Freeway Names
Jeff Aragaki
names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
routes and their names for California?
Rich Piehl
their endpoint /destination city hubbing away from the Civic Center.
The Golden State Freeway is the obvious exception.
Take care,
Rich
God bless the USA
Patrick L. Humphrey
Houston's have been basically associated with their direction (or where they
went to):
I-45 North: North Freeway, since the beginning in the early 1960s
I-45 South: Gulf Freeway, from the day it opened in 1948
US 59 North: Eastex Freeway, the winner of a name-the-freeway contest in the
late 1950s, believe it or not
US 59 South: Southwest Freeway, from the beginning in the early 1960s
I-10 West: West Freeway originally in the early '60s, but was pretty much Katy
Freeway (since that was the first town outside Houston that way) by 1966
I-10 East: East Freeway when first opened in 1964, but in the late 1980s the
city fathers wanted it to be renamed the Baytown Freeway -- so now we've got
both in use (even the Houston street signs mix them up) and a lot of people
compromise by calling it the Baytown East (which shortens to the Beast, a more
apt name for Houston's oldest freeway not yet rebuilt)
Texas 288: South Freeway from its opening in 1985 -- but once it crosses
Clear Creek into Brazoria County, it becomes the Nolan Ryan Expressway (since
ca. 1995), since he *does* live there
Texas 225: Originally the La Porte Freeway (where it still ends) from the
mid-1960s, but now officially the Pasadena freeway in Houston and Pasadena
US 290: Northwest Freeway, from its opening in the 1970s
US 90: on the books for decades as the Northeast Freeway, but the first
section (from Beltway 8 out to Crosby) opened in the mid-1990s as the Crosby
Freeway; the section inside the Beltway will be completed by 2005 or so
I-610: The North, South, East, or West Loop, depending on which side you're
on...it was finally completed in 1973 (about 50 years sooner than a lot of
people expected :)
Beltway 8: another one on the books for decades, but finally made reality
when the HCTRA built the first three sections of it as the Sam Houston
Tollway. Currently it's a toll road from I-45 North around to I-10 East,
proceeding in a counterclockwise direction...and Beltway 8 is actually the
feeder roads (only in Texas!), named the Sam Houston Parkway.
Hardy Toll Road: opened in 1988 paralleling East and West Hardy Roads, and
ending at I-45 at the Harris/Montgomery County line.
Westpark Tollway: slated for opening in 2004, and will run from the Southwest
Freeway parallel to Westpark Drive for the first ten miles or so along the old
SPRR route, thence alongside FM 1093 out to the Grand Parkway.
--PLH, and people wonder why you can't get there from here in Houston...
Jenn Dolari
> Jeff Aragaki <jeff.a...@dot.ca.gov> writes:
>
> >I'm looking for any info on how freeways originally received their
> >names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> >routes and their names for California?
>
> Houston's have been basically associated with their direction (or where they
> went to):
Before the recent renaming of all the freeways, San Antonio had only a
few named freeways. I-10 Westbound was known as the Northwest
Expressway. Texas 151 was the Westside Expressway. I-35 was Pan Am
Expressway all the way through (although all my maps of the Pan Am
highway show it going from San Antonio to El Paso). US 281 was the
McAllister Freeway named after the mayor that got it pushed through.
Spur 371 was named the Gen. Hudnell after a high ranking Air Force
General that trained at Kelly Air Force Base (which the Spur serves).
Loop 1604 was named after another mayor Chas W. Anderson.
Within the last ten years (Actually, I think it was Mayor Nelson
Wolf's last official act as Mayor, but don't hold me to it), all the
freeways that weren't named after a specific person got renamed
(Except for the Pan Am Expressway). I-10 Westbound is named after
Texas Public Policy Foundation Chairman (General) Robert F. McDermott.
I-10 Eastbound is named for Seargant Jose Lopez (who saved his entire
company from being surrounded by enemy troops.) I-37 Southbound is
named after Lucian Adams, another World War II veteran. US 90
Westbound is named after Cleto Rodriguez, first hispanic medalof honor
winner (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/RR/frobv.html).
