignment.
So this route is just an island? (291)
Quote from: thenetwork on February 14, 2014, 10:53:47 PM
SR-291/Engle Road in suburban Cleveland is a nice example of a bizarre ending"
It's northern terminus is at the intersection of SR-17/Brookpark Road (nothing wrong with that).
However, it's southern terminus ends at a county-maintained road (Fowles Road).
Why ODOT never routed SR-291 along Fowles Road east just a 1/2 mile more to meet with US-42/Pearl Road remains a mystery. BTW, SR-291 is one of the rare state routes in Ohio that not only does not end at another signed route on one end, but it does does not even cross any other signed routes along it's alignment.
If Google Maps is correct, ME 123 and ME 190 are similar.
TX 100 on South Padre Island ends into blown over sand. If you follow it into the Seashore Park north of the commercial area on the island at one point the road gets covered with sand and the pavement disappears.
Quote from: silverback1065 on February 15, 2014, 09:01:37 PM
So this route is just an island? (291)
No, it's just a really long spur route that doesn't connect to anything:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/OH_291_map.svg/600px-OH_291_map.svg.png)
As I'm finishing up creating Wikipedia maps for all the Ohio routes, one of my biggest gripes about Ohio is that they like to put routes that are about to end onto concurrencies with other state routes. One pretty egregious example is SR 113 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_Route_113) whose easternmost third of the route is concurrent with other routes (SR 57 and US 20). Why they can't just stick an end sign up at SR 57 in Elyria instead of co-signing it with US 20 to Rocky River (which isn't even the end point per ODOT's SLDs) is beyond me.
There are several meaningless multiplexes in Northeast Ohio:
US-422/SR-8: There was a brief time in the 80s in which ODOT had tried to truncate SR-8 (at least sign-wise) at the mess known as the Northfield/Warrensville Center/Van Aken/Chagrin Blvd. intersection, but by the mid to late 90s, ODOT started to add SR-8 shields along US-422 all the way downtown. Sadly, that was about the same time that ODOT took down some of the last US/SR cutout shields that were in the Cleveland area -- mostly along Woodland Avenue.
SR-14/SR-43: On paper, this multiplex exists, but when I was last living in Cleveland, SR-43 shields were only present from the point in which SR-43 was on it's own as Miles Avenue.
SR-87: At times, SR-87 shares the road with US-422, SR-175 and SR-8. SR-87 should be truncated back to I-271, and let US-422 follow the old SR-87 alignment. That way SR-8 would be a more meaningful route into downtown as it would lose most of it's multiplex with US-422.
One multiplex I cannot get rid of, however, is the US-42/SR-3 duplex in Cleveland. For over 40 years, ODOT labeled SR-3's end at US-42 in Parma, though on paper, it ran all the way up to just west of downtown along US-42/W.25th St. A few years ago, I asked about the signing error in The Plain Dealer's Road Rant column, and that got ODOT to correct the 40+ year old mistake and place SR-3 signs along the official multiplex with US-42, albeit the SR-3 signs were not added to BGSs along I-71, I-480 or I-90 as far as I know.
AZ 210 (https://goo.gl/maps/Snqyg) is an island highway
N Broadway to Golf Links road in Tucson.
WIS 107 ends at CTH S south of Tomahawk - which was US-51 before the super-2 (now freeway) to route around Tomahawk was built
WIS 155 (https://goo.gl/maps/NRf3S) ends at CTH N in Sayner
Florida: SR 61, SR 575, and SR 607 end at county lines. Presumably the county didn't want to accept maintenance.
US 319 ends in the middle of an overlap with US 98, but it's probably because of historic inertia, as US 319 was there first.
NY 171 doesn't intersect any state, US, or interstate highways. One end is old 5S though, and it does have an overpass over current NY 5S (no interchange).
Quote from: vdeane on February 16, 2014, 04:17:42 PM
NY 171 doesn't intersect any state, US, or interstate highways. One end is old 5S though, and it does have an overpass over current NY 5S (no interchange).
NJ 161 doesn't intersect any state, US, or interstate highways. The western/southern end was intended to be Spur 3 (now NJ 3), until that route became a quasi-freeway instead of just a divided highway, and Allwood Rd. was left out. The northern end was always intended to be in Passaic and not at another SR.
There are a few state highways in Kentucky that are "islands" and require travel on non-state routes just to get to them for maintenance, snow removal, etc. Never really understood why that's the case. Just give them to the county and accept some route that intersects the state system in return.
