Interchanges that once were, and now closed either with ramps removed or still left in tact.
Lumberton, NC- I-95 and Original US 74 diamond interchange that was closed when the current I-74 & new US 74 alignment was built and finally opened.
Bridgewater, NJ- US 202 & 206 at Garetson Road had a half diamond that was closed in 1987 when the Commons Way interchange opened. Also, the EB US 22 to SB US 202 & 206 SB ramp was removed at the same time when the nearby interchange was reconfigured. All interchanges here were added, deleted, modified, etc. when the Bridgewater Commons Mall opened.
In Queenston, ON the ON 405 and Niagara Parkway interchange was permanently closed in 2006 with its ramps, nearest I can tell via google, have been removed.
On I-4 in Orlando many decades ago before the current FL 408 was built, there used to be a complete interchange with Gore Street. Then later a half diamond was WB on and off until recently when FDOT removed the WB I-4 offramp during a major construction project to add new ramps to and from South Street. In addition the EB ramp to Robinson Street and the WB ramp to South Street were also closed. However, the South Street ramp was closed long after the project finished when the new Amway Center opened. The ramp was closed due to South Street being closed so workers could build both the arena and parking facility ( on both sides of South Street west of I-4) and for some reason never reopened once the new Amway opened along with South Street.
In Kunhsville, PA an interchange was removed between US 22 and a local road to construct the current US 22 and I-78 interchange. Motorists going EB on US 22 must use PA 100 and the old US 22 to access Kunhsville and WB traffic must exit solely at old US 22 to access the town proper.
I-80 and I-480 at the foot of the Bay Bridge in SF. Used to include ramps to the former Transbay Terminal.
Boulevard Pie-IX (route 125) and Boulevard Henri-Bourrassa (former temp 25) in Montreal North is being downgraded to an intersection with signals, because a toll bridge has been built that bypasses it.
A few in Wisconsin:
-US 10/41 (I-xx)/WI 441 'Bridgeview Interchange' between Appleton and Neenah:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=44.214264,-88.473544&spn=0.008843,0.013797&t=k&z=16
Lake St to the south originally had NB on/SB off connections to the US 41 C/D lanes. It was disconnected from the interchange and bridged across as a local street in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
-US 41 (I-xx)/Main St (former WI 175) - Fond du Lac:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.743104,-88.449748&spn=0.008914,0.013797&t=k&z=16
Had a very odd late 1940s-era 'inside rotary' style interchange that was removed when the US 151 bypass and its US 41 interchange were built in the early-mid 2000s.
-I-43/County 'PP' (former WI 28) - Sheboygan:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.742158,-87.760463&spn=0.008914,0.013797&t=k&z=16
This tight interchange that long pre-dated US 141's 'promotion' to a full interstate used very tight ramps between the road and the railroad. It was removed when WI 28 was rerouted to the south in the mid-late 1980s.
US 41 (I-xx)/Cecil St/Green Bay Rd - Neenah:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=44.167922,-88.485131&spn=0.00885,0.013797&t=k&z=16
Cecil St is the east-west street, Green Bay Rd the major north-south. When US 41 was upgraded from the former two lanes (Green Bay Rd) to four lanes in the late 1950s/early 1960s (freeway to the north, surface four-lanes divided to the south), an off ramp connection from NB US 41 was left in place for Green Bay Rd at Cecil St. This was removed as redundant (the WI 114/Winneconne Ave interchange is only a couple of blocks to the north) when the highway to the south was upgraded to a full freeway in the mid 1970s and Green Bay Rd was then extended to the south from the defunct ramp as a frontage road.
Mike
The PA Turnpike has a few. The old Morgantown (10/23/176) Interchange had its bridge over the Turnpike removed, and later the entire thing north of the Turnpike was ripped out for a parking lot that's (still) unused. :-(
The old Reading (222) Interchange ramps are used as non-public access ramps, as well as a local street serving some businesses.
Yes, and so does the Ohio Turnpike. Most interesting example is the I-76/80 "Bump"
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.106681,-80.827961&spn=0.017656,0.045447&t=h&z=15
Originally, the exit here was at then Ohio SR 18 (now county 18) and were abandoned when the 76/80 interchange was built. However, those ramps remained in place and the ones to "County 18" a.k.a. Mahoning Avenue are used again in the "extension" of the interchange.
If you look closely, you can still see remnants of the original turnpike end of the interchange including the still extant bridge over the turnpike that carried traffic to and from the EB lanes.
This is not the first time the Ohio turnpike has done this. Witness the I-71/US 41 Turnpike interchange.
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.337751,-81.822073&spn=0.008797,0.022724&t=h&z=16
There are new connections at the toll booths but the original ramps were reused and you can still see the ghost ramps of the turnpike connection. Back in the 1970's, the trumpet as US 41 was still there but it's been removed, though again, you can see where the ramps were.
A more recent "combo" is I-77/US 21 a few miles to the east eliminating that "Breezewood" situation. However, much more of the original interchange was reused.
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.272662,-81.628375&spn=0.008805,0.022724&t=h&z=16
In the overhead and streetview, parts of the old toll booths are still visible, though I haven't been that way recently and can't say whether or not that still exists.
I assume the old exit for Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota counts here, even though they built a new interchange just a mile down the road.
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 14, 2012, 01:02:02 PM
Boulevard Pie-IX (route 125) and Boulevard Henri-Bourrassa (former temp 25) in Montreal North is being downgraded to an intersection with signals, because a toll bridge has been built that bypasses it.
What's the rationale, though? Do the locals in the neighborhood not like having the interchange? Is it MTQ's idea of traffic calming?
Downgrading A10 I get, since that's in the middle of downtown. But this is not.
What comes to mind in Connecticut:
I-84:
- old exit 11 and 12 in Newtown, between the CT 34 interchange and the Housatonic River; removed c. 1973 with reconstruction
- old exit 91 (Forbes St), East Hartford, between CT 15 and I-384; removed c. 1985
I-91:
- two ramps to/from Charter Oak Bridge and points north; removed c. 1991
- Bina Ave. onramp to I-91 north, Windsor, removed c. 1985 (no exit number, since not an exit)
- "exit 39 & 41" used to be two separate diamond interchanges
- exit 43, Main St (SR 510), E. Windsor, removed c. 1988 with I-91 widening
CT 2:
- exit 6 to/from points east removed c. 1990 with widening
- exit 14 in Marlborough: 3-level interchange with stub ramps removed when CT 66 freeway was cancelled, 1976*
- exit 26 in Norwich: this was a grade-level crossing with Yantic Lane. Removed c. 1998
CT 15:
- exit 30, Butternut Hollow Road, grade crossing, removed 1955
* not true, just messing with ya
Coal Canyon Road and CA 91 in the Santa Ana Canyon.
A number of the "rapid-fire" exit ramps on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago's Loop have have their left-hand entrances removed.
I-94 in Ypsilanti, MI used to have an interchange with Grove St, which would have been exit 184. Eliminated sometime before 1973.
There was once an exit from I-75 northbound to its frontage road just before I-285 on the south side of Atlanta. It was numbered as exit 79 and removed sometime before the milepost-based exit numbers appeared in 2000 (if it existed today, it would likely be 237 with some letter suffix).
Here's a screenshot (http://ten93.com/2012/old_i75_exit79.png) of Google Earth imagery from 1993 showing the ramp. The next oldest image it has is from '99, and it was gone by then. It looks like it may have been removed to make way for a longer on-ramp from Forest Parkway (exit 78, now 237).
I-40 had a partial interchange with AR 25 at Conway (EB exit only, no on-ramps). It was removed in 2006, when a new full interchange was built about a mile west.
The old I-90/I-690 interchange (which had a traffic light on I-690) before it got moved a mile to the west.