Texas 151 is the Raymond E. Stotzer, Jr. Freeway, who was a civil
engineer. I-410 is named after John Connally, former Governor of
Texas. All of the above hailed from around these parts.
Jenn
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Justin
named after, with few exceptions, including IH 20 - which is just "20", and IH 45 is the same way.
IH 635 - Lyndon B Johnson (or just LBJ)
IH 30 - R.L. Thornton East of Downtown, Tom Landry West of Downtown
IH 35E - Stemmons
US 75 - Central
SH190 - George Bush
SH114- John Carpenter *freeway*
SH183 - Airport *freeway*
US67- Marvin D Love
US175 - S.M. Wright Freeway near downtown
and after downtown it's "CF Hawn"
Fort Worth always says freeway....
IH35W north - North Freeway, and South Freeway south of downtown
and 30 E and W of downtown are the East and West freeways, respectively.
jstn
LBracey
>
> >I'm looking for any info on how freeways originally received their
> >names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> >routes and their names for California?
I-405-The San Diego Freeway
This one has always been a source of ire for me. Yes, it leads to
I-5, which does take you to San Diego, but it ends in Irvine, which is
at least 60, 70 miles from SD.
But anyway, SD has names for its freeways as well, but most people
there refer to them by number:
CA-163/I-15 (north of I-8) is the "Escondido Freeway". But isn't
CA-163 in Balboa Park called the "Cabrillo Freeway"?
I-805 is known as the "Inland Freeway", BUT there are signs all over
the place designating it as the "Jacob Dekema Freeway", whoever that
is.
I-5 is the "San Diego Freeway". However, in South Bay, it is
supposedly known as the "Montgomery Freeway", but again, no one calls
it that.
I-8 is the "Ocean Beach Freeway", the "Mission Valley Freeway", and
the "Alvarado Freeway" depending on where you are.
(aahhh, the ocean breeze of Ocean Beach...)
CA-94 is the "Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway" Here is a little
story...
Market Street is a throughfare that is somewhat parallel to 94. It
primarily serves the African-American community in SD. In the 80s,
they renamed it MLK Jr Drive, but still had Market Street signs above
it. I don't know the story behind it, but Market was named just
Market by 1988. This angered the black community, so as a compromise,
they renamed CA-94 the "MLK Jr Fwy". BTW, this is the ONLY freeway in
the county that I have seen that has the Freeway name in the BGS.
However, this is not the only freeway in the county that has signs
that indicate the freeway name.
CA-56 is the "Ted Williams Freeway"
CA-78 is the "Vista Freeway"
CA-67 is the "Ramona Freeway"
CA-52 is the "San Clemente Canyon Freeway"
In New Orleans, I-10 is the "Ponchartrain Expressway"
In Atlanta:
I-285 is "The Perimeter"
I-20 is the "Ralph David Abernathy Freeway"
I-75 north of the connector is the "Northwest Expressway"
I-85 " " " " " " "Northeast Expressway"
GA-166 is the "Langford Parkway"
I-985 is the "Lanier Parkway"
For you Chicagolanders out there, who is Dan Ryan? (I-90/94)
And who is Kingery while I am at it?
> Houston's have been basically associated with their direction (or where they
> went to):
>
> I-45 South: Gulf Freeway, from the day it opened in 1948
> US 59 North: Eastex Freeway, the winner of a name-the-freeway contest in the
> late 1950s, believe it or not
Well, wasn't the 'Gulf Freeway' a winner of a contest too?
Joe Galea
"Jeff Aragaki" <jeff.a...@dot.ca.gov> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for any info on how freeways originally received their
> names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> routes and their names for California?
In Detroit, you have:
M-39 Southfield Freeway (named for the road alignment it followed)
M-10 John C Lodge Freeway
I-96 Jeffries Freeway (1940's era mayor of Detroit)
I-75 south of the I-75/I-375/M-3 interchange: Fisher Freeway (auto parts
maker)
I-75 north of above interchange, I-375: Chrysler Freeway (auto maker Walter
P. Chrysler)
I-94 in Detroit: Edsel Ford Freeway (son of Henry)
I-94 west of Detroit: Detroit Industrial Expressway
I-94 even farther west: Willow Run Expressway
I-696 Walter P Reuther Freeway (labor leader)
M-8 Davison Freeway
Joe Galea
Andrew Muck
In Buffalo we call them expressways. We have the Kensington Expwy,(NY
33) which parallels Kensington Ave. The Scajaquada,(NY 198) which
follows Scajaquada Creek and the Youngmann,(I-290) which used to be
called the Power Line Expwy, due to the fact it follows a large line
of power lines.
