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Started by golden eagle, July 20, 2010, 12:06:17 AM

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golden eagle

As the title would indicate, these are highways in which its entire lies within one city. I'm looking at a city inset of Little Rock and I-630 is entirely within the state capitol. There's also Arkansas 300, but I don't know if that's its entire route. California state highways 15 and 52 are entirely within San Diego. I'll also include 163, despite it crossing federal property at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, but even that is within the San Diego city limits.

While not within the criteria, I-55's entire run through Tennessee is within the Memphis city limits.

Are such highways like these rather rare?


rickmastfan67

Quote from: golden eagle on July 20, 2010, 12:06:17 AM
Are such highways like these rather rare?

I don't think so.  I can give at least three more right off the bat.

I-579 Pittsburgh, PA
I-277 Charlotte, NC
I-295 Jacksonville, FL

corco

Sticking with Interstates and US routes (too many state highways to list) and excluding business routes, of course, I can think of a few off the top of my head

I-705- Tacoma WA
I-180- Cheyenne WY
I-405- Portland OR (I'm pretty sure 405 never leaves Portland)

Notably, I-184 in Boise is not entirely located in Boise. It begins and ends in Boise, but clips a small chunk of Garden City before re-entering Boise just before its eastern terminus at 20/26

mightyace

Here are a few I came up with:

I-440, TN 45, 155, 254, 255 Nashville, TN
I-275, I-640 Knoxville, TN
I-124 (Hidden) Chattanooga, TN
I-240 Memphis
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I-264 Louisville
I-265 Louisville (until it gets connected to the Indiana section)

I-380 San Bruno, California
future I-905 in the San Ysidro/Otay Mesa areas of San Diego
I-980 Oakland

several NYC examples (I-478, I-695, I-295, I-895, I-678)

I-295 Jacksonville



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roadfro

Quote from: golden eagle on July 20, 2010, 12:06:17 AM
As the title would indicate, these are highways in which its entire lies within one city.
...
Are such highways like these rather rare?

The nature of Auxiliary Interstates, Interstate/U.S. highway business loops, and other special routes make these types of routes rather common.

So putting 3di's and bannered routes aside, how common is this?

In Nevada, practically any 500 or 600 series state route is an urban route, and generally serves one particular urban area. Many of these are within a single city's borders.  However, there's several routes in the primary (100s-400s) and state aid (700s-800s) levels that are short and only exist within the city limits of some of the smaller rural cities.
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TheStranger

California state routes within a single city, beyond the aforementioned 15, 163, and 52 (the latter of which will extend into Santee at Route 67 in a few years) -

Route 51 segment of Business 80 - Sacramento (the city limits get strange north of the river but Route 51 remains within them)
Route 56 - San Diego
Route 77 - Oakland
Route 87 - San Jose
Route 103 - Long Beach
unsigned Route 112 - San Leandro
Route 144 - Santa Barbara
Route 153 - Coloma
Route 170 - Los Angeles
Route 187 - Los Angeles
Route 225 - Santa Barbara
Route 242 - Concord
unsigned Route 244 - Sacramento
Route 259 - San Bernardino
Route 262 - Fremont
Route 265 - Weed
Route 282 - Coronado
former Route 480 - San Francisco
Route 905 (the future interstate) - San Diego (San Ysidro/Otay Mesa)
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Bickendan

Quote from: corco on July 20, 2010, 01:25:49 AM
I-405- Portland OR (I'm pretty sure 405 never leaves Portland)
I'm pretty sure of this too  :colorful:

OR 120 is the only one I can think of offhand.
Maybe OR 104 and 104S.
I think OR 18S barely skips out of McMinnville where it meets OR 18.

