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How many arterial roads have you clinched?

Started by CapeCodder, August 30, 2025, 11:30:33 AM

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CapeCodder

We often post about routes we have clinched, but what about the main arterial routes in your town?

Locally, I've clinched about 90% of my town's major roads.


NWI_Irish96

I've clinched 90-100% of the arterial roads in the following Indiana cities:

Hammond
Gary
Munster
Highland
South Bend
Mishawaka
Elkhart
Goshen
Jeffersonville
Clarksville
New Albany
Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

kphoger

I grew up Atwood KS, which had a population of about 1300 at the time.  I spent a lot of time riding my bike as a kid, so I've definitely been on every block of every street, plus every alley, in the whole town.

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Quote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 02:38:44 PMI grew up Atwood KS, which had a population of about 1300 at the time.  I spent a lot of time riding my bike as a kid, so I've definitely been on every block of every street, plus every alley, in the whole town.

Yeah, I grew up in a subdivision in VA so there was a time in which I basically clinched at least one secondary route in Prince George County, VA, daily.

(I will not say which one because my parents still live there.)
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More than one and fewer than a million.
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Max Rockatansky

Probably a lot but that is way too exacting of a topic to keep track of for me.  Baseline Road in Phoenix comes to mind as being something significant given I drove the whole thing, and it happens to be very lengthy.

Mr. Matté

Due to my extensive biking throughout my neck of the woods (paused as of last weekend due to an inattentive driver), I pretty much have every through surface road clinched. Whatever gaps I have in biking due to the road being a major highway (where cycling may be outright prohibited) or private roads, I have clinched in cars.

I have clinched every public road in the following NJ municipalities:
Burlington County:
  • Springfield Township
  • Wrightstown
  • New Hanover Township (excl. military base roads)
  • North Hanover Township
Monmouth County:
  • Upper Freehold Township
  • Allentown
  • Millstone Township
  • Roosevelt
  • Shrewsbury Township
Mercer County:
  • East Windsor Township
  • Hightstown
  • Pennington

Somerset County:
  • Rocky Hill
  • Millstone Borough
Hunterdon County:
  • East Amwell Township
  • West Amwell Township
  • Delaware Township
  • Stockton
  • Kingwood Township

Scott5114

I've clinched Cheyenne Avenue and Lake Mead Boulevard, mostly because I've had reason to use their western halves in my day to day and their eastern halves are both state routes (NV 574 and NV 147 respectively). I've also clinched the Fremont Street/Boulder Highway combo (which was formerly the route of US 93). Blue Diamond Road is entirely coterminous with NV 160, and Lake Mead Parkway is entirely coterminous with NV 564, both of which I've clinched.

A few arterials I've clinched because they're relatively short and blend into other arterials: Rampart Blvd., an odd diagonal connector between Ft. Apache Rd. and Durango Dr. that's only necessary because Summerlin was laid out stupidly; Antelope Way, which is a snippet of Tenaya Way; and Sands Avenue which is a connector between Spring Mountain Road and the eastern instance of Twain Avenue.

Frank Sinatra and Koval Lane, being the back service drives of the Strip (on the west side and east side respectively), are too useful to not have clinched.

I'm not going to bother trying to figure out if I have any in Oklahoma, Kansas, or Missouri, since there the arterials basically stretch out to more or less infinity and are only stopped by rivers some county didn't feel the need to bridge. Given that, I don't think that any of them really make a whole lot of sense as a clinch target. One exception is Main Street in Norman, OK, which has very definite termini and which I have clinched.
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