Apologies for the wordy subject line; here's what I mean:
US 95 was extended southward through Yuma AZ in about 1961. It's a north-south route, but traffic uses an east-west road (16th St.) to pass through Yuma.
US 80 remained in Yuma until it was truncated in about 1979. It's an east-west route, but its course through downtown Yuma is north-south. (This is the route of today's Business I-8, on 4th St.)
So, for that approximately-20-year period, where US 80 and US 95 intersected, they were running perpendicular to their ultimate cardinal destinations. In other words, northbound US 95 was to the east; eastbound US 80 was to the south; etc.
That's actually still the case to this day (since old US 80 is now designated Bus. I-8, which would also be signed east-west), but not quite as cool in my opinion, since the roads aren't the same type of designation anymore. I imagine this could make for some potentially confusing signage at the intersection, but I notice on Google Street View that AZDoT has sidestepped the issue by not using directional tabs for the intersecting route.
Anyway, that situation struck me as kind of unusual, so I thought I'd ask whether anyone's aware of any similar examples. That is, a north-south route which has an east-west segment, and on this segment it intersects an east-west route running along a north-south segment.
I-96 and I-75 in Detriot? I-69 and I-94 in Port Huron, MI? I-26 and I-81 in Kingsport, TN? US52 and I-85 in Lexington, NC? I-26 and I-77 in Columbia, SC? Some of these are quite iffy, though I think the Kingsport one fairs very well.
In Canton NY, US 11 and NY 68 split off like this. US 11 is heading east-west (posted north/south) and NY 68 (posted east/west) heads off to the south.
Quote from: deanej on November 24, 2009, 09:09:52 PM
In Canton NY, US 11 and NY 68 split off like this. US 11 is heading east-west (posted north/south) and NY 68 (posted east/west) heads off to the south.
...well, to be fair, 11 kinda heads northeast towards Potsdam while 68 heads southeast towards Colton. :D
And in the same general area, although it's not at the intersection point (since they're going in their respective directions at that point), US2 heads east into Vermont before turning to the south for a while, and US11 heads south from that point before heading west.
Before a section of FL 526 (Crystal Lake Dr) was decommissioned in Orlando, it did intersect FL 15 (South/Anderson Streets) on a north-south routing and signed east-west, while FL 15 is on an east-west routing and signed north-south.
Another that probably doesn't count (or is backwards) is FL 436 and FL 15, but FL 436 is signed north-south and FL 15 is signed east-west.
Quote from: english si on November 24, 2009, 06:38:53 PM
I-96 and I-75 in Detriot? I-69 and I-94 in Port Huron, MI?
In regard to the former, this interchange's highways don't come in from true N-S and E-W. I-96 comes in from the northwest, while I-75 comes in from the southeast and leaves going northeast. In regard to the latter, I-69 is east-west around Port Huron anyway
This is a tough topic but: US 41 going east-west when meeting M-95 in the Upper Peninsula, M-43 meeting with M-37 in Hastings-I believe M-43 is east-west for the majority of the route except from Richland to M-66, and M-50 going north-south when meeting US 12 at MIS.
There are routes that end up intersecting at a negative angle - for example, you're traveling "northbound", and "eastbound" is actually to the left. The first one that comes to mind is CR 516 and NJ 36, where 516 east crosses 36 and then makes a left onto 36 south (so northbound, you'd make a right to go west). 516 is pretty straight E-W for the most part, while the top of 36 is as well.
Two wrong-way multiplexes both running perpendicular to their signed directions:
OR 99W/219 in Newberg, OR, running east-west on their duplex (OR 99W's north is east, 219's north is west).
And...
I-80/580 in Oakland and Berkeley, CA. This one gets a bonus, too.
I-80's east is north-northwest, 580's east is south-southeast.
To me the whole "East-West North-South" thing on road signs is B.S.
It just causes confusion, and it's probably better to list control cities anyway.If I'm in Cincinnati, OH on Interstate 71, and a sign just says "I-71 Columbus" I think I would know I'm heading North.
Either takeout the directional system, or atleast make it dynamic.For example, half the time I-580 in CA is heading North-South as well as East-West the other half of the time.It's literally 50-50.
How about the I-77/I-81/US-11/US-52 multiplex near Wytheville, VA? You're travelling on I-81 North and I-77 South (or vice versa) in the five mile (or so) multiplex, but the roads actually run east/west!
