As I was in Austin a day or so ago, I can't help but notice the prevalence of limited-access "boulevards" in the area, which are signed at interchanges:
- MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1)
- Ben White Boulevard (SH 71 west of US 183)
This also appears in the Carolinas a bit, i.e. Preddy Boulevard (Business 85), Bryan Boulevard, Painter Boulevard (I-840) in Greensboro, and one segment of Wade Avenue in Raleigh
Some other examples of limited-access routes that don't use typical type-naming (i.e. freeway/parkway/expressway/thruway/turnpike/in some cases, highway) include...
- Kenilworth Avenue (DC 295)
- Crosstown Boulevard (I-579)
- Wabash Boulevard (Route 15 in San Diego, though I don't know if this was ever official - it was on several maps in the late 90s)
- Doyle Drive (US 101 in the Presidio in San Francisco)
- Skelly Drive (I-44/SH 66 in Tulsa)
- Golden State Avenue (Route 204/Business 99 in Bakersfield)
- FDR Drive in Manhattan
- Storrow Drive in Boston
- Central Artery (I-93 in Boston)
- Downtown Connector (I-75/I-85 in Atlanta)
- Sam Cooper Boulevard (former I-40 in Memphis)
- segment of Memorial Drive in Houston
Any other examples?
(I keep thinking I may have started a thread about this months ago at one point, but can't find it via search...if so...please merge)
I've been on both MoPac and Ben White. I'm sure I could find some weird ones. I'm gonna look for some in West Texas. Well more like Texas. ;)
BigMatt
Named after Six Flags, it's just the access road, but it's part of the highway. Wet N' Wild way in Arlington.
The US 71 freeway/expressway running between I-70 and I-435 in Kansas City is known as Bruce R. Watkins Drive. The US 169 freeway from I-29 to I-435 in Kansas City is Arrowhead Trafficway(there are other "trafficways" in KC that aren't limited-access).
Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400) in Wichita, Kansas.
Cedar Avenue (MN 77) and Wayzata Blvd (I-394/US 12) in Bloomington/Apple Valley and Minneapolis, respectively.
See the Named/Numbered Freeways thread for many examples in Alberta.
QuoteWayzata Blvd (I-394/US 12)
This one is arguable. Pre-394 construction, it was definitely known as Wayzata Blvd. Post-construction, most folks (at least everyone I know back home) call it 394 or Hwy 12, and "Wayzata Blvd" specifically refers to the frontage road. Then in Wayzata itself, Wayzata Blvd refers to the old road through town and not the Hwy 12 bypass.
With MN 77, you'll see "Cedar Ave" assocated with it on the guide signs. Not so with 394/12 and Wayzata Blvd.
Since the OP mentioned "Connector", there's a stretch of VA 168 in Chesapeake that's known as the Oak Grove Connector. Also, if Chesapeake and VDOT ever manage to convert US 17 to a freeway, you can add "Dominion Blvd" to the list.
In the DC area, besides the aforementioned Kenilworth Ave, you have freeway stretches of:
- Pennsylvania Ave (MD 4, east of the Beltway to past the Patuxent River)
- Branch Ave (MD 5, from the Beltway south to MD 223)
- Washington Blvd (VA 27)
- Recently freewayed sections of Sully Rd (VA 28)
- Technically, the eastern part of New York Ave (US 50) is freeway, within the DC limits.
- Arlington Blvd (US 50, from I-66 west to 10th St in Clarendon)
- Columbia Pike (US 29 through Howard County, dipping into northeastern Montgomery County)
- The under-construction Inter-County Connector
Portions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.
Be well,
Bryant
QuotePortions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.
I thought about including those and other Parkways, but the original poster specifically excluded Parkways from the criteria.
^^ Yeah, I just read unusual type-naming. I see that now (lol).
Be well,
Bryant
Cleveland Memorial Shoreway (OH-2)
Findlay Connector (PA Turnpike 576)
The Findlay Connector was the original name for the toll road, and is still used by most people instead of calling it 576 when referring to the road. If you're giving directions, you use 576 as to not confuse someone looking for "Findlay Connector".