Andrew Muck
(found on the Thruway and the Niagara Section)
Jeff Kitsko
the William Penn and Lincoln Highways, whose numerical identities US 22 and
US 30 are both signed on. The segments are referred to simply as "The
Parkway ...." depending on what part you are referring to:
Airport Parkway - former Greater Pittsburgh International to US 22/30,
Parkway West from PA 60 to downtown, Parkway Central in downtown, and
Parkway East from downtown to the Turnpike. When I-279 was completed, to
fit with the scheme, it began to be referred to as the Parkway North. Its
official name is the Raymond E. Wilt Highway, named for the state senator
who got the project going again.
I-579/Crosstown Boulevard - slices thru downtown
PA 28/Allegheny Valley Expressway - follows the Allegheny River
PA 60/Beaver Valley Expressway - follows the Beaver River
PA Turnpike 43/Mon-Fayette Expressway - 40-70 named the James Manderino
Memorial Highway after the state senator who got the project going
PA Turnpike 66/Amos K. Hutchinson Bypass - got the project going
--
Jeff Kitsko
Pennsylvania Highways: http://www.pahighways.com/
Pittsburgh Highways: http://www.pahighways.com/pghhwys/
Philadelphia Highways: http://www.pahighways.com/phlhwys/
"Joe Galea" <ccsham...@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message
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Mark F
>I-405-The San Diego Freeway
>This one has always been a source of ire for me. Yes, it leads to
>I-5, which does take you to San Diego, but it ends in Irvine, which is
>at least 60, 70 miles from SD.
Actually the Santa Ana Freeway ends at the 5/405 junction in
Irvine, and I-5 south of there continues as the San Diego
Freeway. Confusing, but at least it goes to San Diego.
-Mark F
US71
> names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> routes and their names for California?
I can't speak for California, but here's what I know about Arkansas:
I-630: Wilbur Mills Expressway (well known Arkansas politician)
I-540: John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway (US Representative who helped
secure funding for I-540)
Exile on Market Street
<jeff.a...@dot.ca.gov> wrote:
OK, this is far from California, or Texas for that matter.
But generally speaking, urban freeway names tend to fall into three broad
categories:
--Compass-point names, wrt the city center (as in Houston, by and large)
--End point names, where the end point is usually a nearby community, again
wrt the city center (as in LA)
--Famous local/regional personages, as with Dan Ryan, or nationally-famous
personages from the city/region, as with Adlai Stevenson in the same city
Then there are some other less-common categories. Philadelphia has
examples of two of these:
--Geographical feature names, where the road is named for some prominent
landmark or waterway. Philly's two major city expressways are named for
the rivers they parallel, the Schuylkill (I-76) and the Delaware (I-95).
--Street names, where the road replaces, parallels or continues a local
thoroughfare, as in Philly's Vine Street Expressway (I-676, built within
the street's ROW) and Roosevelt Expressway (US 1, extension of the
Roosevelt Boulevard)
In my hometown of Kansas City, the freeway names are almost never used on
the Missouri side; they are (would have been):
--Southeast Freeway (I-70)
--Southwest Trafficway (I-35, whose viaduct it uses S of the downtown loop)
--North Midtown Freeway (I-29/35 from the freeway loop to the split)
--St. Joseph Freeway (I-29 NW from the 29/35 split)
--Liberty Freeway (I-35 from the same point NE)
--(South Midtown Freeway) Bruce Watkins Drive (US 71) -- this name *is* used
--Arrowhead Trafficway (US 169)
--Circumferential Freeway (I-435)
On the Kansas side, one of the names is used:
--18th Street Expressway (now unnumbered?)
The rest usually aren't any more:
--Turkey Creek Expressway (I-35)
--Muncie Expressway (I-70)
I don't know what names (if any) were given to I-635, US 69, K-5 or K-10.