Here's a stranger one: US 11 and NY 58 multiplex for a short distance in Postdam. Heading north on US 11, and you're heading SOUTH on NY 58. And it's on a north-south alignment, so it's not even a case of two north-south roads changing places on the grid.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=44.668165,-74.989071&spn=0.018587,0.045276&z=15
Downtown Manitowoc, WI - 10 East meets 151 North, 10 east is going south, 151 North is going East. :ded:
Not quite what the OP talked about, but there's one in Nevada that partially follows the topic. The Spaghetti Bowl in downtown Las Vegas is the junction of I-15 and US 95. Both of these are north-south routes, but US 95 intersects I-15 at an almost perpendicular angle. (This is due to the fact that US 95 was rerouted along what was then the east-west Las Vegas Expressway western spur from downtown, which was later extended east and south towards Henderson.) So, if you're heading north on I-15, you turn 90° west to head north on US 95.
This interchange is also the beginning of the north-south I-515 spur (co-signed with US 95 on the east), resulting in another perpendicular angle. Also, US 93 is cosigned with I-15 north of the Spaghetti Bowl and I-515/US 95 east of the junction, which results in a 90° turn just to maintain your cardinal direction if following US 93.
Quote from: Riverside Frwy on November 29, 2009, 06:26:01 PM
To me the whole "East-West North-South" thing on road signs is B.S.
It just causes confusion, and it's probably better to list control cities anyway.If I'm in Cincinnati, OH on Interstate 71, and a sign just says "I-71 Columbus" I think I would know I'm heading North.
Either takeout the directional system, or atleast make it dynamic.For example, half the time I-580 in CA is heading North-South as well as East-West the other half of the time.It's literally 50-50.
Did you grow up in Europe by chance? Navigation by control cities is the status quo there. :-P Seriously, though, peoples' different navigational styles are likely the reason why both control cities and cardinal directions are used on guide signs in the U.S.
For myself, I find that cardinal directions are a huge benefit. This is especially true in cases where the road may not be aligned north-south at a particular point, but that is the overall alignment that I might be looking for. I think it is easier to tell someone to "get on I-71 north" than it would be to "get on I-71 heading to Columbus".
As far as loops/spurs are concerned, many of these are signed dynamically based on directionality of that particular segment. For an urban route, this seems more ideal. However, for a long-distance route, changing the directional banners for a short distance perpendicular to the overall highway direction is not helpful for the intrastate/interstate traveler.
Quote from: roadfro on November 30, 2009, 08:12:19 PM
I think it is easier to tell someone to "get on I-71 north" than it would be to "get on I-71 heading to Columbus".
especially if the road is a minor one, and the "control city" is the town 10 miles away. A visitor from halfway across the country cannot reasonably be expected to know where, say, Great Bend, Kansas is. (A valid US-281 control city.) Yes, it's around here somewhere, but is it ahead of us or behind us? To have the NORTH banner on 281 is essential.
Or, in my case, I will be randomly driving back to NJ and want to explore different roads (county routes, for example). I absolutely need to know that I am maintaining an orientation roughly in the right direction (say, mostly south and a little west) so that I can make decisions at key points. With a N/S/E/W system in place, I can navigate "by feel", which if you think about it, is why road signs are around at all. (Otherwise, just use a detailed map.)
Quote from: AlpsROADS on November 30, 2009, 08:45:32 PM
Or, in my case, I will be randomly driving back to NJ and want to explore different roads (county routes, for example). I absolutely need to know that I am maintaining an orientation roughly in the right direction (say, mostly south and a little west) so that I can make decisions at key points. With a N/S/E/W system in place, I can navigate "by feel", which if you think about it, is why road signs are around at all. (Otherwise, just use a detailed map.)
that was my undoing when I first tried to follow CA-110 (Arroyo Seco Freeway), signed "north" into Pasadena. This was in moderate fog, so no navigating by the sun. A half-hour later, after getting utterly lost on Pasadena's street grid, I figured out the problem: by the time it ends, the 110, signed north, is heading
due east.
I can kind of name a couple (I don't think they quite fit what you're talking about, USEnds): US-89/89A in Kanab, UT, where US-89 pretty much runs east-west between there and Page, AZ, and US-89A, which, all things considered, has a more east-west than north-south route despite being labled N-S (the only true N-S portion is between Kanab and Fredonia, AZ). The other is US-89A and AZ-67 at Jacob Lake; US-89A, again, runs more E-W than N-S.