Sykotyk
Quote from: Bryant5493 on July 31, 2010, 07:55:14 AM
Portions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.
Actually, I-20/59 between I-459 and Exit 118 is called Alabama Adventure Freeway. Alabama Adventure Parkway is at Exit 110.
^^ D'oh! That's what I meant. Thanks.
Be well,
Bryant
A couple in Rochester, NY:
-The Inner Loop
-Sea Breeze Drive (former NY 590 north of Titus Ave); not a freeway, but there's no houses or businesses that have direct access to the road and many local streets are cut in two because they don't intersect or cross
-I-390 and I-590 are also known as the Outer Loop
Madison Ave. Expressway in Youngstown, which comprises as most of Youngstown's loop (the other is I-680)
I-579: Crosstown Boulevard
PA 65: Ohio River Boulevard
SR 3032: [Harrisburg] Airport Connector
A couple in Denver:
US 6 freeway is 6th Ave.
US 285 freeway is Hampden Ave.
Lake Shore Drive in Chicago (particularly the northern half.) The rest isn't all limited access.
Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.
Quote from: NJRoadfan on July 31, 2010, 08:23:46 PM
Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.
It has now :P
Quote from: NJRoadfan on July 31, 2010, 08:23:46 PM
Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.
D'oh! You took mine.
Calling I-76 west of Philly an "Expressway" is kind of a stretch...
For a real example, the IN 912 freeway (even the closed parts) is called "Cline Avenue."
Part of the PA 28 freeway is known as East Ohio Street.
I-80 in Pennsylvania is known as the Keystone Shortway.
The CA 87 freeway in San Jose, CA is named the Guadalupe Parkway, although that's mostly because its northern end replaced an at-grade arterial with the same name.
In many of these cases, an old road upgraded to a freeway retained its old name.
Quote from: njroadhorse on August 01, 2010, 11:11:09 AM
Part of the PA 28 freeway is known as East Ohio Street.
I don't know if the "current" freeway portion (From Millvale on north) is referred to as East Ohio St. In 4 years, when all the construction is done and the last (or first) 2 miles is "freeway", I can certainly see people continuing to refer to the stretch as East Ohio St.
Oftentimes on traffic reports, I'll hear the one stretch of 28 referred to as the "Etna Bypass".
Quote from: Troubleshooter on August 01, 2010, 11:34:14 PM
In many of these cases, an old road upgraded to a freeway retained its old name.
I don't think the road along Loop 1 in Austin ever existed as a surface street though. I'm not sure if it was originally signed as "MoPac Expressway" (which is the name listed on Google Maps) or if it was always MoPac Boulevard.
Quote from: Mr_Northside on August 02, 2010, 01:45:24 PMI don't know if the "current" freeway portion (From Millvale on north) is referred to as East Ohio St. In 4 years, when all the construction is done and the last (or first) 2 miles is "freeway", I can certainly see people continuing to refer to the stretch as East Ohio St.
Oftentimes on traffic reports, I'll hear the one stretch of 28 referred to as the "Etna Bypass".
According to PennDOT, it is East Ohio Street until Exit 4/Butler Street, then from there until Exit 5/PA 8 North it is the Etna Bypass.
I'm fairly sure I-564 is still Admiral Taussig Boulevard.
All that's still signed as Admiral Taussig Blvd. is the frontage road along the I-64 interchange eastbound and the at-grade western end. Whether the freeway is officially named this or not, I don't know. Certainly not called it by the locals.
According to both VDOT shapefiles and their traffic log, Taussig Blvd does not exist along I-564. Just along the east-west part of VA 337, and the southwest-side frontage road between Granby St (US 460) and Little Creek Rd (VA 165), as mentioned by DTP.
US 45 in Tupelo is signed as Martin Luther King Jr Drive on some of the overpasses.
Forgot to mention O'Henry Boulevard in Greensboro (US 29), which I just spotted on Google Maps...
It'd be a bit of a stretch to call that section of US 29 a freeway. "Jersey freeway"? Arguably yes, at least until you hit the at-grade intersections north of Cone Blvd. But full freeway? Not with several RIROs on either side.