There are quite a few in Louisiana I'd say that end bizarrely. Here are few of mine:
LA 5: It travels east past a logical terminus at LA 175 to stop a mile away at a railroad crossing
LA 118 - it should end at LA 117 instead of traipsing into the forest and turning to gravel
LA 524 - the northern end goes just past LA 123 and turns to gravel, but now the mid portion is discontinuous from a bridge closure as well
LA 1080- a spur traveling north and south of LA 40 and not connecting to any other state routes
There are many many others that simply end in a swamp and would be just fine serving as a local road instead of a state highway.
Quote from: dgolub on February 14, 2014, 08:51:41 AM
Quote from: Brandon on January 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
I was poking around the Albany, New York area today on Google Maps and noticed the very strange ending of I-787 at I-87 (NYS Thruway). It appears that I-787 is connected via an exit to I-87 before I-787 ends at US-9W.
Map: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.633359,-73.777721&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16
There also appears to be some driveways backing onto I-787's tail end in streetview: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.635537,-73.777764&spn=0.009172,0.021136&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.63545,-73.777791&panoid=xjGikBURcoZd4SrUkGa3Pg&cbp=12,345.93,,0,15.17
Any other really odd freeway/interstate endings out there? Other than I-587's traffic circle.
If we're on the topic of Albany, then how about the southern end of the Northway, where you have to get off an exit to stay on I-87? Same for I-90 when going east.
That's because the two roadways were supposed to be connected via the Southern Albany Expressway, but I'm sure that was the reason David brought up the south end of the Northway.
Quote from: NE2 on February 16, 2014, 01:29:52 PM
Florida: SR 61, SR 575, and SR 607 end at county lines. Presumably the county didn't want to accept maintenance.
SR 575 between US 301 and the Pasco-Hernando County Line was an upgrade that was supposed to help Lacoochee's economic situation, and didn't. Either way, I still think the state designation should be extended north to SR 50, and west to US 98 in Trilby.
Quote from: D-Dey65 on February 17, 2014, 10:44:24 AM
SR 575 between US 301 and the Pasco-Hernando County Line was an upgrade that was supposed to help Lacoochee's economic situation
[citation needed]
Quote from: NE2 on February 17, 2014, 10:57:32 AM
Quote from: D-Dey65 on February 17, 2014, 10:44:24 AM
SR 575 between US 301 and the Pasco-Hernando County Line was an upgrade that was supposed to help Lacoochee's economic situation
[citation needed]
There was an old St. Pete Times article about it, but I don't remember the date.
That doesn't make sense. Assuming somehow making it a state road has that effect, why end it at the county line rather than Lacoochee itself (or SR 50)? And when was it downgraded? It was a primary state road in 1953 (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00015343/00001/2x?vo=32&vp=3042,1733), and was not given to the county when the part west of US 301 was (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00016456/00001/1x?search=pasco&vo=32&vp=4373,135).
Here is a pointless multiplex, US 25 in Northern Kentucky, in downtown Florence US 25 multiplexes US 42 and US 127 which would be a logical terminus, instead it continues northward multiplexed with US 42 and US 127, it continues this way until it reaches the Ohio state line and just ends, now I know that US 25 USED to continue past Cincinnati and continue farther northward, but it is pointless continuing it northward past downtown Florence
I 78 in Manhattan.
Quote from: NE2 on January 16, 2014, 05:30:07 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 16, 2014, 05:28:45 PM
as far as I know, the legislative definition includes three south branches, leading to three termini.
Again, no. Route 710 only takes the route to end at SR 47.
cahighways.org never gave me a conclusive answer on that, but did 710 originally take one of the other two spurs? The Thomas Guide had it marked on the Shoreline Drive alignment in downtown Long Beach for quite a long time.
Quote from: Bickendan on April 04, 2015, 01:26:13 PM
cahighways.org never gave me a conclusive answer on that, but did 710 originally take one of the other two spurs?
No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/California/History/List_of_laws_by_route_%28post-1964%29
The only relevant text is:
Quote307.1. (a) Route 7 shall also include that portion of the freeway between Route 1 and the northern end of Harbor Scenic Drive, that portion of Harbor Scenic Drive to Ocean Boulevard, that portion of Ocean Boulevard west of its intersection with Harbor Scenic Drive to its junction with Seaside Boulevard, and that portion of Seaside Boulevard from the junction with Ocean Boulevard to Route 47. (b) Subdivision (a) shall not become operative...unless the commission approves...a financial plan...
which was renumbered 710 in 1984.