However, I digress with these, though they somewhat fit the bill.
I-96 between I-275 and I-696 is signed east-west, but runs north-south. Also, I-75 between I-96/Ambassador Bridge and M-3 connector/I-375 runs East-West. And last, we can't forget about the lodge, that starts north-south, but becomes east-west.
Quote from: HighwayMaster on November 29, 2009, 05:52:39 PM
I-26 and I-85 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
How about just I-26 and everything it intersects from Kingsport, TN to Spartanburg.
One I just went through this weekend, I-180 and PA 405 at Exit 13 near Muncy, PA.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Muncy+pa&sll=35.449033,-97.487094&sspn=0.001621,0.003484&g=Oklahoma+City,+Oklahoma&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Muncy,+Lycoming,+Pennsylvania&ll=41.211108,-76.768384&spn=0.023826,0.055747&t=h&z=15
I-180 is signed E-W and goes through the interchange running almost due N-S. (I-180 East also turns Westward south of Muncy, too.) PA 405 is signed N-S and runs mainly E-W, but enough N-S that it might be OK. But, just to the east of the interchange, before meeting PA 442, PA 405 North turns Southeast.
AR 96 is posted E-W, but intersects AR 22 going N-S (west going south)
Also AR 252 north of Charleston, AR: posted E-W, runs N-S (east going south)
I-74 Between Galesburg and Quad Cities. It then runs Northwest to Southeast to Cincy
Here's one in Ontario at the ON 401 and ON 427 interchange at Exit 348 on ON 401 where ON 427 (a north south freeway) runs east west and parallel to ON 401 when it crosses ON 401.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=43.671752,-79.584017&spn=0.01431,0.043602&z=15
Southbound Interstate 280 intersecting US 101 in San Jose is heading due northeast by the time it hits its terminus; likewise, northbound Interstate 280 intersecting US 101 in San Jose is heading due east.
Route 85 southbound in southern San Jose intersects Route 17 and Route 87 going almost due east at both junctions.
In Redwood City, the western segment of Route 84 (Woodside Road) going eastbound intersects US 101 going a bit northeast, while US 101 southbound heads slightly southeast (more east-west).
101's general orientation in the south bay gives rise to that - it's southeast by northwest (emphasis on east and west), so at the 280 junction, it too is askew.
24 at 880 in the MacLaurin Maze: 880 is heading nearly east-west, while 24 is north-south. I believe 980 (the senseless renumbering of the last mile or so of 24, though internally the route is still 24) is signed north-south, but historically 24 has always been an east-west route, even back when it was alternate US-40 coming in across Beckwourth Pass from Reno.
finally, CA-13 at 80/580 is heading south of west at its northern terminus, and no one has any idea what 80/580 is doing...
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 03, 2010, 03:12:57 AM
101's general orientation in the south bay gives rise to that - it's southeast by northwest (emphasis on east and west), so at the 280 junction, it too is askew.
Yeah, 101 from about Redwood City to Route 85 doesn't go due south at all (and Route 85 follows suit as noted).
Quote from: agentsteel53
24 at 880 in the MacLaurin Maze: 880 is heading nearly east-west, while 24 is north-south. I believe 980 (the senseless renumbering of the last mile or so of 24, though internally the route is still 24) is signed north-south, but historically 24 has always been an east-west route, even back when it was alternate US-40 coming in across Beckwourth Pass from Reno.
Didn't know the 880/980 junction had a name...but from what I recall reading at Cahighways.org, 980 and 24 are considered entirely separate routes (unlike say, what FHWA calls I-305 but CalTrans only acknowledges as US 50, and in segments Route 99 and Business 80).
As for Route 24...was it signed east-west on the segment that is now Route 160? If so, it would have created one of the strangest sets of cardinal directions ever, between Sacramento and Woodland: Route 24 EASTbound (going northwest) cosigned with Route 16 westbound!!!
US 6 is probably the historic winner for this in California, being signed east-west on today's I-110 (which means it was signed east-west for over 200+ miles from Nevada south!!!!). Strangely, after 1964, US 6 is now signed north-south in California for the rather short segment remaining, even though there is one "US 6 East - Provincetown, MA" sign in Bishop.
