BY-PASS Bannered US Highways

[Avalanchez71]

How many of these survive out in the field?  It seems that former by-pass banners have been either replaced by the by-pass becoming the mainline and the other through route being decommissioned or the highway becoming part of the interstate system or being completely decommissioned altogether.

[3467]

Illinois loves the US route to the bypass so it's more likely to be a business route. I can think of 67 at Roseville and 24  at Washington.Because of our fondness for Interstates Jacksonville and part of new 67 became I 72 BR.

[Avalanchez71]

US 51 By-Pass in South Fulton, TN/Fulton, KY is now the mainline and the former mainline is decommissioned.

[SkyPesos]

US 74 Bypass east of Charlotte; a relatively new one too.

[ilpt4u]

I feel like I've driven on Bypass US 60 around Morganfield, KY

[hbelkins]

Kentucky can't decide whether routes should be noted as BY-PASS (I never understood the need for the hyphen) or BUSINESS.

For instance, if you travel US 127 north through the state:

Albany: Mainline 127 takes the bypass, the old route through town is signed as the business route.

Jamestown Mainline 127 takes the bypass, the old route through town is signed as the business route.

Danville: Mainline 127 takes the old route through town, the bypass is signed as a bypass.

Harrodsburg: Mainline 127 takes the old route through town, the bypass is signed as a bypass.

Lawrenceburg: Mainline 127 takes the old route through town, the bypass is signed as a bypass.

On the online maps, and some of the printed ones, bannered bypass routes are marked "nnB" and bannered business routes are marked "nnX." In a few places, the "X" gets signed in the route marker, which leads to odd examples like the US 31EX signs in Mt. Washington.

When I was growing up, North Carolina signed both BUSINESS and BY-PASS, so there was in effect a gap in the route. (Much like the directional splits that Valerie hates so much.)

I feel like I've driven on Bypass US 60 around Morganfield, KY

You have. The route around town is signed BY-PASS and the old route through downtown is the mainline.

[Mapmikey]

In the late 1970s AASHO wanted to stop using BYPASS banners in favor of no-banner for the non-BUSINESS route.  North Carolina used to post BYPASS banners prevalently until then.

They have slowly crept back into use in NC, not even counting the situations where there are 3 versions of the route in a place like US 17 in Elizabeth City.

Virginia has a well-posted example still:  US 250 around Charlottesville has the BYPASS banner on most postings.

[1995hoo]

In the late 1970s AASHO wanted to stop using BYPASS banners in favor of no-banner for the non-BUSINESS route.  North Carolina used to post BYPASS banners prevalently until then.

They have slowly crept back into use in NC, not even counting the situations where there are 3 versions of the route in a place like US 17 in Elizabeth City.

Virginia has a well-posted example still:  US 250 around Charlottesville has the BYPASS banner on most postings.

And at least one of those in the Charlottesville area still has "BY-PASS" with the hyphen (eastbound just east of the onramp from northbound Emmet Street).

[jmacswimmer]

Speaking of VA: Was US 15 around Leesburg ever an official "BYPASS" route?  Some of the older signage approaching Leesburg from the north has "BYPASS" tacked on underneath the US 15 shield (almost as an afterthought), but I wasn't sure whether it was officially "BYPASS US 15" or just something added to the signs to clear any potential confusion.  This recently-replaced diagrammatic sign no longer has "BYPASS" like its predecessor did.

[LM117]

US-70 Bypass in Goldsboro, NC, though it's likely to be decommissioned in the future once I-42 takes over. There's also US-70 Bypass in Selma, which may also (hopefully) go bye-bye once I-42 shields start going up.

[Mapmikey]

Speaking of VA: Was US 15 around Leesburg ever an official "BYPASS" route?  Some of the older signage approaching Leesburg from the north has "BYPASS" tacked on underneath the US 15 shield (almost as an afterthought), but I wasn't sure whether it was officially "BYPASS US 15" or just something added to the signs to clear any potential confusion.  This recently-replaced diagrammatic sign no longer has "BYPASS" like its predecessor did.

Pretty sure just to avoid confusion.  Although the 1965 AASHO application does say "15 By-Pass"

The afterthought was put on there sometime after this 2003 Tim Reicherd photo:

[Rothman]

Thought BYPASS was used around Martinsville or Danville in VA, too.

[ozarkman417]

Bypass Route 59 in Poteau, OK is a confusing case. There is at least one reassurance sign referring to the Poteau Bypass as Bypass US Route 59, but the BGSs here and here give no mention to a bypass. Drive northeast the surface road (Broadway), and there are US 59/271 shields (the latest OK state map shows US 59 routed on the Broadway, though some prior ones, including my 2007: Centennial Edition map show US 59 routed on the bypass).

