Interstate being repurposed as surface road

[NE2]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20121008/ARTICLE/121009664/-1/news?p=2&tc=pg
The county plans to break ground on the seventh and final phase of the Honore project in summer 2013. The final 2.7-mile leg will use what used to be two southbound I-75 lanes until the state shifted the highway east, as part of recently completed construction.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=27.149799,-82.421858&spn=0.01749,0.033023&gl=us&t=k&z=16
The lanes to the west have been bypassed, including two bridges that will be reused.

[Brandon]

The I-280 drawbridge over the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio was reused as a surface connection in the city after the Glass City Skyway was built.

[PurdueBill]

Not Interstate but close...half the lanes (northbound, I believe, with southbound torn up) of a part of old MA 128 were repurposed as Jubilee Drive in the Centennial Park development when the tie-in to the final link of I-95 to 128 was completed in the late 80s.  At least for some time right after, the original 128 pavement lived on, restriped.  I am not sure if it has been repaved since but probably has.  The Historic Aerials has the best view.  Compare 1978 to 1995 and it is clear what section of 128 was bypassed.

[PHLBOS]

Not Interstate but close...half the lanes (northbound, I believe, with southbound torn up) of a part of old MA 128 were repurposed as Jubilee Drive in the Centennial Park development when the tie-in to the final link of I-95 to 128 was completed in the late 80s.  At least for some time right after, the original 128 pavement lived on, restriped.  I am not sure if it has been repaved since but probably has.  The Historic Aerials has the best view.  Compare 1978 to 1995 and it is clear what section of 128 was bypassed.

Prior to the current Jubilee Drive development, that stretch of former-Route 128 was still dotted with the same stream of wooded utility poles that it had when it was still a highway.  Jubilee Drive, which used to be an-open area dead-end (visible from the Forest St./Centenial Dr. interchange and the 128 North on-ramp for I-95 South), now dead-ends into a parking lot for an office building complex.

[Brian556]

In Fort Worth, Texas, the old I-30 railroad underpass was re-purposed for city street use.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.747288,-97.320998&spn=0.000003,0.001566&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=32.747288,-97.320998&panoid=YMS5-fiL1DF94qOfRVm1sw&cbp=12,232.15,,0,0

[mgk920]

Also not an interstate, but the very western end of the former WI 29 freeway in Chippewa Falls, WI was downgraded to Seymour Cray Bd (a local street) when the new WI 29 Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls bypass freeway was completed a few years ago.

http://goo.gl/maps/1KGEP

Mike

[Beeper1]

The old lanes of I-84 in Mass were turned back into a local road when the interstate was rerouted in the 70s.

[Alps]

Kearny Villa Rd., San Diego

[national highway 1]

I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway.

[oscar]

Hasn't happened yet, but in D.C. once the 11th Street Bridge project is completed, the bypassed part of the Southeast Freeway between the 11th Street Bridges and Pennsylvania Ave. SE (once part of I-295) will be torn up and converted to a boulevard.

[Henry]

I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway

I remember that well.

What was once planned as I-485 in Atlanta is now the Freedom Parkway (GA 10), which is mostly at-grade until you hit the short limited-access piece leading to the Downtown Connector, and even there, for some reason an at-grade crossing also exists in the northbound ramps to/from it.

[TheStranger]

the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy.

Isn't Mandela Parkway basically the same Cypress Street that existed before the original Cypress Freeway was built?  (The right of way of the old viaduct is now median space)

[Road Hog]

I'm thinking of Sam Cooper Blvd. in Memphis, which was the stub end of I-40 before they abandoned the idea of building it through Overton Park. Most of it is still controlled access, but I believe it is city-maintained.

[deathtopumpkins]

The former northbound lanes of I-95 in Newburyport, MA have been converted into a bike path, does that count?

[And I use the word converted loosely. All they did was apply a few markings to guide bikes and put up signs at the access point on MA 113 - otherwise all the original pavement and markings are intact.]

[ibagli]

If I-70 went all the way down the connector to US-40 in Kirkersville, Ohio, then the former eastbound lanes are now OH-158, a surface road. (I'm not sure where the I-70 designation stopped, though. It may have just been US-40 once it diverged from the future route.)

[brownpelican]

the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy.

Isn't Mandela Parkway basically the same Cypress Street that existed before the original Cypress Freeway was built?  (The right of way of the old viaduct is now median space)

Yes

[Henry]

And those urban planners aren't done yet! In a few years, the south end of I-83 in Baltimore, I-95 along the Philadelphia waterfront and the Claiborne portion of I-10 in New Orleans could all suffer the same fate. I'm sure there are others out there.

[Roadsguy]

The 83 thing is understandable since it's not a really major through route, just like that earthquaked freeway in CA, but I-95 will NEVER be removed for that reason. I doubt PennDOT will ever let that happen anyway. It would cause chaos beyond imagination...

[formulanone]

FL 681, sort of. Not limited access, but it was formerly the southern end of I-75. Which is right next to the curiosity in the question of the original post, so I may have missed the point.

[bugo]

Was FL 681 ever signed as I-75?

[JREwing78]

I'm surprised old I-40 through Oklahoma City hasn't been brought up yet.

Granted, it's still pending: http://www.okc.gov/planning/coretoshore/boulevard.html

[Scott5114]

I nearly brought it up, but 1) the original I-40 pavement that will remain is going to stay a freeway, and 2) the at-grade portion is only going to use the I-40 alignment, not any of the pavement.

[flowmotion]

I-480 / CA 480 was rebuilt / demolished in 1991 following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and also the old alignment of I-880 was damaged in the 1989 quake and they decided to demolish the Cypress St Freeway and rebuild it as Mandela Pkwy. I-880 was rerouted to the west in 1997.
Octavia Blvd was built in the footprint of the US 101 Central Freeway

The Embarcadero always ran underneath the 480 freeway, although it was extensively rebuilt after the freeway was torn down. Some of the old Embarcadero Fwy ramp areas have been repurposed into developable real estate.

Likewise, old Octavia Street existed where the SB frontage road is now. The boulevard was expanded into the elevated freeway ROW, but the highway itself was torn down and not repurposed. Lots are being developed on the east side.

[roadman65]

I know this does not count, but it comes close.  Part of the original I-20 near Terrel, TX was downgraded to US 80 when I-20 was given its present alignment that bypasses both Downtown areas of the Metroplex that the extended I- 30 now serves.

US 80 is still freeway up to standards so its not a street, but it was downgraded in designation.  So in a sense it is almost like.

[xonhulu]

This happened in Kelso, WA, although I'm not sure the old US 99 expressway was officially part of I-5 because it had an at-grade intersection (probably it was considered "TEMP I-5").  However, when I-5 bypasses it to the west, it became part of city-maintained Kelso Drive, a street with a wide grassy median, seen here on Google Maps:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=46.1301,-122.89299&spn=0.014662,0.042272&t=h&z=15