Outside of Houston on the East side in Baytown is Spur 330 which is known as "Decker Drive" despite being a total freeway from IH 10 to SH 146
Froggie, correct me if i am wrong but i believe that I-94 east of Downtown St Paul at one point was called Hudson Rd.
IL 83 Kingery Hwy is a quasi-expressway as it is a limited access expressway between 55th St and I-88.
IL 38 Roosevelt Rd is also expressway between IL 83 and I-294.
And then it hit me, one that I've clinched - Allen Rd. in Toronto.
Can't believe nobody mentioned Independence Blvd. in Charlotte, although that one is debatable, since you still have the at-grade section that begins past the point where US 74 and NC 27 split.
Virginia Route 28 is officially Sully Road, although I haven't seen that name posted on any signs, nor used by anyone, in a long time. When I was growing up it was a two-lane road. Almost the whole of the portion north of I-66 (with a small exception at the southern end) has since been upgraded to a six-lane freeway on which traffic sometimes goes 75+ mph. (The portion south of US-29 in Centreville has always had a different name and quickly transitions into an ordinary suburban route as you cross into Prince William County.) While I'm assuming that for purposes of this thread roads that have short limited-access or freeway segments on otherwise uncontrolled at-grade roads don't count (such as the short freeway segments of boulevard Pie-IX in Montreal or Wade Avenue in Raleigh), the northern portion of VA-28 is a significant enough segment that I figure it deserves mention.
It's been about 10 years since I've been back, but I recall the bypass around Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was functionally like an expressway once you got west of the big shopping center where Franklin Street split off. It was signed as "Fordham Boulevard" but I do not ever remember anybody using that name.
World Drive and Epcot Center Drive at Disney World are mostly freeway despite their names (World Drive transitions to a surface street after it passes the tollgate for the Magic Kingdom car parks).
The freeway loop around Greensboro NC is being built to interstate standards, but is named Painter Boulevard. This has come up in some of the NIMBY protests about the loop. The locals thought that Painter Boulevard would be a surface street, not a interstate standard freeway. Completed sections are currently signed Future I 73/I 840, I 73/US 421, I 85/US 421, I 85, Future I 840. The last section is designated to be part of I 785, but is not signed yet.
I-85 Business and I-40 both have "Boulevard" names in Greensboro. One is Preddy Boulevard and the other is Fordham. Can't remember which is which. There are also limited access roads Bryan Boulevard (unnumbered) and O'Henry Boulevard (US 29), and part of Wendover Avenue is also the same way, or at least it was 9-10 years ago when my dad lived there. I haven't been there since, so I don't know if anything is changed (except the Loop and the death of NC 6)
I have a 1980 Rand McNally atlas that referred to I-55 between Plainfield, IL and Chicago as Joliet Road--the name of the street it was built on top of.
How about I -44 in Tulsa? skelly DRIVE? And in Boise, I-184 is known simply as the Connector.
Fort Washington Way (I-71 downtown Cincinnati)
I-27 in Amarillo is still officially "Canyon Drive", even though it has been an interstate for many years. Most locals label it as "Canyon Expressway" or simply "the E-way", even though the city, for some reason, never upgraded the name once I-27 was signed along the route.
AL 255 in Huntsville is a limited access facility that is called Research Park Blvd. It used to be called Rideout Road.
Gladys Spellman Parkway for MD 295 or better know as the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
Quote from: goobnav on January 27, 2012, 08:36:40 AM
Gladys Spellman Parkway for MD 295 or better know as the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
Actually, "Parkway" is probably the most ambiguous designation out there; it has been used for both at-grade (Congress Parkway in Chicago) and limited-access roads (Garden State Parkway). There are many more examples for both types, so I'm not sure it would qualify as unusual.
Quote from: Henry on January 27, 2012, 11:34:30 AM
Quote from: goobnav on January 27, 2012, 08:36:40 AM
Gladys Spellman Parkway for MD 295 or better know as the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
Actually, "Parkway" is probably the most ambiguous designation out there; it has been used for both at-grade (Congress Parkway in Chicago) and limited-access roads (Garden State Parkway). There are many more examples for both types, so I'm not sure it would qualify as unusual.
