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States with discontinuous Interstate networks

Started by ran4sh, February 24, 2021, 07:55:54 PM

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ran4sh

Which of the contiguous 48 states have Interstates that are discontinuous from other Interstates in the same state?

One obvious example is Nevada with I-15 (and 215, 515, 11, etc) and I-80 (and 580), which are both Interstates but do not have any Interstate connection within Nevada (you have to go to Utah or California if you want to stay on Interstates going from Las Vegas to Reno).

Another example is Georgia, most of the Interstates connect within the state but I-24 and I-59 are separate, to reach them from I-75 (and the other Georgia interstates) requires passing through Tennessee.
Center lane merges are the most unsafe thing ever, especially for unfamiliar drivers.

Control cities should be actual cities/places that travelers are trying to reach.

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jp the roadgeek

#1
I-684 in CT :bigass:
I-70 and I-470 as a package  in WV
I-86 redux in PA (the piece near Waverly)
I-44 in TX
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

hotdogPi

#2
I-95 in New Hampshire
I-129 in Nebraska
I-27/40 in Texas
I-72 in Missouri
I-516 in Georgia
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Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

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JayhawkCO

#4
I-15 in Arizona
I-2/69s in Texas
I-535 in Wisconsin
I-95/495 in DC
I-81 in West Virginia

Not too long ago:
I-520 in South Carolina
I-585 in South Carolina
I-73/74 in North Carolina

Chris

citrus

Mississippi - 10 doesn't connect to anything else... intersections with 59 and 55 are in Louisiana.
Missouri - 72 doesn't connect to the rest of the state's network.
Tennessee - 155, until 69 connects, if it ever does...
New York - 78 stubs into Manhattan without any connections to the rest of the system.
Maybe Kentucky? I don't think 69/24/169 connect to the Eastern KY interstates yet, but I vaguely recall some newly designated 3dis that will fill in the gap.

Honorable mention... Washington DC, where 66 doesn't intersect the x95s.

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ran4sh

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 24, 2021, 08:00:23 PM
I-684 in CT :bigass:
I-70 and I-470 as a package  in WV
I-86 redux in PA (the piece near Waverly)
I-44 in TX

In Texas I-40/27 is also separate from the other Interstates
Center lane merges are the most unsafe thing ever, especially for unfamiliar drivers.

Control cities should be actual cities/places that travelers are trying to reach.

Travel Mapping - Most Traveled: I-40, 20, 10, 5, 95 - Longest Clinched: I-20, 85, 74, 24, 16
Champions - UGA FB '21 '22 - Atlanta Braves '95 '21 - Atlanta MLS '18

JayhawkCO

Quote from: ran4sh on February 24, 2021, 08:18:12 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 24, 2021, 08:00:23 PM
I-684 in CT :bigass:
I-70 and I-470 as a package  in WV
I-86 redux in PA (the piece near Waverly)
I-44 in TX

In Texas I-40/27 is also separate from the other Interstates

See post 3.

Chris

ran4sh

Quote from: 1 on February 24, 2021, 08:00:32 PM
I-95 in New Hampshire
I-129 in Nebraska
I-27/40 in Texas
I-72 in Missouri
I-516 in Georgia

I-516 doesn't count, it connects to I-16
Center lane merges are the most unsafe thing ever, especially for unfamiliar drivers.

Control cities should be actual cities/places that travelers are trying to reach.

Travel Mapping - Most Traveled: I-40, 20, 10, 5, 95 - Longest Clinched: I-20, 85, 74, 24, 16
Champions - UGA FB '21 '22 - Atlanta Braves '95 '21 - Atlanta MLS '18

index

#10
I-585 in SC, and formerly I-520 in SC (Edited onto a post by another poster just before I posted this? Around 8:34, wasn't my intention to mention these twice)
I-69C in TX (69E and 2 were mentioned, but not 69C)
Honorable mentions:
I-75 in the Upper Peninsula, analogous situation but still in the same state
I-84 almost entering NJ

JayhawkCO

Quote from: index on February 24, 2021, 08:35:31 PM
I-585 in SC, and formerly I-520 in SC
I-69C in TX (69E and 2 were mentioned, but not 69C)
Honorable mentions:
I-75 in the Upper Peninsula, analogous situation but still in the same state
I-84 almost entering NJ

I-585 got extended north, so now it connects with I-85.

I put I-2/69s referring to the multitude of 69s down there, but great minds! 👍

Chris

hotdogPi

Quote from: ran4sh on February 24, 2021, 08:19:25 PM
Quote from: 1 on February 24, 2021, 08:00:32 PM
I-95 in New Hampshire
I-129 in Nebraska
I-27/40 in Texas
I-72 in Missouri
I-516 in Georgia

I-516 doesn't count, it connects to I-16

I don't know how I missed that. For some reason, I had remembered it as an Interstate that didn't touch any others at all.
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

index

#13
Quote from: jayhawkco on February 24, 2021, 08:37:21 PM
Quote from: index on February 24, 2021, 08:35:31 PM
I-585 in SC, and formerly I-520 in SC
I-69C in TX (69E and 2 were mentioned, but not 69C)
Honorable mentions:
I-75 in the Upper Peninsula, analogous situation but still in the same state
I-84 almost entering NJ

I-585 got extended north, so now it connects with I-85.

I put I-2/69s referring to the multitude of 69s down there, but great minds!

