I am looking for situations where a route goes from freeway quickly to a rural and such that a STOP sign is appropriately placed on the road. So, we are looking for a place where two urban freeways meet at an interchange and one of the routes goes out of the urban area and gets sufficiently rural (and, of course, no longer a freeway) has a well placed STOP sign that is not an entrance control, tool booth, or effectively the end of the route.
I was definitely thinking of US-95 in Las Vegas. I believe that this happens on CASR-1 in several places, but I am sure that you can do better. I will also guess that this happens far more frequently outside the contiguous US.
I would be also be mildly interested in traffic signals, but STOP signs are more to the point.
Maybe not 100% what you're looking for, but AZ 85 starts at a fully directional flyover interchange with I-10. As it continues south it's divided and in the process of becoming a freeway, with a few interchanges along its length. There's a stop sign at the Gila Bend-Maricopa highway, although if you take the slip ramp to continue along 85 / Business 8, you don't have to stop.
Quote from: JKRhodes on September 29, 2019, 01:27:41 PM
Maybe not 100% what you're looking for, but AZ 85 starts at a fully directional flyover interchange with I-10. As it continues south it's divided and in the process of becoming a freeway, with a few interchanges along its length. There's a stop sign at the Gila Bend-Maricopa highway, although if you take the slip ramp to continue along 85 / Business 8, you don't have to stop.
I was thinking about having a STOP sign required to continue on the route. You didn't exactly say whether this happens here (although it might). What I am really looking for is a route that is a real freeway in town and rapidly gets to be a route where a STOP sign would be appropriate and actually has one. At one point US-95 had a STOP sign just a couple of miles north of the Spaghetti Bowl, for instance.
Hmmmm I don't recall any around me. The only instance where a freeway goes rural that I use frequently is the IL-56 spur off of I-88 in Sugar Grove IL. Right after the IL-47 interchange however it goes into a stop light and becomes a rural two lane road. Don't think that counts towards what you're looking for
Quote from: michravera on September 30, 2019, 12:46:27 PM
Quote from: JKRhodes on September 29, 2019, 01:27:41 PM
Maybe not 100% what you're looking for, but AZ 85 starts at a fully directional flyover interchange with I-10. As it continues south it's divided and in the process of becoming a freeway, with a few interchanges along its length. There's a stop sign at the Gila Bend-Maricopa highway, although if you take the slip ramp to continue along 85 / Business 8, you don't have to stop.
I was thinking about having a STOP sign required to continue on the route. You didn't exactly say whether this happens here (although it might). What I am really looking for is a route that is a real freeway in town and rapidly gets to be a route where a STOP sign would be appropriate and actually has one. At one point US-95 had a STOP sign just a couple of miles north of the Spaghetti Bowl, for instance.
Nope, no stop required to continue southbound under normal operation. Northbound encounters a stop sign at the other end of the business loop, but if you're coming from the south, you don't start on a freeway, so I'll scratch that contribution...
If you're mildly interested in traffic signals, I can think of several examples. The most dramatic one I know is US 60 in the east suburbs of Phoenix; it transitions from a 12 lane urban freeway down to a 4 lane divided highway with stoplights over a relatively short distance.
Don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but...
The TX-35 Bypass of Rockport, TX ends at a stop sign (though northbound traffic has a continuous flowing movement)
The bypass is mostly divided highway, non-freeway, but the segment south of this stop sign has a full freeway design for 4 miles, and suddenly just has to stop at the northern end.
The rural 75 mph divided highway / freeway TX-35 Bypass continues south and feeds into the US-181 freeway in Portland, crosses the Harbor Bridge, and feeds into Downtown Corpus Christi, I-37, and TX-286. So this appears to meet your criteria of leaving an urban area, traversing a rural area, then just stopping.
Aerial view of the situation - https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0612132,-97.0661233,1973m/data=!3m1!1e3
Approaching the end of the freeway (Street View) - https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0596731,-97.0637533,3a,37.5y,35.09h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNzchl8Fh92LwLEeNS-vJ3Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Closest instance I can think of is OH-315 north of Columbus. It's a freeway between I-70 and I-270, but within a mile north of I-270 it becomes a two-lane rural road. There's a yield sign at a roundabout in Powell and a stop sign at County Road 124 near Delaware, but they are several miles north of where the freeway ends.
