Urban interstates that end abruptly

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Doesn't I-394 in Minneapolis just funnel you onto the streets downtown near Target Field, Target Center, and First Avenue? I seem to remember something like that.

Wasn't I-394 planned to continue across the Mississippi River and connect with I-35W in the area of those ghost interchange 'S' curves?

Mike

You're probably thinking of the cancelled I-335

Although to dovetail this, the I-335 money was repurposed for I-394.

[bing101]

I-380 and I-280 end abruptly in California I understand that I-380 was debated to connect to I-238 and CA-380 as the southern crossing but that never went through.


For I-280 it was originally going to connect to CA-480 and I-80 but that was called off.

[ET21]

There are are freeway stubs none interstate though.

One of those being IL-390. The east end is getting connected with I-490 but the west end just stops at US-20. There are studies looking into extending it to County Farm Road.

Fictional thoughts (also talked in detail in Midwest) would have IL-390 eventually connect to the US-20 Elgin Bypass.

[mgk920]

Doesn't I-394 in Minneapolis just funnel you onto the streets downtown near Target Field, Target Center, and First Avenue? I seem to remember something like that.

Wasn't I-394 planned to continue across the Mississippi River and connect with I-35W in the area of those ghost interchange 'S' curves?

Mike

You're probably thinking of the cancelled I-335

I might be, but I do remember reading an article in a Minneapolis newspaper at the local library in the late 1980s or early 1990s that was discussing something on the lines of a partially cleared ROW along that railroad corridor (NE of the River) that would have connected the then under construction I-394 with I-35W.   Checking the maps, it makes sense, but as constructed I-394 and the US 52 connector fully ended at their current street intersections.

Mike

[mgk920]

There are are freeway stubs none interstate though.

One of those being IL-390. The east end is getting connected with I-490 but the west end just stops at US-20. There are studies looking into extending it to County Farm Road.

Fictional thoughts (also talked in detail in Midwest) would have IL-390 eventually connect to the US-20 Elgin Bypass.

There is a clear ROW preserved for that.

Mike

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Doesn't I-394 in Minneapolis just funnel you onto the streets downtown near Target Field, Target Center, and First Avenue? I seem to remember something like that.

Wasn't I-394 planned to continue across the Mississippi River and connect with I-35W in the area of those ghost interchange 'S' curves?

Mike

You're probably thinking of the cancelled I-335

I might be, but I do remember reading an article in a Minneapolis newspaper at the local library in the late 1980s or early 1990s that was discussing something on the lines of a partially cleared ROW along that railroad corridor (NE of the River) that would have connected the then under construction I-394 with I-35W.   Checking the maps, it makes sense, but as constructed I-394 and the US 52 connector fully ended at their current street intersections.

Mike

You'd have been talking about clearing out a good chunk of downtown and ritzy Nicollet Island to get 394 across the river. No chance in hell anyone thought they could ever get that done.

[MikieTimT]

Easy.  I-49 at 3 Trails Crossing in KC.  Like I-40 in Memphis, there's civil rights implications to the abrupt termination/reroute.

[coldshoulder]

Not interstates, but Youngstown,Ohio has two in very close proximity, with an expressway-like four-lane divided US-422 (speed limit 50) without an exit ramp running smack dab into Oak St., where you must turn left to proceed on 422. It was designed that way, as there were never any plans for the expressway to go beyond that.

Just north of there another four-lane divided expressway carries US-62 but dead ends abruptly at Albert Street, where again you must turn left to remain on the US route.  This was intended to proceed further in an eventual northeasterly direction to hook up with I-80 in Hubbard Township, thus the name of the ill-fated and never-constructed "Hubbard Expressway."

https://goo.gl/maps/4Y7NAGsLtgUQUMyb8

[zachary_amaryllis]

I-229 in ... is it Sioux falls?

used to end at the jct with 90... the continuance was at one time a dirt road

  https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGAMAyQGG7JbxQd78

[Road Hog]

Before ARDOT reconfigured it a few years ago, I-630 ended at a stoplight just past a ridiculously-overbuilt cloverleaf with I-430 in west Little Rock. Continue straight to get on Chenal Parkway. One of the very few instances (I-69 is a very prominent current one) where Arkansas actually overplanned future traffic.

