The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?
Quote from: Flint1979 on August 03, 2021, 02:02:51 PM
The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?
I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.
There's a place housing people that put people in jail in the median of the WK Parkway. The Madisonville Kentucky State Police post is just east of the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.
Quote from: tradephoric on August 03, 2021, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on August 03, 2021, 02:02:51 PM
The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?
I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.
Never heard of it being an issue locally, but then again the GSV car rolled the dice to get some pix of it
https://goo.gl/maps/fyg6xVyW1BXNQBeg8
Quote from: SectorZ on August 03, 2021, 02:59:55 PM
the GSV car rolled the dice
I see a sign that says pedestrians are prohibited, but that doesn't mean cars are too.
Hard to escape from a jail where you have run across I-95.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 03, 2021, 03:45:18 PM
Hard to escape from a jail where you have run across I-95.
That's just another reason do wait till 3 am for your jailbreak ...
JG Ballard wrote a novel called Concrete Island where a man wrecks his car in a highway median and winds up trapped below all the traffic unable to see or hear him. Similar idea I guess.
Quote from: kernals12 on August 03, 2021, 07:08:46 PM
JG Ballard wrote a novel called Concrete Island where a man wrecks his car in a highway median and winds up trapped below all the traffic unable to see or hear him. Similar idea I guess.
Actually happened with an injured dog on CA 99:
https://weather.com/news/news/dog-rescued-california-frida
Imagine just driving down I-95 and some escaped criminal is running across the road being chased by cops. How would the cops avoid being hit by a car in this case?
Quote from: tradephoric on August 03, 2021, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on August 03, 2021, 02:02:51 PM
The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?
I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.
I can honestly see that happening. There's a example here in Michigan kind of different than the topic here but at exit 116 on I-75 there is a roundabout that has an entrance to a GM plant. I've driven into the plant a few times not thinking about what I was doing LMAO.
It's still just a two-lane road, but Orange County, North Carolina is completing a new jail complex right behind the old eastbound weigh station on US-70 northwest of Hillsborough. The old building and westbound weigh station across the street has been an NCDMV Driver's License Office for many years. This also continues to house a small detachment of the (now) NCDPS Motor Vehicle Enforcement (which, of course, all ties back to the old weigh station), which includes a fueling station. It's about six miles to the "new" weigh station on I-85/I-40 between the Buckhorn and Efland exits.
Curiously, there are a still NCDOT property signs at various points along US-70 between the "Other Split" near the I-85 Connector (from Exit 161 on I-85/I-40) and Exit 170 on I-85 (by itself up there). These all appear to be located in areas where NCDOT acquired additional property back in the early 1950s for exits along the US-70 corridor. I've never been quite sure whether these were for an eastward extension of the US-70 Super-Two route, or the ill-proposed extension of I-85. I suspect the former, since the old US-70 weigh station looks like a Super-Two concept.
Actually my county (Saginaw County) just built a new jail that was completed last year. Total cost around $37 million.
Quote from: hbelkins on August 03, 2021, 02:45:08 PM
There's a place housing people that put people in jail in the median of the WK Parkway. The Madisonville Kentucky State Police post is just east of the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.
Post 2?
I-84 in Fishkill, NY passes between two prisons: Downstate Correctional on the west side, and Fishkill Correctional on the east side.
Not in the median, but the main Anne Arundel County, Maryland Detention Center (https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B059'21.7%22N+76%C2%B031'48.7%22W/@38.9893741,-76.5312983,250m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x89b7f66570672fd5:0x43f854fdd3a8274b!2sAnnapolis,+MD!3b1!8m2!3d38.9784453!4d-76.4921829!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d38.9893717!4d-76.5302044) is hard by (unsigned) I-595 (signed) U.S. 50/U.S. 301 just outside the corporate limits of Annapolis.