Remotest/little used major road in your state?

Started by texaskdog, July 28, 2011, 01:59:48 PM

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Quote from: xcellntbuy on July 29, 2011, 04:58:32 PM
Originally from this area, another quiet road is the Columbia County, New York section of the Taconic State Parkway from Jackson Corners Road (Columbia Co. 2/Dutchess Co. 78) to the Thruway's Berkshire Spur Exit B2.  "Deer Crossing" signs are to be respected with the wide grassy and often wooded median and the completely rural setting of the area.
Dutchess 78 once you get near Tivoli and former NY 402 is rather busy. I wouldn't call it remote along any stretch.
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Quote from: jwolfer on August 01, 2011, 02:52:21 PM
I was thinking SR 2 in Baker County.  It is isolated from the rest of the Florida State Road System.  It changes to GA 94 on both ends.

I clinched that, via GA 94 to the north. I think maybe three cars passed me going the other way on FL 2. I didn't pull out to pass a single car along the way. Nothing much along that route, either.

SR 29 in Collier county is quite sparse from US 41 to I-75, also south to its terminus at Chokoloskee (technically, CR 29 out there). There's many near-empty signed county roads I won't count.

MASTERNC

Quote from: jemacedo9 on July 28, 2011, 06:40:13 PM
I-476 PA Turnpike NE Extension, north of the Dupont I-81 exit to the end at Clarks Summit...most people probably take the free option of I-81 around Scranton. 

Perhaps, but the auxiliary toll roads around Pittsburgh probably have even less traffic.  The Mon-Fayette is still lightly traveled (although counts may go up once the highway is finished as one continuous segment) and the Southern Beltway only connects PA 60 and US 22.  Of course, these roads won't get much traffic unless the Mon-Fayette is ever connected to Pittsburgh and the Southern Beltway is completed to I-79

Landshark

SR-20 in Washington over Sherman Pass is pretty remote and desolate.  I drove over it on the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend a few years back and only passed a single car.

PAHighways

Quote from: MASTERNC on August 07, 2011, 02:45:28 PMPerhaps, but the auxiliary toll roads around Pittsburgh probably have even less traffic.  The Mon-Fayette is still lightly traveled (although counts may go up once the highway is finished as one continuous segment) and the Southern Beltway only connects PA 60 and US 22.  Of course, these roads won't get much traffic unless the Mon-Fayette is ever connected to Pittsburgh and the Southern Beltway is completed to I-79

Using the 2009 AADT data:

Toll I-376:  11,000 (US 422 - PA 108), 8,700 (PA 108 - I-76), 11,000 (I-76 - PA 51)
Turnpike 43:  2,600 (Exit 2 - US 119), 8,000 (Exit 15 - Exit 22), 2,600 (Exit 30 - Exit 36), 11,000 (Exit 36 - Exit 39), 1,100 (Exit 39 - Exit 44), 750 (Exit 44 - 54)
Turnpike 66:  14,000
Turnpike 576:  40,000

The last seems like an error, or else traffic has really skyrocketed since I was last on it in 2007.

ftballfan

Quote from: PAHighways on August 08, 2011, 08:51:16 PM
Quote from: MASTERNC on August 07, 2011, 02:45:28 PMPerhaps, but the auxiliary toll roads around Pittsburgh probably have even less traffic.  The Mon-Fayette is still lightly traveled (although counts may go up once the highway is finished as one continuous segment) and the Southern Beltway only connects PA 60 and US 22.  Of course, these roads won't get much traffic unless the Mon-Fayette is ever connected to Pittsburgh and the Southern Beltway is completed to I-79

Using the 2009 AADT data:

Toll I-376:  11,000 (US 422 - PA 108), 8,700 (PA 108 - I-76), 11,000 (I-76 - PA 51)
Turnpike 43:  2,600 (Exit 2 - US 119), 8,000 (Exit 15 - Exit 22), 2,600 (Exit 30 - Exit 36), 11,000 (Exit 36 - Exit 39), 1,100 (Exit 39 - Exit 44), 750 (Exit 44 - 54)
Turnpike 66:  14,000
Turnpike 576:  40,000

The last seems like an error, or else traffic has really skyrocketed since I was last on it in 2007.
It may be an error, but 576 is actually part of the quickest way to Pittsburgh International Airport from Weirton, Steubenville, and even Wheeling. In fact, 576's northern end is pretty much the entrance to Pittsburgh International Airport.

PAHighways

Quote from: ftballfan on August 08, 2011, 10:38:52 PMIt may be an error, but 576 is actually part of the quickest way to Pittsburgh International Airport from Weirton, Steubenville, and even Wheeling. In fact, 576's northern end is pretty much the entrance to Pittsburgh International Airport.

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