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Same number concurrencies or highways meeting

Started by texaskdog, July 06, 2017, 10:29:24 AM

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ilpt4u

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Quote from: hbelkins on July 06, 2017, 10:30:54 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on July 06, 2017, 08:15:31 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 06, 2017, 10:29:24 AM
So, you can't have a US highway and interstate in the same state.
Is this is a serious rule?

Yes, and until the 74/74 and 41/41 abominations came along, to the best of my knowledge Illinois had the only exception, with the reasoning being that the two routes were so far apart that no one would get them confused.
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I'm sure others have done this before, but I might have to look hard at maps for the next few days, and see if there are other exceptions. I guess TX already is officially an exception, since there are parts of I-69 signed in Houston, and US 69 exists in TX as well

I didn't even realize it was uncommon, let alone a rule. I knew the WI US 41/I-41 thing was weird (same thing with NC and 74), but that can be (at least partially) blamed on us FIBs for not wanting to share I-55 or I-57. I figured they just had to be "away" from each other, a la US 24 and I-24

By "the grid" naturally, there should be few overlapping areas anyway, numerically speaking, with N/S US being E to W::Low to High and N/S Is being E to W::High to Low, and same with E/W US being N to S::Low to High and E/W Is being N to S::High to Low

Only in the "middle" of the country should there be opportunity to break this pattern. 74, 24, and 69 due to diagonal Interstate routes, and 41 being a pretty "middling" number


sparker

Quote from: ilpt4u on July 06, 2017, 08:15:31 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 06, 2017, 10:29:24 AM
So, you can't have a US highway and interstate in the same state.
Is this is a serious rule?

They are in different parts of the state, but IL has I-24 in Southern IL, and US 24 in Central IL

Unless the statement is to mean a US Highway and Interstate cannot meet and/or be concurrent in the same state. That, I am down with, except for WI, NC, and someday TX
Quote from: hbelkins on July 06, 2017, 10:30:54 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on July 06, 2017, 08:15:31 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 06, 2017, 10:29:24 AM
So, you can't have a US highway and interstate in the same state.
Is this is a serious rule?
Yes, and until the 74/74 and 41/41 abominations came along, to the best of my knowledge Illinois had the only exception, with the reasoning being that the two routes were so far apart that no one would get them confused.

Illinois, being a state with more N-S than E-W mileage, was likely considered to be an unavoidable exception to the "rule" (essentially an idiomatic guideline), as was California.  Before the '64 state renumbering effort, there were two in-state duplications: I-40/US 40 and I-80/US 80; which didn't seem to concern anyone at any level for the 6+ years the situation existed.  The fact that the renumberings dealt with the problem was pretty much incidental; the goal of the renumbering was to eliminate multi-route multiplexes; doing so meant truncating many of the US highways entering the state.

What's actually ironic & funny is that the Illinois situation concerning I-24/US 24 could have been avoided back in '57 by simply swapping I-24 and I-26; it would have been logical as well, considering the whole of I-26 exists at a more southerly mean latitude than does I-24! 

hbelkins

I keep forgetting about California, even though I'm old enough to remember current maps with the US routes posted, and thinking how neat it was that a route that runs within about an hour of where I live (US 60) went all the way to California.

The "no duplication" rule is why there are no interstates numbered 50 or 60. Any interstates with those numbers would, out of necessity, have passed through states with the same numbers used on US routes.


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bassoon1986

Arkansas now has I-49 and US 49. Smaller state, but they are still on E-W opposite ends of the state.


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texaskdog

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 06, 2017, 03:40:43 PM

-MN 62 and Hennepin County 62 in Eden Prairie. The county portion remains after NIMBYs stopped the planned continuation of MN 62.

Where was that supposed to go?

texaskdog

I wonder if you could make an interstate into I-50 and successfully keep US 50 out of those states (even if you had to reroute it). 

TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: texaskdog on July 07, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 06, 2017, 03:40:43 PM

-MN 62 and Hennepin County 62 in Eden Prairie. The county portion remains after NIMBYs stopped the planned continuation of MN 62.

Where was that supposed to go?

It was supposed to connect with an interchange at MN 101 at the Dell Road intersection.
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MNHighwayMan

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 07, 2017, 05:13:58 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 07, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 06, 2017, 03:40:43 PM

-MN 62 and Hennepin County 62 in Eden Prairie. The county portion remains after NIMBYs stopped the planned continuation of MN 62.