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James Lin
> names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> routes and their names for California?
Well, here's a list for routes in the Bay Area:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/trivia.htm#Highway_Names_Locations
It's sorted by name.
- Jim
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Dan Garnell
>
> M-39 Southfield Freeway (named for the road alignment it followed)
> M-10 John C Lodge Freeway
> I-96 Jeffries Freeway (1940's era mayor of Detroit)
> I-75 south of the I-75/I-375/M-3 interchange: Fisher Freeway (auto parts
> maker)
> I-75 north of above interchange, I-375: Chrysler Freeway (auto maker Walter
> P. Chrysler)
> I-94 in Detroit: Edsel Ford Freeway (son of Henry)
> I-94 west of Detroit: Detroit Industrial Expressway
> I-94 even farther west: Willow Run Expressway
> I-696 Walter P Reuther Freeway (labor leader)
> M-8 Davison Freeway
>
Flint, MI features I-475, known as the UAW Freeway, obviously named
after the automotive labor union.
Relating to the topic of signing the names of freeways, MDOT signs do
explicitly identify I-475 as the "UAW Freeway" at freeway entrances.
-Dan Garnell
SPUI
> names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> routes and their names for California?
http://www.cahighways.org should have them.
Daniel
> This one has always been a source of ire for me. Yes, it leads to
> I-5, which does take you to San Diego, but it ends in Irvine, which is
> at least 60, 70 miles from SD.
The moniker San Diego Freeway continues along I-5 into San Diego,
though.
SoCal has a curious habit of assigning names to portions of different
numbered routes (The Hollywood Freeway is partially US-101 and
partially CA-170.
US-101 north continues as the Ventura Freeway. The Ventura Freeway,
though continues east along CA-134.)
Many of the routes once had different names. Two examples:
I-405 was originally the Sepulveda Freeway (as much of it
paralleled/bypassed Sepulveda Blvd.)
I-710 as once the Los Angeles River Freeway (as it paralleled said
river)
Then there is I-105, officially the Glenn Anderson Freeway, posted as
such, but always referred to as the Century Freeway in conversation
and in traffic reports.
Much more of this information is at cahighways.org under the indivdual
route entries. I don't know if a site or page is dedicated solely to
this topic.
-Daniel T.
Pat O'Connell
>
> Justin <jco...@airmail.net> wrote in message news:<ABD20EE32D9CD6AE.6B2747F7...@lp.airnews.net>...
> > Dallas: we never say "Freeway" - and rarely the number, normally we just say the name of the person it was
> > named after, with few exceptions, including IH 20 - which is just "20", and IH 45 is the same way.
> >
> > IH 635 - Lyndon B Johnson (or just LBJ)
[rest snipped]
In Indiana, freeways are for the most part not named, except for the
Borman Expressway (I-80 south of Gary), SR 912 (Cline Ave.) and the
Indiana Toll Road. The other freeways are called "Interstate 70" (for
instance) or just "The Interstate," even if they're not Interstates
(US 50 near Vincennes, the south end of Shadeland Ave in Indy). I
think that I-70 actually has a name, but no one uses it.
In Albuquerque, I-25's name is the Pan American Freeway, but everyone
calls it I-25. I don't think I-40 or I-10 have names.
In Las Vegas NV, US 95 north of I-15 is called the Oran K Gragson
Highway; the locals call it (and I-515) "The 95," because I-515 used
to be just US 95. I-15 is called "the 15." Summerlin Parkway (city
built and maintained) is called just that. The bypass around town is
"the 215" whether it's I-215 or Clark County 215.
--
Pat O'Connell
Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...
Fred Herriot
> In Buffalo we call them expressways. We have the Kensington Expwy,(NY
> 33) which parallels Kensington Ave. The Scajaquada,(NY 198) which
> follows Scajaquada Creek and the Youngmann,(I-290) which used to be
> called the Power Line Expwy, due to the fact it follows a large line
> of power lines.
And jumping across the river to Ontario:
The MacDonald-Cartier Freeway (Highway 401)
Named in tribute to two of the Founders of Confederation, Sir John A.