Chris
Huh. Looks like it did judging by its wiki page. When I checked Wikipedia's list of highways in SC just to make sure when I posted it, it didn't reflect that:  http://prntscr.com/1062pzv

It also looks like by coincidence your post was edited right before mine was posted. You could've edited it to mention the 69s but I wouldn't have been able to see it when I posted. So now we have all the 69s. Well, sans 69W as it connects to 35. Easy to miss that one, it hardly exists and its other siblings, which both meet the criteria of this thread, are so far away.

US 89

Quote from: jayhawkco on February 24, 2021, 08:37:21 PM
I-585 got extended north, so now it connects with I-85.

Do you have a source for that? I was just up there and I definitely got the sense that 585 did not make it all the way to 85. It connects through Business 85 for sure but there's definitely one at-grade intersection with a stoplight between the US 176 diamond interchange at I-85 and the I-585 freeway. In addition, the exit from 85 is currently signed "US 176 to I-585".

If 585 does connect all the way through to 85, that would make it a very rare example of an interstate with a signalized at-grade intersection.

JayhawkCO

Quote from: US 89 on February 24, 2021, 08:55:49 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on February 24, 2021, 08:37:21 PM
I-585 got extended north, so now it connects with I-85.

Do you have a source for that? I was just up there and I definitely got the sense that 585 did not make it all the way to 85. It connects through Business 85 for sure but there's definitely one at-grade intersection with a stoplight between the US 176 diamond interchange at I-85 and the I-585 freeway. In addition, the exit from 85 is currently signed "US 176 to I-585".

If 585 does connect all the way through to 85, that would make it a very rare example of an interstate with a signalized at-grade intersection.

I've heard this website is good.:bigass:

Chris

Ryctor2018

Quote from: citrus on February 24, 2021, 08:08:04 PM
Mississippi - 10 doesn't connect to anything else... intersections with 59 and 55 are in Louisiana.
Missouri - 72 doesn't connect to the rest of the state's network.
Tennessee - 155, until 69 connects, if it ever does...
New York - 78 stubs into Manhattan without any connections to the rest of the system.
Maybe Kentucky? I don't think 69/24/169 connect to the Eastern KY interstates yet, but I vaguely recall some newly designated 3dis that will fill in the gap.

Honorable mention... Washington DC, where 66 doesn't intersect the x95s.

I-569 was signed into law last year. So, on paper the WKPY is now an interstate between I-69 & I-65. No telling how long it will take KY to make the necessary upgrades to sign it in the field.
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I-55

Quote from: Ryctor2018 on February 25, 2021, 12:11:22 AM
Quote from: citrus on February 24, 2021, 08:08:04 PM
Mississippi - 10 doesn't connect to anything else... intersections with 59 and 55 are in Louisiana.
Missouri - 72 doesn't connect to the rest of the state's network.
Tennessee - 155, until 69 connects, if it ever does...
New York - 78 stubs into Manhattan without any connections to the rest of the system.
Maybe Kentucky? I don't think 69/24/169 connect to the Eastern KY interstates yet, but I vaguely recall some newly designated 3dis that will fill in the gap.

Honorable mention... Washington DC, where 66 doesn't intersect the x95s.

I-569 was signed into law last year. So, on paper the WKPY is now an interstate between I-69 & I-65. No telling how long it will take KY to make the necessary upgrades to sign it in the field.

I remember it being designated up to I-165 but not past that. Did that change? Either way it would still connect to the rest of the state, just a little more crooked.
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Quote from: I-55 on April 13, 2025, 09:39:41 PMThe correct question is "if ARDOT hasn't signed it, why does Google show it?" and the answer as usual is "because Google Maps signs stuff incorrectly all the time"

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Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

Flint1979

Considering that the Mackinac Bridge isn't an Interstate or up to Interstate standards could I-75 in the U.P. be considered discontinuous even though the same highway exists in the Lower Peninsula. That's the only example of Michigan I could think of.

GaryV

#21
Mackinac Bridge is still I-75, even though it isn't a freeway.

sprjus4

Future I-785 in Virginia

I-95 in North Carolina used to be until I-40 was constructed and connected to the route in the 1990s.

bassoon1986

Quote from: I-55 on February 25, 2021, 12:18:11 AM
Quote from: Ryctor2018 on February 25, 2021, 12:11:22 AM
Quote from: citrus on February 24, 2021, 08:08:04 PM
Mississippi - 10 doesn't connect to anything else... intersections with 59 and 55 are in Louisiana.
Missouri - 72 doesn't connect to the rest of the state's network.
Tennessee - 155, until 69 connects, if it ever does...
New York - 78 stubs into Manhattan without any connections to the rest of the system.
Maybe Kentucky? I don't think 69/24/169 connect to the Eastern KY interstates yet, but I vaguely recall some newly designated 3dis that will fill in the gap.

Honorable mention... Washington DC, where 66 doesn't intersect the x95s.

I-569 was signed into law last year. So, on paper the WKPY is now an interstate between I-69 & I-65. No telling how long it will take KY to make the necessary upgrades to sign it in the field.

I remember it being designated up to I-165 but not past that. Did that change? Either way it would still connect to the rest of the state, just a little more crooked.
I-169 will be the Pennyrile Pkwy and I-165 will be the Natcher Pkwy.


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hbelkins

I-24 in Kentucky probably would have counted up until the time that I-69 was created. Even then, though, both legs of I-69 off I-24 end without a link to another interstate connection.
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