* MO 370 at Taussig Road - Replaced with a new interchange to the west. Old grading for one of the ramps is still visible: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.779589,-90.413189&spn=0.007067,0.016512&t=h&z=17 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.779589,-90.413189&spn=0.007067,0.016512&t=h&z=17)
* US 40 at Laclede Station Road in Richmond Heights, Missouri - Removed due to spacing issues when this section of highway was rebuilt.
* US 40 at Oakland in St. Louis - a former half diamond with WB on/EB off; removed when this section was rebuilt. There was a design alternative which would have kept the EB exit as a braided ramp, but the cost and ROW impacts were too great IIRC.
* The little spur freeway from US 40 to Chouteau in St. Louis used to have a 3/4 diamond with Vandeventer; removed when the Chouteau viaduct was replaced and the spur was truncated to Vandeventer.
* US 40 at Vandeventer: Historic Aerials is showing a half diamond (EB on/WB off) here; seems to have been removed when the WB lanes were put on the viaduct over the EB lanes.
Quote from: Duke87 on July 14, 2012, 03:06:38 PM
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 14, 2012, 01:02:02 PM
Boulevard Pie-IX (route 125) and Boulevard Henri-Bourrassa (former temp 25) in Montreal North is being downgraded to an intersection with signals, because a toll bridge has been built that bypasses it.
What's the rationale, though? Do the locals in the neighborhood not like having the interchange? Is it MTQ's idea of traffic calming?
Downgrading A10 I get, since that's in the middle of downtown. But this is not.
From what I heard, it was both for traffic calming and the residents not wanting a "big ugly concrete interchange" in the neighbourhood.
Exit 103 along I-94 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Emmett+Charter+Township,+MI&hl=en&ll=42.297183,-85.086043&spn=0.0153,0.01457&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.645551,59.677734&z=16) in Emmett Township, Michigan, was removed a few years ago and replaced with a new exit 104 to the east.
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 15, 2012, 02:51:15 AM
Exit 103 along I-94 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Emmett+Charter+Township,+MI&hl=en&ll=42.297183,-85.086043&spn=0.0153,0.01457&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.645551,59.677734&z=16) in Emmett Township, Michigan, was removed a few years ago and replaced with a new exit 104 to the east.
Exit 104 had always been there, but the connector north of I-94 between 11 Mile Rd and M-96 is new.
There used to be a strange little interchange on the QEW in Oakville, ON betweeen Burloak and Bronte for the service roads. Three of the ramps were taken out around 2000, but the westbound exit remained until 2008. The ramps and bridge are completely gone now.
Quote from: pianocello on July 15, 2012, 10:12:37 AM
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 15, 2012, 02:51:15 AM
Exit 103 along I-94 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Emmett+Charter+Township,+MI&hl=en&ll=42.297183,-85.086043&spn=0.0153,0.01457&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.645551,59.677734&z=16) in Emmett Township, Michigan, was removed a few years ago and replaced with a new exit 104 to the east.
Exit 104 had always been there, but the connector north of I-94 between 11 Mile Rd and M-96 is new.
An interchange in the general spot was there before, but it was slightly further west, and numbered exit 103. Look on the satellite view, and you'll see the remnants of the one loop ramp removed. Searching online finds old newspaper articles referencing exit 103 in relation to detours and road closures.
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 16, 2012, 07:40:58 AM
Quote from: pianocello on July 15, 2012, 10:12:37 AM
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 15, 2012, 02:51:15 AM
Exit 103 along I-94 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Emmett+Charter+Township,+MI&hl=en&ll=42.297183,-85.086043&spn=0.0153,0.01457&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.645551,59.677734&z=16) in Emmett Township, Michigan, was removed a few years ago and replaced with a new exit 104 to the east.
Exit 104 had always been there, but the connector north of I-94 between 11 Mile Rd and M-96 is new.
An interchange in the general spot was there before, but it was slightly further west, and numbered exit 103. Look on the satellite view, and you'll see the remnants of the one loop ramp removed. Searching online finds old newspaper articles referencing exit 103 in relation to detours and road closures.
Exit 103 was removed to eliminate the weaving movements with the loop ramps from Exit 104. There is a project this year which will extend the left-turn lane along Michigan Ave from 11 Mile to Wheatfield Dr. As part of that, I surmise the remnants of 103 will go away to make way for the expanded pavement. There's also a realignment of the WB onramp from Exit 104 as part of this project, and as the satellite imagery which Mike linked to shows, the EB onramp was realigned last year.
Although not defunct yet, once the Sargent Road interchange reconstruction (http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9621_11008-272977--,00.html) is complete, Exit 144 will cease to be.
Didn't the Grand River Ave exit from I-96 (Exit 90) used to be Exits 90AB?
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 15, 2012, 01:08:22 AM
Quote from: Duke87 on July 14, 2012, 03:06:38 PM
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 14, 2012, 01:02:02 PM
Boulevard Pie-IX (route 125) and Boulevard Henri-Bourrassa (former temp 25) in Montreal North is being downgraded to an intersection with signals, because a toll bridge has been built that bypasses it.
What's the rationale, though? Do the locals in the neighborhood not like having the interchange? Is it MTQ's idea of traffic calming?
Downgrading A10 I get, since that's in the middle of downtown. But this is not.
From what I heard, it was both for traffic calming and the residents not wanting a "big ugly concrete interchange" in the neighbourhood.
Ah yes, another case of the interests of many stopped by the interests of a few.
Quote from: doofy103 on July 16, 2012, 07:56:53 PM
Quote from: Abraham Lincoln
yo fuck slavery
Ah yes, another case of the interests of many stopped by the interests of a few.
NJ Turnpike: Original Interchange 10 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=woodbridge+nj&hl=en&ll=40.541942,-74.309871&spn=0.004607,0.010504&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.235538,86.044922&hnear=Woodbridge+Township,+Middlesex,+New+Jersey&t=k&z=17)
Original Interchange 11 (inside the current ramps) (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=woodbridge+nj&hl=en&ll=40.543067,-74.289594&spn=0.004606,0.010504&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.235538,86.044922&hnear=Woodbridge+Township,+Middlesex,+New+Jersey&t=k&z=17)
Don't forget original 13 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.647597,-74.200448&spn=0.007245,0.016512&t=k&z=17) and original 17 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.787544,-74.048538&spn=0.00723,0.016512&t=k&z=17).
US 23/US 42, southside of Delaware, Ohio.
Old interchange...
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roadfan.com%2Fold2342.jpg&hash=560e65249899a6874f6b73fe21c670006fc0846d)
"new" intersection
http://goo.gl/maps/qJeJ (http://goo.gl/maps/qJeJ)
Quote from: doofy103 on July 16, 2012, 07:56:53 PM
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 15, 2012, 01:08:22 AM
Quote from: Duke87 on July 14, 2012, 03:06:38 PM
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 14, 2012, 01:02:02 PM
Boulevard Pie-IX (route 125) and Boulevard Henri-Bourrassa (former temp 25) in Montreal North is being downgraded to an intersection with signals, because a toll bridge has been built that bypasses it.
What's the rationale, though? Do the locals in the neighborhood not like having the interchange? Is it MTQ's idea of traffic calming?
Downgrading A10 I get, since that's in the middle of downtown. But this is not.
From what I heard, it was both for traffic calming and the residents not wanting a "big ugly concrete interchange" in the neighbourhood.
Ah yes, another case of the interests of many stopped by the interests of a few.
To be honest, this is probably justified in light of the new A-25 bridge. It's the last interchange before QC 125 becomes a surface street, and looking at the street view, it behaves more like a surface street with a random interchange here anyways.
This folded diamond interchange between WI 33 and CTH LL in Port Washington, WI was recently demolished and replaced with an at-grade intersection. One can see the construction to that end in the aerials.
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.38690,-87.90024&z=16&t=S (http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.38690,-87.90024&z=16&t=S)
It was built when CTH LL was the US 141 bypass of Port Washington.