There is also MD 249 (Piney Pt. Road). It just disappears. No end sign, the roadway just eventually becomes someones driveway.
MN 11 ends at the entrance to the Sha-Sha Resort east of International Falls. I'm not sure why the section east of I-Falls isn't just a county road as 11 doesn't connect to anything meaningful east of there anyway.
Slightly less weird but MN 169's north (east) end is at a random intersection in the middle of nowhere 4 miles east of Ely.
A formerly non-weird one that became weird is the north end of US 75 at Noyes, MN. The Canadian authorities closed the border crossing and the US soon followed suit, but 75 still goes north from the MN 171 turnoff to get to I-29 and dead-ends in Noyes.
Rhode Island Route 7. It just ends at the MA border (US 7 goes through mass.) There are no END signs for RI 7. the same goes for RI 100. It just ends at the MA. border (Google for years insisted that 100 continued into MA.
Actually, the north end of RI-7 is technically at the intersection with Joslin Road, about 1/2 mile north of RI-102. The section from there to the state line is just un-numbered Douglas Pike, maintained by the town.
For weirdest end in RI, I think both ends of RI-238 would win the prize.
Nebraska recently created one for the east end of NE 370. There's signage coming off of the US 75 exit for NE 370 pointing the way for eastbound NE 370 traffic, and there is a gantry with a sign for eastbound NE 370 for its exit for Fort Crook Road (the former US 75), but since the opening of the new US 34 bridge south of Bellevue, 370 ends at US 75.
There's also the weirdness of NE 66 in Louisville. On the east side of Louisville, westbound NE 66 ends in the middle of a 90 degree turn to the north as it turns from Koop to Walnut. On the west side of Louisville, NE 66 eastbound officially ends when W. 5th Street intersects Main Street, but none of NE 66 is signed on W. 5th Street. It is co-signed with NE 50 south of the W. 5th Street intersection, but north of there and all through town, there are a lot of "TO" signs.
Quote from: TEG24601 on April 04, 2015, 02:47:28 PM
There is also MD 249 (Piney Pt. Road). It just disappears. No end sign, the roadway just eventually becomes someones driveway.
MD 249 ends just short of Thomas Rd/Arthur Fenwick Ln intersection, about a mile from the end of the road at Indigo Pt.
Here is 2008 GMSV showing the beginning NB...
https://goo.gl/maps/lDG5T
Mapmikey
Another one that ends just short of the beach is Md. 292 in Betterton, Kent County (here (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.329167,-76.045556&hl=en&ll=39.370436,-76.062877&spn=0.013436,0.023282&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.370348,-76.062876&panoid=I0a75L5ouyEbnQtfZqsv0Q&cbp=12,6.93,,1,5.41)).
Near the eastern edge of the Mountain Time Zone, in Sherman County, Kansas, is K-267 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kansas_shorter_than_one_mile#K-267). It starts at a diamond interchange with I-70, heads north until it encounters Old U.S. 24, then west until it reaches the southern edge of Kanorado, where it just ends (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kanorado,+kansas&hl=en&ll=39.333219,-102.033012&spn=0.013377,0.023282&sll=39.370353,-76.062877&sspn=0.013436,0.023282&hnear=Kanorado,+Sherman+County,+Kansas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.333242,-102.032855&panoid=DrnBGMXkE3ZNSB8k916qkg&cbp=12,284.82,,1,4.15) for no particular reason, except perhaps to provide a state-maintained highway between Kanorado and the freeway.
Old U.S. 24 continues west across the state line into Colorado toward Burlington.
SR-291 in Middleburg Hts., OH is signed along Engle Road from SR-17 Brookpark Road on the north to just south of Bagley Road on the south. At or near the railroad tracks, Engle Road becomes a non-ODOT highway until it ends at Fowles Road.
https://goo.gl/maps/zmLnO (https://goo.gl/maps/zmLnO)
Never understood why SR-291 just doesn't follow Engle Road to Fowles, then make the 1 mile jog east to US-42 via Fowles, unless the local NIMBYs didn't want the potential for increased truck traffic -- although trucks would make better time via Bagley Road and I-71 to US-42.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on April 06, 2015, 11:19:54 AM
Near the eastern edge of the Mountain Time Zone, in Sherman County, Kansas, is K-267 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kansas_shorter_than_one_mile#K-267). It starts at a diamond interchange with I-70, heads north until it encounters Old U.S. 24, then west until it reaches the southern edge of Kanorado, where it just ends (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kanorado,+kansas&hl=en&ll=39.333219,-102.033012&spn=0.013377,0.023282&sll=39.370353,-76.062877&sspn=0.013436,0.023282&hnear=Kanorado,+Sherman+County,+Kansas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.333242,-102.032855&panoid=DrnBGMXkE3ZNSB8k916qkg&cbp=12,284.82,,1,4.15) for no particular reason, except perhaps to provide a state-maintained highway between Kanorado and the freeway.
