Boring interstate endings

[Eth]

I-710 north has a boring end but that's because it was supposed to connect to CA-134 and I-210 interchange in Pasadena.

I think surface road endings are interesting. Boring for me is interstates that just end at a boring interchange.

Some surface road endings are still boring, though. The north end of I-575 comes to mind.

[roadman65]

I would not say I-83 in Harrisburg is boring but it is like "So what!"  Its just a basic interchange like two freeways are supposed to meet.

I-35 in Laredo is close to it as why TexDOT did not go the extra mile and just complete the freeway.  No buildings are in its way and being so close is like a waste.   And yes it would be more exciting as so would Mexico if they built the freeway south of Nuevo Laredo to the bridge and have one continuous freeway from nation into nation.

Ontario did that in two places too as ON 401 stops way short of the US border and from my memory of being there in 1995, it was not exciting where it ends.  Plus  ON 420 having its Breezewood along former Roberts Street (now the extension of Falls Avenue) to the Rainbow Bridge where it ends at Stanley Avenue at a signalized at grade intersection is yeah so what as well.

[ilpt4u]

Ontario did that...too as ON 401 stops way short of the US border and from my memory of being there in 1995, it was not exciting where it ends.

I thought Ontario was trying to remedy that, with the new International Bridge Crossing (maybe) and a direct freeway connection to I-75 in Detroit and ON 401 in Windsor

From what I've read, I believe the Ambassador Bridge owner is none too pleased about a competing, Freeway-to-Freeway bridge to bypass the Ambassador

[roadman65]

Just like the PennDOT/ PTC project in Bucks County, PA.  Plans but when is the end in sight?

[Flint1979]

I have been trying to figure out where it's going to come across Detroit to get to I-75 at. The way Ontario 401 is designed it looks like it's going to shoot straight across Zug Island but I thought it was going to come across a little north of that through the Delray neighborhood.

The owner of the Ambassador Bridge is Matty Moroun and he isn't very well liked by many in Detroit. The Ambassador Bridge though was built in 1929 and is wearing out it's almost to the point where it won't be able to handle any truck traffic for very much longer and trucks can't use the tunnel. If the Ambassador Bridge is unable to handle truck traffic the truck traffic would then have to go to Port Huron and use the Bluewater Bridge.

The United States wants this new bridge to be built and Canada really needs it. And about 7 or so years ago Canada offered to pay up to $550 million of Michigan's share for the bridge to be built. Getting back to Matt Moroun though, he argued for years that the new bridge wasn't needed and then said he'd build a new bridge, right next to the current Ambassador Bridge. The Ambassador Bridge is fine on the American side where you can connect to I-75 and I-96 right away but on the Canada side you have to go through a long stretch of city streets before you reach 401.

The best spot on the American side for the new bridge though would be somewhere between Fort Wayne and Zug Island because I-75 breaks away from the river more as you go south in Wayne County and the area between the river and I-75 south of the Rouge River is very developed.

[Bickendan]

Ontario did that...too as ON 401 stops way short of the US border and from my memory of being there in 1995, it was not exciting where it ends.

I thought Ontario was trying to remedy that, with the new International Bridge Crossing (maybe) and a direct freeway connection to I-75 in Detroit and ON 401 in Windsor

From what I've read, I believe the Ambassador Bridge owner is none too pleased about a competing, Freeway-to-Freeway bridge to bypass the Ambassador

Read the Detroit Bridge Wars thread in Midwest - Great Lakes

Here's one for 'boring' -- I-5 in Blaine. One moment you're in Washington on I-5, next you're in BC on BC 99!

(I'm kidding, it's a cool ending).

[SSOWorld]

I-39 in Wausau - other than a sign and a speed limit change, the road continues.
I-41.  Nuff said.
I-294 at both ends.  Interchanges with other routes including I-94.  The north end is a southbound split, the southbound - not so boring with a clusterfuck interchange (IDOT flattened it out a bit)

[Flint1979]

I-39 in Wausau - other than a sign and a speed limit change, the road continues.
I-41.  Nuff said.
I-294 at both ends.  Interchanges with other routes including I-94.  The north end is a southbound split, the southbound - not so boring with a clusterfuck interchange (IDOT flattened it out a bit)

At least on I-294 you get to cross the Thornton Quarry.

[Scott5114]

For me, the boring ones are where you transition to another freeway going in the same direction and there's barely even an acknowledgment that the previous interstate ended, you just get a reassurance shield for the new route. The west end of I-20, the east end of I-240 in Oklahoma City, etc.