WisDOT is planning on relegating this half interchange between I-94 and Willow Glen Rd in Jefferson County to the history books in the not-to-distant future.
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.07080,-88.55422&z=15&t=S (http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.07080,-88.55422&z=15&t=S)
Can't find the documentation regarding that plan at this time, but I know I read it somewhere from WisDOT.
Quote from: NE2 on July 16, 2012, 08:12:00 PM
Don't forget original 13 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.647597,-74.200448&spn=0.007245,0.016512&t=k&z=17) and original 17 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.787544,-74.048538&spn=0.00723,0.016512&t=k&z=17).
Not as noticeable as original 7 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=white+horse+nj&hl=en&ll=40.122552,-74.70319&spn=0.008778,0.021007&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.188995,86.044922&hnear=White+Horse,+Hamilton+Township,+Mercer,+New+Jersey&t=k&z=16).
No one's mentioned Exit 250 and 251(?) (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans+East,+LA&hl=en&ll=30.092192,-89.908676&spn=0.036686,0.084028&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=New+Orleans,+Orleans,+Louisiana&t=h&z=14) off I-10 east of New Orleans yet?
They closed Exit 131 (http://goo.gl/maps/H7gx) (Bus. 16) on I-40 in NC when the new NC 16 opened up less than a mile east (exit 132).
^^
I remember passing that 2 years ago when my brother and I were running around NC while attending the Coke 600. I wondered what the deal was.
Thanks.
I honestly cannot remember if there was once an Allen Ave/Linwood Ave exit in Shreveport along I-20 before I-49 was completed. I think there was and it got replaced, because Linwood now turns into Pierre and is attached to Lakeshore Dr exit as 17A.
In Dallas, Trinity Mills on 35E became overridden by the George Bush.
North of Fort Worth there used to be a turn around 35W north exit when going south from Denton, and now I'm guessing its now the TX 170 or Heritage Pkwy exit.
Don't know if these 3 examples really apply as "defunct" so much as they are replaced in the same spot
A couple of California examples:
- Jacinto Road at southbound Route 99 in Elk Grove, which existed when that section of freeway was built in the late 1950s:
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=8E-06&lat=38.447040170431&lon=-121.40689998865&year=1957
Some of the grading remained in 2002 (but has been overgrown since).
- Bayshore Freeway (US 101) at Route 82 (Monterey Road) in South San Jose, bypassed in 1982 (built in the late 1940s).
Hwy 400 got once former ramps who connected to Wilson avenue for and to northbound traffic north of the Hwy 401 interchange http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/Hwy400photos.htm
The original Saco interchange on the Maine Turnpike, which was abandoned when the I-195 interchange was built just up the road, now leads to a hotel (though only from northbound, the overpass was demolished when the turnpike was widened in 2004).
In Boston, the old Central Artery had a number of stubs of former on/off ramps that were torn down over the years. Some were even torn down only a few years aftter the road was built in the 50s.
On I-95 in NH there used to be an interhcnage with now-defunct NH-51, just sout of the current NH-101 interchange/toll plaza. The old ramps are now service access roads.
Do you mean NH 27? It crosses 95 just south of the 101 interchange.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on July 24, 2012, 09:13:27 AM
Do you mean NH 27? It crosses 95 just south of the 101 interchange.
All the route numbers around there have changed a lot over time--NH 101 used to go via what is now NH 33 into Portsmouth, and NH 51 was the number for what is now the easternmost part of 101. 27 was extended over old two-lane 101 as expressway portions of 101 opened. The road in question may have been 101-C at the time the interchange with the Turnpike opened.
The historic aerials site has a reasonably good shot of the original interchange (http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=42.9537789552078&lon=-70.857279609375&year=2003), which is similar to today's in that the ramps surrounded the mainline toll plaza.
Addition: Indeed the old topo shows that the original route number intersecting the Turnpike at the old interchange was NH 101-C. (http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9549633944143&lon=-70.863631609375&year=T1966)
Ah, I knew 101 originally used nearby highways but didn't know the old numbering.
And now that I reread the post I see it was "now-defunct NH 51".
Oops.
A few British ones: The original M4 Junction 8 (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=M4%20J&gr=51.50051,-0.70438&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=51.49971,-0.70390,) (most traces of destroyed when widened), The original southern end of the M74 (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=Canderwater%20Interchange&gr=55.68088,-3.93270&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=55.68033,-3.93200,), defunct M8 junction (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=55.89398,-4.48298&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=55.89232,-4.48122,), defunct M54 junction 5 (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=Priorslee%20Interchange&gr=52.68255,-2.43737&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=52.68162,-2.43557,) (you can see that the road used to be 6-lanes between here and the current junction 5. Slip roads overgrown).
Some of the more blatant temporary termini, where the scheme ended, but no permanent junction was planned at the location. M90 Temporary Terminus (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=56.05700,-3.38922&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=56.05529,-3.38598,), M1 Temporary Terminus (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=M1%20J2&gr=51.60794,-0.24203&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=51.60714,-0.24167,), M77 Temporary Terminus (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=55.76547,-4.35689&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=55.76409,-4.35449,), A1(M) Temporary Terminus (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=53.97821,-1.36700&map=GoogleMap&zoom=9&layer=1&markers=53.97686,-1.36428,)
Quote from: Beeper1 on July 23, 2012, 05:59:47 PMIn Boston, the old Central Artery had a number of stubs of former on/off ramps that were torn down over the years. Some were even torn down only a few years after the road was built in the 50s.
The original Central Artery opened in 1959; the ramps that you speak of were torn down during the mid-1970s.
The old High St./Congress St. off-ramp (Exit 22) from southbound I-93 was relocated in the early 90s to allow for the expansion of the International Place complex.
US 62 in Columbus (now also I-670) used to have a parclo at Cassady Ave and a diamond at Stelzer Rd. Both were removed when the International Gateway interchange was built between them (circa late 80s I think).
Quote from: Sanctimoniously on July 17, 2012, 11:00:50 PM
No one's mentioned Exit 250 and 251(?) (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans+East,+LA&hl=en&ll=30.092192,-89.908676&spn=0.036686,0.084028&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=New+Orleans,+Orleans,+Louisiana&t=h&z=14) off I-10 east of New Orleans yet?
Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
Quote from: nexus73 on August 21, 2012, 08:19:20 PM
Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
I believe the connecting roads, and related development, was never built.
Quote from: vtk on August 21, 2012, 12:52:16 PM
US 62 in Columbus (now also I-670) used to have a parclo at Cassady Ave and a diamond at Stelzer Rd. Both were removed when the International Gateway interchange was built between them (circa late 80s I think).
The Cassady/17th Ave interchange got rebuilt into the current Cassady/International Gateway interchange as part of the I-670 construction.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 21, 2012, 08:21:39 PM
Quote from: nexus73 on August 21, 2012, 08:19:20 PM
Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
I believe the connecting roads, and related development, was never built.
And is now Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.
Quote from: nexus73 on August 21, 2012, 08:19:20 PM
Quote from: Sanctimoniously on July 17, 2012, 11:00:50 PM
No one's mentioned Exit 250 and 251(?) (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans+East,+LA&hl=en&ll=30.092192,-89.908676&spn=0.036686,0.084028&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=New+Orleans,+Orleans,+Louisiana&t=h&z=14) off I-10 east of New Orleans yet?
Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
That was to have been a housing development some time back (long before Katrina). One of my professors at LSU told me that Lady Bird Johnson was one of the investors in the project.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 21, 2012, 08:21:39 PM
Quote from: nexus73 on August 21, 2012, 08:19:20 PM
Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
I believe the connecting roads, and related development, was never built.
Without knowing the history of I-510, could the two interchanges have been part of the original traffic flow for Six Flags? Maybe the development was tied to the amusement park's existence (future hotels, gas stations, etc)...