Old U.S. 24 continues west across the state line into Colorado toward Burlington.
Several 3-digit state routes in Kansas exist solely to provide a state highway to a town. Your example actually wasn't surprising to me in the least.
Quote from: kphoger on April 06, 2015, 11:06:52 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on April 06, 2015, 11:19:54 AM
Near the eastern edge of the Mountain Time Zone, in Sherman County, Kansas, is K-267 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kansas_shorter_than_one_mile#K-267). It starts at a diamond interchange with I-70, heads north until it encounters Old U.S. 24, then west until it reaches the southern edge of Kanorado, where it just ends (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kanorado,+kansas&hl=en&ll=39.333219,-102.033012&spn=0.013377,0.023282&sll=39.370353,-76.062877&sspn=0.013436,0.023282&hnear=Kanorado,+Sherman+County,+Kansas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.333242,-102.032855&panoid=DrnBGMXkE3ZNSB8k916qkg&cbp=12,284.82,,1,4.15) for no particular reason, except perhaps to provide a state-maintained highway between Kanorado and the freeway.
Old U.S. 24 continues west across the state line into Colorado toward Burlington.
Several 3-digit state routes in Kansas exist solely to provide a state highway to a town. Your example actually wasn't surprising to me in the least.
It's also common in rural Minnesota to have this scenario of a state highway connecting a small town to a major route (as Steve Riner points out, many of these highways are numbered in the 200s). Some of these are starting to be turned back though.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 07, 2015, 01:35:47 AM
Quote from: kphoger on April 06, 2015, 11:06:52 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on April 06, 2015, 11:19:54 AM
Near the eastern edge of the Mountain Time Zone, in Sherman County, Kansas, is K-267 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kansas_shorter_than_one_mile#K-267). It starts at a diamond interchange with I-70, heads north until it encounters Old U.S. 24, then west until it reaches the southern edge of Kanorado, where it just ends (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kanorado,+kansas&hl=en&ll=39.333219,-102.033012&spn=0.013377,0.023282&sll=39.370353,-76.062877&sspn=0.013436,0.023282&hnear=Kanorado,+Sherman+County,+Kansas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.333242,-102.032855&panoid=DrnBGMXkE3ZNSB8k916qkg&cbp=12,284.82,,1,4.15) for no particular reason, except perhaps to provide a state-maintained highway between Kanorado and the freeway.
Old U.S. 24 continues west across the state line into Colorado toward Burlington.
Several 3-digit state routes in Kansas exist solely to provide a state highway to a town. Your example actually wasn't surprising to me in the least.
It's also common in rural Minnesota to have this scenario of a state highway connecting a small town to a major route (as Steve Riner points out, many of these highways are numbered in the 200s). Some of these are starting to be turned back though.
The majority of Nebraska's spur highways are like that as well. Usually, it reaches the edge of town and that's the end of the highway. For Leshara, Nebraska, in Saunders County, only about 30 miles west of Omaha, at least at the one time I went there many years ago, there is a sudden transition to gravel road where the spur route ends.
Quote from: SSOWorld on February 16, 2014, 01:02:01 PM
AZ 210 (https://goo.gl/maps/Snqyg) is an island highway
N Broadway to Golf Links road in Tucson.
It's Temporary NW end is At E. Broadway and is in design and funding acquisition to complete the highway NW to I-10 at Exit 257A St Marys Road/6th Street.
There are future plans to complete AZ 210 in SE Tucson from Golf Links Road & Alvernon Way
Routing I: South on Alvernon Way to I-10 at Exit 265
Routing II: East on Golf Links Road and South on Houghton Road to I-10 at Exit 275
This is just a local street, but it is a pretty strange ending:
SylviaLn (https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.53675,-81.380748&spn=0.000005,0.002071&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=28.53675,-81.381258&panoid=NsjqAwkdFeI1VUzCgvtxgg&cbp=12,349.51,,0,4.22)
IL 16 ends at a junction with a small private driveway on the west end.
Saginaw Hwy (a major road through Ingham County, Michigan) just kind of ends as a rural dirt road once you pass Grand Ledge.