I think looking at roads named "Parkway" in New York City is a great example of that. From the signs I've seen, the truck restriction applies even on arterial streets named "Parkway," so Ocean Parkway and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, which function more like what I'd regard as tree-lined boulevards, are "no-truck" routes, as are other parkways like the Belt Parkway or the Interboro Parkway or Grand Central Parkway, all of which are freeways of very outdated design. Then you have situations where the word "parkway" is applied to an Interstate, such as I-66 inside the Beltway here in Virginia (officially the Custis Memorial Parkway, though nobody calls it that), or to a road that is an Interstate look-alike and has no "parkway" qualities at all, such as the VA-895 Pocahontas Parkway near Richmond.
I believe I read that it was Frederick Law Olmsted who was credited with the concept of a "parkway" as a tree-lined boulevard like Ocean Parkway because he wanted to spread a ribbon of park throughout the city, literally a "park way."
Quote from: Henry on January 27, 2012, 11:34:30 AM
Quote from: goobnav on January 27, 2012, 08:36:40 AM
Gladys Spellman Parkway for MD 295 or better know as the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
Actually, "Parkway" is probably the most ambiguous designation out there; it has been used for both at-grade (Congress Parkway in Chicago) and limited-access roads (Garden State Parkway). There are many more examples for both types, so I'm not sure it would qualify as unusual.
I was just talking about this last night, to someone confused between "freeway," "parkway," or "highway."
How about part of I-55 near Bollingbrook, IL is still Joliet Road where US 66 was upgraded to freeway. At least the maps show it as that.
Burlington, Street in Hamilton, Ontario is actually a freeway.
How about the QEW? It does stand for Queen Elizabeth Way.
Quote from: Steve on January 28, 2012, 06:25:58 AM
Quote from: Henry on January 27, 2012, 11:34:30 AM
Quote from: goobnav on January 27, 2012, 08:36:40 AM
Gladys Spellman Parkway for MD 295 or better know as the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
Actually, "Parkway" is probably the most ambiguous designation out there; it has been used for both at-grade (Congress Parkway in Chicago) and limited-access roads (Garden State Parkway). There are many more examples for both types, so I'm not sure it would qualify as unusual.
I was just talking about this last night, to someone confused between "freeway," "parkway," or "highway."
One I forgot when I made my prior post was the peculiar use of the term "Parkway" in Pittsburgh to refer to a road that has no parkway-like qualities at all. I regard that one as a local idiosyncrasy.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 31, 2012, 09:31:32 AM
One I forgot when I made my prior post was the peculiar use of the term "Parkway" in Pittsburgh to refer to a road that has no parkway-like qualities at all. I regard that one as a local idiosyncrasy.
Other examples of this:
- Route 87 in San Jose is the Guadalupe Parkway, though trucks can use it
- Interstate 140 near Knoxville is the Pelissippi Parkway
- In that vein, Interstate 440 in Nashville was originally named the "440 Parkway" to attempt to appease local NIMBY types
Souligny Street in Montreal is actually a full freeway west of A-25.
In Jacksonville FL. J Turner Butler Blvd or Butler Blvd(SR 202)... is a full freeway from I-95 east 13 miles to SR A1A in Jax Beach... the half mile from I95 west to US 1 is surface street but I think there are plans to upgrade to full freeway with service roads. Many maps still show a non freeway west of SR 115. It hasnt been taht way for nearly 20 years
The section of US 1 & 9 in Elizabeth, NJ that is a freeway from North Avenue to the the Newark Border is technically part of Spring Street that is the name given to the arterial section south of North Avenue to the Elizabeth River Viaduct. All the businesses along the southside US 1 & 9 (the local lanes on this freeways southbound lanes is not full freeway here) use Spring Street as a mailing address.
