Highways with normal exits and at-grade intersections

[debragga]

Rural Texas is chock-full of these. US 82 alone in North Texas is a complete mix of interchanges, at-grades and driveways from Gainesville to Honey Grove.

Other examples are US 175  for much of its length, as well as a good bit of US 287, especially from the DFW area to Amarillo.

Somehow I forgot to mention US 175. I used to live close enough to hear the cars driving by on it between Crandall and Kaufman.

[zachary_amaryllis]

i think the classic example is I-180 in cheyenne -- the only section that could be called a 'freeway' is the viaduct over the tracks.
its a nice place to watch trains, if one is so inclined.

[Joe The Dragon]

I86 / NY17 which is discussed in this thread

Is that one of the only New York examples?
I can't think of many others that switch back and forth between freeway and expressway, unless you count the Lake Ontario State Parkway. And NY 5S, maybe?

New York lacks expressways in general, so I guess it's not too surprising that there's not tons of examples.
Other states have tons of rural corridors that have had interchanges added to major junctions over the years, but that type of thing is glaringly absent here.

I-690 has an at-grade intersection providing access to a parking lot used for the state fair. Not surprisingly, it's only ever used during the fair.

(And speaking of 690, let's also not forget that its original interchange with the Thruway also had an at-grade intersection.)

and it looks like that is being removed?

[SGwithADD]

I86 / NY17 which is discussed in this thread

Is that one of the only New York examples?
I can't think of many others that switch back and forth between freeway and expressway, unless you count the Lake Ontario State Parkway. And NY 5S, maybe?

New York lacks expressways in general, so I guess it's not too surprising that there's not tons of examples.
Other states have tons of rural corridors that have had interchanges added to major junctions over the years, but that type of thing is glaringly absent here.

The Brandywine Highway and North Shore Drive (NY 7 and NY 363, respectively) in Binghamton form an expressway corridor from downtown to I-88, where both ends are freeway grade and access controlled, with a few at-grades in the middle.

[kphoger]

i think the classic example is I-180 in cheyenne -- the only section that could be called a 'freeway' is the viaduct over the tracks.
its a nice place to watch trains, if one is so inclined.

??  That's a bridge.  Hard to call a bridge a "freeway".

[zachary_amaryllis]

i think the classic example is I-180 in cheyenne -- the only section that could be called a 'freeway' is the viaduct over the tracks.
its a nice place to watch trains, if one is so inclined.

??  That's a bridge.  Hard to call a bridge a "freeway".

very much right.. but for its length, short tho it may be, has no at-grade intersections.
its bizarre, whatever you want to call it.

[kphoger]

i think the classic example is I-180 in cheyenne -- the only section that could be called a 'freeway' is the viaduct over the tracks.
its a nice place to watch trains, if one is so inclined.

??  That's a bridge.  Hard to call a bridge a "freeway".

very much right.. but for its length, short tho it may be, has no at-grade intersections.
its bizarre, whatever you want to call it.

It's not bizarre.  I can't think of a single bridge over a freight yard that does have at-grade intersections.  (This will now prompt someone on here to post a counterexample, of course.)

Example:  Would you call this bridge a "section of freeway"?  Hardly*, yet it's exactly the same distance from intersection to intersection as on I-180 in Cheyenne.


*  There did, however, use to be pedestrian access to the commuter rail platform, which was immediately adjacent to the freight yard.  I used it once or twice.  It has since been removed.