Simple question -- what was the last road you were on that you had previously never traveled on?
Has to be a state maintained route, not necessarily posted, but included in the state's inventory.
For me, it was the new section of US 219 in southern Pennsylvania, PA 31 between Somerset and Bedford, and a portion of US 30 east of Breezewood. I traveled these routes while going to the Abandoned PA Turnpike meet last November.
CA 371 a week ago, needed to use it to get around the closure on CA 74.
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Simple question -- what was the last road you were on that you had previously never traveled on?
Simple question, but not necessarily a simple answer.
The last numbered route was TX 180 – or was it? It's still
signed between I-35E and Loop 12 (which is the part I was on), but this part was supposedly turned back to the city of Dallas a few years ago (which I assume is why I can't claim it on TM).
If that doesn't count, then it's I-30 – maybe. I'm not sure if I ever actually made it onto the I-30 mainline while navigating the complex of ramps involving I-30/I-35E/I-45/I-345.
If neither of those count, then it's I-45. All of those on the afternoon of September 23.
MA/NH 38 between MA 110 in Lowell, MA and S Policy St. in Salem, NH.
In my case, I think the last "new" road was I-44 between I-270 in suburban St. Louis and SR 360 just west of Springfield, in September 2017.
US 52 from the WV/VA state line (East River Mountain Tunnel) to Wytheville. Also did US 11 from Pulaski (exit 89 on I-81) to Christiansburg.
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 06, 2019, 07:04:34 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30
State or US?
Okay, seriously, what do you think? State maintained route is what he was getting at.
Mine is a small section of WI-33 in Baraboo.
Just so we're clear: you're allowed to have previously traveled on other portions of the route, correct?
If so, then I guess it would be NY 28 north (east) of Inlet. If not, it gets tough. I think I may be able to count NY 436 in that case.
AR 112, enroute to the largest cross-country meet in the country
Chile Pepper, Fayetteville, AR.
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state route, not necessarily posted, but included in the state's inventory.
Supplemental routes in MO are an odd case. Buildings along them have the address as "State Highway X" and intersection signs along them say "state highway" as well and are maintained by MoDOT rather than the county, despite them being part of a separate, lower class system.
Colorado Highway 93 in Boulder, last Wednesday.
NY 275 for me, from a few days before Labor Day.
EDIT: Apparently this thread allows new segments of routes you've seen other portions of? In that case, NY 98 north of Franklinville. Same trip.
TM users can look at the history of their .list files on GitHub. Doing that reminded me that I picked up a segment of US 202 a few weeks ago around the NY/NJ line.
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PMHas to be a state route, not necessarily posted, but included in the state's inventory.
This means I have to exclude most freeways and national highways of Spain, as they are maintained by the (sovereign) state as opposed to the communities, unlike in the USA where most highways are owned by the (constituent) states and there are (almost) no federal roads.
That said, the last previously untraveled road I've been on that is a state-equivalent route is A-1604. I had already been on the westernmost 10 km (6 miles) or so (about 1/5 of the way), so the rest of it was new for me. Never again unless it is renovated. Map of what I had not done previously (https://www.google.es/maps/dir/42.3910024,-0.2742337/42.449871,0.0575128/@42.4025805,-0.2801019,11.2z).
I'll go with VT 153 for this thread, from Rupert to NY border.
Hawaii Route 19 on the Big Island of Hawaii in early June.
A couple weeks ago, I finished off the last section of US 136 in Indiana that I didn't already have.
Have a trip planned for Friday to finish off the highways in Grant and Wabash counties that I don't have yet.
Most recent new mileage for me was finishing MN 105. I had already done the section between I-90 and where it turns south to head to the Iowa line.
Any new portion of a route? On Saturday: M-57 west of M-15. Immediately proceeded by M-15 through Davison.
Route never driven at all before: Labor Day, ETR 407
Does ON count as "state"-maintained? If not, it was likely something in VA or WV a few years back.
If it's portions of a state route I was on for my first time?
CT Route 4 from the CT Route 72 junction in Harwinton up to CT Route 8 in Torrington.
CT Route 8 from said junction in Torrington north to MA Route 8 and it's junction with US Route 20 in Lee, MA.
This was in 2018.
FL 24, Gainesville
The Marine View Drive/Everett Avenue segments of WA's SR 529. I had previously driven the length of SR 529 when it was routed down Broadway (old US/WA 99), but I hadn't been down it since it was rerouted to serve the "new" Navy Base. This was about 3 years ago, and most of the route along the waterfront was absolute crap.