Where was that supposed to go?

It was supposed to connect with an interchange at MN 101 at the Dell Road intersection.

Correct. Although I find it somewhat humorous considering MnDOT pretty much said "fuck MN-101 south of I-94" and that would've left MN-62, as you described, a spur route that would've made little sense, ending at an otherwise unimportant intersection.

ekt8750

US 222 becomes PA 222 at the Allentown city limits due to a denial by the AASHTO of an extension of US 222 into Allentown.

US 89

Quote from: ekt8750 on July 07, 2017, 08:01:27 PM
US 222 becomes PA 222 at the Allentown city limits due to a denial by the AASHTO of an extension of US 222 into Allentown.

PA should pull an Oklahoma and just sign it as US 222.

texaskdog

Guess I didn't mean roads that just turn into other roads, I meant completely different roads that meet or cross, causing confusion for inattentive drivers (i.e. anyone not like us)

bwana39

US 69 and Interstate 69 In Lufkin TX

If left unresolved in Lufkin, they would definitely intersect and probably run concurrently.

There are three solutions.
1) Extend US175 from Jacksonville TX to Woodville and truncate US 69 in Jacksonville.
2) Extend US271 from Tyler to Woodville and truncate US69 in Tyler
3) Delete US175 altogether and extend US75 from Dallas to Woodville along the current US175 and US69.

Another US75 possibility would be to truncate US69 in Durant OK and reroute US 75 along the current US69 to Woodville. This would also require the current US75 being renumbered to IH45. This of course flies in the face of the idea that I45 will eventually extend along SH114 and US287 to Amarillo
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US 89

Quote from: bwana39 on July 12, 2017, 09:00:25 PM
Another US75 possibility would be to truncate US69 in Durant OK and reroute US 75 along the current US69 to Woodville. This would also require the current US75 being renumbered to IH45. This of course flies in the face of the idea that I45 will eventually extend along SH114 and US287 to Amarillo

Why would I-45 go to Amarillo?

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LM117

Quote from: cabiness42 on July 06, 2017, 01:15:28 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 06, 2017, 11:29:25 AM
You mean like where I-64 has an exit for IN 64 west of New Albany?

You beat me to it.  Was going to mention that.  Also, I-265 meets IN 265 at I-65, though I imagine IN 265 is going away before too long.

NC will eventually have an I-42/NC-42 interchange near Clayton once US-70 between I-40 and Morehead City officially becomes I-42.

On a brief off-topic note, once US-264 is upgraded to interstate standards between Zebulon and Greenville, NC will be the first state to have a 3-di interstate concurrency where both routes begin with an odd number: I-795/I-587 in Wilson.
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LM117

Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2017, 11:08:23 AM
I keep forgetting about California, even though I'm old enough to remember current maps with the US routes posted, and thinking how neat it was that a route that runs within about an hour of where I live (US 60) went all the way to California.

I know the feeling. I lived in Warsaw, NC for a couple of years when I was a kid and it's right off of I-40. Straight shot to Barstow! :-D
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froggie

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on July 07, 2017, 05:52:08 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 07, 2017, 05:13:58 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 07, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 06, 2017, 03:40:43 PM

-MN 62 and Hennepin County 62 in Eden Prairie. The county portion remains after NIMBYs stopped the planned continuation of MN 62.

Where was that supposed to go?

It was supposed to connect with an interchange at MN 101 at the Dell Road intersection.

Correct. Although I find it somewhat humorous considering MnDOT pretty much said "fuck MN-101 south of I-94" and that would've left MN-62, as you described, a spur route that would've made little sense, ending at an otherwise unimportant intersection.

Actually, it was supposed to meet MN 7 in the now-CSAH 101 vicinity.  The milemarkers along MN 62 (minus the 100 that was added to them) reflect this original proposed terminus.

Also, as I understand it, it wasn't NIMBY's that stopped it, but changing priorities at the county level.  Then-CSAH 18/now-US 169 in particular was becoming problematic to fund and construct.  I still remember when the last "inside the Beltline" segment next to Hopkins wasn't yet completed.

texaskdog

Quote from: froggie on July 13, 2017, 09:50:41 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on July 07, 2017, 05:52:08 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 07, 2017, 05:13:58 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 07, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 06, 2017, 03:40:43 PM

-MN 62 and Hennepin County 62 in Eden Prairie. The county portion remains after NIMBYs stopped the planned continuation of MN 62.