In Seattle, WA-520 in Lake Washington has a bunch of ramps that were built to connect with the proposed R. H. Thomson Expressway. That expressway was cancelled. The lake is shallow there, people swim and use the ramps as diving boards, canoe amongst them, etc. I suspect they'll be removed as part of the 520 widening project over the next 8 years or so.
One i know of....
I-95 in Connecticut......old Conn Turnpike Exit 49 (Stiles Rd I think) was permanently closed due to the rebuilding of the I-95/I-91/Conn 34 interchanges....ramps are still there for now.....
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Those closed interchanges puzzled me back in the 1990's. Was there a zombie infestation being walled off? LOL! I'd love to know the story.
Rick
I believe the connecting roads, and related development, was never built.
Without knowing the history of I-510, could the two interchanges have been part of the original traffic flow for Six Flags? Maybe the development was tied to the amusement park's existence (future hotels, gas stations, etc)...
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_New_Orleans):
Much more development further east was envisioned during the oil boom of the 1970s, including a huge planned community called, in successive iterations "New Orleans East", "Pontchartrain", "Orlandia", and, finally, "New Orleans East" once more. This "new-town-in-town" was to have resembled Reston, Virginia or the Woodlands north of Houston, but only a few small portions were built in several bursts of activity in the twenty years prior to the Oil Bust. Both the Village de L'Est and Oak Island neighborhoods were phases of "New Orleans East". The new town development would have occupied almost all of New Orleans lying east of the present-day route of I-510. Three identical interchanges along I-10 east of Paris Road were constructed in anticipation of the new town. The Michoud Boulevard exit uses one of these interchanges, but two of the three were never used. The prominent "New Orleans East" cast-concrete sign just west of the Michoud Boulevard exit was fabricated circa 1980 during the final attempt at developing this huge tract. Much of this land later became the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, the largest urban wildlife refuge in the United States. Though the grand vision behind New Orleans East was never realized, many New Orleanians started referring to all of Eastern New Orleans by the name of the planned development.
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So the interchanges and associated development were planned long before Six Flags was a twinkle in the eyes of civic leaders. If anything, the amusement park was a last ditch attempt to revive the fortunes of the area which had essentially ceased to grow around 1980 or so.
In retrospect, it's better that the land remained swamp. Goodness knows how much more destruction would have been wrought by Hurricane Katrina if that land had been intensively developed.
I have a friend from college who lived off of Michoud in New Orleans East. We went with a group of friends and saw the water damaged house and it was unreal how high the water was. Check it out: (from Spring of 2006)
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/71_505170647616_9070_n.jpg)
Monterey Street bridge connection between Broadway to Golden State Boulevard (old US-99) in Fresno: http://goo.gl/maps/lIlor (http://goo.gl/maps/lIlor) It's been closed to traffic since 2004, and it's supposed to be demolished this month.
Several onramps to San Diego's southbound CA-163 (old US-395) have been decommissioned or were never used: http://goo.gl/maps/pKxRS (http://goo.gl/maps/pKxRS) Keep panning south on the map to see more.
There's this: http://goo.gl/maps/v7LAl (http://goo.gl/maps/v7LAl) Light-rail line and stations built atop the abandoned heavy-duty pavement of a planned-and-scrapped replacement freeway for I-80 in Sacramento. The western extent is a hairpin at Winters Street; the eastern end is at the Watt Avenue overpass.
An interchange in Medford (Ore.) moved. They built a SPUI and tore out the old junction just to the north on I-5. The footprint is still pretty apparent. Some businesses don't have quite the prime location they used to have. http://goo.gl/maps/Jb32R (http://goo.gl/maps/Jb32R)
On I-680 in Fremont (Calif.) between Washington Boulevard and Auto Mall Parkway:http://goo.gl/maps/MGP0P (http://goo.gl/maps/MGP0P) Nothing remains now, but for years a ramp led northwest across I-680. It was daylighted 10 years ago. The Mission Freeway never went any further than that ramp: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BATN/message/6473 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BATN/message/6473)
I've also visited the ghost interchanges in New Orleans, about a year or two after the hurricanes. In so many areas nearby, the signals, if they worked at all, were still timed for traffic that wasn't around anymore. Chilling. (And chilling in a different way, driving the duct-taped-together I-10 between NO and Slidell.. not saying it could've been done any differently, just that it took some nerve to drive it!)
NY 96 once had a direct connection to the Thruway, rather than by way of I-490: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=43.011237,-77.44399&spn=0.004778,0.006899&t=h&z=17
Also, just to the north, you can see where a temporary ramp was when Exit 29 was reconstructed back in '02: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=43.015442,-77.441039&spn=0.004777,0.006899&t=h&z=17
Quote from: mp_quadrillion on August 22, 2012, 11:48:24 PM
An interchange in Medford (Ore.) moved. They built a SPUI and tore out the old junction just to the north on I-5. The footprint is still pretty apparent. Some businesses don't have quite the prime location they used to have. http://goo.gl/maps/Jb32R (http://goo.gl/maps/Jb32R)
was that a full interchange? I can see the ghosts of the ramps from eastbound arterial to northbound I-5, and westbound arterial to southbound I-5, but not any other connections. that's only 2 of 8 possible transfers.
I presume northbound I-5 to westbound arterial and southbound I-5 to eastbound arterial existed as well. what about the other 4, or were they deemed to oblique to implement?
'twas a 6-ramp parclo. http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.31580,-122.85494&z=17&t=O
I always wondered about those interchanges east of New Orleans on I-10 too.
Has the the idea of bridge across the Miss. river at I-510/Paris road been abandoned too?
Mark
Here's the old Exit 56 and Exit 57 on I-86/NY 17 prior to them being reconstructed and combined into a single Exit 56: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.09246,-76.78083&z=16&t=O
Couple of others that I can remember in CT that are now closed:
I-91: - Exit 29 Southbound (LH exit to the old Charter Oak Bridge, plus a connection from SB 15 to NB 91)
- Exit 30 Northbound (Foounder's Bridge, plus a flyover from WB Founder's to 91S)
-Exit 31 NB State St Left hand exit (?)
I 84: - Exit 34 WB (replaced by Route 72 Exit 2)
-Old Exit 50 + 52 EB in Hartford before 84/91 interchange reconstruction. Exit 50 was a left turn only onto Ann Ucello St. Exit
52 was for Morgan St/91 N (the G. Fox interchange that was rerouted to the flyover). Numbers were redrawn so that today's
exit 50 was the old 51, today's 51 replaces 52 as the flyover, and today's 52 was added to the unnumbered 91S ramp.
Quote from: NE2 on August 23, 2012, 01:14:54 PM
'twas a 6-ramp parclo. http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.31580,-122.85494&z=17&t=O
Is it bad (good) that I knew exactly what the configuration was?
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Quote from: NE2 on August 23, 2012, 01:14:54 PM
'twas a 6-ramp parclo. http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.31580,-122.85494&z=17&t=O
Is it bad (good) that I knew exactly what the configuration was?
I'm glad y'all beat me to explaining it, anyway!
It appears exits 166 and 168 on I-80 in Wyoming have been removed. These were typical diamond ranch exits, rather redundant given that exits 165 and 170 serve the same area.
Adios cucarachas:
(https://www.aaroads.com/west/wyoming080/i-080_wb_exit_168_01.jpg)(https://www.aaroads.com/west/wyoming080/i-080_wb_exit_166_01.jpg)
My memory is a little fuzzy, but weren't there ramps to connect US 30 and US 34 in the Oswego, IL area? The eastern split is now a stoplight, but I could have sworn there were ramps the first time I drove US 30 over there and needed to take one to stay on US 30.
I was editing a random spot on OSM at Syracuse, and found this. Linked to from Google, though. :P
http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16 (http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16)
It appears to be the old version of the 690 interchange, back when State Fair Blvd. ran straight through on what is now 690. (I don't know much about the area though, so you can correct me if you live around there.) It looks like there was a smaller trumpet at the State Fair Blvd, but I can't be sure.