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finally, CA-13 at 80/580 is heading south of west at its northern terminus, and no one has any idea what 80/580 is doing...
If Route 61 had been built on the East Bay shore, would Route 13 have intersected it going east-west?!
Quote from: TheStranger on January 03, 2010, 03:22:24 AM
US 6 is probably the historic winner for this in California, being signed east-west on today's I-110 (which means it was signed east-west for over 200+ miles from Nevada south!!!!). Strangely, after 1964, US 6 is now signed north-south in California for the rather short segment remaining, even though there is one "US 6 East - Provincetown, MA" sign in Bishop.
at the 1950s mutual terminus of US-6 and US-91 in Long Beach (at the 15 freeway, the one that was later renumbered 7 and then 710), 91 was heading west (signed south), and US-6 was still signed west ... but heading due east! US-101A was co-signed with US-6, signed south, and heading east as well.
Another old California example, considering what you and I just mentioned about US 6:
Alternate US 40 between Davis and Oroville. I know that today's Route 70 is signed north-south between East Nicolaus and Oroville, and Route 113 (which replaced US 40A from Davis to south of Yuba City) is entirely signed north-south.
Does the US 77 - US 177 wrong-way perpendicular concurrency near Ponca City, OK count?
TxtoNJ: Absolutely.
Another one just came to mind: the last segment of Florida State Road A1A, from Fernandina Beach west to US 1, which runs entirely east-west on what is mostly a very long north-south route. In fact, at the northern terminus in Callahan, A1A is actually running southwest towards US 1!
Here's another one in Ontario: ON 403 at it's intersection with the QEW and the eastern intersection with ON 401
In Naselle, WA, US 101 northbound is running southeast when it meets the western terminus of Route 4, which in the eastbound direction mostly heads out south from there until Route 401.
Here's a picture of that fun section of road near Wytheville, VA
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flh6.ggpht.com%2F_vV2-Fg-7T40%2FS0Uwde77htI%2FAAAAAAAAA4c%2FNR8lgiHw5Mk%2Fs400%2FIMG_1071.JPG&hash=dfae6ab8fd38fe093434e36154d4bf140cc0bada)
A couple more California examples:
- I've seen one photo of Interstate 5W being signed on what was then US 50 (and is now I-580) in the East Bay, and it was signed east-west despite 5W being ostensibly a north-south route.
- US 99 along today's I-10 between Los Angeles and Indio ran due east-west, despite being a north-south route. Route 38 - an east-west route - hits its terminus at what was then US 99 (and is now just I-10) in Redlands going north-south!
I forgot about this one.
In Danville, PA where PA 54 and US 11 intersect.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=danville+pa&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.043149,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Danville,+Montour,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.963114,-76.613331&spn=0.046018,0.111494&z=14
US 11 is signed N-S but at the interection with PA 54 it is running WNW-ESE with South 11 going WNW!
PA 54 is signed E-W and is running NNE-SSW and West 54 is going NNE!
OK, sorry to necro this old thread...
I-94 is signed EW but runs almost due NS through the north side of Minneapolis. It intersects CSAH 81 (formerly US 52 among other designations) which is signed NS but runs EW where it crosses I-94.
As long as we're raising old threads from the dead, here's another example I'm surprised not to see here yet:
I-55 at I-90/94 in Chicago. I-55 is east-west while I-90/94 are both north-south.
M-46 is signed east-west, but runs North-South with US-131 for 16 miles.
Good necro.
I-5 in a number of locations: Runs east to west in downtown San Diego at CA 163.
Though it runs very much south-north from there, it has a long gradual east-west inclination from San Diego to Stockton.
North of Sacramento at CA 99 to CA 113 in Woodland it's due east to west again, then at a diagonal to I-505.
In Oregon, geography forces the east-west and west-east movements. Of note:
Central Point (OR 99) to Grants Pass (US 199 and even OR 99), east-west. There's even a small wrong-way dip along the Rogue River outside of Rogue River.
The curves near Myrtle Creek along the Umpqua River. A due east-west section hairpins around a hill to southwest-northeast and back.
Washington: Puget Sound forces the last perpendicular section (west-east) from Olympia (at US 101) to Tacoma (just east of WA 167), with a notable south-north segment from WA 512 to WA 16.
QuoteWashington: Puget Sound forces the last perpendicular section (west-east) from Olympia (at US 101) to Tacoma (just east of WA 167), with a notable south-north segment from WA 512 to WA 16.
