Farthest You've Gone Between Traffic Lights???

[hbelkins]

EDIT: I'm not sure if this counts, but US 11/15 from Selinsgrove, PA to Camp Hill, PA is 41.8 miles.  It's a mix of at-grade intersections, jughandles, and expressway.

Aren't there some lights in the Marysville area?

[roadman65]

US 441 from Lake City, FL to Homerville, GA back in 05 was with no signals.  The road is two lanes and is rare in this part of the country.

US 301 from Bowie, MD to Middletown, DE is a very long stretch of highway with no lights, although north of US 50 has flashing beacons at all at grade intersections!  I do not think we can actual say they are signals!  Also, even though some is freeway, still most part is expressway.

[Fleetwood Mac Attack]

How about US 77 in rural southern Texas? I drove this a couple years ago and don't remember seeing any stoplights for a very long stretch - perhaps someone can fill me in. I went from Robstown (just west of Corpus Christi) to South Padre; US 77 turns into an expressway north of Harlingen. Anyone know of traffic lights on this 118-mile stretch?

[dislocatedkid]

The longest one i can think that I've actually traveled would MN-1 from Ely to Thief River Falls. Which, according to google is an even 200 miles. Id imagine thats the longest stretch in the state for a single 2 laned route number.

[golden eagle]

Now that I think about it, I think the longest I've driven between traffic lights was on US 82 between Greenwood, MS to Tuscaloosa, AL. I believe there's a traffic light in one of the towns between Columbus and Tuscaloosa. Still, Greenwood to the Alabama line is about a good 100 miles.

[Jerseyman4]

Although a short stretch, my best memory would be between US 130 and the beginning of the Trenton Freeway along US Highway 1 southbound. I never got stuck at one traffic light through the entire 55mph speed zone that's 6 lanes in North Brunswick, Plainsboro, West Windsor and Lawrence while 4 lanes in South Brunswick. That would be a length of 19 miles and i was able to  beat 7 lights in North Brunswick, 11 in South Brunswick, 0 in Plainsboro (there are none), 4 in West Windsor and 1 in Lawrence.

[roadman65]

How about US 77 in rural southern Texas? I drove this a couple years ago and don't remember seeing any stoplights for a very long stretch - perhaps someone can fill me in. I went from Robstown (just west of Corpus Christi) to South Padre; US 77 turns into an expressway north of Harlingen. Anyone know of traffic lights on this 118-mile stretch?

Talking about Kenedy County that has a three digit population there.  No signals exist at all in the county.  I think US 77 might be the only road open to the public in the county.  It is all ranch land and survived a Category 5 hurricane due to its ruralness.

[roadman65]

US 19 between Perry, FL and Thomasville, GA has only flashing beacons in Monticello, FL and at Capps, FL and no fully functional lights.  Unless signals have been added since I last traveled there in 06 north of Capps and last year the 19- 27 concurrency, it then changes this mention.

[SSOWorld]

Simple - along any interstate

[ftballfan]

How about US 77 in rural southern Texas? I drove this a couple years ago and don't remember seeing any stoplights for a very long stretch - perhaps someone can fill me in. I went from Robstown (just west of Corpus Christi) to South Padre; US 77 turns into an expressway north of Harlingen. Anyone know of traffic lights on this 118-mile stretch?

Talking about Kenedy County that has a three digit population there.  No signals exist at all in the county.  I think US 77 might be the only road open to the public in the county.  It is all ranch land and survived a Category 5 hurricane due to its ruralness.

Interesting non-road-related tidbit: Hurricane Bret is the only major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. and NOT have its name retired, as it hit Kenedy County in 1999 as a Category 4 hurricane.

[corco]

On US-95 in Idaho you can go from Park St in Weiser to Palouse River Rd in Moscow before you hit a light- that's 255 miles. 12/95 through Lewiston does not regularly use interchanges, but there are interchanges at the 12/95 splits, which prevents the need for a light. You could truncate to that if you wanted to be picky- that's still 216 miles.

As far as drives I've personally, taken, I'd bet it was this Kemmerer to Laramie trek (449 miles)

[yakra]

Simple - along any interstate 

The criteria:

    * At no time can you include a part of any freeway, expressway, super-2 or any type of limited-access highway which regularly uses exits for accessing crossroads. [emphasis added. -yak]
    * Encountering stop signs and/or flashing blinkers (one color per direction) are okay to include on your travels.
    * Highways with decommissioned (signals that could be switched on at anytime), and/or part-time traffic signals (programmed to flash in off-hours) are not okay to count.

Rereading that -- no Super-2s, eh? Poo. So NH9's prolly Hi-Standard enough that I'd have to leave it out, then. Keene to Concord would be good for about 50 mi...
How about ME US2 from Lincoln barely into Dyer Brook, about 54.7 mi?

[surferdude]

Forrest County in Pennsylvania does not have one traffic located in it.

[kphoger]

I grew up in Atwood, Kansas; I don't think I've done this entire stretch in one shot, but....
US-36 is stoplight-free from Byers (CO) to Norton (KS), which is 240 miles.
For sure, I've personally driven between Byers and my old house in Atwood, which is 179 miles.

I've also driven from Colby (KS) to Ulysses (KS) via KS-25, which is 147 miles.

If I'm allowed to count national park roads, then Fort Stockton (TX) to Cottonwood camprgound in Big Bend N.P. is 161 miles.

From Halls Crossing (Glen Canyon, UT) to Cedar City (UT), we did it one of two ways, I can't remember:
UT-276, UT-95, UT-24, UT-12, (US-89, UT-143, UT-14) OR (US-89, UT-14).  It's 300 miles one way, and 297 the other.

There are plenty of routes that top 100 miles in western Nebraska, but I believe all the ones I've driven have had stoplights.

[roadman65]

I think US 98 from Port St. Joe, FL to Perry, FL is stoplight free.