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Title: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: roadman65 on September 11, 2021, 12:21:36 PM
Most US designations terminate while the alignment is a local road or arterial. However some end as full freeways.

US 7's Southern terminus at Norwalk, CT is a freeway.
US 13's northern terminus at Morrisville, PA is a freeway.
US 15's northern terminus is one.
US 22 eastern terminus in Newark, NJ.
US 46 eastern terminus, Fort Lee, NJ.
US 101 has both terminuses in Los Angeles and Olympia, WA.
US 209 northern end in Kingston, NY.
US 219 northern end near Buffalo, NY.
US 301 northern end in Biddle's Corner, DE.
US 422 eastern end in Kingston of Prussia, PA

Any others?
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: SEWIGuy on September 11, 2021, 12:25:51 PM
US-10's eastern terminus at Bay City, MI
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: SkyPesos on September 11, 2021, 12:26:55 PM
US 35's eastern terminus at Scott Depot, WV.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Max Rockatansky on September 11, 2021, 12:35:03 PM
US 199 in Crescent City, CA. 
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Revive 755 on September 11, 2021, 12:41:36 PM
* US 8's western terminus (https://goo.gl/maps/NNmGrTFpRX5BQQdu5) until MNDOT allows an intersection between I-35 and US 61.

* US 40's western terminus at I-80 in Utah (https://goo.gl/maps/TJvuc4Jmp1ozpkmK8) if willing to discount the lack of free-flowing movements for WB I-80 to EB US 40
 
* US 50's western terminus in Sacramento
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Mapmikey on September 11, 2021, 12:44:22 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on September 11, 2021, 12:26:55 PM
US 35's eastern terminus at Scott Depot, WV.

Isn't that just an expressway?

Other freeway examples:

2 in Everett WA
4 in Portsmouth NH
50 in Sacramento
74 in Chattanooga
75 in Dallas
80 in Dallas
81 in Ft Worth
127 in Michigan
175 in Dallas
212 in Minnesota
220 north end
223 in Toledo
264 in Raleigh
290 in Houston
340 in Frederick
422 in Philadelphia

I probably missed a couple more...
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: SkyPesos on September 11, 2021, 12:47:14 PM
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 11, 2021, 12:44:22 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on September 11, 2021, 12:26:55 PM
US 35's eastern terminus at Scott Depot, WV.
Isn't that just an expressway?
Some of what the op listed (like US 22 in NJ at its eastern end is colored as an expressway on Google maps), so I'm assuming that expressways are allowed if the op lists one.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Bruce on September 11, 2021, 12:51:41 PM
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 11, 2021, 12:44:22 PM
2 in Everett WA

US 2 technically terminates one block beyond I-5 (at SR 529), but at that point is basically just a bunch of offramps coming off the Hewitt Avenue Trestle.

US 101 is a freeway at its termini in Olympia and Los Angeles

US 195 terminates in Spokane as a freeway
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: jlam on September 11, 2021, 01:12:20 PM
Quote from: Bruce on September 11, 2021, 12:51:41 PM
US 195 terminates in Spokane as a freeway
US 195 is an expressway at that point, since it has many at-grade intersections south of its terminus.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: bing101 on September 11, 2021, 03:04:13 PM
US-101 in Los Angeles terminates at the East LA Interchange as the Hollywood freeway connecting to the I-5 Santa Ana Freeway. Initially US-101 was supposed to terminate at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro with Tijuana until the 1964 renumbering.

Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Voyager75 on September 11, 2021, 03:52:14 PM
Western end of US-280 in Birmingham, AL at I-20/59. Part of the Red Mtn. Expressway with US-31.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: debragga on September 11, 2021, 04:42:47 PM
US 80's western end - Dallas/Mesquite, TX
US 175's western end - Dallas, TX
US 75's southern end - Dallas, TX
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: US 89 on September 11, 2021, 04:43:53 PM
Does US 40 in Utah count?
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: DandyDan on September 11, 2021, 06:32:54 PM
US 218's North end in Owatonna, MN is a freeway.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Scott5114 on September 11, 2021, 09:32:38 PM
US-181 in Corpus Christi.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Quillz on September 12, 2021, 03:25:24 AM
US-50 is freeway for roughly half its length through California. It starts in West Sacramento and is quickly concurrent with CA-99/I-80 Business Loop.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: roadman65 on September 12, 2021, 06:50:13 AM
Quote from: US 89 on September 11, 2021, 04:43:53 PM
Does US 40 in Utah count?