MacDonald (our first Prime Minister) and his friend from Quebec, Sir
George E. Cartier.
The Queen Elizabeth Way
Named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI (now
known as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). In fact, when the
highway signs still had the "ER" (Elizabeth Regina) moniker on them
(later changed to "QEW"), some Americans thought that the letters
stood for Eleanor Roosevelt's initials!
The Niagara Parkway
A scenic highway paralleling the Niagara River from
Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort Erie. So called because of the river.
It's a provincially funded road through the Niagara Parks Commission.
I don't know if it has a highway number, though.
The Toronto-Barrie Highway
The pre-number name for Highway 400.
The Veterans Memorial Parkway (Highway 416)
Just opened, replacing the old two-lane Highway 16 in most parts.
Named in tribute to Canada's war vets.
The Lincoln M. Alexander Expressway
The urban expressway which will loop south of Hamilton, connecting
Highway 403 in the west with the QEW in the east. Named after
Ontario's first African-Canadian lieutenant-governor (head of the
province).
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway
Part of old Highway 2 in Toronto before it was downloaded to the city
in 1998. I don't know who Fred Gardner was, but I think he was a
senior Toronto official. The Gardiner is the elevated expressway
going through downtown Toronto.
The Don Valley Parkway
The would-be urban extension of Highway 404 in Toronto before it fully
came under the city's care in 1998. Named after the Don River.
The E.C. Row Expressway
An urban expressway in Windsor. According to the Ontario Highways
website (the one maintained by Chris Bessert; thanks, Chris!), Mr. Row
was a former Chrysler chairman in the 1950s.
Cheers!
Fred
Patrick L. Humphrey
>pat...@hagbard.io.com (Patrick L. Humphrey) wrote in message news:<szklmdv...@hagbard.io.com>...
[...]
>> Houston's have been basically associated with their direction (or where they
>> went to):
>> I-45 South: Gulf Freeway, from the day it opened in 1948 US 59 North:
>> Eastex Freeway, the winner of a name-the-freeway contest in the late 1950s,
>> believe it or not
>Well, wasn't the 'Gulf Freeway' a winner of a contest too?
Not that I know of...since it *did* (and still does) go down to the Gulf of
Mexico, 45 miles away.
--PLH, who'll have to see if I can dig up anything on that
Snickerdo
> The pre-number name for Highway 400.
Also called the "Huronia Highway" back in the pre-400 days.
> The Veterans Memorial Parkway (Highway 416)
> Just opened, replacing the old two-lane Highway 16 in most parts.
> Named in tribute to Canada's war vets.
>
> The Lincoln M. Alexander Expressway
> The urban expressway which will loop south of Hamilton, connecting
> Highway 403 in the west with the QEW in the east. Named after
> Ontario's first African-Canadian lieutenant-governor (head of the
> province).
Lincoln Alexander is still alive and well, too. People in Hamilton love the
man.
> The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway
> Part of old Highway 2 in Toronto before it was downloaded to the city
> in 1998. I don't know who Fred Gardner was, but I think he was a
> senior Toronto official. The Gardiner is the elevated expressway
> going through downtown Toronto.
Fred Gardiner was the chair of the RM of Toronto back when the expressway
was built, and "his baby" was named in his honour.
Some other named freeways in Ontario:
W.R. Allen Road (nee Expressway)
Don't know who W.R. Allen was, but this was the name given to the Spadina
Expressway.
Chedoke Expressway
Highway 403 in Hamilton. Local name, don't know the origin.
Queensway
Highway 417 in Ottawa. Queensway is common name for major routes in various
cities in Ontario, and Ottawa is no exception.
Queensway East
Formerly Highway 17, now Regional Road 174 (though locals refer to it as
"Highway 174" if not by the name of the road). Eastern extension of the
Queensway along the Ottawa River.
Belfield Expressway
Highway 409 in Toronto. Parrallel to Belfield Road.
Airport Expressway
Highway 427 north of the 401 in Toronto. Name is rarely, if ever, used now.
Browns Line
Highway 427 south of the 401. More of a historicial name if anything else,
as the 427 south of the 401 was a twinning (and later, quading) of Browns
Line.