[3467]

Illinois 390 would be a thread on Interstate Highway numbers we didn't get so we have them to ourselves as state highways.

[US 89]

I-229 in ... is it Sioux falls?

used to end at the jct with 90... the continuance was at one time a dirt road

  https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGAMAyQGG7JbxQd78

Having been about a mile from that junction myself, the environment there is a far cry from “urban”.

[zachary_amaryllis]

I-229 in ... is it Sioux falls?

used to end at the jct with 90... the continuance was at one time a dirt road

  https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGAMAyQGG7JbxQd78

Having been about a mile from that junction myself, the environment there is a far cry from "urban" .

you do raise a valid point ...

[Flint1979]

I-229 in ... is it Sioux falls?

used to end at the jct with 90... the continuance was at one time a dirt road

  https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGAMAyQGG7JbxQd78

Looks like it still is a dirt road starting about 3 miles north of there.

[jmd41280]

Currently, the north end of I-79 defaults into the Bayfront Parkway in Erie, PA. Before the Bayfront was built, I-79 ended at the exit w/ PA 5.

[ozarkman417]

I-65 at US 12/20 in an industrial area in Gary, though it intersects I-90 immediately beforehand.

[bing101]

I-780 in Vallejo has kind of an abrupt end.  It intersects I-80 with a fairly typical cloverleaf, and if you are continuing west on I-780 past that, it just dumps you out onto Curtola Parkway.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0918497,-122.2349482,2276m/data=!3m1!1e3

I remember I-780 was originally going to have the freeway go to Mare Island as the Waterfront freeway  like Cypress Freeway and Embarcadero Freeway. But that was called off.

[thenetwork]

Currently, the north end of I-79 defaults into the Bayfront Parkway in Erie, PA. Before the Bayfront was built, I-79 ended at the exit w/ PA 5.

Heck, I remember when I-79 ended at US-20.

[nexus73]

I-105 in Eugene OR ends with 99 (E/W) and city streets going N/S. It is an attractive looking ending to the freeway though!

Rick

[skluth]

Milwaukee has a few, though only one is an interstate. I-794 (Hoan Bridge) once ended at the south end of Jones Island (no longer an island); Blues Brothers movie fans may remember an earlier abrupt end before the bridge was built as the scene location where the Illinois Nazis fly off the end of an incomplete freeway. It is now extended as the WI 794 expressway which also ends abruptly just east of Mitchell Field at Pennsylvania. The former Stadium Freeway (not an interstate) is now Miller Park Way and was intended as the US 41 route through the city. It ends abruptly at the north end and merges into 43rd St (technically still called Miller Park Way) at the south end. The Fond du Lac Freeway similarly ends at the SE end into Fond du Lac Avenue.

[Finrod]

Langford Parkway in south Atlanta was to be I-420 but just ends up dumping onto Lakewood Avenue just east of its junction with I-75-85.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6982035,-84.3962236,581m/data=!3m1!1e3

[echo]

I-189 up in Burlington VT, the paved distance is only 1.48 Miles long.

[KCRoadFan]

Langford Parkway in south Atlanta was to be I-420 but just ends up dumping onto Lakewood Avenue just east of its junction with I-75-85.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6982035,-84.3962236,581m/data=!3m1!1e3

I-420.

Perhaps GDOT didn't go through with that after realizing they would have a lot of stolen signs on their hands.

[SkyPesos]

Langford Parkway in south Atlanta was to be I-420 but just ends up dumping onto Lakewood Avenue just east of its junction with I-75-85.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6982035,-84.3962236,581m/data=!3m1!1e3

I-420.

Perhaps GDOT didn't go through with that after realizing they would have a lot of stolen signs on their hands.

I wouldn't be suprised if a ton of I-69 shields had to be replaced because of theft already

[Flint1979]

Do any of the OH-420 signs get stolen frequently?