Roads signed by name only

[motorway]

Here in the NYC area there are a wealth of highways that are signed only by their route name and not any signed number, most notably the NYC/Long Island/Hudson Valley system of parkways, as well as the Garden State Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway, and the NJ Turnpike south of Exit 6.  What other examples are there of major highways known only by name with no [posted] number?  (Off the top of my head, I can think of the non-interstate portion of the Inner Loop in Rochester and the Lowell Connector in MA.)

[xcellntbuy]

Florida's Turnpike

[roadman65]

Kentucky Parkways are mostly name signed except for where the I-69 is now designated.

[NE2]

Most of those have special shields that act as numbers. The Lowell Connector doesn't.

[1995hoo]

George Washington Memorial Parkway
Dulles Airport Access Highway

[NE2]

Dulles Airport Access Highway

Is this one even signed by name, or simply with control cities (Dulles Airport/Washington)?

[Brandon]

Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Illinois.  No number, no special shield.

[roadman65]

Is the All American Freeway in Fayetteville, NC still unnumbered? 

[hobsini2]

Miller Park Way in Milwaukee is unsigned Wis 341.  Up until about 3 years ago, the Mitchell Airport Spur was unsigned Wis 119. They finally did sign it as such.

[oscar]

With only a dozen signed route numbers in Alaska, that leaves a lot of significant roads with no signed numbers.  Those include, for example, a freeway in Anchorage (Minnesota Dr./O'Malley Rd.), an expressway with several numbered exits in Fairbanks (Johansen Expy.), 56-mile-long paved Chena Hot Springs Rd. east of Fairbanks, and the extensive unpaved highway networks around Nome and on Kodiak Island. 

Alaskans almost always refer to their numbered highways only by name, anyway.  They seem to consider route numbers a lower-48 kind of thing.

[vdeane]

Here in the NYC area there are a wealth of highways that are signed only by their route name and not any signed number, most notably the NYC/Long Island/Hudson Valley system of parkways, as well as the Garden State Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway, and the NJ Turnpike south of Exit 6.  What other examples are there of major highways known only by name with no [posted] number?  (Off the top of my head, I can think of the non-interstate portion of the Inner Loop in Rochester and the Lowell Connector in MA.)

A LOT of cities upstate barely sign or don't bother signing the state routes in their area.  It's gotten better, but if you're gonna follow a number, it's a good idea to scout the route on Google first.

[Speedway99]

Many tollways in Houston, such as Westpark Tollway, Fort Bend Parkway, Hardy Tollroad, the future Grand Parkway. Also, in Dallas, there's the President George Bush Turnpike. Nashville has the Briley Parkway, and of course Bakersfield has the future Westside Parkway. Of course, that one may become CA 58 or even I-40.

[hbelkins]

Kentucky Parkways are mostly name signed except for where the I-69 is now designated.

And they all have unposted numbers in the 9000-series.

Also, Oklahoma's turnpikes.

Nashville has the Briley Parkway

It's signed as TN 155.

[jp the roadgeek]

Everett Turnpike in NH from Exit 7 up to I-293.

[kphoger]

Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Illinois ... no special shield.

Well, sort of.



Google street view example here.

[apeman33]

The George Bush Turnpike in the DFW metro doesn't have a number, does it?

[Brandon]

Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Illinois ... no special shield.

Well, sort of.



Google street view example here.

There's only a few of these, but it's never really treated as a special shield, and is never seen on the expressway itself.  We'll see what happens after ISTHA takes over and widens the EOE.

[oscar]

The George Bush Turnpike in the DFW metro doesn't have a number, does it?

The part of TX 161 Toll it absorbed is still signed as such, at least northbound.  The rest of the PGBT is unnumbered.

[kphoger]

Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Illinois ... no special shield.

Well, sort of.



Google street view example here.

There's only a few of these, but it's never really treated as a special shield, and is never seen on the expressway itself.  We'll see what happens after ISTHA takes over and widens the EOE.

Who doesn't treat them as a special shield?  Looks like a shield to me.
There are even advance JCT signs featuring the white square.
And they're found in at least the following locations:

Wright Blvd, both northbound and southbound approaches
Rodenburg Rd, both northbound and southbound approaches
Irving Park Rd (IL-19), both westbound and eastbound approaches
Springsguth Rd, both northbound and southbound approaches

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a shield.

[OracleUsr]

George Washington Memorial Parkway
Dulles Airport Access Highway

Isn't the latter VA 267?

[oscar]

George Washington Memorial Parkway
Dulles Airport Access Highway

Isn't the latter VA 267?

West of I-495, VA 267 is the Dulles Toll Road (and the Dulles Greenway between Dulles Airport and Leesburg).  The free airport-traffic-only Access Road is in the Toll Road's median.

East of I-495, the Toll Road and the Access Road combine to form what is sometimes called the Dulles Connector Road.  Signage is conflicting on whether that is part of VA 267. 

[hobsini2]

If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood. And therefore....a witch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

[1995hoo]

Dulles Airport Access Highway

Is this one even signed by name, or simply with control cities (Dulles Airport/Washington)?

Fair point. I don't believe any current sign does use the full name. So maybe that one gets a special category of "road signed with neither name nor number."


Regarding the query from "OracleUsr," I saw somewhere that the Access Road has a secret route number of 90004 (looks more like a ZIP Code).

[The High Plains Traveler]

Northwest Parkway around Denver.

[roadman65]

I have not seen an F.D.R Drive shield in NYC come to think of it.  Even the Harlem River Drive, I believe to be shield-less as well.