On that note, where I-5 intersects SR 167, I-5 is signed north south and SR 167 is signed north. I-5 heads east-west, and SR 167 actually heads SOUTHEAST to Puyallup (but is well signed as 167 North), before turning north on the Valley Freeway.
So there's a north south road running east-west that intersects a road signed as "north" but goes southeast,
Here's off I-5
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidjcorcoran.com%2Fhighways%2F5%2F705to167%2F2.JPG&hash=aea526f10b71b7f80efd3b603cc4f1f53b00da15)
and then the first reassurance shield towards Puyallup
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidjcorcoran.com%2Fhighways%2F167%2F5to161%2F2.JPG&hash=84743e2cf65ecb068ad8c5af8a9967e378655fac)
Business U.S. 90 in New Orleans and the West Bank.
It splits from U.S. 90 near Westwego going the correct direction (east). In Gretna, the highway turns northeast, then north when you get to Gen. De Gaulle Drive and the Crescent City Connection toll plaza. One you get on the bridge, the highway goes west and goes across the Mississippi River (eastbound Bus. U.S. 90 is going west and westbound is going east).
After crossing the river, the highway turns northwest and ends at the Claiborne Avenue (U.S. 90)/I-10 interchange...still in the wrong way configuration.
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Going back to the original premise of this thread, saw an example of this phenomenon on Google Maps for Wilmington, North Carolina:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wilmington,+NC&sll=34.289843,-77.855301&sspn=0.157144,0.276375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wilmington,+New+Hanover,+North+Carolina&ll=34.318416,-77.87251&spn=0.019778,0.034547&z=15
Interstate 40, an east-west route is going north-south...while US 17, a north-south route, is physically heading east-west!
Quote from: TheStranger on August 12, 2010, 07:40:37 PM
Going back to the original premise of this thread, saw an example of this phenomenon on Google Maps for Wilmington, North Carolina:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wilmington,+NC&sll=34.289843,-77.855301&sspn=0.157144,0.276375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wilmington,+New+Hanover,+North+Carolina&ll=34.318416,-77.87251&spn=0.019778,0.034547&z=15
Interstate 40, an east-west route is going north-south...while US 17, a north-south route, is physically heading east-west!
Notice that US 17/I 140 passes over US 117 just west of the I 40 interchange. There is no interconnection between US 17 and its daughter route US 117.
Quote from: dfilpus on August 12, 2010, 08:56:11 PM
Notice that US 17/I 140 passes over US 117 just west of the I 40 interchange. There is no interconnection between US 17 and its daughter route US 117.
This has only been the case for a few years (as US 17 once ran on what's now its business route in Wilmington). Is there a plan for a 17/140 interchange with 117?
ME196 heads due south at its "east" end at US1, which runs...
Quote from: TheStranger on August 13, 2010, 02:17:12 AM
Quote from: dfilpus on August 12, 2010, 08:56:11 PM
Notice that US 17/I 140 passes over US 117 just west of the I 40 interchange. There is no interconnection between US 17 and its daughter route US 117.
This has only been the case for a few years (as US 17 once ran on what's now its business route in Wilmington). Is there a plan for a 17/140 interchange with 117?
Not that I know of. A full interchange would be too close to I 40. There are no C/D lanes on the eastbound lanes for US 117 to interchange with.
Just had fun with PEI 16, which heads westbound both directions from the northeast tip of the island. Same island, when PEI 4 northbound (heading due east) spawns PEI 18, PEI 18 westbound then proceeds to head due east as well! 18 ought to be a north-south route, given that it's a reverse "C".
Brings to mind the recently-extended ME112 (http://cmap.m-plex.com/hb/hwymap.php?r=me.me112). This one harks back to the "negative angle" intersections the thread was OT-ing into earlier.
Or how about ME164 (http://cmap.m-plex.com/hb/hwymap.php?r=me.me164)? If ME89 were signed inside US1, that'd be a perpendicular jct. ME161 should be E-W IMNSHO - that would make for a perpendicular jct - but it's N-S instead, so it gets away with just a wrong-way`plex.
OOH! HA! ME228 (http://cmap.m-plex.com/hb/hwymap.php?r=me.me228) is signed E-W, so that makes a perp. jct. with ME164!
Oh Caribou, where did we go so wrong?
