Non-Interstate Route That carry a lot of Interstate Traffic

[NE2]

US 35 never ended in St. Albans. Owned.

Sad really.

http://route.transportation.org/Pages/U.S.NumberedHighways-1989Edition(current).aspx

Page 63.

AASHTO was wrong and so are you. US 35's end was across the Coal River from St. Albans.

[txstateends]

US 287 between Fort Worth and Amarillo

[SP Cook]

AASHTO was wrong and so are you.

Really sad.

[Perfxion]

US 290(later than sooner will be a 3di), Beltway 8, US 59(sooner than later will be I-69),  US 90, SH225, SH288

Or I can say Houston has a lot of traffic. But if this thread if for interstate traffic, I guess they all still count since Texas loves intra-interstates.

[NE2]

AASHTO was wrong and so are you.

Really sad.

Tagger bee.

[silverback1065]

us 31 from Indy to Ludington MI

[keithvh]

US 23, northern Ohio to Asheville, NC. I see lots of vehicles from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina anytime I am on any stretch of this route.

US 35, St. Albans, WV to Dayton, OH.

Somewhat related to these two:

(1) the AA-Highway (KY-9) gets a lot of Cincinnati traffic to places like Huntington/Charleston WV/Charlottesville/Richmond. 

The traffic in (1) above CAN use OH-32 to US-35 of course.  I know I prefer the AA-Highway though.

the AA-Highway is also a viable way to get from Cincinnati to Asheville/Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Charlotte, either continuing on I-64 to Charleston WV or taking US-23 south from Ashland.

[ET21]

NJ/NY 440
US 46 east of I-287
US 7
NJ 3

Are we counting the Chicago Skyway as an Interstate? If not, add it to the list.

Skyway is listed as I-90

[Zzonkmiles]

US 58 in Virginia is another road that carries a lot of out-of-state traffic. That road is four lanes wide east of I-95 and has a high speed limit, so it makes it a great way for people to access Virginia Beach and Norfolk from North Carolina and points further south. Traffic coming from the north would use I-64 instead.

[hbelkins]

US 35 never ended in St. Albans. Owned.

Sad really.

http://route.transportation.org/Pages/U.S.NumberedHighways-1989Edition(current).aspx

Page 63.

AASHTO was wrong and so are you. US 35's end was across the Coal River from St. Albans.

It may not be within the city limits of St. Albans, but it's close enough.

[jwolfer]

US 301 from Callahan, FL to Ocala, FL along with FL 200 in those respected cities to connect them with both I-95 and I-75 counts as it is a bypass sort of Orlando.  Many out of state residents along the I-95 corridor north of Florida to Tampa and SW FL use this route to avoid the mess along I-4 and say that it saves so much time in addition to aggravation.

Yep. Lots of out of state traffic. AAA did stop recommending this route due to the infamous speed traps of Lawtey and Waldo. Waldo had its police force disbanded last year. So less to worry about.

Starke is a pain in the ass to drive through with lowered speed limits and traffic lights. There is a freeway bypass being built that will make the trip better as well as upgrade of the i10 exit ramps. Hopefully as Jacksonville suburbia grows they will not build Walmarts and publixes all along the road with requisite traffic lights. Based on other parts of Florida this will probably be traffic clogged in 20 years. I hope FDOT makes this limited access now.

[jwolfer]

This is going to be subjective as to what you consider " a lot" and the routes you observe unless there are specific origin/destination studies available. Passenger vehicles only
I will give examples I travel in West/Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa

US 34 In Iowa and Illinois . Not surprisingly I see mostly Illinois and Iowa on both the 4 lane and 2 lane sections in both states.
US 67 in Illinois Iowa outnumbers Missouri
US218/IA 27 Illinois comes in after Missouri and before Minnesota when I have been on it
I see very few out of state plates on any other roads. Occasionally Iowa on US 136 and Missouri on US 24

Its interesting driving on random back roads in Florida and seeing out if state tags with full luggage racks on top. I was on SR 19 today driving from Orlando to Jacksonville. I saw cars from Vermont, Texas, New Jersey, New York and Michigan.  But Florida is a tourist mecca so I guess its not too weird. Like seeing out of state tags on SR 12 on the Outer Banks in the summer

[JCinSummerfield]

In Michigan I would think much interstate traffic would be on US-2, US 127, US-131 & M-28.