I am not sure if there is a stop sign or not, but the northern end of I-229 in Rapid City comes to mind, if for nothing else but the abruptness of its end.
The OP doesn't include any criteria as to how far between the interchange and the stop sign should qualify, so this may or may not count.
Northeast of Omaha at its cloverleaf interchange with I-29, I-680 turns into Pottawatomie County Highway G37 (https://goo.gl/maps/erobJKAFmZcXVjo59), immediately crosses a railroad at grade, narrows to two lanes, and then ends at a T intersection 2 miles later.
Quote from: kphoger on October 01, 2019, 02:08:40 PM
The OP doesn't include any criteria as to how far between the interchange and the stop sign should qualify, so this may or may not count.
Northeast of Omaha at its cloverleaf interchange with I-29, I-680 turns into Pottawatomie County Highway G37 (https://goo.gl/maps/erobJKAFmZcXVjo59), immediately crosses a railroad at grade, narrows to two lanes, and then ends at a T intersection 2 miles later.
I, the OP, was, of course, looking for fairly short distances, like under 20 miles. CASR-1 has sections of freeway with interchanges in the cities of Santa Cruz (with CASR-17), Monterey (with CASR-68, IIRC), and Ventura (with US-101) and others where either CASR-1 (in Santa Cruz) or the crossing Freeway (in Monterey) have STOP signs or traffic signals fairly soon after the freeway interchange. I believe that this happens with US-101 in Santa Barbara as well (Is that CASR-127?).
I explicitly wanted to exclude route endings.
Quote from: michravera on October 01, 2019, 03:50:19 PM
I explicitly wanted to exclude route endings.
Ah, thank you. I misunderstood "where a
route goes from freeway quickly to a rural" as "where a
road goes from freeway quickly to rural".
Quote from: michravera on September 29, 2019, 12:41:16 PM
I am looking for situations where a route goes from freeway quickly to a rural and such that a STOP sign is appropriately placed on the road. So, we are looking for a place where two urban freeways meet at an interchange and one of the routes goes out of the urban area and gets sufficiently rural (and, of course, no longer a freeway) has a well placed STOP sign that is not an entrance control, tool booth, or effectively the end of the route.
I was definitely thinking of US-95 in Las Vegas. I believe that this happens on CASR-1 in several places, but I am sure that you can do better. I will also guess that this happens far more frequently outside the contiguous US.
I would be also be mildly interested in traffic signals, but STOP signs are more to the point.
Chisholm trail parkway super 2 toll road ends at US67 in Cleburne Texas at an signalized intersection as it crosses over US67 on an overpass. Not a stop sign but a super 2 that ends at a signal. The road goes from a 6 lane urban toll in Fort Worth Texas to a super 2 by the time it ends at a signal there is a 4 lane overpass just north of the beginning of the tollway so it goes from super 2 to 4 lane overpass back to super 2 then ends at the signal. The road actually intersects a county road as it ends which the county road continues across the overpass into the city of cleburne as a city street. We do have an interchange where the service roads become a city street at the interchange and flyover connectors being/end the main lanes of a tollway on the President George Bush Turnpike in Grand Prairie at Interstate 20.
In Florida we had SR 414 do that before SR 429 got extended. It went from six lanes to four and then to a signal at the former SR 429 SB exit. Then quickly to a stop!
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 01, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
And here's a picture.
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 26, 2018, 10:35:07 PM
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fericgartner.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F07%2Fks_turnpike.jpg&hash=ed918fb793f1a32db5070136d081d7b02c4bc295)
For the record, that former terminus was four miles from the previous interchange. However,
michravera has now specified "I explicitly wanted to exclude route endings."
Quote from: roadman65 on October 01, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
Why would they even open it to begin with?
I know this doesn't count, but since we're hard-pressed for examples, I'll add. . .https://www.google.com/maps/@43.62713,-96.6918294,7233m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.62713,-96.6918294,7233m/data=!3m1!1e3)
It seems like I-229 is supposed to continue northward sometime in the future, but for now it dead-ends into a farm road, which has a stop sign a little ways north.