That's the old I-690/I-90 interchange all right. It went to a traffic light on I-690.
Was it 690 yet or still just State Fair Blvd?
Quote from: pctech on August 23, 2012, 02:35:13 PM
I always wondered about those interchanges east of New Orleans on I-10 too.
Has the the idea of bridge across the Miss. river at I-510/Paris road been abandoned too?
Mark
There is one there now. I don't know if there were plans for another one.
From the looks of the map, it appears Michoud Boulevard was supposed to parallel I-10 to the third interchange (Bayou Savage exit). Some older maps had that road named Discovery Boulevard.
The AR 254 Interchange with US 67 in Texarkana seems to be now defunct as the ramps for it have been jackhammered out. There are no detour signs for the closure, so I am to assume that with the new freeway extension of AR 254, it will now be permanently closed.
Quote from: Super Mateo on September 12, 2012, 04:31:51 AM
My memory is a little fuzzy, but weren't there ramps to connect US 30 and US 34 in the Oswego, IL area? The eastern split is now a stoplight, but I could have sworn there were ramps the first time I drove US 30 over there and needed to take one to stay on US 30.
There was a separated grade interchange at the eastern split - it's now - as you mentioned - an at-grade signalized intersection.
Quote from: Roadsguy on September 28, 2012, 01:09:49 PM
Was it 690 yet or still just State Fair Blvd?
I-690. The current interchange is relatively recent; I believe it's around my age, and if not just a little older. I-690 got new exit numbers when it was moved.
A couple more in Wisconsin:
-I-94/US 12/WI 35 (east split) - Hudson:
http://goo.gl/maps/BUqZh
The original interchange trumpet was abandoned when the new WI 35 River Falls freeway spur was built just to the west a decade or so ago. Yes it does kind of look like a shadow/seeing double thing there.
-I-39/US 51/Marathon County 'X':
http://goo.gl/maps/Xttqu
The County 'X' interchange was removed a few years ago to make room for the US 10 Marshfield Spur/northwest split interchange ('Marshfield Interchange').
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on September 28, 2012, 10:22:02 PM
-I-94/US 12/WI 35 (east split) - Hudson:
http://goo.gl/maps/BUqZh
The original interchange trumpet was abandoned when the new WI 35 River Falls freeway spur was built just to the west a decade or so ago. Yes it does kind of look like a shadow/seeing double thing there.
I'm more amused by the roundabout at the end of Old 35. Have they built more on the other three spokes since the satellite image was taken? Or is it still just awaiting development?
Quote from: deanej on September 28, 2012, 09:51:14 PM
Quote from: Roadsguy on September 28, 2012, 01:09:49 PM
Was it 690 yet or still just State Fair Blvd?
I-690. The current interchange is relatively recent; I believe it's around my age, and if not just a little older. I-690 got new exit numbers when it was moved.
According to here (http://www.upstatenyroads.com/thruway-history5.shtml), it was opened 11/1/87.
I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ. The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally. Now it is an at grade intersection. The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB. EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.
I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.
Quote from: roadman65 on September 30, 2012, 11:24:26 PM
I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ. The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally. Now it is an at grade intersection. The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB. EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.
I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.2912061784989E-05&lat=40.2573555757968&lon=-74.5502550362798&year=1979
Quote from: Steve on October 01, 2012, 07:37:51 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on September 30, 2012, 11:24:26 PM
I almost forgot this one in East Windsor, NJ. The north- east end of the US 130/ NJ 33 overlap had a directional interchange originally. Now it is an at grade intersection. The bridge carrying US 130 over the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad Camden- Amboy Line also went over NJ 33 WB and looped around to the east and swerved back to meet NJ 33 WB. EB NJ 33 left NB US 130 on the ramp up to the former structure with a ramp leading down to rejoin its WB counterpart.
I am guessing the bridge needed replacement and NJDOT thought it was not worth the effort and using the limited resources it has to repair or replace it and settled on a signalized intersection instead.
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.2912061784989E-05&lat=40.2573555757968&lon=-74.5502550362798&year=1979
Great aerial photo. I see the structure over NJ 33 WB and the PRR was built in tiers rather than using long girders just like the PATH line over the NE Corridor in Harrison just east of Dock Lift Bridge.
Quote from: Roadsguy on September 28, 2012, 08:43:55 AM
I was editing a random spot on OSM at Syracuse, and found this. Linked to from Google, though. :P
http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16 (http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16)
It also looks like there might have been access from EB State Fair Blvd to EB John Glenn Blvd at one point in time. I have no idea how one would make that movement now.
Former CA-275 (originally built as the freeway version of US 40 in West Sacramento, and now signed as the Downtown Sacramento exit from US-50) had its interchanges with Garden Street/Capitol Avenue and 3rd and 5th Streets removed:
http://goo.gl/maps/pXOE4
The 45-degree view has the 3rd/5th Street interchange still in place; the overhead view has it removed.
Quote from: pianocello on October 14, 2012, 02:33:49 PM
Quote from: Roadsguy on September 28, 2012, 08:43:55 AM
I was editing a random spot on OSM at Syracuse, and found this. Linked to from Google, though. :P
http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16 (http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.110195,-76.266446&spn=0.009101,0.021136&t=k&z=16)
It also looks like there might have been access from EB State Fair Blvd to EB John Glenn Blvd at one point in time. I have no idea how one would make that movement now.
There never was an EB-EB movement, or in the case of NY 48, a SB-EB movement. Before the Baldwinsville bypass (now NY 690) was built, I-690 ended at the traffic light where the old Thruway entrance was and NY 48 took over there. John Glenn Blvd. was completed around the same time NY 690 was finished in 1971, necessitating a reconstruction of the interchange seen above. Ever since John Glenn was finished, to make the movement from SB NY 48 to EB John Glenn you had to turn left on Farrell Road and go around the old GE plant to the traffic light at Farrell and John Glenn.
I stand corrected. Looking at the historic aerials from 1972 shows a slip ramp from SB NY 48 to John Glenn Blvd right after it passes under the mainline for NY 690 (now I-690). Sometime between 1972 and 1987 is when the slip ramp disappeared. You can see where it used to be in the 2003 and 2006 aerials.
I know that at the NYS Fairgrounds there was an entrance from WB State Fair Boulevard to EB I-690 that was abandoned when I-690 was relocated so the Fairgrounds parking area could be expanded. I remember once going to the Fair as a child, seeing the entrance to the parking lot have a button copy freeway sign that had a shield and "EAST" that was evident it was on it from the fading around the area on the sign. Then you could see we were on a curved slip ramp that once was, and then ended up parking on asphalt that was striped for a two lane freeway. Plus the bridges inside the parking area for the Fair, if you look at them, are the same design as NY freeways use.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Solvay,+NY&hl=en&ll=43.075687,-76.217179&spn=0.001005,0.002642&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=9.892242,21.643066&oq=solv&t=h&hnear=Solvay,+Onondaga,+New+York&z=19
You can see what once was a ramp and the part of the parking area that was once EB I-690.
Found some aerials showing the original Thruway/I-690 intechange:
Circa 1956: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1956
Circa 1979: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1972
And here's a semi-defunct one I just came across- Thruway Exit 51 prior to the Kensington Expressway being constructed (circa 1963): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 The interchange connected to Maryvale Drive back then.
And another, this one of pre-NY 400 Thruway Exit 54. It connected directly to NY 16 then (circa 1966): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.848155148309&lon=-78.7867940683592&year=1966
And here's the old I-90/NY 96 interchange (circa 1951): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 Turns out it was a 3/4 cloverleaf.