Quote from: empirestate on February 14, 2014, 01:29:29 AM
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on February 13, 2014, 09:53:37 PM
The northern end of NY 14 is a cul-de-sac: http://goo.gl/maps/pE9Ln
True, but then so is the eastern end of NY 27.
And the northern end of U.S. 9.
I've always found highways that appear/vanish in the middle of a multiplex sort of bizarre. Why not truncate it to the end of the multiplex? I can think of three examples here in Quebec:
A-10 ends at A-610 in Sherbrooke, in the middle of a multiplex with A-55. (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.43972,+-71.95661&hl=fr&ll=45.437008,-71.951652&spn=0.025898,0.038581&sll=45.44014,-71.954806&sspn=0.012948,0.01929&safe=strict&t=m&z=15) It looks like it's sort of there to legitimize A-610's number, which is wrong anyway because it's not a loop. Historically, A-610 used to be A-10, but if they were going to truncate A-10, they could as well have done it all the way back to the other end of the multiplex. Perhaps it's like this so that drivers can "follow A-10" to Sherbrooke instead of switching to A-55 just short of getting there. *shrug* Personally, I would just not have renumbered A-10 to A-610.
In nearby Magog, R-108 begins at R-141, in a multiplex with R-112. (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.266671,-72.155524&ll=45.265282,-72.152495&spn=0.025976,0.038581&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=15) (Proof (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.266671,-72.155524&ll=45.266671,-72.155542&spn=0.025976,0.038581&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.266705,-72.155658&panoid=xDT3CxrFz1LNN8Kdl3FyTw&cbp=12,202.56,,2,-0.68) since Google is wrong.) It could have begun a couple of blocks further, when R-112 turns onto Rue Sherbrooke.
R-158 begins at Avenue Béthany in Lachute, on top of R-148 (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.657398,-74.331976&ll=45.647288,-74.303627&spn=0.103203,0.154324&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=13) (which it follows for 13 km). It doesn't even begin at an intersection with another numbered highway, it just pops out of nowhere (Avenue Béthany does carry R-329 for a short distance, which then veers north to multiplex with 148/158 for another short distance...wat). Worse, R-148 is mostly unsigned through the multiplex, so it sort of vanishes and comes back. How about just restoring R-148 and cutting that 13 km out of R-158?
(EDIT: Typo)
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on April 20, 2015, 10:07:13 AM
Quote from: empirestate on February 14, 2014, 01:29:29 AM
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on February 13, 2014, 09:53:37 PM
The northern end of NY 14 is a cul-de-sac: http://goo.gl/maps/pE9Ln
True, but then so is the eastern end of NY 27.
And the northern end of U.S. 9.
I've always found highways that appear/vanish in the middle of a multiplex sort of bizarre. Why not truncate it to the end of the multiplex? I can think of three examples here in Quebec:
A-10 ends at A-610 in Sherbrooke, in the middle of a multiplex with A-55. (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.43972,+-71.95661&hl=fr&ll=45.437008,-71.951652&spn=0.025898,0.038581&sll=45.44014,-71.954806&sspn=0.012948,0.01929&safe=strict&t=m&z=15) It looks like it's sort of there to legitimize A-610's number, which is wrong anyway because it's not a loop. Historically, A-610 used to be A-10, but if they were going to truncate A-10, they could as well have done it all the way back to the other end of the multiplex. Perhaps it's like this so that drivers can "follow A-10" to Sherbrooke instead of switching to A-55 just short of getting there. *shrug* Personally, I would just not have renumbered A-10 to A-610.
In nearby Magog, R-108 begins at R-141, in a multiplex with R-112. (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.266671,-72.155524&ll=45.265282,-72.152495&spn=0.025976,0.038581&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=15) (Proof (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.266671,-72.155524&ll=45.266671,-72.155542&spn=0.025976,0.038581&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.266705,-72.155658&panoid=xDT3CxrFz1LNN8Kdl3FyTw&cbp=12,202.56,,2,-0.68) since Google is wrong.) It could have begun a couple of blocks further, when R-112 turns onto Rue Sherbrooke.
R-158 begins at Avenue Béthany in Lachute, on top or R-148 (https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=45.657398,-74.331976&ll=45.647288,-74.303627&spn=0.103203,0.154324&num=1&safe=strict&t=m&z=13) (which it follows for 13 km). It doesn't even begin at an intersection with another numbered highway, it just pops out of nowhere (Avenue Béthany does carry R-329 for a short distance, which then veers north to multiplex with 148/158 for another short distance...wat). Worse, R-148 is mostly unsigned through the multiplex, so it sort of vanishes and comes back. How about just restoring R-148 and cutting that 13 km out of R-158?