St. Thomas Expressway
Section of Highway 3 in St. Thomas that is a controlled-access Super 2 with
interchanges. I don't think any other explaination is needed :)
Highburry Ave
Short little freeway spuring into downtown London from the 401.
Airport Parkway
Super 2 in Ottawa running from Bronson Ave to the Ottawa International
Airport. Fully controlled access with several interchanges. Used to be one
of the few federally-maintained roads in the county, now it's all in the
hands of the City of Ottawa.
Can't think of any more.
sycamore
referred to by their number or as "I-44" (for example).
I-55 (in MO): Ozark Expressway
I-70 (in MO): Mark McGwire Freeway (in the city of St. Louis), Mark Twain Expressway (beyond the city)
I-64/US 40 (in MO): Daniel Boone Expressway (still referred to in most cases as "Highway 40")
If I-44 has a name (and I think it does), I don't know it.
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Snickerdo
DOH! How could I forget these:
Conestoga Parkway
Highways 7 and 8 in Kitchener/Waterloo
Freeport Diversion
Highway 8 leading into K-W from the 401.
Brandon Gorte
> names. In particular, does anyone have a complete list of numbered
> routes and their names for California?
Well, I don't know much about California, but I can talk about
Chicagoland.
Edens Superhighway (Edens Expressway) (I-94/US-41).
Originally named for Edens (I forget his first name) who was on the
Cook County Board. (Rich Carlson should know more about this one.)
Northwest Expressway (John F. Kennedy Expressway) (I-90/94).
Originally named since it led NW from the Loop. Named for Kennedy in
1963-4. Formerly IL-194.
Congress Street Expressway (Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway) (I-290).
Named because it runs along Congress St, and becomes Congress at its
eastern end. Named for Ike sometime in the '60s. Formerly I-90.
Southwest Expressway (Aldai E. Stevenson Expressway) (I-55).
Named since it led SW from the Loop. Named for the former governor of
Illinois after his death in the late '60s.
South Expressway (Dan Ryan Expressway) (I-90/94).
Named because it led south from the Loop. Renamed when it was opened
to honor Cook County Board member Dan Ryan who pushed for the
expressway, but did not live to see it open.
Calumet Skyway Toll Bridge (Chicago Skyway) (I-90).
Bridge over the Calumet River. Renamed for unknown reasons (sometime
in early '60s -- inferred from maps). Formerly carried I-94, and
according to the City of Chicago, I-90. IDOT and InDOT still
recognize the Skyway as part of I-90.
Robert Kingery Expressway (I-80/94/US-6).
I don't know who Kingery was, but IL-83 in DuPage County is also named
for him (Robert Kingery Highway). Formerly carried I-90.
Calumet Expressway (Bishop Ford Memorial Freeway) (I-94/IL-394, NOT
I-394).
Named since it is in the Calumet River valley and Calumet Lake area.
Renamed in the '90s for Bishop Ford with pressure from his family.
Only "Freeway" in Chicagoland. Formerly I-90.
Tri-State Highway (Frank Borman Expressway) (I-80/94/US-6).
Named since it was to connect Michigan with Illinois across Indiana,
hence "Tri-State". Renamed for astronaut Frank Borman who was from NW
Indiana. Formerly I-90, carried I-294 at the time.
Tri-State Tollway (I-94/294/80).
Named since it connects Indiana with Wisconsin through Illinois.
Formerly Toll US-41.
East-West Tollway (I-88).
Runs east-west across northern Illinois. Formerly IL-5, IL-190, Toll
US-30.
North-South Tollway (I-355).
Runs north-south across DuPage County.
Northwest Tollway (I-90).
Runs NW from the Loop (extension of NW Expy) and NW toward Rockford.
Formerly IL-194.
Moline Expressway (I-80).
Named since it heads west toward Moline-Rock Island. Name is not
used.
West Leg Dan Ryan Expressway (I-57).
Named since it leads SW off the end of the Ryan. Name is not used.
Amstutz Expressway (IL-137).
I don't know who Amstutz was. It was supposed to be a part of the
Lakeshore or Lakefront Expressway.
Route 53 (IL-53).
Name is fairly self-explanitory.
Elgin-O'Hare Expressway.