[robbones]

Would US 65 through SE Arkansas count?

[OCGuy81]

Surprised to see no mention of the following yet.

CA-99 through the Central Valley
CA-91
CA-210 (okay, there is an interstate portion but it's still busy east of San Dimas)
CA-58

[TXtoNJ]

US 290(later than sooner will be a 3di), Beltway 8, US 59(sooner than later will be I-69),  US 90, SH225, SH288

Or I can say Houston has a lot of traffic. But if this thread if for interstate traffic, I guess they all still count since Texas loves intra-interstates.

?

All of these except for 59 handle mostly intrastate traffic, and primarily Houston commuter traffic. The best route to Austin from the east is I-10 to SH 71, rather than 290.

In Texas, the primary non-Interstate routes that handle interstate traffic would be 59 (Houston to Arkansas/N Louisiana, Houston to Nuevo Laredo), 75 (Dallas to Tulsa), 287 (Dallas/Houston to Denver), 87 (Dallas/Houston to Denver), 84 (Texas Triangle to Albuquerque), and 77/281 (Texas Triangle to Reynosa/Matamoros).

To a lesser extent, SH 71 (Austin to points east).

[NYhwyfan]

New York State Route 63 between Batavia (I-90/Thruway) and Geneseo (I-390)

[cl94]

New York State Route 63 between Batavia (I-90/Thruway) and Geneseo (I-390)

Building on that, US 20 in New York between the PA line and NY 63 gets a lot of truckers and shunpikers

[jp the roadgeek]

New York State Route 63 between Batavia (I-90/Thruway) and Geneseo (I-390)

Building on that, US 20 in New York between the PA line and NY 63 gets a lot of truckers and shunpikers

Also between NY 80 and I-88 for those going to/coming from Cooperstown.

Others:  CT 2, CT 8, CT 9,  NH 101, MA 2, MA 146, US 3/Everett Turnpike, NJ 495, NJ 18, DE 141, US 30 through Lancaster and York County, PA, US 422 from Valley Forge to Reading, US 222 from Lancaster to Allentown, US 202 from Wilmington to Valley Forge, VA 7, VA/WV 9. VA 267/Dulles Greenway

[sandiaman]

 Here's  two more highways  that  carry more traffic from out of  state, than the state they are in:   US  30  in SE  Idaho, a short cut to I- 80  in Wyoming favored by truckers to avoid Utah   and   US  54    from Tucumcari  to the Texas  line.  This highway  is used as a diagonal  connection  from   Albuquerque and El Paso  to  and other Midwest points.

[davewiecking]

Definitely confused by the question. Take the case of westbound MD404/DE404. Either the part just entering MD carries over 50% out of state traffic, or the part just leaving DE carries over 50% out of state traffic (or the traffic is split exactly 50/50, which is statistically unlikely-in which case wait another few seconds for another vehicle to come along). The same would be true of the eastbound lane. And any road that crosses a state border.

[NE2]

And any road that crosses a state border.

Indeed. Hence US 160 NM.

[cpzilliacus]

If it were up to me NJ42/ACE would be I-76 (I'd make the Black Horse Pike NJ168 through to where it meets up with US322/40) and you could even upgrade NJ55 to an I-x76.

The ACE would need a lot of upgrading work to become an Interstate. 

First, there's the matter of the highway lighting that appears to be mounted on wooden utility poles, exposed to high-speed traffic, though I  suppose that would not be terribly expensive to correct.

But many of the overpasses on the ACE are not high enough to meet Interstate standards of 14' 6".

Between the Garden State Parkway interchange and Atlantic City itself, I also wonder if the curves there do not comply with Interstate design.

[Zzonkmiles]

How about US 1 between Key West and Miami? Surely the number of out-of-state cars and RVs on the road must be astronomical.

[Pete from Boston]

How about US 1 between Key West and Miami? Surely the number of out-of-state cars and RVs on the road must be astronomical.

How about US 1 anywhere in the Northeast when any incident at all happens on 95, immediately backing it up for miles and sending drivers looking for alternate routes?