And another defunct one: I-90 and US (now NY) 15, prior to I-390 being constructed (circa 1971): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963
And finally, an interesting one: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 While the westernmost Thruway/I-490 interchange existed at that point (circa 1969), there appears to be a ghost ramp indicating that there was formerly a direct connection between the Thruway and NY 19.
Since no one who's familiar with Northeast Kansas has mentioned this one yet, I might as well take it--
Former US 56 (now called Old 56 Highway)/K-7 and K-7/Parker Street/Lone Elm Road in Olathe:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.86768,-94.834456&spn=0.004528,0.010568&gl=us&t=h&z=17
It used to be a diamond, with US 56 being the mainline highway and Lone Elm Road being the cross street. You can still see how stuff grew/developed around the diamond.
Also, this example in Mission sort of counts because Roe Avenue and Johnson Drive used to function as part of a larger, fully grade-separated interchange (it was referred to as a pretzel interchange), whereas now they intersect at grade:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.024002,-94.639084&spn=0.009035,0.021136&gl=us&t=h&z=16
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on October 20, 2012, 10:31:50 PM
Found some aerials showing the original Thruway/I-690 intechange:
Circa 1956: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1956
Circa 1979: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=43.1111556774164&lon=-76.2685441323245&year=1972
And here's a semi-defunct one I just came across- Thruway Exit 51 prior to the Kensington Expressway being constructed (circa 1963): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 The interchange connected to Maryvale Drive back then.
And another, this one of pre-NY 400 Thruway Exit 54. It connected directly to NY 16 then (circa 1966): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.848155148309&lon=-78.7867940683592&year=1966
And here's the old I-90/NY 96 interchange (circa 1951): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 Turns out it was a 3/4 cloverleaf.
And another defunct one: I-90 and US (now NY) 15, prior to I-390 being constructed (circa 1971): http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963
And finally, an interesting one: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.2E-05&lat=42.9310802418994&lon=-78.7664740683591&year=1963 While the westernmost Thruway/I-490 interchange existed at that point (circa 1969), there appears to be a ghost ramp indicating that there was formerly a direct connection between the Thruway and NY 19.
A lot of those links go back to the I-90/NY 33 interchange instead of the Rochester ones. Congratulations on taking away my afternoon. Historic Aerials has certainly improved since the last time I looked!
EDIT: Drag the map over and check out the original Thruway exit 36 (now I-81)! There's something I never knew about!
A double trumpet involving 7th North Street! The interchange was re-done in the late 1960's; even the 7th North interchange was re-done sometime between 1972 and 2003.
I like how I-81 was only completed between Park St. (near current day Carousel Mall) and US 11 in Mattydale in 1956.
If you look further south from the I-81/Thruway interchange, you will see that I-81 was relocated further east between the Hiawatha interchange and the 7th North interchange. (Compare 1972 to 2003) This was done between 1976-1980. The SB exit ramp from I-81 to Park St. used to be the SB mainline. Apparently, NYSDOT wanted to straighten out that section of I-81 instead of having a left curve followed by a semi-sharp right curve.
Looking in Google Earth, the 1998 imagery shows a folded diamond for former US 66 at IL 17 in Dwight with tight ramps in the SW quadrant, what may have been more of a right on-right off connector in the NW quadrant lining up with Watters Drive (and tying into a frontage road), and US 66 on two separate bridges over IL 17. The 2005 imagery shows the current at-grade intersection, complete with the southbound lanes being obliterated and the frontage road cut back.
Noticed on Google Maps last evening that there used to be a half-interchange on Michigan Road and US 31 near Harris, IN (between Plymouth and South Bend) before US 31 was moved to the freeway segment. Apparently, the section of the old US 31 expressway from the freeway to Michigan Road was abandoned, torn up, and then left to nature.
NY 96A used to have an interchange with US 20/NY 5 east of Geneva, NY. It is now an at-grade intersection.
I may have mentioned this in another thread, but there used to be an interchange (Exit 83-sequential in Ohio) on I-75 just south of current Exit 164. It was called Mortimer. The outline of the former diamond interchange can still be seen on Google Maps (first bridge south of Exit 164--Allen Twp Rd 109).
And finally, the old Des Moines Ave. interchange on I-264 in Portsmouth, VA--obliterated by the new VA 164, MLK Freeway interchange.
Here's one near me:
I-40 to US 64 (Exit 153, Eastbound only) was ripped out several years ago when they widened 40 through that part of Statesville. Now you take exit 154 in either direction onto Old Mocksvillle Road to get to 64.
Quote from: amroad17 on March 04, 2020, 03:31:01 AM
Noticed on Google Maps last evening that there used to be a half-interchange on Michigan Road and US 31 near Harris, IN (between Plymouth and South Bend) before US 31 was moved to the freeway segment. Apparently, the section of the old US 31 expressway from the freeway to Michigan Road was abandoned, torn up, and then left to nature.
You are correct. Also demolished was the ramp and overpass that carried northbound Michigan Rd. over southbound US 31. Michigan Road had a rather dangerous left side merge with 31 that exists no longer.
Exit 241 on I-44 near Tulsa. It once connected to the Will Rogers Turnpike before the Creek Turnpike was built. The ramps and bridges for the old Y split of OK SH 66 E Bound and I-44 are still evident there with a sign bridge and an empty assembly that once supported the once pull through for I-44 and the Turnpike.
Quote from: Revive 755 on July 14, 2012, 11:25:05 PM
* MO 370 at Taussig Road - Replaced with a new interchange to the west. Old grading for one of the ramps is still visible: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.779589,-90.413189&spn=0.007067,0.016512&t=h&z=17 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.779589,-90.413189&spn=0.007067,0.016512&t=h&z=17)
* US 40 at Laclede Station Road in Richmond Heights, Missouri - Removed due to spacing issues when this section of highway was rebuilt.
* US 40 at Oakland in St. Louis - a former half diamond with WB on/EB off; removed when this section was rebuilt. There was a design alternative which would have kept the EB exit as a braided ramp, but the cost and ROW impacts were too great IIRC.
* The little spur freeway from US 40 to Chouteau in St. Louis used to have a 3/4 diamond with Vandeventer; removed when the Chouteau viaduct was replaced and the spur was truncated to Vandeventer.
* US 40 at Vandeventer: Historic Aerials is showing a half diamond (EB on/WB off) here; seems to have been removed when the WB lanes were put on the viaduct over the EB lanes.
What is/was the purpose of that little freeway spur to Vandeventer? I remember the slip ramp to get onto 40/64 WB off of Gratiot St.
I-580 in Livermore, CA used to have an incomplete (eastbound exit, westbound entrance) interchange with Portola Ave, but this was removed around ten years ago because it was too close to the newly constructed interchange with Isabel Ave (CA SR84).
Grading for the former interchange is visible on the satellite view.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6997755,-121.7988243,1946m/data=!3m1!1e3
Quote from: CapeCodder on April 02, 2020, 11:39:06 AM
What is/was the purpose of that little freeway spur to Vandeventer? I remember the slip ramp to get onto 40/64 WB off of Gratiot St.
IIRC the freeway spur was actually the mainline highway prior to the extension eastward. I also recall reading somewhere that at one time there was a study or plan (cannot recall whether it was in another study or an old newspaper article) to route the freeway along (maybe over?) Chouteau Avenue.
17N on the EB Belt Parkway in Queens. Had a WB entrance.
to cross bay blvd north. this created a left/straight/right lane on the 17(S) ramp.
As long as this has been revived... There used to be an abomination of an interchange at M-63 and Klock Road near St. Joseph MI. Chris Bessert has a great animation of aerial photos showing the interchange and the area after its removal on his Michigan Highways website: http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/M-63_Klock_Interchange.html
Soon Exit 306 off I-80 in Pennsylvania will be removed as part of the Stroudsburg reconstruction project.
In St. Paul, the interchange on I-35E at Pennsylvania Avenue was eliminated and replaced with one to the north at Cayuga Street when 35E was rebuilt and widened several years ago.