If I ran th'zoo I would fix that numberin' right up, I teyyahwhatbub!
Your first example of this ia an excellent choice: Yuma,AZ. The north south highway route runs east to west (US 95) and the the eat -west route (old US 80, Bus I-8) runs north to south ( 4th St ). It looks like a swastika.
On the SF Peninsula, all streets runon a diagonal axis, so when you believe you're heading east you might be actually heading north, as an example, CA 84 is signed EAST but one is actually heading north toward the bay.
Just noticed another one: US 67 is a north-south route, but in downtown Bettendorf IA it runs east-west along the State-Grant couplet... which is right where it intersects US 6, an east-west route, but at this point it runs north-south along I-74 (which, incidentally, is also signed east-west). Even before the freeway was built, US 6 still ran north-south through here, along Kimberly Rd.
Quote from: usends on September 09, 2014, 02:41:07 PM
Just noticed another one: US 67 is a north-south route, but in downtown Bettendorf IA it runs east-west along the State-Grant couplet... which is right where it intersects US 6, an east-west route, but at this point it runs north-south along I-74 (which, incidentally, is also signed east-west). Even before the freeway was built, US 6 still ran north-south through here, along Kimberly Rd.
Damn, I was going to use that one. Oh well, there are a couple of other examples in the Quad Cities, thanks to the Mississippi running east to west. I-280 is signed east-west, even in its 8-mile north-south stretch around the west side of Davenport. In the middle of that stretch, it intersects US-61/BUS US-61, which is signed N-S but runs E-W to loosely follow the River.
Also, on one side of the I-80 bridge in LeClaire, there is an interchange with US-67. The other side of the bridge has an interchange with IL-84, which is also a north-south route. The I-80 bridge isn't straight north-south, but it's pretty close. https://goo.gl/maps/j3Tc2
Quote from: usends on September 09, 2014, 02:41:07 PM
Just noticed another one: US 67 is a north-south route, but in downtown Bettendorf IA it runs east-west along the State-Grant couplet... which is right where it intersects US 6, an east-west route, but at this point it runs north-south along I-74 (which, incidentally, is also signed east-west). Even before the freeway was built, US 6 still ran north-south through here, along Kimberly Rd.
Another example of US 67 is in Northeast Texas. US 67 is signed N-S, yet it runs in a generally E-W direction between Greenville and Texarkana. From Dallas to Weaver, it is multiplexed with I-30. After leaving I-30 at Exit 135, it basically parallels I-30 in a generally E-W direction towards Texarkana.
In Chesterfield, Michigan, I-94 intersects with M-3 and M-29. The northern and southern legs of the intersection are I-94, the west leg is M-3 and the east leg is M-29. I-94 is an east-west freeway that locally runs north-south, M-3 and M-29 are north-south routes that locally run east-west.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6747455,-82.8206673,2340m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6747455,-82.8206673,2340m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Quote from: pianocello on September 09, 2014, 09:20:13 PM
Quote from: usends on September 09, 2014, 02:41:07 PM
Just noticed another one: US 67 is a north-south route, but in downtown Bettendorf IA it runs east-west along the State-Grant couplet... which is right where it intersects US 6, an east-west route, but at this point it runs north-south along I-74 (which, incidentally, is also signed east-west). Even before the freeway was built, US 6 still ran north-south through here, along Kimberly Rd.
Damn, I was going to use that one. Oh well, there are a couple of other examples in the Quad Cities, thanks to the Mississippi running east to west. I-280 is signed east-west, even in its 8-mile north-south stretch around the west side of Davenport. In the middle of that stretch, it intersects US-61/BUS US-61, which is signed N-S but runs E-W to loosely follow the River.
Also, on one side of the I-80 bridge in LeClaire, there is an interchange with US-67. The other side of the bridge has an interchange with IL-84, which is also a north-south route. The I-80 bridge isn't straight north-south, but it's pretty close. https://goo.gl/maps/j3Tc2
Another Iowa example: west of Charles City, the east-west US 18 runs north-south along the Avenue of the Saints bypass at the interchange with the north-south IA 14, which runs east-west at that point. (Although I will add that US 18 is multiplexed with the north-south US 218 and IA 27.) And then in Charles City, US 18 and IA 14 meet again: eastbound US 18 runs north, then
west to the junction with IA 14 before turning northeastward. Likewise, northbound IA 14 runs east, north, northeast,
southeast, and then east again before ending at US 18. All of that is because of the Cedar River's northwest-southeast flow through Charles City. It's been like that since US 18 was rerouted along the entire bypass (as opposed to the portion north of IA 14 and then sharing part of IA 14) in 2006.