Alps

NJ: 20 (Paterson, used to include two other routes)
26 (North Brunswick, used to be longer) - just a stub route now
32 (South Brunswick)
59 (Cranford, planned for much more) - just a RR bridge
62 (Totowa, used to be longer) - just a connector now
64 (West Windsor) - just a RR bridge
67 (Fort Lee)
81 (freeway, Elizabeth)
83 (Dennis)
129 (expressway, Trenton)
133 (freeway, East Windsor)
138 (expressway, Wall)
139 (Jersey City)
140 (Carney's Point)
143 (Winslow)
Former 151 (Camden) - just a connector
Former 153 (Secaucus) - old alignment
154 (Cherry Hill)
156 (Hamilton) - old alignment
157 (Absecon) - old alignment
Former 160 (White Horse) - old alignment
161 (Clifton) - just a stub route
162 (Lower Twp.) - just a bridge
163 (Knowlton) - old alignment
Former 164 (Elizabeth)
165 (Lambertville)
Former 169 (Bayonne)
Former 170 (Columbus) - old alignment
172 (New Brunswick) - old alignment
Former 180 (Manahawkin) - old alignment
182 (Hackettstown)
185 (Jersey City) - just a stub route
187 (Atlantic City) - old alignment
324 (Logan) - old alignment
413 (Burlington)

And finally, I-676 is entirely within Camden.

US71

Quote from: golden eagle on July 20, 2010, 12:06:17 AM
As the title would indicate, these are highways in which its entire lies within one city. I'm looking at a city inset of Little Rock and I-630 is entirely within the state capitol. There's also Arkansas 300, but I don't know if that's its entire route.

AR 300 has 2 segments, but neither one is entirely in one town.

There are numerous short segments of Arkansas highways that serve as Spurs to area industry.

AR 400 (not posted) only serves Lake Fort Smith State Park.

There are 2 AR 100's, one of which is entirely in North Little Rock

There is a section of AR 37 entirely in Gateway, AR

MO 744  is almost entirely in Springfield, MO
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Ian

Quote from: AlpsROADS on July 20, 2010, 05:34:47 AM
And finally, I-676 is entirely within Camden.

In Pennsylvania, I-676 is entirely within Philadelphia.

Others...
-I-375 is entirely in Detroit, MI
-I-587 is entirely in Kingston, NY I believe
-NY 9R is entirely within Colonie, NY
-former ME 217 was entirely within Phippsburg, ME
-US 220 in New York is entirely in Waverly
-DE route 491 (a continuation of PA 491) is entirely within Claymont, DE
-DE 9A is entirely within Wilmington, DE
-I-395 is entirely within Baltimore, MD
-NY 157A is entirely within Berne, NY
-MA 213 is entirely within Methuen, MA
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rawmustard

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I-375 is entirely within the city of Detroit. M-331 begins at the Kalamazoo city limit and ends downtown. And I tend to think the soon-to-be-turned-back M-168 lies entirely within the village of Elberta. Other than a few of the business connections (most of those travel through more than one municipality), most of the rest of the short spurs go through unincorporated areas or otherwise don't lie entirely within one incorporated place.

EDIT: Crap, forgot M-8 goes through Highland Park. :banghead: But I'm sure everything else I said is true.

Duke87

For Connecticut:
19 (Stafford) +
35 (Ridgefield) +
43 (Cornwall)
78 (Stonington) +
100 (East Haven)
102 (Ridgefield)
104 (Stamford)
112 (Salisbury)
116 (Ridgefield) +
120 (Southington)
125 (Cornwall)
131 (Thompson) +
135 (Fairfield)
137 (Stamford) +
152 (Orange)
155 (Middletown)
168 (Suffield) +
172 (Southbury)
186 (Somers) +
192 (Enfield) +
193 (Thompson) +
194 (South Windsor)
203 (Windham)
214 (Ledyard)
215 (Groton)
220 (Enfield) +
234 (Stonington)
286 (Ellington)
314 (Wethersfield)
315 (Simsbury)
318 (Barkhamsted)
319 (Stafford)
343 (Sharon) +
349 (Groton)

+ = route continues across state line with same number
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deathtopumpkins

Some from Hampton Roads:
I-564 is located entirely within the city of Norfolk,
VA 278 - Hampton,
VA 169 - Hampton,
VA 312 - Newport News,
VA 141 - Portsmouth,
VA 239 - Portsmouth,
and there are quite a few various state routes entirely within Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
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kurumi

What is the longest highway entirely within one city? (e.g. CA 87 is 9.22 miles)

I-295 in Jacksonville is 35.51 miles... and might be 60 or more once the eastern half is signed.
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TheStranger

Quote from: kurumi on July 20, 2010, 01:05:18 PM

I-295 in Jacksonville is 35.51 miles... and might be 60 or more once the eastern half is signed.