[TheStranger]

California has used Bypass only a handful of times, but on notable routes for two of the examples:

- the Bayshore Freeway (originally Bayshore Highway) between I-280 in San Francisco and the former Route 82 junction in San Jose was Bypass US 101 from about 1938 to 1964, after El Camino Real merchants successfully battled to have Bayshore's designation as mainline US 101 be rescinded (at the time, El Camino was briefly Alternate US 101).  After 1964, mainline US 101 took over the freeway routing, with state Route 82 along the surface street.

- Much of the Santa Ana Freeway corridor started out life as Bypass US 101, before becoming the mainline route in the 1950s (a surface street version of this did exit in the 1940s and incorporated part of the pre-1960 Route 10, while the remaining portion would later become Route 42).

The other Bypass route I can think of is Bypass US 50 in Sacramento, back when 50 used to continue south to Stockton along 99.   Bypass 50 took 12th Avenue/14th Avenue from Stockton Boulevard (later the South Sacramento Freeway) and then 65th Street north to Folsom Boulevard.

[HighwayStar]

Its too bad really, I am a fan of the "special" routes, and the more roads that are labeled under the US system the better I say.

That said, in any given place it makes sense to have By-pass or Business, but rarely both.

[jp the roadgeek]

There's a multi-state US 1 By-Pass the straddles the NH-ME border in the Portsmouth area.  It was originally the de-facto I-95 until the Piscataqua River bridge was built.

[US 89]

The US 17 mainline in Myrtle Beach isn't signed with banners, but every single street sign on it has some variation on "Hwy 17 By-Pass".

[fillup420]

When I was growing up, North Carolina signed both BUSINESS and BY-PASS, so there was in effect a gap in the route. (Much like the directional splits that Valerie hates so much.)

There are still a couple of these hanging around. US 70 is split between biz and bypass in Hillsborough. Although the BYPASS banners are only used about half the time. US 158 does the same around Henderson, with the bypass joining I-85 for a stretch.

I wouldn't call these gaps in route though.

[plain]

When I was growing up, North Carolina signed both BUSINESS and BY-PASS, so there was in effect a gap in the route. (Much like the directional splits that Valerie hates so much.)

Although the BYPASS banners are only used about half the time. US 158 does the same around Henderson

Same with US 1 around Henderson.

[rickmastfan67]

In the late 1970s AASHO wanted to stop using BYPASS banners in favor of no-banner for the non-BUSINESS route.  North Carolina used to post BYPASS banners prevalently until then.

And then you have US-21 along I-77 using BY-PASS banners and a Business route in the Elkin area with no 'plain' US-21 at all!
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[bassoon1986]

I was going to say that the Bypass banner isn't really in use in Louisiana but then I kept thinking or more examples. These are all unofficial, or note in the state logs. The only one that is signed all the way through is Bypass US 79. It is officially Truck US 79. The others have a banner on the first turnoff and then are signed as the mainline after that.

Bypass US 71 in Alexandria. It's the quicker route following I-49. It's neither actual 71 or a business route.





LA 1 Bypass in Natchitoches. It is mainline LA 1 while the business route is the older routing through town. Locally it has always been called "the bypass"





These, I think used to be official on LA state logs as bypasses. They are now mainline US 61 and US 190 in Baton Rouge.





US 79 Truck uses a Bypass banner, too. It's a little different in that mainline follows the original route through Homer.




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[sbeaver44]

Is Bypass US 30 still signed as such in Portland?

[Bickendan]

Is Bypass US 30 still signed as such in Portland?

Yes it is.

[Dirt Roads]

When I was growing up, North Carolina signed both BUSINESS and BY-PASS, so there was in effect a gap in the route. (Much like the directional splits that Valerie hates so much.)

There are still a couple of these hanging around. US 70 is split between biz and bypass in Hillsborough. Although the BYPASS banners are only used about half the time. US 158 does the same around Henderson, with the bypass joining I-85 for a stretch.

An interesting twist in Hillsborough is that the eastern section of Business US-70 is called "Highway 70A" both by locals and its marked that way on the streetblades.  But US-70A was the original banner for what's now By-pass US-70 around Hillsborough.  These were swapped about 1947, and eventually US-70A was replaced with Business US-70.  But I think the old name stuck because US-70A also had several variants nearby in the Efland area.

[Bitmapped]

West Virginia just designated Bypass US 19 at Beckley in the last two years. It's the only route signed as such in the state, although there is a Truck US 250 at Philippi that functions as a bypass of downtown. WV doesn't use Business routes.

Ohio doesn't have any Bypass US routes. There is one marked state route, Bypass SR 4, near Hamilton.