Unusual type-naming for limited access routes/freeways

[TheStranger]

As I was in Austin a day or so ago, I can't help but notice the prevalence of limited-access "boulevards" in the area, which are signed at interchanges:

- MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1)
- Ben White Boulevard (SH 71 west of US 183)

This also appears in the Carolinas a bit, i.e. Preddy Boulevard (Business 85), Bryan Boulevard, Painter Boulevard (I-840) in Greensboro, and one segment of Wade Avenue in Raleigh

Some other examples of limited-access routes that don't use typical type-naming (i.e. freeway/parkway/expressway/thruway/turnpike/in some cases, highway) include...

- Kenilworth Avenue (DC 295)
- Crosstown Boulevard (I-579)
- Wabash Boulevard (Route 15 in San Diego, though I don't know if this was ever official - it was on several maps in the late 90s)
- Doyle Drive (US 101 in the Presidio in San Francisco)
- Skelly Drive (I-44/SH 66 in Tulsa)
- Golden State Avenue (Route 204/Business 99 in Bakersfield)
- FDR Drive in Manhattan
- Storrow Drive in Boston
- Central Artery (I-93 in Boston)
- Downtown Connector (I-75/I-85 in Atlanta)
- Sam Cooper Boulevard (former I-40 in Memphis)
- segment of Memorial Drive in Houston

Any other examples?  

(I keep thinking I may have started a thread about this months ago at one point, but can't find it via search...if so...please merge)

[BigMattFromTexas]

I've been on both MoPac and Ben White. I'm sure I could find some weird ones. I'm gonna look for some in West Texas. Well more like Texas.
BigMatt

[BigMattFromTexas]

Named after Six Flags, it's just the access road, but it's part of the highway. Wet N' Wild way in Arlington.

[huskeroadgeek]

The US 71 freeway/expressway running between I-70 and I-435 in Kansas City is known as Bruce R. Watkins Drive. The US 169 freeway from I-29 to I-435 in Kansas City is Arrowhead Trafficway(there are other "trafficways" in KC that aren't limited-access).

[J N Winkler]

Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400) in Wichita, Kansas.

[Bickendan]

Cedar Avenue (MN 77) and Wayzata Blvd (I-394/US 12) in Bloomington/Apple Valley and Minneapolis, respectively.

See the Named/Numbered Freeways thread for many examples in Alberta.

[froggie]

Wayzata Blvd (I-394/US 12)

This one is arguable.  Pre-394 construction, it was definitely known as Wayzata Blvd.  Post-construction, most folks (at least everyone I know back home) call it 394 or Hwy 12, and "Wayzata Blvd" specifically refers to the frontage road.  Then in Wayzata itself, Wayzata Blvd refers to the old road through town and not the Hwy 12 bypass.

With MN 77, you'll see "Cedar Ave" assocated with it on the guide signs.  Not so with 394/12 and Wayzata Blvd.


Since the OP mentioned "Connector", there's a stretch of VA 168 in Chesapeake that's known as the Oak Grove Connector.  Also, if Chesapeake and VDOT ever manage to convert US 17 to a freeway, you can add "Dominion Blvd" to the list.

In the DC area, besides the aforementioned Kenilworth Ave, you have freeway stretches of:

- Pennsylvania Ave (MD 4, east of the Beltway to past the Patuxent River)
- Branch Ave (MD 5, from the Beltway south to MD 223)
- Washington Blvd (VA 27)
- Recently freewayed sections of Sully Rd (VA 28)
- Technically, the eastern part of New York Ave (US 50) is freeway, within the DC limits.
- Arlington Blvd (US 50, from I-66 west to 10th St in Clarendon)
- Columbia Pike (US 29 through Howard County, dipping into northeastern Montgomery County)
- The under-construction Inter-County Connector

[Bryant5493]

Portions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.


Be well,

Bryant

[froggie]

Portions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.

I thought about including those and other Parkways, but the original poster specifically excluded Parkways from the criteria.

[Bryant5493]

^^ Yeah, I just read unusual type-naming. I see that now (lol).


Be well,

Bryant

[Sykotyk]

Cleveland Memorial Shoreway (OH-2)
Findlay Connector (PA Turnpike 576)


The Findlay Connector was the original name for the toll road, and is still used by most people instead of calling it 576 when referring to the road. If you're giving directions, you use 576 as to not confuse someone looking for "Findlay Connector".

Sykotyk

[jdb1234]

Portions of I-20/59 near Alabama Adventure is called Alabama Adventure Parkway. Also, there's a Six Flags Parkway and Six Flags Drive near Six Flags over Georgia in west Cobb County.

Actually, I-20/59 between I-459 and Exit 118 is called Alabama Adventure Freeway.  Alabama Adventure Parkway is at Exit 110.

[Bryant5493]

^^ D'oh! That's what I meant. Thanks.


Be well,

Bryant

[vdeane]

A couple in Rochester, NY:
-The Inner Loop
-Sea Breeze Drive (former NY 590 north of Titus Ave); not a freeway, but there's no houses or businesses that have direct access to the road and many local streets are cut in two because they don't intersect or cross
-I-390 and I-590 are also known as the Outer Loop

[The Premier]

Madison Ave. Expressway in Youngstown, which comprises as most of Youngstown's loop (the other is I-680)

[PAHighways]

I-579:  Crosstown Boulevard
PA 65:  Ohio River Boulevard
SR 3032:  [Harrisburg] Airport Connector

[huskeroadgeek]

A couple in Denver:
US 6 freeway is 6th Ave.
US 285 freeway is Hampden Ave.

[SSOWorld]

Lake Shore Drive in Chicago (particularly the northern half.) The rest isn't all limited access.

[NJRoadfan]

Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.

[SSOWorld]

Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.

It has now

[Ian]

Can't believe PA-63/Woodhaven Rd. hasn't come up in this thread yet.

D'oh! You took mine.

[Mr. Matté]

Calling I-76 west of Philly an "Expressway" is kind of a stretch...

For a real example, the IN 912 freeway (even the closed parts) is called "Cline Avenue."

[njroadhorse]

Part of the PA 28 freeway is known as East Ohio Street.
I-80 in Pennsylvania is known as the Keystone Shortway.

[mapman]

The CA 87 freeway in San Jose, CA is named the Guadalupe Parkway, although that's mostly because its northern end replaced an at-grade arterial with the same name.

[Troubleshooter]

In many of these cases, an old road upgraded to a freeway retained its old name.