If you look on the Google Maps Satellite imagery for exit 38 on I-64 in St Louis, it looks like a highway was supposed to go there. Does anyone know if a highway was supposed to be there and if there was, what was its name and where was it supposed to go? :confused:
Edit: Its actually exit 38B eastbound and exit 39 westbound.
I think it was supposed to be for the proposed (now scrapped) I/MO 755.
Yes, they were built for the scuttled North South Distributor Freeway (Missouri 755) (https://www.aaroads.com/guide.php?page=s0755mo).
A later plan would have used them for the 22nd Street Parkway, an at-grade route north to Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. It was cancelled in 2003.
^ I think the 22nd Street Parkway (really a boulevard) is one of those off and on projects - IIRC it was proposed again with the Northside redevelopment, which would also reconfigure this the US 40 interchange into full diamond with one-way outer roads connecting to the ramps at Jefferson.
There may have also been a ghost section for the N-S Distributor under I-70 500 feet north of Branch Street. The 1998 imagery in Google Earth has an angled bridge on I-70 with the roadway underneath oddly curving. The bridge was removed when I-70 was reconstructed back around the turn of the century.
I like how many people are now saying "the turn of the century." :D It is far enough into this century to say this.
Quote from: amroad17 on June 16, 2014, 03:45:30 AM
I like how many people are now saying "the turn of the century." :D It is far enough into this century to say this.
"Turn of the millennium" would be more appropriate for this period, as I find "turn of the century" to be rather old-fashioned by comparison.
That's even better!!!