Longest Continuous Street?

Started by Bigmikelakers, December 25, 2012, 11:47:53 PM

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agentsteel53

Quote from: Kacie Jane on December 27, 2012, 03:13:08 PM

My gut says 101 would be pretty high on the list if not #1.  Can't think of any multiplexes off the top of my head.

I think there is something wacky going on at the East LA Interchange that results in a 101/5 multiplex, at least on paper.

something similarly goofy at 80 in San Francisco.
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cpzilliacus

U.S. 301 and Md. 3 is Crain Highway from the Virginia end of the Gov. Nice Bridge to the intersection of Md. 3 and Md. 175 in Millersville. That is slightly over 58 miles (pretty long for a small state).
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roadman65

How about Lee Highway in VA? It goes from Bristol to Arlington.
Then you have the JEB Stuart Highway name for US 58.

Then Jefferson Davis Highway for US 1.  It is named that in Arlington and in between RIchmond and Petersburg over 100 miles away. although it is broken in Richmond (Chamberlayne Avenue/ Belvidere Street), but after Ashland it stays continuous right through Fredericksburg and all the way up to Alexandria before getting broken up with Richmond Highway and the one way pair of Patrick Street and Henry Street in Alexandria only to regain itself for a bit and even continue on VA 110.

By the way how many miles is Broadway in New York?  It goes from the tip of the Battery all the way up to past Tarrytown.  It must be up over 30 miles or so.
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TheStranger

Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 27, 2012, 03:17:59 PM
Quote from: Kacie Jane on December 27, 2012, 03:13:08 PM

My gut says 101 would be pretty high on the list if not #1.  Can't think of any multiplexes off the top of my head.

I think there is something wacky going on at the East LA Interchange that results in a 101/5 multiplex, at least on paper.

something similarly goofy at 80 in San Francisco.

101/5 signage now is the lazy CalTrans implied TO, going southbound on the Santa Ana Freeway.  (To some extent, a vestige of the former 101/5 co-signings on the Santa Ana, San Diego, and Montgomery Freeways)

101/80 DID have a concurrency from 1956-1968 on the Central Freeway, and westbound signage on the Skyway into the 1980s reflected this (101/80 Civic Center, now switched to [implied TO] 101).

Other than that, all concurrencies on 101 now are with state highways (or with US 26, though not sure that one is in existence anymore).
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agentsteel53

gotta be 101, then.

funny how my mind works - I immediately dismissed 101 as a candidate for this question, thinking "concurrent with 5 in San Diego".
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Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
How about Lee Highway in VA? It goes from Bristol to Arlington.
Then you have the JEB Stuart Highway name for US 58.

In terms of being able to stay on the same road without having to turn off, the combination of US 11W, US 11, and US 58 from Bean Station, TN to the East Third Street dead-end in Damascus, VA is a good 96 miles long!

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Quote from: agentsteel53gotta be 101, then.

funny how my mind works - I immediately dismissed 101 as a candidate for this question, thinking "concurrent with 5 in San Diego".

Interestingly, in the 1960s, 101 was slated to have THREE Interstate concurrencies (105 in east Los Angeles, 80 in the Hayes Valley of SF, and 480 through the Presidio) in its first 450 miles...but due to the removal of a redundant designation for the first example and route cancellations in the latter two, it now has none.
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Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 27, 2012, 01:08:25 PM
Quote from: leroys73 on December 26, 2012, 10:26:18 PM
Is this street or highway we are talking about?  I understand that US 83 is the longest "non broken" US route.

define "non-broken"?  US-20 is broken, but US-6 is not.  or does US-6 no longer count because it has been truncated?  that eliminates US-50, US-40, several others... but (just as an example) US-1 is longer than US-83 and that is fundamentally unchanged from its 1938 extension to Key West.

not multiplexed with an interstate?  US-83 is the same road as I-35 heading out of Laredo briefly, just as one example.

Agentsteel53,
I understand non-broken is continuous signage.  Yes 83 and 35 run together for a short distance south into Laredo but signage is still there for US 83.  This was originally US 83 roadway.  It runs from the Mexican border at Brownsville to the Canadian border where it becomes Manitoba Highway 83.  None of it has ever been decommissioned. 

Your question below is very interesting.  US 281 is a good start.
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so that leads to the question - what is the longest US route which is not multiplexed with an interstate along any of its length?  US-281 almost qualifies, getting all the way from Canada to I-44 without multiplexing with an interstate.
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Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
How about Lee Highway in VA? It goes from Bristol to Arlington.

But Lee Highway "turns off" of itself at least three times.

In Arlington County, U.S. 29 "leaves" Lee Highway for Old Dominion Drive for a relatively short distance (less than 1 mile).  I believe all of that section of Lee Highway is Va. 309.