Also know as the Elgin-Nowhere Expressway. Supposed to connect Elgin
and O'Hare. However, it does neither yet. Nor does it have a number.
Lake Shore Drive (US-41).
Named since it runs along the Lake Michigan shore.
Cline Avenue (IN-912).
I don't know who Cline was, but the road was upgraded to a freeway
from a surface street.
Indiana East-West Toll Road (I-90/80).
Named since it runs east-west across Indiana. Formerly I-94.
I-190.
The O'Hare access road is named for its number. Formerly IL-594.
Brandon Gorte
bmg...@hotmail.com
Joliet, IL
sycamore
> Lake Shore Drive (US-41).
> Named since it runs along the Lake Michigan shore.
Isn't part of Lake Shore Dr. named after George Halas? Or is it one of those things where it gets the brown
sign? From what I've seen (and someone in Chicago may know better), the only streets in Chicago that are truly
renamed are MLK Blvd. and Pope JP II Dr.
Oscar Voss
Oddly enough, while Hawaiians usually refer to highways by name rather
than route number, most freeways in Hawaii are unnamed, and indeed are
the only significant unnamed highways in the state. The eastern third
of Interstate H-1 was named the Lunalilo Freeway (for Hawaii's first
king after the Kamehameha dynasty ran out), before it was added to the
Interstate system. State route 78 (most of which is secret Interstate
H-201) is called the Moanalua Freeway. It was an upgrade of part of
Moanalua Road, which in turn was named for the area where there were two
encampments ("moana lua") for travelers to rest on their way to or from
Honolulu, back in pre-automobile days. But all the new-alignment
freeways (H-2, H-3, and the western two-thirds of H-1) remain unnamed.
Alaska's few freeways have no names other than those of the roads of
which they are part (Glenn Highway, Seward Highway, and Minnesota Ave.
Bypass).
--
Oscar Voss - Arlington, Virginia - ov...@erols.com
my Hot Springs and Highways pages: http://users.erols.com/ovoss/
David J. Greenberger
> OK, this is far from California, or Texas for that matter.
>
> But generally speaking, urban freeway names tend to fall into three broad
> categories:
>
> --Compass-point names, wrt the city center (as in Houston, by and large)
> --End point names, where the end point is usually a nearby community, again
> wrt the city center (as in LA)
> --Famous local/regional personages, as with Dan Ryan, or nationally-famous
> personages from the city/region, as with Adlai Stevenson in the same city
>
> Then there are some other less-common categories. Philadelphia has
> examples of two of these:
> --Geographical feature names, where the road is named for some prominent
> landmark or waterway. Philly's two major city expressways are named for
> the rivers they parallel, the Schuylkill (I-76) and the Delaware (I-95).
> --Street names, where the road replaces, parallels or continues a local
> thoroughfare, as in Philly's Vine Street Expressway (I-676, built within
> the street's ROW) and Roosevelt Expressway (US 1, extension of the
> Roosevelt Boulevard)
Interesting categorization. Two of NYC's freeway names fit into two
categories: the Henry Hudson Parkway is named after Henry Hudson, but it
conveniently runs along the Hudson River; and the Van Wyck Expressway
derives its name from its predecessor, Van Wyck Boulevard, named after
Mayor Robert Van Wyck. A marginal third is the short JFK Expressway,
named for the airport which it serves, not the president. Very
marginally, Horace Harding Expressway was the name used in planning for
the Long Island Expressway east of Queens Boulevard (the name still
appears on the street signs, leading to its common use nowadays as the
name for the service road only); Horace Harding Boulevard was the name
of the surface street replaced by the expressway.
NYC has a number of names describing the location of the freeway itself:
Cross Bronx Expressway, Trans-Manhattan Expressway, West Side Highway,
Staten Island Expressway, Richmond Parkway, Long Island Expressway,
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Interboro Parkway (marginally). Some are
named after the bridges and tunnels to which they lead: Whitestone
Expressway, Throgs Neck Expressway, George Washington Expressway (an
alternate name for the Trans-Manhattan Expressway), Queens-Midtown
Expressway (the original name for the LIE west of Queens Boulevard).