Quote from: michravera on September 30, 2019, 12:46:27 PM
I was thinking about having a STOP sign required to continue on the route. You didn't exactly say whether this happens here (although it might). What I am really looking for is a route that is a real freeway in town and rapidly gets to be a route where a STOP sign would be appropriate and actually has one. At one point US-95 had a STOP sign just a couple of miles north of the Spaghetti Bowl, for instance.
Not sure how long ago you're thinking about there being a stop sign on US 95 mainline in the Las Vegas Valley, especially anywhere immediately north of the Spaghetti Bowl. There hasn't been one in my lifetime (and I'm 36). There might have been one when the Las Vegas Expressway was first built out to Rancho Dr circa 1968 (and would have had a 90° turn involved)–US 95 wasn't moved to the current freeway alignment north/west past Rancho until circa 1982.
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 01, 2019, 09:05:01 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 01, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
Why would they even open it to begin with?
Because what Oklahoma failed to do wasn’t Kansas’s problem. If I recall correctly, the south end was only closed after the governor of Wyoming and his wife crashed into the wheat field...which really doesn’t look good when it makes national news.
Quote from: US 89 on October 02, 2019, 01:08:10 AM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 01, 2019, 09:05:01 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 01, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
Why would they even open it to begin with?
Because what Oklahoma failed to do wasn't Kansas's problem. If I recall correctly, the south end was only closed after the governor of Wyoming and his wife crashed into the wheat field...which really doesn't look good when it makes national news.
Oklahoma was supposed to build their own turnpike carrying the route further on south–however, OTA didn't anticipate that their credit rating was so badly impacted by the construction of the Turner and Will Rogers turnpikes that they were unable to secure bonds to build the turnpike. OTA had already done a decent amount of survey and design work for the turnpike that never was, though, and all of this was turned over to the Department of Highways when I-35 was built.
It's difficult to see in the picture, but there is an east-west road along the state line that one could turn right on to reach US-177. KTA was expecting motorists to treat it as a normal T intersection and continue on their way. Some folks preferred not to, however.
I can think of several places in Indiana where there is a freeway interchange followed within 1/4 mile by a stop LIGHT (Cline Ave at 80/94 then Ridge Rd, I-65 at Toll Road then US 12/20, US 31 at I-465 then 96th St, I-69 at (I-465 then 75th St) but none with a stop SIGN.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2019, 05:49:28 AM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 01, 2019, 09:05:01 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 01, 2019, 08:09:01 PM
I heard the original south end of the Kansa Turnpike ended abruptly as drivers would plow into a wheat field. KTA had to close the road there until Oklahoma built I-35 to connect to it to end the end.
Why would they even open it to begin with?
there is an east-west road along the state line that one could turn right on to reach US-177. KTA was expecting motorists to treat it as a normal T intersection and continue on their way.
This. Or, more simply, why wouldn't they have opened it?
Kentucky's Mountain Parkway's eastern 32 miles is under conversion from a super-2 to a four-lane. The route ends at a traffic light at US 460 in Salyersville.
The former Pennyrile Parkway ends at the US 60/Alt. US 41 interchange in Henderson, then there's a traffic light just beyond that exit.
The Purchase Parkway actually ends across the state line in Tennessee, but the road continues as a surface route (US 45E) before reaching a T intersection at the old 45E routing (now a Tennessee secondary route) south of downtown Fulton. I can't remember if there is a signal or a stop sign there.
The former ending of the Cumberland Parkway was at a signal at US 27/KY 80 in Somerset.
The Bluegrass Parkway ends at US 60 near Versailles. Traffic turning onto westbound 60 has a stop sign. Traffic going east, merges onto US 60 but immediately encounters a signal.
In Maine, US 1 has two freeway segments in the southern portion of the state (one during its concurrency with I-295 (https://goo.gl/maps/qJw8Zo6U6EyqAMwU8) in Portland, and the other on it's own freeway (https://goo.gl/maps/AJmhWc6wfoHFniqK6) between Brunswick and Bath). Further up, you'll encounter various small towns and lower-volume intersections that utilize STOP signs (https://goo.gl/maps/nJUhyPuucw5mbiHU7).
The Ohio Route 2 Freeway used to end at an at-grade stop sign heading west to Route 61 before the Huron bypass was complete with a flashing red light from the early '70's until the bypass was complete in 1990. The ramps were graded out but they had not built the 61 bridge.