Quote from: Eth on October 06, 2019, 07:56:16 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Simple question -- what was the last road you were on that you had previously never traveled on?
Simple question, but not necessarily a simple answer.
The last numbered route was TX 180 – or was it? It's still signed between I-35E and Loop 12 (which is the part I was on), but this part was supposedly turned back to the city of Dallas a few years ago (which I assume is why I can't claim it on TM).
If that doesn't count, then it's I-30 – maybe. I'm not sure if I ever actually made it onto the I-30 mainline while navigating the complex of ramps involving I-30/I-35E/I-45/I-345.
If neither of those count, then it's I-45. All of those on the afternoon of September 23.
And since my interpretation may have been slightly off, and new portions of existing routes count: still in that same area, but a bit of I-35E (between I-30 and 12th Street) was more recent than the other Interstates there (I'd been on other parts of I-35E earlier that weekend).
Quote from: hbelkins on October 07, 2019, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 06, 2019, 07:04:34 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30
State or US?
State maintained.
State maintenance has nothing to do with route numbering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Quote from: webny99 on October 06, 2019, 08:52:50 PM
Just so we're clear: you're allowed to have previously traveled on other portions of the route, correct?
Yes, I had been on parts of all three of the examples I gave. This was new mileage for me -- and in the case of US 219, recently-constructed new mileage.
Gaah. I'd forgotten about OH 823, the Portsmouth Bypass, which I was on back around Christmas, even more recently than the Pennsylvania examples I first cited. It also fits perfectly in the new thread.
Quote from: 1 on October 07, 2019, 01:14:33 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 07, 2019, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 06, 2019, 07:04:34 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30
State or US?
State maintained.
State maintenance has nothing to do with route numbering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Why must we get so hung up over this? The idea is to keep responses to numbered routes on a state or higher-level route network, so that we don't count irrelevant routes like county roads and city streets.
MD-17 between US-40 and I-70. We were on our way home from Toronto in June when we hit a traffic backup on I-70, so I bailed to US-40 to detour around the problem, then cut back to the Interstate via Route 17.
Quote from: US 89 on October 07, 2019, 01:45:20 PM
Quote from: 1 on October 07, 2019, 01:14:33 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 07, 2019, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on October 06, 2019, 07:04:34 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30
State or US?
State maintained.
State maintenance has nothing to do with route numbering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Why must we get so hung up over this? The idea is to keep responses to numbered routes on a state or higher-level route network, so that we don't count irrelevant routes like county roads and city streets.
Is it really an AARoads forum topic if we
don't get hung up on the rules?
For me, it'd have to be I-75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville, then before that was I-59 between Chattanooga and Birmingham & I-24 around Chattanooga, recently clinched this summer. Been on I-59 south of Birmingham, and I-40 east of Knoxville to I-81.
For me this is the southern half or so of I-405 in Portland, which I drove on last Tuesday to clinch the route.
IL 251 if you're talking about a complete road.
I-481, Syracuse, NY - 8/25/19
Ohio 108 between Napoleon and Wauseon.
Ohio 46 off of I-80 to grab Wendy's on the drive home from Maine.
PA-903 in the Poconos heading up to the NASCAR track.
Stanford Univ - CA 82/ El Camino Real
M-43 between Hastings and M-66
My latest new road segment is Iceland Route 49 from Suðurgata to Route 40 in ReykjavÃk.
CA 70. I have long wanted to drive the Feather River Canyon, and managed to get to California in September, mostly before the state started burning like crazy again. I have now driven it from Quincy south to where it ends at CA 99 near Sacramento.
Mine is the segment of Utah SR 30 between SR 23 and US 89/91 in Logan. Despite its state route status, it felt like a US highway when I drove on it. Lots of traffic and slightly better design standards than your typical SR.
Quote from: US 89 on October 15, 2019, 01:56:19 AM
Despite its state route status, it felt like a US highway when I drove on it.
It seems funny to me to distinguish between an "average" US and an "average" state route, I guess because New York has so few US routes that I see them as functionally pretty much identical.
I've never thought about US routes carrying more long distance traffic, or being built to higher standards; there is not really any correlation among the US routes that I've been on. Around here it seems like for every US route that is a long-haul super-2 (US 20) there are at least 2 state routes (NY 14, NY 104) that fit the bill as well.
