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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20121008/ARTICLE/121009664/-1/news?p=2&tc=pg
The county plans to break ground on the seventh and final phase of the Honore project in summer 2013. The final 2.7-mile leg will use what used to be two southbound I-75 lanes until the state shifted the highway east, as part of recently completed construction.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=27.149799,-82.421858&spn=0.01749,0.033023&gl=us&t=k&z=16
The lanes to the west have been bypassed, including two bridges that will be reused.
The I-280 drawbridge over the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio was reused as a surface connection in the city after the Glass City Skyway was built.
Not Interstate but close...half the lanes (northbound, I believe, with southbound torn up) of a part of old MA 128 were repurposed as Jubilee Drive in the Centennial Park development when the tie-in to the final link of I-95 to 128 was completed in the late 80s. At least for some time right after, the original 128 pavement lived on, restriped. I am not sure if it has been repaved since but probably has. The Historic Aerials (http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=42.5225744754005&lon=-70.9737525732419&year=1978) has the best view. Compare 1978 to 1995 and it is clear what section of 128 was bypassed.
Quote from: PurdueBill on November 05, 2012, 12:46:56 AM
Not Interstate but close...half the lanes (northbound, I believe, with southbound torn up) of a part of old MA 128 were repurposed as Jubilee Drive in the Centennial Park development when the tie-in to the final link of I-95 to 128 was completed in the late 80s. At least for some time right after, the original 128 pavement lived on, restriped. I am not sure if it has been repaved since but probably has. The Historic Aerials (http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=42.5225744754005&lon=-70.9737525732419&year=1978) has the best view. Compare 1978 to 1995 and it is clear what section of 128 was bypassed.
Prior to the current Jubilee Drive development, that stretch of former-Route 128 was still dotted with the same stream of wooded utility poles that it had when it was still a highway. Jubilee Drive, which used to be an-open area dead-end (visible from the Forest St./Centenial Dr. interchange and the 128 North on-ramp for I-95 South), now dead-ends into a parking lot for an office building complex.
In Fort Worth, Texas, the old I-30 railroad underpass was re-purposed for city street use.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.747288,-97.320998&spn=0.000003,0.001566&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=32.747288,-97.320998&panoid=YMS5-fiL1DF94qOfRVm1sw&cbp=12,232.15,,0,0 (https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.747288,-97.320998&spn=0.000003,0.001566&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=32.747288,-97.320998&panoid=YMS5-fiL1DF94qOfRVm1sw&cbp=12,232.15,,0,0)
Also not an interstate, but the very western end of the former WI 29 freeway in Chippewa Falls, WI was downgraded to Seymour Cray Bd (a local street) when the new WI 29 Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls bypass freeway was completed a few years ago.
http://goo.gl/maps/1KGEP
Mike
The old lanes of I-84 in Mass were turned back into a local road when the interstate was rerouted in the 70s.
Kearny Villa Rd., San Diego (http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/ca/kearny)
I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway.
Hasn't happened yet, but in D.C. once the 11th Street Bridge project is completed, the bypassed part of the Southeast Freeway between the 11th Street Bridges and Pennsylvania Ave. SE (once part of I-295) will be torn up and converted to a boulevard.
Quote from: national highway 1 on November 05, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway
I remember that well.
What was once planned as I-485 in Atlanta is now the Freedom Parkway (GA 10), which is mostly at-grade until you hit the short limited-access piece leading to the Downtown Connector, and even there, for some reason an at-grade crossing also exists in the northbound ramps to/from it.
Quote from: national highway 1 on November 05, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy.
Isn't Mandela Parkway basically the same Cypress Street that existed before the original Cypress Freeway was built? (The right of way of the old viaduct is now median space)
I'm thinking of Sam Cooper Blvd. in Memphis, which was the stub end of I-40 before they abandoned the idea of building it through Overton Park. Most of it is still controlled access, but I believe it is city-maintained.
The former northbound lanes of I-95 in Newburyport, MA have been converted into a bike path, does that count?
[And I use the word converted loosely. All they did was apply a few markings to guide bikes and put up signs at the access point on MA 113 - otherwise all the original pavement and markings are intact.]
If I-70 went all the way down the connector to US-40 in Kirkersville, Ohio, then the former eastbound lanes are now OH-158, a surface road. (I'm not sure where the I-70 designation stopped, though. It may have just been US-40 once it diverged from the future route.)