In Texas, President George Bush Turnpike ends at I-30 frontage roads. Intersection controlled by 2 30x30 BlinkerSign STOP signs. GSV shows intersection has been modified since I last went through. Crash barrels have been added. Drivers were slamming into retaining wall beyond the second stop sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8580289,-96.5551605,3a,22.4y,151.99h,88.87t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D84.36013%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100 (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8580289,-96.5551605,3a,22.4y,151.99h,88.87t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D84.36013%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100)
Quote from: Brian556 on October 02, 2019, 09:29:48 PM
In Texas, President George Bush Turnpike ends at I-30 frontage roads. Intersection controlled by 2 30x30 BlinkerSign STOP signs. GSV shows intersection has been modified since I last went through. Crash barrels have been added. Drivers were slamming into retaining wall beyond the second stop sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8580289,-96.5551605,3a,22.4y,151.99h,88.87t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D84.36013%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100 (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8580289,-96.5551605,3a,22.4y,151.99h,88.87t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-ob_tas4ydfZ8ZbLP49Ogg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D84.36013%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100)
Two warning signs plus two stop signs, and some people still don't get the message.
S-T-O-P.
Quote from: michravera on October 01, 2019, 03:50:19 PM
I, the OP ... explicitly wanted to exclude route endings.
Repeated (again) for emphasis.
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
NH 101 does this. Goes from a full freeway west of I-95 to a divided 2-lane highway to a Super 2, becomes a pair of one-way streets, and ends at a stop sign at NH 1A in Hampton Beach.
How is the north end of I-229 in SD? Is that still pass under an interchange with I-90 to become a rural road still?
MA 57 is a good example. Coming out of a rotary at US 5, it becomes a full 4 lane freeway before coming to an abrupt end at MA 187 about 4 miles later. MA 57 then turns onto MA 187 North for a short stretch to the center of Feeding Hills.
https://goo.gl/maps/HrTksEdY8CK9Kqc39
Quote from: roadman65 on October 04, 2019, 10:30:52 PM
How is the north end of I-229 in SD? Is that still pass under an interchange with I-90 to become a rural road still?
Yes. I think it should keep going north, but to where I don't know.
Quote from: tchafe1978 on October 04, 2019, 08:42:51 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
Awesome example!
Quote from: kphoger on October 09, 2019, 02:09:52 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on October 04, 2019, 08:42:51 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
Awesome example!
Same situation as my previous example that apparently didn't "qualify". The freeway ends, but TX-35 continues north.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0612132,-97.0661233,1973m/data=!3m1!1e3
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 09, 2019, 05:59:08 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 09, 2019, 02:09:52 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on October 04, 2019, 08:42:51 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
Awesome example!
Same situation as my previous example that apparently didn't "qualify". The freeway ends, but TX-35 continues north.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0612132,-97.0661233,1973m/data=!3m1!1e3
???
I don't see any post wherein your TX-35 example was called into question. Am I missing something?
Quote from: kphoger on October 11, 2019, 01:47:26 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 09, 2019, 05:59:08 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 09, 2019, 02:09:52 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on October 04, 2019, 08:42:51 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
Awesome example!
Same situation as my previous example that apparently didn't "qualify". The freeway ends, but TX-35 continues north.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0612132,-97.0661233,1973m/data=!3m1!1e3
???
I don't see any post wherein your TX-35 example was called into question. Am I missing something?
Neither do I. I expect the kind of thing that I had in mind to happen a lot in Texas. Lots of cities, many of which are large. Lots of rural areas. Lots of freeways. I may be remembering this incorrectly, but I thought that the route that I took from northeast Austin out to Lake Travis started as a Freeway near IH-35 and then went through signals and then to stop signs as it got closer to the lake. I may not have this right since I only lived there for a couple of months. I would expect it to happen a lot in Florida also, but you might frequently get to quickly from the major cities to the ocean to make it as common. I would also expect this to happen more frequently in the "One City" states here in the western US. I expect that it would be fairly common in places that only build the freeway in the city and a road with stop signs suffices elsewhere. This is, in fact, what happens along much of CASR-1.
There are plenty of examples, especially in California, but I would guess the other coastal and gulf states (and those along the Mississippi) as well, where there is a freeway that interchanges with another freeway and pretty much has to end at a stop sign (or something) nearby to prevent a motorist from driving into the ocean or river. Those are not my intent.