On I-25.going northbound towards Denver, as you get to Santa Fe, I -25 takes a major jog in direction for about 20 miles to go thru Glorieta Pass, and you are actually going southbound even though the signs still say northbound I- 25.
It's really only half an example, but this happens at the southern end of the I-43/I-94 concurrency in Milwaukee. I-43 heads west and I-94 keeps going south all the way to Chicago. Making things even more interesting, the highway jogs east for a bit just "north" of the merge, so I-43 is still going east-west and I-94 is going the opposite direction of its signs.
I-90 (signed E/W) runs N/S, and NY 400 (signed N/S) runs E/W when the two intersect in West Seneca (which also happens to be NY 400's northern terminus): http://goo.gl/maps/3rhQ4
NY 16 (signed N/S) runs E/W and US 20 (signed E/W) runs N/S when the two intersect in West Seneca: http://goo.gl/maps/l1TPS
NY 384 (signed N/S) runs E/W and NY 104 (signed E/W) runs N/S when the two intersect in Niagara Falls (which also happens to be NY 104's western terminus): http://goo.gl/maps/oSz1h
So it's a sign goof (and might be a case of swapped direction plates), but: http://goo.gl/maps/u52Qm
Norwalk, CT: US 1 "north" is heading due east (93 deg heading if you're in an aircraft), and CT 53 "east" is heading north (16 deg).
(http://googlecompass.com/ lets you overlay a compass to eyeball the heading)
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 10, 2014, 08:40:36 PM
It's really only half an example, but this happens at the southern end of the I-43/I-94 concurrency in Milwaukee. I-43 heads west and I-94 keeps going south all the way to Chicago. Making things even more interesting, the highway jogs east for a bit just "north" of the merge, so I-43 is still going east-west and I-94 is going the opposite direction of its signs.
I-43 between Beloit and Milwaukee also meet US 12 and US 14, which are both essentially N-S highways when they intersect I-43 even though both are signed E-W.
Also in Wisconsin, US 12 intersects WI 13 in Wisconsin Dells, with US 12 E-W and WI 13 N-S, although they are perpendicular to their signed directions there. West US 12 also takes West WI 16 (formerly US 16) north with it. There's also the I-90 (and I-39) interchange with US 51 east of Stoughton, where North US 51 goes due west to Stoughton, while I-90 is N-S at that point. Just looking at some of the highways in Wisconsin, with the random direction changes, it appears there might be more I'm missing.
I'm sure there are more in Louisiana with all of the highways that meander and follow a river down south, but here are 2:
LA 1 at LA 20 in Thibodaux. 1 runs east-west here and 20 runs north-south. The cardinal directions aren't signed at their intersection, just arrows.
Also US 61 at many intersections in Metairie (LA 3046, LA 3152, LA 3154), although some of those even numbered highways are labeled North or South.
Another in Louisiana, though they overcross and only one movement is directly connected.
US 190 in Covington travels north-south getting into town from the east, though it's signed west-east. LA 21 is signed north-south, though it travels east-west where it meets US 190. It's not a true intersection, in that aside from the LA 21 North (traveling east)-US 190 East (traveling south) connection, all others are made through nearby Business US 190. But they are perpendicular where one overcrosses the other.
In Hunter's Creek, FL you have E-W US 92 running N-S intersecting N-S FL 417 which runs E-W.
In South Carolina now you have US 52 which is currently signed E-W, but running N-S intersecting US 521 signed N-S which is running E-W at that junction. You even have NB US 521 with US 52 EB to your left and US 52 WB to your right in this situation which is total opposite of what is supposed to be of N-S to E-W.
I'm not sure if this counts, but US 72 runs north/south but is signed east/west where it intersects Oakwood Avenue and Max Luther Drive in Huntsville, AL along the US 231/431/72 multiplex on Memorial Parkway.
NY 96 runs east/west for 30 miles between Victor and Waterloo, signed north/south. When we give directions we always use east and west.
Bumping this thread with US 30 and 89 at Montpelier, Idaho, which features the intersection of a N/S-running US 30 and an E/W-running US 89.