Quote from: TheStranger on November 05, 2012, 10:21:26 PM
Quote from: national highway 1 on November 05, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy.
Isn't Mandela Parkway basically the same Cypress Street that existed before the original Cypress Freeway was built? (The right of way of the old viaduct is now median space)
Yes
And those urban planners aren't done yet! In a few years, the south end of I-83 in Baltimore, I-95 along the Philadelphia waterfront and the Claiborne portion of I-10 in New Orleans could all suffer the same fate. I'm sure there are others out there.
The 83 thing is understandable since it's not a really major through route, just like that earthquaked freeway in CA, but I-95 will NEVER be removed for that reason. I doubt PennDOT will ever let that happen anyway. It would cause chaos beyond imagination... :banghead:
FL 681, sort of. Not limited access, but it was formerly the southern end of I-75. Which is right next to the curiosity in the question of the original post, so I may have missed the point.
Was FL 681 ever signed as I-75?
I'm surprised old I-40 through Oklahoma City hasn't been brought up yet.
Granted, it's still pending: http://www.okc.gov/planning/coretoshore/boulevard.html
I nearly brought it up, but 1) the original I-40 pavement that will remain is going to stay a freeway, and 2) the at-grade portion is only going to use the I-40 alignment, not any of the pavement.
Quote from: national highway 1 on November 05, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway
The Embarcadero always ran underneath the 480 freeway, although it was extensively rebuilt after the freeway was torn down. Some of the old Embarcadero Fwy ramp areas have been repurposed into developable real estate.
Likewise, old Octavia Street existed where the SB frontage road is now. The boulevard was expanded into the elevated freeway ROW, but the highway itself was torn down and not repurposed. Lots are being developed on the east side.
I know this does not count, but it comes close. Part of the original I-20 near Terrel, TX was downgraded to US 80 when I-20 was given its present alignment that bypasses both Downtown areas of the Metroplex that the extended I- 30 now serves.
US 80 is still freeway up to standards so its not a street, but it was downgraded in designation. So in a sense it is almost like.
This happened in Kelso, WA, although I'm not sure the old US 99 expressway was officially part of I-5 because it had an at-grade intersection (probably it was considered "TEMP I-5"). However, when I-5 bypasses it to the west, it became part of city-maintained Kelso Drive, a street with a wide grassy median, seen here on Google Maps:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=46.1301,-122.89299&spn=0.014662,0.042272&t=h&z=15
Was part of Eisenhower Boulevard near Harrisburg, PA ever I-83? The section around Derry Street looks the same as I-83 north of there and directly in line with it. I am guessing that the notorious interchange with I-283 was added later and 83 used what is now Eisenhower and then got back on its current alignement where Eisenhower passes beneath I-83.
Quote from: Beeper1 on November 05, 2012, 05:27:10 PM
The old lanes of I-84 in Mass were turned back into a local road when the interstate was rerouted in the 70s.
Why did they reroute I 84?
The original route of I-84 was no quite up to interstate standards. It was originally built as an extension of the Wilbur Cross Highway from the state line to US-20 in the 1940s, extended to the Mass Turnpike in the 50s, and carried the I-84 (and for a while I-86) number when the interstates were first designated. The road was 4 lanes divided, but had some median turn-arounds and at-grade intersectons. By the 1970s, the high amount of traffic was making the old route unsafe so, in order to being it to interstate standards and get rid og the at-grade intersections, they built a brand new 3-lane roadway for one direction of 84, made one side of the old road into a new 3-lane for the other direction of 84, and left the other half of the old road as a local two-way frontage road. They added 2 full interchanges to connect the frontage road and all remaining side roads connected to it. There is some interesting stuff on the old road, including an abandoned service area that closed when the new highway opened.
This isn't a case of an interstate being repurposed as a surface road, but a freeway route being realigned when the Interstate was built and a piece of the old freeway pressed into service as a surface road.
This was the old Foothill Freeway (California 118) that ran between Pasadena and La Canada Flintridge. It was a funky little freeway built in the 1950s, just two or three miles long and only four lanes. In the early 1970s when they built I-210, the western mile or so of the old freeway disappeared under the 210, but the eastern part of it still crosses over the Arroyo Seco and is now an extension of Woodbury Road from Altadena until it bends north on an alignment built at the same time as the 210 Freeway to hook it into Oak Grove Drive and Berkshire Place right by La Canada High School. Just east of the Arroyo Seco crossing, there is still an original overpass under an old alignment of Arroyo Boulevard.
until about 5 years ago, there was a 1955 white guide sign with the distance to Ventura.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 12, 2012, 01:11:48 PM
until about 5 years ago, there was a 1955 white guide sign with the distance to Ventura.