Quote from: roadman65 on February 01, 2012, 07:04:29 PM
The section of US 1 & 9 in Elizabeth, NJ that is a freeway from North Avenue to the the Newark Border is technically part of Spring Street that is the name given to the arterial section south of North Avenue to the Elizabeth River Viaduct. All the businesses along the southside US 1 & 9 (the local lanes on this freeways southbound lanes is not full freeway here) use Spring Street as a mailing address.
It's technically Herbert Highway by the Straight Line Diagrams, but Elizabeth may
consider it Spring St.
QuoteFroggie, correct me if i am wrong but i believe that I-94 east of Downtown St Paul at one point was called Hudson Rd.
Sorry for the delay...what became I-94 was labeled Hudson Rd when it was just part of US 12, but I don't believe I-94 proper was labeled as Hudson Rd.
Meanwhile, one I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet here in the DC area: I-395 in Virginia is the Shirley Highway
Isn't I-290 in New York called the Youngman Memorial Highway?
Quote from: roadman65 on February 01, 2012, 07:04:29 PM
The section of US 1 & 9 in Elizabeth, NJ that is a freeway from North Avenue to the the Newark Border is technically part of Spring Street that is the name given to the arterial section south of North Avenue to the Elizabeth River Viaduct. All the businesses along the southside US 1 & 9 (the local lanes on this freeways southbound lanes is not full freeway here) use Spring Street as a mailing address.
I feel like this is more of a frontage road situation. Looking at Google maps (dangerous to trust, I know), the freeway (i.e. the inner express lanes) is unlabeled (and Steve is probably right on the Herbert Highway name), the southbound local lanes/frontage road is labeled Spring Street, and the northbound local lanes/frontage road is labeled Meadow Street.
I-510 in Louisiana - called Paris Road before it was designated as an Interstate. It may still be designated that way, and some locals still call it Paris Road.
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 07:18:50 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 01, 2012, 07:04:29 PM
The section of US 1 & 9 in Elizabeth, NJ that is a freeway from North Avenue to the the Newark Border is technically part of Spring Street that is the name given to the arterial section south of North Avenue to the Elizabeth River Viaduct. All the businesses along the southside US 1 & 9 (the local lanes on this freeways southbound lanes is not full freeway here) use Spring Street as a mailing address.
It's technically Herbert Highway by the Straight Line Diagrams, but Elizabeth may consider it Spring St.
You know there are some maps that refer to US 1 & 9 in Newark south of US 22 as Carnegie Avenue. Also, US 22 in Hillside as Albert Street and US 46 in Little Falls as Pellington Boulevard. Although, both US 22 and US 46 at both of these locations are not full freeways but Jersey freeways with closed medians and interchanges still with right in and right out side streets and driveways; I must say that these arteries are not at all called them by locals or on street signs.
Quote from: roadman65 on February 05, 2012, 09:53:37 AM
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 07:18:50 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 01, 2012, 07:04:29 PM
The section of US 1 & 9 in Elizabeth, NJ that is a freeway from North Avenue to the the Newark Border is technically part of Spring Street that is the name given to the arterial section south of North Avenue to the Elizabeth River Viaduct. All the businesses along the southside US 1 & 9 (the local lanes on this freeways southbound lanes is not full freeway here) use Spring Street as a mailing address.
It's technically Herbert Highway by the Straight Line Diagrams, but Elizabeth may consider it Spring St.
You know there are some maps that refer to US 1 & 9 in Newark south of US 22 as Carnegie Avenue. Also, US 22 in Hillside as Albert Street and US 46 in Little Falls as Pellington Boulevard. Although, both US 22 and US 46 at both of these locations are not full freeways but Jersey freeways with closed medians and interchanges still with right in and right out side streets and driveways; I must say that these arteries are not at all called them by locals or on street signs.
In reality, I'm pretty certain all of these roads are just "Route whatever", so the only street name assigned would be whatever the SLD shows.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 30, 2012, 09:41:25 PM
How about part of I-55 near Bollingbrook, IL is still Joliet Road where US 66 was upgraded to freeway. At least the maps show it as that.