US-46 does this at the NJ/NY state line (up until that point it's concurrent with US-1, US-9, and I-95)
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on April 20, 2015, 10:07:13 AM
Quote from: empirestate on February 14, 2014, 01:29:29 AM
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on February 13, 2014, 09:53:37 PM
The northern end of NY 14 is a cul-de-sac: http://goo.gl/maps/pE9Ln
True, but then so is the eastern end of NY 27.
And the northern end of U.S. 9.
US 9 ends at the I-87 ramps; the frontage road beyond is 971B.
I-70 in Baltimore ending at a park and ride.
Quote from: CapeCodder on April 06, 2015, 12:22:03 AM
Rhode Island Route 7. It just ends at the MA border (US 7 goes through mass.) There are no END signs for RI 7. the same goes for RI 100. It just ends at the MA. border (Google for years insisted that 100 continued into MA.
When PennDOT decided to reroute & truncate PA 100 to just east of West Chester over a decade ago (it previously went further south to the DE State line and continued as DE 100); such resulted in DE 100 just flat out ending at the State line.
When US 1 between Boston & Dedham was rerouted onto I-93 & 95 circa 1989-90; such left MA 109's eastern terminus & MA 203's western terminus somewhat disjointed due to their endings on an unnumbered road. Nobody thought to extend either route to one another or consolidate the two (i.e. make MA 203 an eastern extension of MA 109).
Quote from: Beeper1 on April 06, 2015, 12:46:13 AMFor weirdest end in RI, I think both ends of RI-238 would win the prize.
The southern terminus of RI 138A would probably be a runner-up. Personally, RI 238 should just become an extension of RI 138A and be done with it.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on April 06, 2015, 11:19:54 AM
Near the eastern edge of the Mountain Time Zone, in Sherman County, Kansas, is K-267 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kansas_shorter_than_one_mile#K-267). It starts at a diamond interchange with I-70, heads north until it encounters Old U.S. 24, then west until it reaches the southern edge of Kanorado, where it just ends (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kanorado,+kansas&hl=en&ll=39.333219,-102.033012&spn=0.013377,0.023282&sll=39.370353,-76.062877&sspn=0.013436,0.023282&hnear=Kanorado,+Sherman+County,+Kansas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.333242,-102.032855&panoid=DrnBGMXkE3ZNSB8k916qkg&cbp=12,284.82,,1,4.15) for no particular reason, except perhaps to provide a state-maintained highway between Kanorado and the freeway.
Old U.S. 24 continues west across the state line into Colorado toward Burlington.
There is a hanging end of U.S. 24 that is associated with this. Talking eastbound now, U.S. 24 goes through Burlington, then angles northeasterly just before it would run into I-70. It then terminates with no signage to indicate the spot near the east city limits, and then you're on a state-maintained frontage road not designated as a state highway that parallels the interstate and intersects the county road CP mentioned coming out of Kanorado. Coming west into Colorado, there is a mileage sign on this frontage road, dated 2001, that is evidently a replacement-in-kind for the pre-interstate mileage sign on U.S. 24. It gives mileage to Burlington, Limon and Colorado Springs.
One of several weird hanging ends of U.S. highways in Colorado.
Ohio SR 16 ends at the Scioto River in downtown Columbus. Its first 5.75 miles heading east are concurrent with US 40. I know US 40 once followed Main Street into downtown, but why they didn't truncate at Drexel Avenue is beyond me.
Another odd one is NY 266. Used to end at NY 5 a few blocks south of the current ST. Now it ends at I-190 Exit 8. Entire stretch in Buffalo is city-maintained. (map: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8928166,-78.8842238,15z )
NY 8 and NY 10 end concurrently at NY 17 after a 2 mile concurrency. NY 10 should probably end at NY 8.
US 44 is kinda like SR 16: instead of ending at US 9 in Poughkeepsie, it has a 33-mile concurrency east of US 209 with NY 55. About half of its length in New York is contained within that concurrency.
Oh, and I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but NY 421. Ends at a dead end in the middle of nowhere and serves little purpose whatsoever.
NY 421 has an AADT of about 136 and is easily the least traveled touring route. I have no idea why it exists other than it used to end not far from a station on the Adirondack Scenic Railroad... but then there are other such stations that have no road connection whatsoever.
Frost heaves were an issue on NY 421 the last only time I drove on it.