According to Wikipedia, the route once fully signed will be 61.1 miles long!
Chris Sampang

Rover_0

Well, since they are numberable, I'll include the Utah Interstate business loops (which have their own number, and are signed):

UT-34--St. George (I-15)
UT-274--Parowan (I-15)
UT-160--Beaver (I-15)
UT-99--Fillmore (I-15)
UT-120--Richfield (I-70)
UT-19--Green River (I-70)
UT-55--Price (US-6/191)
UT-58--Wendover, UT (I-80)

FWIW, UT-201, while not being in one city, is entirely within Salt Lake County, which has a single mayor.  You also have UT-8, entirely within St. George.

WYO-231 is also entirely within Cokeville, WY.
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mgk920

In Wisconsin:

-WI 30 (City of Madison)
-WI 119 (City of Milwaukee)
-WI 341 (City of Milwaukee)
-I-794 (City of Milwaukee)

Mike

tdindy88

Looking at my Indiana map:

IN-134: Only one in Indianapolis, a spur route connecting the Indiana Girls School with US 136
IN-149: Burns Harbor
IN-249: Portage, connecting with the Port of Indiana
IN-152: In Hammond, connecting US 20 to the Borman Expressway
IN-212: Michigan City, connecting US 12 with US 20/35
IN-441: Vincennes, connecting US 41 with Downtown Vincennes
IN-662: Newburgh, outside of Evansville
IN-357: Oakland City

Revive 755

For Missouri:

* A few lettered routes, such as Rte H in St. Louis City and Rte N in De Soto.

* MO 752 and MO 759 in St. Joesph?

* MO 740 in Columbia

* MO 755, if built, would have never left St. Louis City

* MO 765 in Sedalia

Eth

Probably the most obvious example of this would be DC 295. :sombrero:

huskeroadgeek

Nebraska doesn't have very many of these. There seems to be a general rule that numbered routes should not exist solely within the city limits of one city. NE 38 in Omaha was decommissioned for this reason. The only Nebraska highways that exist solely within the city limits of one city are:
I-180 in Lincoln
Spur 1C in Hastings
Link 28K in Omaha
Link 55W in Lincoln
Link 55X in Lincoln
Link 56G in North Platte
The Nebraska portions of I-480 and I-680 only exist in Omaha, but since they also go into Iowa, I don't count them.

Alps

Quote from: kurumi on July 20, 2010, 01:05:18 PM
What is the longest highway entirely within one city? (e.g. CA 87 is 9.22 miles)

I-295 in Jacksonville is 35.51 miles... and might be 60 or more once the eastern half is signed.
I-278 in NY isn't even that long, but it's about as long as you'll get for a single route (excluding the NJ part) for the Northeast US.  It's around 33 miles.  The entire Belt Parkway (including the Cross Island) is around 35 miles.

bugo

I-444.  I-244 might qualify, but it's hard to tell if it leaves the Tulsa city limits at its west end.

corco

As far as state highways are concerned:
I can think of one in Idaho (as I mentioned before, I-184 enters Garden City briefly)
SH 128- Lewiston

Washington:
SR 115- Ocean Shores
SR 117- Port Angeles
SR 128- Clarkston
SR 166- Port Orchard
SR 171- Moses Lake
SR 181- Renton
SR 300- Belfair
SR 304 (not including ferry portion)- Bremerton
SR 308- Keyport
SR 310- Bremerton
SR 432- Longview
SR 433- Longview
SR 513- Seattle
SR 519- Seattle
SR 538- Mount Vernon
SR 543- Blaine
SR 599- Tukwila
SR 823- Selah

Wyoming (unsigned routes not included- many unsigned routes with state highwayish inventory control numbers like 333, maybe 337 are locally maintained, but some are state maintained (14, 74), so best not to worry about those). Given how many pointless highways there are, it is surprising how few stay within one city- may be due to a lack of cities
Former WYO 221- Cheyenne
WYO 231 - Cokeville (as mentioned above)
WYO 330- Sheridan
WYO 334- Sheridan
WYO 376- Rock Springs



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