US-66 was upgraded to freeway from IL-129 to IL-59, and from IL-126 to Joliet Rd (Exit 276C). The parts south and between were new 1956 freeway. It joined the 1926 routing at Exit 268 (Joliet Rd), which was formerly just Joliet Rd. This freeway later became I-55. It has never been, and is not, even though some traffic reporters seem to think so, the Stevenson Expressway. The Stevenson starts at Exit 276C and goes to LSD.
Quote from: TheStranger on January 31, 2012, 11:50:39 AM
- In that vein, Interstate 440 in Nashville was originally named the "440 Parkway" to attempt to appease local NIMBY types
As a semi-regular driver of I-440, I can tell you that the "Entering Four Forty Pkwy" signs are still on the highway. Though, I've never heard anyone call it that.
Quote from: froggie on February 01, 2012, 07:46:48 PM
QuoteFroggie, correct me if i am wrong but i believe that I-94 east of Downtown St Paul at one point was called Hudson Rd.
Sorry for the delay...what became I-94 was labeled Hudson Rd when it was just part of US 12, but I don't believe I-94 proper was labeled as Hudson Rd.
Meanwhile, one I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet here in the DC area: I-395 in Virginia is the Shirley Highway
I didn't think I-395 is "unusual" in the sense of the names mentioned in the original post.
Come to think of it, wasn't a portion of the Beltway in Maryland (the twisty part in Montgomery County) originally formally designated as a "parkway" in order to justify a no-trucks restriction (prior to the road being widened)?
In Raleigh, they call I-440 the Cliff Benson "Beltline" or Beltline for short. As to why not Beltway, couldn't tell you on that one.
I-540 is either referred to as 540 or the Outer Loop, its real name is the Western Wake Freeway.
US 64/264 is referred to as the Knightdale Bypass, some traffic reporters here call it just 264 even though 64 is cosigned with it.
Even though it is an extension of the Durham Freeway, NC 147 Toll, is signed as the Triangle Expressway and so will the Toll portion of NC 540 when opened to US 64 near Apex in August.
Quote from: goobnav on February 06, 2012, 10:47:38 AM
In Raleigh, they call I-440 the Cliff Benson "Beltline" or Beltline for short. As to why not Beltway, couldn't tell you on that one.
Actually, it would be boring if every circumferential freeway was referred to as a "beltway", even though it is the correct term for that type. Which is why you have "The Perimeter" in Atlanta, the "Outerbelt" in Charlotte, the "Urban Loop" in Greensboro, etc.
OH 562 in Cincinnati is called Norwood Lateral Parkway on Google Maps and Norwood Lateral Expressway on Wikipedia, but locals and news media simply call it the Norwood Lateral.
Also I-71 at downtown Cincy is Fort Washington Way
Quote from: Henry on February 06, 2012, 12:20:33 PM
Quote from: goobnav on February 06, 2012, 10:47:38 AM
In Raleigh, they call I-440 the Cliff Benson "Beltline" or Beltline for short. As to why not Beltway, couldn't tell you on that one.
Actually, it would be boring if every circumferential freeway was referred to as a "beltway", even though it is the correct term for that type. Which is why you have "The Perimeter" in Atlanta, the "Outerbelt" in Charlotte, the "Urban Loop" in Greensboro, etc.
I always assumed the "Outerbelt" name was a reference to I-277 and I-77 functioning as sort of a "beltway" around down....errr, Uptown Charlotte.
I recall the then-under-construction I-540 formally being called the "Northern Wake Expressway" when I lived in Durham from 1995 to 1998, although the name "Outer Loop" was more common among local residents (since I grew up in the DC area, I always found that weird because I thought it should have been the "Outer Beltline," but people in the Triangle say "Inner Beltline" and "Outer Beltline" to refer to the two carriageways on the original Beltline). During those years the road only ran between I-40 and US-70, though, so it wasn't terribly relevant except as the place to drive when you wanted to see how fast your car would go.
I rather like the sound of the British term "Orbital Motorway." No special reason why. I just like the way it sounds.
No ones even brought up an interesting one in Florida: Alligator Alley!
General Bruce Drive for I-35 in Temple, TX