This may be a bit of a stretch, but it's a more urban example. In Boise if you're driving east on I-184 (later becoming US-20/26), the freeway becomes a surface street at 13th St in downtown. You'll go through several traffic lights along Myrtle St. US-20/26 will turn off to the right on Broadway, but Myrtle continues. It crosses the West Parkcenter Bridge and becomes Parkcenter Blvd. Parkcenter continues as an arterial through several more traffic lights. It eventually hits a roundabout at Warm Springs. Continuing straight, you go through several more roundabouts, before eventually hitting a stop sign at another intersection with Warm Springs, about 6.5 miles after being on the freeway.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.6189638,-116.2165071/43.5712055,-116.1254265/@43.5930274,-116.1903289,13.75z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-116.1315857!2d43.5736673!3s0x54aef7658ea3987b:0xf4be2accbc8b0a54!1m0!3e0
Quote from: thspfc on October 05, 2019, 09:03:05 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 04, 2019, 10:30:52 PM
How is the north end of I-229 in SD? Is that still pass under an interchange with I-90 to become a rural road still?
Yes. I think it should keep going north, but to where I don't know.
From what I've heard, I-229 was originally going to be the route of I-29, with a full cloverleaf so drivers could exit north from there on a realigned US 77. When the government realized how dumb it would be to have two differently numbered Interstates lined up with each other with no freeway connection (I-29 and I-31), they rerouted I-29 to continue north to Fargo, truncated US 77 to Sioux City, and made the old planned I-29 routing into a bypass of Sioux Falls numbered I-229. No interchange alternative was planned for the north end at I-90, so they built half of the cloverleaf interchange and ran the mainline straight into a dirt road. (This road has since been paved, but not until the late 2000s or early 2010s.)
Quote from: kphoger on October 09, 2019, 02:09:52 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on October 04, 2019, 08:42:51 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/iwZLRyjH2XtEmuGg8
Does this count? The US 12 freeway ends at a atop sign in Wisconsin just north of the Illinois state line, but US 12 itself doesn't end.
Awesome example!
I feel so stupid not remembering this one! Driven through it countless times and it never came to mind.
Not quite what the OP asked, but fairly close I believe. The east end of the US-20 Bypass around Norwalk, Ohio ends at a stop sign. In order to continue on US 20 east, you must stop and turn right onto the two-lane road. It's been this way since the bypass opened in the 1960s. LINK: https://goo.gl/maps/J5kADDNJcmtiFTQWA
Quote from: sandwalk on October 17, 2019, 11:19:51 PM
Not quite what the OP asked, but fairly close I believe. The east end of the US-20 Bypass around Norwalk, Ohio ends at a stop sign. In order to continue on US 20 east, you must stop and turn right onto the two-lane road. It's been this way since the bypass opened in the 1960s. LINK: https://goo.gl/maps/J5kADDNJcmtiFTQWA
This sounds sort of what I had in mind. I believe that what I had in mind will occur a lot where there are "through town freeways" instead of bypasses. This sort of thing is very common in coastal California (and somewhat elsewhere in California). As I said in my original post, CASR-1 (and the freeways that cross it) goes from freeway to traffic signal and back to freeway. There are even a few STOP signs. This certainly happens on CASR-58 (but it looks like CalTrans has finally got all of the STOP signs out and may be bypassing the last couple of signals), but US-395 and CASR-14?
SR 126, which is an E/W freeway in Springfield OR, has a stop light on the eastern section, followed by a stoplight at the end where a left turn lets one continue on 126 while a right turn puts the driver on Business 126 and heading for downtown Springfield. The eastern section of freeway 126 still is relatively rural in style compared to the close-by urban areas.
Now let's go the other way. SR 569, the Randy Pape Beltline Highway, which is freeway for most of its length, approaches 126 in West Eugene as a 2-lane highway for the last couple miles with stoplights at an intersection along the way as well as at the end.
What would have been just a section of a completed beltway is located in South Eugene. It is called 30th Avenue. Seeing a bit of freeway with stoplights on the end closest to I-5 while the other end turns into a standard surface street sure is an unusual sight but given the incompleteness of freewaying in Eugene and Springfield, it is not a real surprise.
Rick