Quote from: amroad17 on October 21, 2012, 01:24:23 PM
A double trumpet involving 7th North Street! The interchange was re-done in the late 1960's; even the 7th North interchange was re-done sometime between 1972 and 2003.
I like how I-81 was only completed between Park St. (near current day Carousel Mall) and US 11 in Mattydale in 1956.
If you look further south from the I-81/Thruway interchange, you will see that I-81 was relocated further east between the Hiawatha interchange and the 7th North interchange. (Compare 1972 to 2003) This was done between 1976-1980. The SB exit ramp from I-81 to Park St. used to be the SB mainline. Apparently, NYSDOT wanted to straighten out that section of I-81 instead of having a left curve followed by a semi-sharp right curve.
This was actually done around 1981-1982 and at the same time I-81 from Exit 24 to US 11/Mattydale was widened to its current configuration. When exiting from I-81 NB to NY 57 there was a sign that said "(left arrow) NY 57 Liverpool / Old Liverpool Rd (right arrow)" at the split. When NY 57 was decommissioned in 1981, NYSDOT slapped a guide sign style NY 370 marker over the "NY 57" that was there for a year or two before the entire interchange was rebuilt. I also remember the outline marker for NY 57 being covered up with a newer style NY 370 marker on the guide signs on I-81 NB.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 11, 2020, 03:59:11 PM
In St. Paul, the interchange on I-35E at Pennsylvania Avenue was eliminated and replaced with one to the north at Cayuga Street when 35E was rebuilt and widened several years ago.
More than that...they moved the entire freeway about a block or so to the east in that area *heh*. :-D
I-35 used to have an exit to S.E. 82nd Street in Oklahoma City. It had some comically-steep ramps with a big hump toward the top. It was way too close to the I-35/I-240 interchange, so it was removed, first the northbound ramps in 2004, then the southbound ones just a few years ago.
Pictures from OKRoads:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.okhighways.com%2F090402%2Fi35exit121a.jpg&hash=2398fc6506dc69bd990426c8bd4f520a6af3072a)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.okhighways.com%2F100402%2Fi35exit121a.jpg&hash=c5bd212eff21db73411aadd5f7eca213f7affd38)
Quote from: DJ Particle on April 13, 2020, 02:26:39 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 11, 2020, 03:59:11 PM
In St. Paul, the interchange on I-35E at Pennsylvania Avenue was eliminated and replaced with one to the north at Cayuga Street when 35E was rebuilt and widened several years ago.
More than that...they moved the entire freeway about a block or so to the east in that area *heh*. :-D
Only over the Cayuga Bridge. At Pennsylvania Ave proper, the "move" was on the order of only about 40 feet. Today's southbound right lane over Pennsylvania Ave is roughly where the original median was.
In Detroit, there was some Left exits from I-94 at W. Grand Blvd and Warren that are no longer there. the WB ramps for W. Grand blvd and Warren was removed in the early 70s (after a new RH exit for Warren was built after the opening of I-96 to I-94) and the EB ramps was closed in 2016. for years, you could see the remains of the WB exits for W. Grand and Warren on the bridges after the ramps was removed (from where the ramps attach to the bridges)
Quote from: cwf1701 on April 13, 2020, 02:02:17 PM
In Detroit, there was some Left exits from I-94 at W. Grand Blvd and Warren that are no longer there. the WB ramps for W. Grand blvd and Warren was removed in the early 70s (after a new RH exit for Warren was built after the opening of I-96 to I-94) and the EB ramps was closed in 2016. for years, you could see the remains of the WB exits for W. Grand and Warren on the bridges after the ramps was removed (from where the ramps attach to the bridges)
I remember those left exit ramps. When I was a wee lad, my father would drive me from the western suburbs to the YMCA on West Grand Blvd. and Dexter for swimming lessons, exiting off the freeway there. If my memory serves, there was also a left entrance ramp from W. Grand onto WB I-94.
I-40, Exit 109. Old Morrilton rest stop. Scene of a grisly murder/rape that caused the state to close down multiple rest stops in Arkansas.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1721826,-92.6980464,478m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1721826,-92.6980464,478m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)
Quote from: MikieTimT on April 14, 2020, 04:42:25 PM
I-40, Exit 109. Old Morrilton rest stop. Scene of a grisly murder/rape that caused the state to close down multiple rest stops in Arkansas.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1721826,-92.6980464,478m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1721826,-92.6980464,478m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)
I can see why...from a personal safety standpoint, that's a TERRIBLE rest area design! 😳
Quote from: catch22 on April 14, 2020, 12:16:55 PM
Quote from: cwf1701 on April 13, 2020, 02:02:17 PM
In Detroit, there was some Left exits from I-94 at W. Grand Blvd and Warren that are no longer there. the WB ramps for W. Grand blvd and Warren was removed in the early 70s (after a new RH exit for Warren was built after the opening of I-96 to I-94) and the EB ramps was closed in 2016. for years, you could see the remains of the WB exits for W. Grand and Warren on the bridges after the ramps was removed (from where the ramps attach to the bridges)
I remember those left exit ramps. When I was a wee lad, my father would drive me from the western suburbs to the YMCA on West Grand Blvd. and Dexter for swimming lessons, exiting off the freeway there. If my memory serves, there was also a left entrance ramp from W. Grand onto WB I-94.
I Don't there was ever a left entrance ramp for WB-I-94 at W. Grand. for years, the old crossover for the WB exit ramp at W. Grand was used as a Michigan Left after the exit was removed. Most of my memories of the area was coming from Macomb County and passing those ramps on the way to the west side.
Quote from: cwf1701 on April 15, 2020, 12:52:01 PM
Quote from: catch22 on April 14, 2020, 12:16:55 PM
Quote from: cwf1701 on April 13, 2020, 02:02:17 PM
In Detroit, there was some Left exits from I-94 at W. Grand Blvd and Warren that are no longer there. the WB ramps for W. Grand blvd and Warren was removed in the early 70s (after a new RH exit for Warren was built after the opening of I-96 to I-94) and the EB ramps was closed in 2016. for years, you could see the remains of the WB exits for W. Grand and Warren on the bridges after the ramps was removed (from where the ramps attach to the bridges)
I remember those left exit ramps. When I was a wee lad, my father would drive me from the western suburbs to the YMCA on West Grand Blvd. and Dexter for swimming lessons, exiting off the freeway there. If my memory serves, there was also a left entrance ramp from W. Grand onto WB I-94.
I Don't there was ever a left entrance ramp for WB-I-94 at W. Grand. for years, the old crossover for the WB exit ramp at W. Grand was used as a Michigan Left after the exit was removed. Most of my memories of the area was coming from Macomb County and passing those ramps on the way to the west side.
You're right, my memory was wrong. I found this aerial photo from 1956 that shows the intersection layout clearly (lower left of the image). Thanks for the memory jog.
https://digital.library.wayne.edu/dte_aerial/part2/wayne/1956/ga-1-103.pdf
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Quote from: frankenroad on April 16, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I don't think I-75 ever had an interchange here. Looking at historic aerials, every image from 1959 to the present shows the road completed but no interchange. I'd guess those triangles of ROW are just for grading around the overpass.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on April 17, 2020, 08:46:21 AM
Quote from: frankenroad on April 16, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I don't think I-75 ever had an interchange here. Looking at historic aerials, every image from 1959 to the present shows the road completed but no interchange. I'd guess those triangles of ROW are just for grading around the overpass.
It could have been ROW that was preserved for a potential future interchange that would be built when the area grew up to it. OTOH, the modern design standards of the interstate highway system preclude that due to it being too close to other existing interchanges, so it stays like that, and can be easily sold off by the DOT for return to the local tax roles with little consequence.
