Unbuilt Evidence

Voyager · January 24, 2009, 08:58:39 PM

A good place to post evidence of highways that never quite made it.

Voyager · January 24, 2009, 09:00:58 PM

Also I'd like to post the Embarcadero Freeway in SF, since it did exist at one point, even though you can't really see any evidence of it other than the transbay terminal.

deathtopumpkins · January 24, 2009, 09:51:03 PM

I don't have a pic of it but there's a pretty cool unfinished interchange in Albany, NY that has 2 ramps that just end over the Hudson.

Voyager · January 24, 2009, 09:56:33 PM

Can't find one online? Doesn't have to be one of your photos.

rawr apples · January 24, 2009, 10:00:11 PM

Ramp Stub in Portland at I-5/I-84

Voyager · January 24, 2009, 10:00:30 PM

Where was that going to go?

rawr apples · January 24, 2009, 10:01:11 PM

I think that particular stub was to connect one of the bridges going across the river to 84 east

Revive 755 · January 24, 2009, 10:57:06 PM

North end of the only partially completed section of MO 755/North-South Distributor around St. Louis:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=38.631661,-90.210707&spn=0,359.912109&z=14&layer=c&cbll=38.631685,-90.21083&panoid=wQspeP_oGkZFutlCxAVKng&cbp=12,193.9268897130777,,0,4.368943216135823

Other views:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qf42207gg195&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=8508090&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Stub in East St. Louis for the unbuilt freeway to connect the PSB to IL 15 at IL 163:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qf1z3b7gkx65&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=8602933&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

This one doesn't qualify yet, but might in the future: the current southern end of the MO 21/"Blood Alley" replacement freeway:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qc433v7fjg5k&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=26795231&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

From Omaha, NE, unused bridges for a unbuilt route extending west from the I-480/US 75 interchange:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qw973j7037xj&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=13568587&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Alex · January 24, 2009, 11:15:24 PM

Quote from: deathtopumpkins on January 24, 2009, 09:51:03 PM
I don't have a pic of it but there's a pretty cool unfinished interchange in Albany, NY that has 2 ramps that just end over the Hudson.

Albany has several stub ends to be found...

Eastbound at the Dunn Memorial Bridge where all traffic is shunted to the right. Without those barriers to the left, drivers would plummet to certain death!

Looking at the stub end of the Dunn Memorial Bridge from the opposite end.

Alex · January 24, 2009, 11:16:28 PM

Quote from: Revive 755 on January 24, 2009, 10:57:06 PM

From Omaha, NE, unused bridges for a unbuilt route extending west from the I-480/US 75 interchange:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qw973j7037xj&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=13568587&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

These were being torn down when I was there in 2007.

Voyager · January 24, 2009, 11:29:58 PM

End of the 12 freeway in the Santa Rosa area of California:

deathtopumpkins · January 25, 2009, 12:52:46 AM

I was posting from my ipod at the time, which lacks a copy/past function.

The Dunn Memorial Bridge one was the one I was looking for though.

We don't have any around here that I can find, anymore anyway singe they completed all of the stubs of freeway I used to see.

algorerhythms · January 25, 2009, 12:58:18 AM

Okay, we're done building the US 219 freeway now...

WillWeaverRVA · January 25, 2009, 01:14:43 AM

I don't have a photo, but the stub end of I-295 northbound in western Henrico County, Virginia still exists. There's still a bunch of jersey barriers there that have been there since before the flyover project began, and you can see painted lane lines for a few feet before the freeway stub ends in the trees. They need to move those jersey barriers to the end of the stub, because if not someone could drive over the end of the stub and crash about 20 feet below just outside a shopping center.

travelinmiles · January 25, 2009, 03:22:06 PM

There are a few in Texas, like in Houston where SH 225 ends just passed the four level stack with 610. Just up 610 there have been ghost ramps that are will no longer be such when US 90 terminates at the Interchange with I-10.

SimMoonXP · January 25, 2009, 03:25:00 PM

On CA-12 image...looks like used be whitetop freeway back in old days as before 1990s. As Caltrans did overlay on the whitetop with the blacktop asphalt pavement.

travelinmiles · January 25, 2009, 03:31:48 PM

Is there any chance of CA-12 being extended along its planned route.

Revive 755 · January 25, 2009, 04:12:08 PM

Quote from: SyntheticDreamer on January 25, 2009, 01:14:43 AM
I don't have a photo, but the stub end of I-295 northbound in western Henrico County, Virginia still exists. There's still a bunch of jersey barriers there that have been there since before the flyover project began, and you can see painted lane lines for a few feet before the freeway stub ends in the trees. They need to move those jersey barriers to the end of the stub, because if not someone could drive over the end of the stub and crash about 20 feet below just outside a shopping center.

Found an aerial view:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=q882dk8hzjx4&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=18456564&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Voyager · January 25, 2009, 05:16:07 PM

Quote from: travelinmiles on January 25, 2009, 03:31:48 PM
Is there any chance of CA-12 being extended along its planned route.

Very slim. Most of the planned right of way has been developed.

Revive 755 · January 25, 2009, 06:20:48 PM

Scott5114 · January 25, 2009, 07:57:25 PM

In Oklahoma, most of the freeways were built as planned, so we don't have any true "stubs" around. Only real thing that we have is the ultra cool section of old I-44 (and before it was that, US 66) that was bypassed when the Creek Turnpike was tied into I-44. A couple of local roads (like E. Pine St.) cross over the disused freeway on bridges. They even left some BGSes up on it.

Senator Jim Inhofe used the abandoned scrap of freeway in an ad promising that he would provide more funding for OK's terrible roads and bridges. To underscore this he dramatically strode up the cracking freeway. Of course that highway is deteriorating; it has no traffic and no need for maintenance!

ComputerGuy · January 25, 2009, 08:11:14 PM

Here's the pictures of stubs of an abandoned freeway project in Seattle:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.644163~-122.297261&style=h&lvl=16&scene=3695216

(R.H. Thomson Expressway at WA-520)

More of Wa here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unused_highways_in_Washington

ComputerGuy · January 25, 2009, 08:15:27 PM

Here's a removed ramp in a partial-cloverleaf interchange in Lakewood, WA (Tacoma area)

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.16297,-122.479792&spn=0.002932,0.009205&t=k

Alex · January 25, 2009, 09:12:00 PM

Quote from: ComputerGuy on January 25, 2009, 08:11:14 PM
Here's the pictures of stubs of an abandoned freeway project in Seattle:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.644163~-122.297261&style=h&lvl=16&scene=3695216

(R.H. Thomson Expressway at WA-520)

More of Wa here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unused_highways_in_Washington

Wow this is the first time I've ever seen that. Where was the R. H. Thomson Expressway supposed to go?

Alex · January 25, 2009, 09:13:45 PM

Quote from: Revive 755 on January 25, 2009, 06:20:48 PM
Stub for I-694 in Chicago?
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qykkr37q1435&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=11413326&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Unused bridges along US 50 in Illinois between IL 127 near Carlye and Lebanon:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=38.622017~-89.482076&style=a&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=27377186&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Interstate 694 in Chicago?

The U.S. 50 bridges are remnants from the original plan to route Interstate 64 eastward from St. Louis along that corridor instead of the eventual U.S. 460 corridor.

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