Where was that supposed to go?

It was supposed to connect with an interchange at MN 101 at the Dell Road intersection.

Correct. Although I find it somewhat humorous considering MnDOT pretty much said "fuck MN-101 south of I-94" and that would've left MN-62, as you described, a spur route that would've made little sense, ending at an otherwise unimportant intersection.

Actually, it was supposed to meet MN 7 in the now-CSAH 101 vicinity.  The milemarkers along MN 62 (minus the 100 that was added to them) reflect this original proposed terminus.

Also, as I understand it, it wasn't NIMBY's that stopped it, but changing priorities at the county level.  Then-CSAH 18/now-US 169 in particular was becoming problematic to fund and construct.  I still remember when the last "inside the Beltline" segment next to Hopkins wasn't yet completed.


Looking at the maps after the previous posts, that looked like it made the most sense.  MN is not fast to build highways.

dvferyance

FL-29 and county road 29 in Collier County Florida just north of Everglades City. They change when they cross US 41.

MNHighwayMan

#44
Quote from: froggie on July 13, 2017, 09:50:41 AM
Actually, it was supposed to meet MN 7 in the now-CSAH 101 vicinity.  The milemarkers along MN 62 (minus the 100 that was added to them) reflect this original proposed terminus.

Also, as I understand it, it wasn't NIMBY's that stopped it, but changing priorities at the county level.  Then-CSAH 18/now-US 169 in particular was becoming problematic to fund and construct.  I still remember when the last "inside the Beltline" segment next to Hopkins wasn't yet completed.

So was this proposed freeway/roadway/whatever then supposed to follow some new alignment? I ask because I measured the distance on Google Earth following CSAH-62 and it pretty well measures out (within error) to being the start of Mile 100 at the CSAH-62/101 intersection.

Edit: So the route logpoint states that the present-day Metro MN-62 begins at mile 103.592. There is no way to get to MN-7 with that short of a path (ie ~3.6 miles) without cutting a brand new route through all those suburban housing developments, and I find it hard to believe that ever was MnDOT's intention.

froggie

#45
It would have followed the existing CSAH 62 alignment west to roughly Scenic Heights Dr, then turned on new alignment northwest and north through what is now Purgatory Park to the general MN 7/CSAH 101 vicinity.  Back in the early 1960s when planning first began, there was little in the way of "suburban housing development" out there.  Now while that started changing in the mid 1960s, the general proposed corridor remained intact at least into the early 1970s.

Some iterations had it tying into CSAH 101 at Excelsior Blvd.  The length of this iteration roughly matches the mileposts along MN 62.

Also, this was planned under the county, not MnDOT.  MnDOT didn't take over the Crosstown until 1988, and even then the segment west of 494 remained under county control.

If I can find them when I get home, I'll post a couple map scans I have of the corridor online and share.

MNHighwayMan

Quote from: froggie on July 13, 2017, 04:58:27 PM
It would have followed the existing CSAH 62 alignment west to roughly Scenic Heights Dr, then turned on new alignment northwest and north through what is now Purgatory Park to the general MN 7/CSAH 101 vicinity.  Back in the early 1960s when planning first began, there was little in the way of "suburban housing development" out there.  Now while that started changing in the mid 1960s, the general proposed corridor remained intact at least into the early 1970s.

Some iterations had it tying into CSAH 101 at Excelsior Blvd.  The length of this iteration roughly matches the mileposts along MN 62.

Also, this was planned under the county, not MnDOT.  MnDOT didn't take over the Crosstown until 1988, and even then the segment west of 494 remained under county control.

If I can find them when I get home, I'll post a couple map scans I have of the corridor online and share.

Interesting. Guess it must just be coincidence that they're about the same length then. Would love to see those maps if you get a chance.

yakra

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Haines City, FL US 17 and FL 17 intersect since US 27 ALT was decommissioned.  I am not sure but I think Polk County 17 meets the two, as its not signed there, but at nearby US 27 it shows CR 17 going east to that location in signage.
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