There are a few such never-built 'ghost' interchanges on the east-west part of I-41 across the north side of the Appleton to Kaukauna, WI metro area, too.
Mike
There were ramps on US 30 and 34 they were demolished in reconstruction some time ago. There were some ramps on the Kennedy Expressway near Western for a possible freeway. It was never even studied . Only the Crosstown meat Cicero was.
Quote from: mgk920 on April 17, 2020, 11:03:50 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on April 17, 2020, 08:46:21 AM
Quote from: frankenroad on April 16, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I don't think I-75 ever had an interchange here. Looking at historic aerials, every image from 1959 to the present shows the road completed but no interchange. I'd guess those triangles of ROW are just for grading around the overpass.
It could have been ROW that was preserved for a potential future interchange that would be built when the area grew up to it. OTOH, the modern design standards of the interstate highway system preclude that due to it being too close to other existing interchanges, so it stays like that, and can be easily sold off by the DOT for return to the local tax roles with little consequence.
There are a few such never-built 'ghost' interchanges on the east-west part of I-41 across the north side of the Appleton to Kaukauna, WI metro area, too.
Mike
Below is a link to Ohio Highway maps by year. Look at the maps from 1973 and 1974 - it disappeared that year. Coincidentally, the 1974 map is the first one with mileage-based exit numbers; 1972 was the last for sequentially-numbered exits - the 1973 map does not have exit numbers.
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/TechServ/TIM/Pages/OfficialTransportationMaps.aspx
Quote from: frankenroad on April 17, 2020, 04:36:06 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 17, 2020, 11:03:50 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on April 17, 2020, 08:46:21 AM
Quote from: frankenroad on April 16, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I don't think I-75 ever had an interchange here. Looking at historic aerials, every image from 1959 to the present shows the road completed but no interchange. I'd guess those triangles of ROW are just for grading around the overpass.
It could have been ROW that was preserved for a potential future interchange that would be built when the area grew up to it. OTOH, the modern design standards of the interstate highway system preclude that due to it being too close to other existing interchanges, so it stays like that, and can be easily sold off by the DOT for return to the local tax roles with little consequence.
There are a few such never-built 'ghost' interchanges on the east-west part of I-41 across the north side of the Appleton to Kaukauna, WI metro area, too.
Mike
Below is a link to Ohio Highway maps by year. Look at the maps from 1973 and 1974 - it disappeared that year. Coincidentally, the 1974 map is the first one with mileage-based exit numbers; 1972 was the last for sequentially-numbered exits - the 1973 map does not have exit numbers.
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/TechServ/TIM/Pages/OfficialTransportationMaps.aspx
I live near Youngstown, Ohio, so I'm not familiar with this area or interchange; but looking at the Ohio 1971, 1972, and 1973 maps, they do show an interchange NOT at Allen Twp Rd 109, but one south of there at Twp Rd 101, just south of some railroad tracks (detail shown on 1973 map). So that leads me to believe that the Allen Twp Rd 109 interchange ROW was acquired and graded, but never actually built or used. And it would appear that the "paper" interchange at Twp. Rd. 101 also was never built.
There is a similar situation south of Youngstown, just northwest of Columbiana where OH-11 was supposed to have (potentially) a full cloverleaf interchange with a proposed eastward 4-lane extension from Salem of OH-14/US-62. The outline of that proposed interchange is clearly visible here:
https://goo.gl/maps/4axEfDw8mF7fuo4q7
There do appear to be stubs on Township Road 101 at I-75, so an interchange may have existed there briefly: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1071101,-83.6595141,375m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
The southern split of US 42 and US 250 at Ashland, Ohio was converted from an interchange to an at-grade intersection a couple years ago:
Interchange: https://goo.gl/maps/9jmXUhpSmdT7wyvw8
Intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/M3NmBGNtNEr2qxj37
Quote from: ftballfan on April 18, 2020, 10:38:32 AM
There do appear to be stubs on Township Road 101 at I-75, so an interchange may have existed there briefly: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1071101,-83.6595141,375m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Historic Aerials does show a pair of RIROs there in 1959. Before that, the road just jogged roughly along what is now the northbound lanes. The RIROs were removed by 1972, leaving the stubs that remain today.
Quote from: Roadsguy on April 18, 2020, 02:42:01 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on April 18, 2020, 10:38:32 AM
There do appear to be stubs on Township Road 101 at I-75, so an interchange may have existed there briefly: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1071101,-83.6595141,375m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Historic Aerials does show a pair of RIROs there in 1959. Before that, the road just jogged roughly along what is now the northbound lanes. The RIROs were removed by 1972, leaving the stubs that remain today.
My recollection was that this section of road was built first as a US-25 divided highway, which would allow for the original RIROs. Checking the 1959 Ohio highway map confirms this. When it was upgraded to a freeway to accommodate I-75, the RIROs had to go.
Quote from: frankenroad on April 17, 2020, 04:36:06 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 17, 2020, 11:03:50 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on April 17, 2020, 08:46:21 AM
Quote from: frankenroad on April 16, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
On I-75 at Allen Twp Rd 109 north of Findlay. This image shows the outline pretty clearly, even though the exit has been gone 20 or 30 years. Interestingly, the grading for the ramps has been taken away, but it appears the state still owns the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1243178,-83.6602816,702m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I don't think I-75 ever had an interchange here. Looking at historic aerials, every image from 1959 to the present shows the road completed but no interchange. I'd guess those triangles of ROW are just for grading around the overpass.
It could have been ROW that was preserved for a potential future interchange that would be built when the area grew up to it. OTOH, the modern design standards of the interstate highway system preclude that due to it being too close to other existing interchanges, so it stays like that, and can be easily sold off by the DOT for return to the local tax roles with little consequence.
There are a few such never-built 'ghost' interchanges on the east-west part of I-41 across the north side of the Appleton to Kaukauna, WI metro area, too.
Mike
Below is a link to Ohio Highway maps by year. Look at the maps from 1973 and 1974 - it disappeared that year. Coincidentally, the 1974 map is the first one with mileage-based exit numbers; 1972 was the last for sequentially-numbered exits - the 1973 map does not have exit numbers.
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/TechServ/TIM/Pages/OfficialTransportationMaps.aspx
Looking at the 1973 map, I see an interchange at T 101, not T 109. And again, the 1972 aerial does not show an interchange, so it can't have disappeared between 1973 and 1974.
I think we can pretty conclusively say that there was never an interchange at 109.
Would the ghost ramps of the axed Mt Hood Freeway in Portland, OR count?
What is now the Salem Parkway in Kernersville, NC, but was at one time Business 40, and before that just i-40, had an interchange for Colfax that used to split US 421 south from I-40 east until 421 was moved to Business 40. It was a left exit (secret 205 pre-business 40, 16 business 40). Now, to get to Colfax, you take the Macy Grove Road interchange (exit 17 old, now exit 221). The old interchange was ripped out in 2015/2016.
And to add in Ohio, the exit in Dayton for Little York/Stop eight Road on I-75 was removed a few years ago. on google maps, you can see the remains of the old exit on the satellite view
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8529301,-84.1914012,963m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Quote from: cwf1701 on April 26, 2020, 11:04:45 PM
And to add in Ohio, the exit in Dayton for Little York/Stop eight Road on I-75 was removed a few years ago. on google maps, you can see the remains of the old exit on the satellite view
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8529301,-84.1914012,963m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
The reason the above-named interchange was removed was to avoid much weaving when the I-75/I-70 interchange was re-done. This interchange was less than 1/2 mile from the old I-70 ramps. Since these ramps were lengthened in the upgrade, the Little York/Stop Eight interchange would be too close to the new ramps. So, a new interchange was constructed at Wyse/Benchwood (1/2 mile south of the abandoned interchange) and Little York/Stop Eight was closed after Wyse/Benchwood opened in the early 2000's.
It was a fairly nice design of a RIRO interchange, though.