Roads that feel like other roads

[Pete from Boston]

"Roads that trick your memory" made me think of the fact that occasionally, I'll have the strong feeling of similarity to being on another road entirely.

My easiest example, off the top of my head, is the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County, NJ (120s to 100 or so), and MA 3 from the Braintree Split at I-93 on south a while.  Both geographically follow a similar pattern, jutting out ESE from a break with a regional through corridor before taking a much more southerly direction toward the shore towns.  Both are fairly heavily treed, and have similar ebbs and flows of shore traffic.  I swear that every time I'm on one, I immediately think of being in the same situation on the other.

What's your highway deja vu?

[hbelkins]

What's your highway deja vu?

There's a section of westbound KY 84 in Marion County that reminds me a lot of a section of KY 11 northbound in Montgomery County that I drive frequently.

And I-57 in Missouri reminds me of I-55 in Missouri. 

[kphoger]

heeeeyyyy now..

[briantroutman]

There's a section of US 15 between Foy Ave. and Hepburnville north of Williamsport, PA which to me feels just like it was lifted from the PA Turnpike circa the Bedford-Somerset area. Something about the landscape, the grading, and the narrow median with concrete barrier all scream "turnpike". The only things it's missing are call boxes, tunnels, or service plazas.

[1995hoo]

I-78 in Pennsylvania feels like the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Same minuscule median and narrow feel and too much traffic.

I-95 through Lumberton, NC, feels to me to be very similar to the way I-295 in New Jersey used to be in the Paulsboro area where it's concurrent with US-130. Before that part of I-295 was rebuilt in the 1990s it was very substandard and had at-grade driveways and really sharp exit ramps and other silliness. I-95 isn't quite that bad, but it sure feels close because it feels like a glorified arterial. Heck, we have arterial roads here in Northern Virginia that are better roads than I-95 through Lumberton!

[doorknob60]

Pengra Rd. (across the river/reservoir from OR-58) near Lowell, OR always felt like SR-14 in the Columbia Gorge to me, although it's been years since I've actually been there: Street view link

[NE2]

Suburbia.

[roadman65]

US 19 & 98 between Lebanon Station, FL and Chiefland, FL feels like US 13 between Fruitland, MD and Princess Anne, MD except on US 19 & 98 the parallel railroad grade is abandoned unlike US 13.  However, both have a tree lined median.

[Ian]

I've always thought that I-95 between Pawtucket and downtown Providence, RI looked similar to I-95 north of Philadelphia.

A-15/A-20 between Pont Champlain and the Turcot Interchange in Montreal reminds me of the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) in Philadelphia.

[ChoralScholar]

I-540 in Fort Smith, where it turns to the southwest, reminds me of a freeway around Denver for some reason.   I think it has to do with the Home Depot that's there.

[Roadsguy]

I-83 near the end in Baltimore feels like parts of I-95 in Philadelphia (i.e. from the Penns Landing "tunnel" to the Walt Whitman Bridge). It's a viaduct, old design standards, and both are north-south.