Yes
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Ned Weasel on September 12, 2021, 09:03:49 AM
US 169 in Oklahoma.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: OCGuy81 on September 12, 2021, 02:44:07 PM
US 59 in Laredo, I think.  Is the 59 designation carried past 35? Or is it just I-69W at that point?
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: froggie on September 12, 2021, 07:37:29 PM
Quote from: Revive 755 on September 11, 2021, 12:41:36 PM
* US 8's western terminus (https://goo.gl/maps/NNmGrTFpRX5BQQdu5) until MNDOT allows an intersection between I-35 and US 61.

Unless you know something I don't, nothing of the sort is proposed.

Quote from: Mapmikey on September 11, 2021, 12:44:22 PM
4 in Portsmouth NH

Actually ends at the traffic circle at BYPASS US 1.  Between that and a couple of private driveway RIROs on its easternmost half-mile, it isn't really a freeway at its terminus.

Quote220 north end

Not sure I'd include this one given the I-86/US 220 interchange is not freeway-to-freeway.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on September 12, 2021, 07:45:37 PM
Quote from: froggie on September 12, 2021, 07:37:29 PM
Quote from: Revive 755 on September 11, 2021, 12:41:36 PM
* US 8's western terminus (https://goo.gl/maps/NNmGrTFpRX5BQQdu5) until MNDOT allows an intersection between I-35 and US 61.

Unless you know something I don't, nothing of the sort is proposed.

Heh, I held off until you commented in case you knew something I didn't. I gleaned Forest Lake's 2040 comprehensive plan and saw nothing of the sort, although it would have been strange anyway between proximity to two interchanges and MnDOT desperately wanting to control, not increase access on US 8 in general.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: froggie on September 12, 2021, 07:52:45 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on September 12, 2021, 02:44:07 PM
US 59 in Laredo, I think.  Is the 59 designation carried past 35? Or is it just I-69W at that point?

The other folks at Travelmapping think so....I would say yes.

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on September 12, 2021, 07:45:37 PM
Quote from: froggie on September 12, 2021, 07:37:29 PM
Quote from: Revive 755 on September 11, 2021, 12:41:36 PM
* US 8's western terminus (https://goo.gl/maps/NNmGrTFpRX5BQQdu5) until MNDOT allows an intersection between I-35 and US 61.

Unless you know something I don't, nothing of the sort is proposed.

Heh, I held off until you commented in case you knew something I didn't. I gleaned Forest Lake's 2040 comprehensive plan and saw nothing of the sort, although it would have been strange anyway between proximity to two interchanges and MnDOT desperately wanting to control, not increase access on US 8 in general.

Nothing in Washington County's plan, either.  Nor does Chisago County's plan (they're lead on the US 8 study that extends to I-35) indicate it.

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Others not yet mentioned:

- US 16's eastern terminus is concurrent with I-190 SD, so that one counts.
- US 36's eastern terminus at US 250.
- US 54's western terminus in El Paso.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: bulldog1979 on September 12, 2021, 10:41:53 PM
US 223 in Ohio, unless we consider that it follows a ramp off US 23 to terminate at SR 51 and SR 184.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: mrcmc888 on September 13, 2021, 05:10:16 PM
US 129's northern end in Knoxville, TN.

US 202's southern end may count, depending on your definition of freeway.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: hbelkins on September 13, 2021, 09:39:24 PM
Unless I don't remember things properly, US 68's northern terminus in Ohio at I-75 counts.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: SkyPesos on September 13, 2021, 10:03:28 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2021, 09:39:24 PM
Unless I don't remember things properly, US 68's northern terminus in Ohio at I-75 counts.
Google Maps mark it as an expressway, but besides a single RIRO, I don't think there are any at-grade intersections on that part of US 68 between OH 15 and I-75.

And either way, this thread already have plenty of expressway examples, especially those that are just so close to being a freeway.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: TheStranger on September 14, 2021, 01:38:08 AM
Quote from: bing101 on September 11, 2021, 03:04:13 PM
US-101 in Los Angeles terminates at the East LA Interchange as the Hollywood freeway connecting to the I-5 Santa Ana Freeway. Initially US-101 was supposed to terminate at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro with Tijuana until the 1964 renumbering.



US 101 at that point is the northern continuation of the Santa Ana Freeway, up until the Four-Level at 110.  And pretty much 99% of I-5 between there and San Ysidro was indeed built as either US 101 or as concurrent US 101/I-5, with the concurrency being gradually removed in northern San Diego County and southern Orange County ca. 1968.

Quote from: Quillz on September 12, 2021, 03:25:24 AM
US-50 is freeway for roughly half its length through California. It starts in West Sacramento and is quickly concurrent with CA-99/I-80 Business Loop.