OH 115 southbound between OH 15 & OH 12/OH 198, the last new section of road of many I drove in western/northwestern Ohio this past Sunday.
I can't remember which order they happened in, but the most recent are:
I-90 from where it splits off the Ohio Turnpike to the second exit in New York. I didn't do my research beforehand well, so the reversed mile markers, sequential exit numbers, and tolls threw me off.
NY/PA 5 from Barcelona to Erie. I ended up here so I can say I've driven in New York, and found a nice, quiet road along Lake Erie.
US 19 in Erie. This includes US 19's northern terminus.
Plus US 20, PA 97, PA 832, OH 2, I-79, I-480, I-71 Cleveland, NY 394, and possibly others?
However, I think my answer is westbound I-90 from I-71 to I-80, as Waze steered me around that segment going eastbound on the way to Erie. TL;DR: I-90 in the Cleveland area.
I just had a bunch of new roads on a recent family trip to Iowa. The most recent state route chronologically was IA-164–all 3.79 miles of it.
The last state-or-higher highway I've been on for the first time...hmm...
Last Christmas Eve, I took the US-8 exit off I-35. Took US-8 to WI-35, then WI-35 to WI-64 across the new St. Croix River bridge.The US-8, WI-35, and (past Exit 1) WI-64 stretches I'd never been on before that day.
The day before, I drove MN-25 between US-212 and I-94, most of which I'd never been on.
Assuming you're just talking about my home state, US 202 expressway west of NJ 179.
On my latest Twin Cities trip, new roads include MN 5 west from 494 to Audubon Rd (the intersection Paisley Park is at), US 212 from Powers Road to its east end at US 169, MN 100 between MN 62 and 494, the short segment of US 63 in Red Wing that goes over US 61 and into Wisconsin and WI 35 between US 63 and US 10. I also got the short segment of US 61 north of I-94 to MN 5 and MN 5 westward to the Xcel Energy Center, which may or may not have been used in the past.
That would have to be the brief NJ 62.
Old Stage Road south of San Juan Bautista. On the State Highway front CA 116 a couple weeks back.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on October 07, 2019, 04:39:53 AMThat said, the last previously untraveled road I've been on that is a state-equivalent route is A-1604. I had already been on the westernmost 10 km (6 miles) or so (about 1/5 of the way), so the rest of it was new for me. Never again unless it is renovated. Map of what I had not done previously (https://www.google.es/maps/dir/42.3910024,-0.2742337/42.449871,0.0575128/@42.4025805,-0.2801019,11.2z).
Updating this. I was to say a newly opened section of A-21 freeway, but then the OP specified...
Quote from: hbelkins on October 06, 2019, 06:35:10 PM
Has to be a state maintained route, not necessarily posted, but included in the state's inventory.
... and since this section is neither maintained nor included in Aragon's inventory as it is owned by the (sovereign) State, I have to exclude it. Clearly this doesn't take into account the situation in Europe, where there are many nationally-owned roads (in the USA the equivalent would be a Federal road). The last road I had not traveled before to really qualify for this thread is A-1241 near the Catalonia border.
My family's trip to visit relatives in Louisville for Thanksgiving added many such segments of I-68, I-79, I-64, I-75, and I-71–even the new segment of US 219 between Meyersdale and Somerset–but the last of these untraveled sections on the way home was I-70 from Columbus to New Stanton.
Including roads which I drove for the first time but had been on previously as a passenger, the segment of the Blue Route between the Schuylkill Expressway and the PA Turnpike is the most recent road that I myself drove for the first time just two weeks ago.
I would say a 'clinch' of WI 318 late last summer.
Mike
For me it would be a clinch of MA 181 on Saturday (the 11th).
Ohio Route 18, today.
The short, separate Mt. Harmony segment of MD 765 south of Annapolis, in early December.
For my last new whole route, the short VA 148 connector between I-77 and US 52, in late November.
My updated and now much clearer answer: US 441 Business in Franklin, NC, this past weekend.
I got my second-to-last freeway in Hampton Roads over the weekend: VA 164.
Question re Hampton Roads: Is it possible for a civilian to clinch I-564? Since it provides access to the naval base and then dead ends, I have always assumed that it ended at a place that only active military could access (or retired military if going to the PX).
Quote from: wriddle082 on January 13, 2020, 07:41:19 PM
I got my second-to-last freeway in Hampton Roads over the weekend: VA 164.