I vaguely remember that.
In Boston, what was originally intended to be I-95 between the Southeast Expressway and the I-695/Inner Belt is now the Mass Ave. Connector & Melnea Cass Blvd. from I-93 to MA 28 (Tremont St.).
Quote from: roadman65 on November 10, 2012, 11:26:22 PM
Was part of Eisenhower Boulevard near Harrisburg, PA ever I-83?
yes
Even before that, I hear what is now I-83 was just a four-lane expressway that fed into Eisenhower Blvd, and stub-ended north of US 22 (according to Historic Aerials' shots).
Quote from: Beeper1 on November 12, 2012, 10:52:14 AM
The original route of I-84 was no quite up to interstate standards. It was originally built as an extension of the Wilbur Cross Highway from the state line to US-20 in the 1940s, extended to the Mass Turnpike in the 50s, and carried the I-84 (and for a while I-86) number when the interstates were first designated. The road was 4 lanes divided, but had some median turn-arounds and at-grade intersectons. By the 1970s, the high amount of traffic was making the old route unsafe so, in order to being it to interstate standards and get rid og the at-grade intersections, they built a brand new 3-lane roadway for one direction of 84, made one side of the old road into a new 3-lane for the other direction of 84, and left the other half of the old road as a local two-way frontage road. They added 2 full interchanges to connect the frontage road and all remaining side roads connected to it. There is some interesting stuff on the old road, including an abandoned service area that closed when the new highway opened.
Thanks for the info Beeper1. Very interesting.
Quote from: formulanone on November 07, 2012, 05:45:38 PM
FL 681, sort of. Not limited access, but it was formerly the southern end of I-75. Which is right next to the curiosity in the question of the original post, so I may have missed the point.
FL 681 was not the southern end of Interstate 75 - when this segment of Interstate 75 from US 301 in Ellenton to River Road east of Venice opened in 1981 FL 681 was constructed to provide a northbound entry/southbound exit from Interstate 75 into Venice, complete with a southbound FL 681 flyover onto southbound US 41.
Quote from: roadman65 on November 10, 2012, 11:26:22 PM
Was part of Eisenhower Boulevard near Harrisburg, PA ever I-83? The section around Derry Street looks the same as I-83 north of there and directly in line with it. I am guessing that the notorious interchange with I-283 was added later and 83 used what is now Eisenhower and then got back on its current alignement where Eisenhower passes beneath I-83.
Quote from: Roadsguy on November 13, 2012, 08:01:19 AM
Even before that, I hear what is now I-83 was just a four-lane expressway that fed into Eisenhower Blvd, and stub-ended north of US 22 (according to Historic Aerials' shots).
The complications and compromises surrounding I-83 in the Harrisburg area are rooted in the fact that it was cobbled together from existing expressway segments.
The east-west portion is the Harrisburg Expressway, which originally ran from US 11 at Mechanicsburg in the west to US 322 heading toward Hershey in the east. The north-south road was originally By-Pass 230 which connected to US 22 at the north and continued via Eisenhower Blvd. to US 230 at the south. The mangled partial cloverleaf at Derry St. is a remnant of BYP 230.
I don't know if that short, ground-level section around Derry St. and Paxton St. was ever actually signed as I-83, though. While the Eisenhower Interchange was under construction around 1969-71, I'd imagine that NB 83 traffic was forced to exit at Paxton St., turn left onto Eisenhower Blvd at-grade, then merge onto the completed portion of I-83.
I want to say that parts of old I-90 in the Wallace or Kellogg, Idaho area are now a surface street/frontage road.
I haven't been there in over ten years, but there's the park-and-ride in repurposed I-70 pavement west of Baltimore.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on May 20, 2013, 10:19:45 AM
I haven't been there in over ten years, but there's the park-and-ride in repurposed I-70 pavement west of Baltimore.
North of DC, just south of the I-95/495/Capital Beltway interchange; there's a truck weigh station and a park-and-ride facility located where I-95 south the Beltway was originally planned to continue. Access to and from the facilities utilize the old I-95 pavement and ramps.
In Canton, MA at the I-93/95 (US 1/MA 128) interchange; salt sheds and statemaintenance truck facilities are located on old abandoned mainline I-95 and interchange ramp pavement.