As of 2016, other than some stray onramp signage in West Sacramento, none of US 50 is concurrent now with Business 80 (which only now applies to the Route 51/former US 99E segment).

Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: lepidopteran on September 14, 2021, 02:08:05 AM
US-29's northern end in Ellicott City, MD, at a T-intersection with MD-99.  This is less than a half mile past the (almost) freeway-to-freeway interchange with I-70.  Why "almost"?  NB 28 does have a signalized left turn to get on to WB 70.  Not sure if that's enough to undermine the "terminate as freeway" status, but does anyone know what that left turn is there for in the first place?  That same movement is covered by a perfectly good loop ramp.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Bickendan on September 14, 2021, 03:54:48 AM
It should be noted that both of US 101's southern termini qualify :bigass:
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: SkyPesos on September 14, 2021, 09:35:39 AM
Quote from: Bickendan on September 14, 2021, 03:54:48 AM
It should be noted that both of US 101's southern termini qualify :bigass:
Assuming that US 50 ended at US 101 in SF the same way I-80 does now, same could be said about both of US 50's western terminus.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: TheStranger on September 14, 2021, 11:36:44 AM
Quote from: SkyPesos on September 14, 2021, 09:35:39 AM
Quote from: Bickendan on September 14, 2021, 03:54:48 AM
It should be noted that both of US 101's southern termini qualify :bigass:
Assuming that US 50 ended at US 101 in SF the same way I-80 does now, same could be said about both of US 50's western terminus.

Correct.  In fact, when US 50 (along the San Francisco Skyway) ended at the Central and Bayshore Freeway alignments of US 101, it did so with US 40 - so 40 also fits as having freeway segments for its two most recent western termini.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: hotdogPi on September 14, 2021, 11:39:33 AM
US 40 and US 50 only have one western terminus each, and the eastern terminus is not a freeway for either one.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: BrianP on September 14, 2021, 12:01:42 PM
Quote from: lepidopteran on September 14, 2021, 02:08:05 AM
US-29's northern end in Ellicott City, MD, at a T-intersection with MD-99.  This is less than a half mile past the (almost) freeway-to-freeway interchange with I-70.  Why "almost"?  NB 28 does have a signalized left turn to get on to WB 70.  Not sure if that's enough to undermine the "terminate as freeway" status, but does anyone know what that left turn is there for in the first place?  That same movement is covered by a perfectly good loop ramp.
Two reasons that I can think of: first that loop ramp could backup due to volume since most drivers go onto I-70 E at that point and the slow speed you have to take on that ramp.  Also it's easier to merge on I-70 E using the left turn since that ramp has no loop and it has a longer acceleration section. 
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: TheStranger on September 14, 2021, 01:27:51 PM
Quote from: 1 on September 14, 2021, 11:39:33 AM
US 40 and US 50 only have one western terminus each, and the eastern terminus is not a freeway for either one.

US 50's previous western terminus was US 101; since 1964 it has had two different termini at I-80 (in Oak Park, Sacramento and now in West Sacramento) - all of which were freeway-to-freeway junctions.

US 40's previous western terminus was US 101 in SF; now I-80 in Park City, also both freeway junctions.

I was under the assumption that the "US 101 southern terminus" post referred to US 101's old San Ysidro terminus as well as the current East Los Angeles one, though I can see the semantics for that referring to Olympia.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Some one on September 14, 2021, 04:37:06 PM
US 54 western/southern terminus at SH 375.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: Quillz on September 14, 2021, 04:56:25 PM
Quote from: TheStranger on September 14, 2021, 01:27:51 PM
Quote from: 1 on September 14, 2021, 11:39:33 AM
US 40 and US 50 only have one western terminus each, and the eastern terminus is not a freeway for either one.

US 50's previous western terminus was US 101; since 1964 it has had two different termini at I-80 (in Oak Park, Sacramento and now in West Sacramento) - all of which were freeway-to-freeway junctions.

US 40's previous western terminus was US 101 in SF; now I-80 in Park City, also both freeway junctions.

I was under the assumption that the "US 101 southern terminus" post referred to US 101's old San Ysidro terminus as well as the current East Los Angeles one, though I can see the semantics for that referring to Olympia.
Yes, I assume he was referring to US-101's "northern" terminus being farther south than its northernmost extent. But in either instance, it's still correct, whether San Ysidro or Olympia, it's a freeway-to-freeway connection.
Title: Re: US Routes that terminate as freeways
Post by: bugo on September 16, 2021, 10:02:59 PM
Depending on where it gets truncated to, US 271 may end up ending as a freeway on the north end.