Question re Hampton Roads: Is it possible for a civilian to clinch I-564? Since it provides access to the naval base and then dead ends, I have always assumed that it ended at a place that only active military could access (or retired military if going to the PX).
The surface highway (VA 337) at the west terminus of I-564 is accessible by civilians.
Quote from: wriddle082 on January 13, 2020, 07:41:19 PM
Question re Hampton Roads: Is it possible for a civilian to clinch I-564? Since it provides access to the naval base and then dead ends, I have always assumed that it ended at a place that only active military could access (or retired military if going to the PX).
None of the interstate goes onto the base, it's fully 100% accessible. The northern interchange provides gate access, and there's gate access on the northern end of the freeway, but that's beyond it's terminus and it intersects VA-337 before that.
Even the recently completed Intermodal Connector is accessible to the public, though doesn't go anywhere. You can take it to the end, then easily turn around and head back without reaching any gate. I did this after it opened.
Clinching M-227 in September.
If I understand its routing correctly, NJ 165 in Lambertville. I was following NJ 29 North from US 1 to US 202. Another time years back, I had done US 202>NJ 29>NJ 179>PA 179>US 202>PA 32, but that shouldn't have had me actually on NJ 165...I think.
New mileage of US-165, as well as LA-2, LA-443, LA-15, and LA-550. All were a few weeks ago, same trip.
Last fall coming back from a quick trip to Eugene, OR to talk with a potential client, I decided to look up an old colleague who had semi-retired from the electronics industry to -- of all things -- craft custom fly-fishing poles in Lewiston, CA, in Trinity County. I decided to use that as an opportunity to finally travel over CA 3 from Yreka to at least CA 299 (the farthest I'd gotten was Fort Jones about 30 years ago). Reasonably fast road, except for some hairpin turns south of Callahan. Unfortunately, my old buddy had moved back to his childhood home in upstate NY to be near his family because of health reasons (sadly, he was a lifelong heavy smoker!), so the detour was for naught. But now I've clinched CA 3 north of 299; the section south to CA 36 is still untraversed.
Yesterday I drove the Pikeville, KY to Charleston, WV section of US 119 for the first time.
A road trip a couple of weeks ago from Regina (which I flew into), north to Humboldt, west to Rosetown, then south to Swift Current. (The bottom of the rectangle back to Regina wasn't new mileage for me.) So the last previously-untraveled segment would be SK-4 from Rosetown down to Swift. Previously entirely untraveled highways would be 5, 16, and 20 to/from Humboldt and a tiny section of 14 in Saskatoon.
Ironically, for new mileage in my home state, it would be from October when we drove to Regina. Eastbound gave me the Sumas border crossing on SR 9 for the first time, while westbound gave me US 97 between SR 20 and US 2 (not all of which was new, but I forget exactly which bits were).
For entirely new highways in my home state though, I'd have to go back a few years, it hasn't changed since the last time I posted it. (It's SR 153, but I can't recall how long ago.)
I-97 between I-695 and MD 32 about two weeks ago, from a business trip to Baltimore and Ft. Meade.
I-79 in WV
WV 527 in Huntington, and its extension route in Ohio (yes, we crossed the Ohio)
Back in September
Two roads in one nonstop day trip the day after Thanksgiving:
I-76 Pennsylvania Turnpike between Breezewood and New Cumberland (I-83). I've driven the Turnpike between the Ohio line and Breezewood a zillion times, but this was my first time driving it east of Breezewood.
Then I-83 between the Turnpike and Baltimore.
I was desperate for a different route to Baltimore, even if it took me out of the way.
Quote from: wanderer2575 on January 22, 2020, 09:47:22 PM
I was desperate for a different route to Baltimore ...
Says everyone who has endured US 15 through Shamokin Dam ...
MN 286
Quote from: webny99 on January 23, 2020, 10:43:23 AM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on January 22, 2020, 09:47:22 PM
I was desperate for a different route to Baltimore ...
Says everyone who has endured US 15 through Shamokin Dam ...
You're certainly not kidding. CSVT can't get done soon enough.
Either NY 9D or the eastern leg of VT 279
Last outright new road is probably PA 402 back in Nov.
The portion of NJ 33 west of the turnpike. I just finished clinching it on Monday.
M-20 between Mecosta and Big Rapids last week. With me driving that stretch, I've been on all of M-20 west of Oil City in extreme western Midland County.