When U.S. 29 leaves Arlington County, it enters the City of Falls Church, where Lee Highway is entirely forgotten in favor of Washington Street.  Lee Highway returns on the other side of Falls Church (with Fairfax County owning the northbound side of the street as Lee Highway, while Falls Church owns the southbound side, as was discussed some months ago in this thread).

One could argue that it turns off itself in Warrenton, where "thru" traffic follows U.S. 29/U.S. 15 south toward Opal and Culpeper, and Lee Highway bears right to follow U.S. 211 west across the Blue Ridge. 

Lee Highway absolutely has to "turn" south where U.S. 211 meets U.S. 11 in New Market.

Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
Then you have the JEB Stuart Highway name for US 58.

I have only  driven relatively short sections of U.S. 58, so I cannot comment.

Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
Then Jefferson Davis Highway for US 1.  It is named that in Arlington and in between RIchmond and Petersburg over 100 miles away. although it is broken in Richmond (Chamberlayne Avenue/ Belvidere Street), but after Ashland it stays continuous right through Fredericksburg and all the way up to Alexandria before getting broken up with Richmond Highway and the one way pair of Patrick Street and Henry Street in Alexandria only to regain itself for a bit and even continue on VA 110.

Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) is also "broken" through and near the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County.  The northbound side is Fraley Boulevard, and the southbound side is Main Street.

Good catch regarding Va. 110.
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pianocello

Quote from: kphoger on December 26, 2012, 01:49:19 PM
I'm interested to see Chicago-area examples.

Lehigh Ave/Harlem Ave, from Glenview to Frankfort:  44.3 miles


Thinking about Chicagoland, the road that is mostly known as US-30 runs from Glenwood, IL to Ft. Wayne, IN.
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^ 137 miles, starting at the Glenwood-Dyer Rd. intersection and ending at the Goshen Ave. & State Blvd. intersection in Ft. Wayne.

Duke87

For a question like this, don't neglect Alaska! 859 miles.

There's one place in there where the directions say to make a right turn, but if you look at it on Street View it's clearly straight through.
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theline

Quote from: Duke87 on December 27, 2012, 09:03:57 PM
For a question like this, don't neglect Alaska! 859 miles.

There's one place in there where the directions say to make a right turn, but if you look at it on Street View it's clearly straight through.

If we're talking about a single state, I'm sure that's the winner. Take that, Texas! (And the other 48.)

huskeroadgeek

Before it was common to name rural stretches of road, O Street in Lincoln, NE was considered to be the longest street in the US. The same continuous road had the name "O Street"(or West O Street in the western half of Lancaster County) from where US 6 turns to the east north of Milford, NE to where US 34 meets US 75 in Union, NE-a length of 60 miles. Now the designation as "O Street" continues further west to the Seward-York County line where the same road continues as "Road 9" another 4 miles west before there is a slight jog in the road(the same road also continues east under the name Union Rd. another 3 miles east past US 75 before it dead ends near the Missouri River). That's 77 continuous miles of the same road(without any turns) designated with the same name. While it may not still have the title of the "longest street in the US" anymore, it is still one of the longest continuous stretches of the same road designated with the same name.

mgk920

I'm not sure for Wisconsin, but an interesting candidate begins at the Capitol Square in Madison - E Washington St becomes US 151 (freeway and expressway), continuing northeastward around Fond du Lac to continue northward as WI 55 into Sherwood (US 151 turns off about halfway between FdL and Sherwood).  At Sherwood, the straightest course is Military Rd, which continues northeastward as local township and county roads into far eastern Outagamie County.  There is a shallow-angle intersection at County 'GG'/County 'ZZ' a bit southwest of Wrightstown that could now be considered its 'end', but the original routing was this corridor to continue through.  Assuming that it continues through at this intersection, it then continues through Wrightstown as County 'ZZ' to ultimately end one section east of WI 32/57 at Eiler Rd/Big Valley Rd, a very short distance south of De Pere, WI.

OTOH, others may consider this corridor to end where WI 55 meets WI 114 at the south edge of Sherwood, so YMMV.

:spin:

There are very likely longer continuous corridors elsewhere in the state, though.

Mike

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Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM

By the way how many miles is Broadway in New York?  It goes from the tip of the Battery all the way up to past Tarrytown.  It must be up over 30 miles or so.
Isn't Broadway interrupted at Times Square where it meets Seventh Avenue?
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kphoger

Quote from: pianocello on December 27, 2012, 07:27:18 PM
Quote from: kphoger on December 26, 2012, 01:49:19 PM
I'm interested to see Chicago-area examples.

Lehigh Ave/Harlem Ave, from Glenview to Frankfort:  44.3 miles


Thinking about Chicagoland, the road that is mostly known as US-30 runs from Glenwood, IL to Ft. Wayne, IN.

I was assuming an urban/suburban area, since the topic uses the word 'street' rather than 'road'.

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cpzilliacus

This is from the AASHTO Facebook page, but relevant to this thread, even though it is about a (long) street in Ontario.  Emphasis added.

QuoteToday in Transportation History: December 28, 1795

Major construction on the Canada-based Yonge Street, which was formally recognized at one time as the longest street in the world, began in the town of York (now the city of Toronto). Yonge Street — pronounced "Young" — owes its name to John Graves Simcoe, who served as the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (an area, mostly comprised of what is now southern Ontario, that was set up in 1791 as both the governing center for a lot of what remained of the British Empire's North American holdings and a refuge for Loyalists who fled the U.S. after the American Revolution). Simcoe named the street after Sir George Yonge, who had served as British Secretary at War and was also an authority on Ancient Roman roads. Simcoe sought to build the new road over long-established native trails between York and the upper lakes region. While some construction on Yonge Street had already started as far back as the summer of 1794, that road-building effort actually began in earnest that Monday after Christmas the following year when a military unit called the Queen's Rangers took over the job. Yonge Street ultimately attained a length of approximately 1178 miles. The Guinness Book of World Records listed the route as the longest street in the world as recently as 1999, but now instead highlights the Pan-American Highway as being the longest "motorable road."
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hobsini2

The 4 examples of a regular street I can think of the actually do go into Chicago are the following:

North Ave/IL 64 - from just shy of Lake Shore Dr in Chicago to IL 26 west of Mt Morris is 104 mi.

Roosevelt Rd/IL 38/Jones/Lincoln Hwy/9th St - from Lake Shore Dr in Chicago to the corner of 9th St and Ave B in Rochelle is 77.3 mi. Jones/Lincoln/9th are all in Rochelle.

Northwest Hwy/US 12 (Rand Rd)/Tryon Grove Rd/Vanderkarr Rd/O'Brien Rd - Milwaukee Ave in Chicago to IL 173 east of Harvard.  Yes this is not a misspeak. Rand Rd, which is US 12 through the Northwest Suburbs, does indeed become Northwest Hwy near the Tri-State Tollway (I-294).

Milwaukee Ave/IL 21 - Halsted St/Kinzie St in Chicago to US 41 in Gurnee is 40.5 mi.
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Duke87

Quote from: national highway 1 on December 28, 2012, 02:20:09 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on December 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
By the way how many miles is Broadway in New York?  It goes from the tip of the Battery all the way up to past Tarrytown.  It must be up over 30 miles or so.
Isn't Broadway interrupted at Times Square where it meets Seventh Avenue?
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on December 28, 2012, 07:33:37 AM
Yes, and then is interrupted at Columbus circle and then at Amsterdam Avenue. But then, it leaves a 30.5 mile drive all the way up to where US-9 meets NY-9A North of Ossining without TOTSOs.

Nope, there are four TOTSOs in that stretch. One. Two. Three. Four.

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WTF is a TOTSO?

If we're limiting this to stretches of conventional roads which can be travelled without "turning", I think the longest near my home is probably US 23 / High St / US 23 from north of Chillicothe to south of Waldo, about 60 miles I think.  Unless the stretch through Circleville counts as expressway...

Maybe National Rd / US 40 / OH 16 / (local street whose name I forget) from a point NE of Dayton to somewhere in Granville?  Not sure how long that is...
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CNGL-Leudimin

Quote from: Duke87 on December 28, 2012, 05:17:47 PM
Nope, there are four TOTSOs in that stretch. One. Two. Three. Four.

I don't think 1st and last are TOTSOs, look at road marks in Street View. But yes, the other two are, so no 49 km drive all straight.

BTW, I like that sign with only "9" in it in the last one :)
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kphoger


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CNGL-Leudimin

What The Freak. (I don't want to come up with that F-word, so I used "freak" instead)

Anyway, I was messing around the Twin Cities and I got a 119 mile one: MN-65 from MN-210 near McGregor to its end (Including Central Avenue, then 3rd Avenue until it hooks to 2nd Avenue S. And that part ends in E 26th St. The route is roughly parallel to I-35.
And I've found a 152 mile one: Starting at 3rd Avenue S, this follows 5th Street (Before the light rail it may have been longer...), then turns into 6th Avenue N which in turn becomes Olson Memorial Highway and MN-55. The route then continues all the way to Elbow Lake (With US-59 from Barrett) where it ends at MN-79. This one roughly parallels I-94.
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