And how would one categorize the Belt Parkway, Cross Island Parkway,
Clearview Expressway, and Grand Central Parkway?
--
David J. Greenberger
New York, NY
Jeff Aragaki
Thanks for the reminder and reference to this excellent site. It does
have all the names and histories. They're not in a list on their own
(you have to look up the route in question), but they are all there.
Steve Anderson
one of the "ribbon parks" established by Robert Moses on the Cross
Island Parkway.
2) The Belt Parkway (formerly known as the "Circumferential Parkway" in
its planning stages) refers to its configuration around the perimeter of
Brooklyn and Queens.
-- Steve Anderson
http://www.nycroads.com
http://www.phillyroads.com
http://www.bostonroads.com
Matt Dixon
How about military names?
Examples: MA128, the Yankee Division Highway; MA I-495, the Blue Star Memorial
Highway
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shyguyjl
I always thought Grand Central Parkway was named after the big
Railroad station with that name.
Steve Anderson
>
> How about military names?
> Examples: MA128, the Yankee Division Highway; MA I-495, the Blue Star Memorial
> Highway
>
between MA 128 in Peabody to the MA-NH border in Salisbury. The name
dates back to when this section of highway was "Relocated US 1" in the
1950's.
http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/I-95N_MA/
Brandon Gorte
> Brandon Gorte wrote:
>
> > Lake Shore Drive (US-41).
> > Named since it runs along the Lake Michigan shore.
>
> Isn't part of Lake Shore Dr. named after George Halas? Or is it one of those things where it gets the brown
> sign? From what I've seen (and someone in Chicago may know better), the only streets in Chicago that are truly
> renamed are MLK Blvd. and Pope JP II Dr.
George Hallas Dr is just a brown sign, like so many othe honorary
streets in Chicago and some of its suburbs.
mwalcoff
Endpoint
Medina (I-71)
Lakeland (I-90)?
Berea (Ohio 237)*
Euclid Spur (I-90)*
Heights (never built)
Geographic feature
East/West Shoreway (I-90/Ohio 2)*
Street
Jennings (Ohio 176)*
Clark (I-490)
Lee (never built)
Person
James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike (I-80/I-90; named after early
turnpike commissioner)
Directional (sort of)
Inner Belt (I-90)
Outer Belt (I-271; I-480)
Outer-Outer belt (I-271)
Military
Vietnam Veterans of America (I-77)
Unknown
Willow (I-77)
*Formal or original name still in popular use
As you can see, Cleveland highway people never came up with
creative names. That might explain why people refer to most
of the freeways by number.
Matt
smi...@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street) wrote in message news:<smiths-ya02408000...@netnews.upenn.edu>...
Marc Fannin
[many snips]
> OK, let's try out the categorization for Cleveland:
>
> Endpoint
>
> Lakeland (I-90)?
The Lakeland Freeway is Ohio 2 from Painesville (or possibly its
eastern terminus) westward, then I-90/Ohio 2 westward. Officially I
believe it runs all the way to Bratenahl/Ohio 283/Lakeshore exit
(although ODOT straight-line diagrams show it going all the way to
Dead Man's Curve/Burke Airport/90&2 split east of downtown Cleveland).
In common parlance, however, the part between Dead Man's Curve and
the eastern 90/2 split at the Euclid Spur in Euclid is called part of
the East Shoreway.
> Berea (Ohio 237)*
Usually referred to as "Airport" in documents.
> Street
>
> Clark (I-490)
According to the ODOT SLD, it has no name, as if the "Clark" name was
discarded with the cancelled section, although "Clark" did show up on
a Jennings Freeway brochure by Cuyahoga County (
http://www.roadfan.com/jennings.html , bottom).
> Person
> James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike (I-80/I-90; named after early
> turnpike commissioner)
http://www.regents.state.oh.us/mainpages/regentsnew.html
> Directional (sort of)
> Inner Belt (I-90)
> Outer Belt (I-271; I-480)
> Outer-Outer belt (I-271)
Not exactly -- There is no outer-outer belt, and the Outer Belt is
split into two parts: Outer Belt East (I-271 between I-480 and I-90)
and Outer Belt South (I-480 between I-71/Hopkins Airport and I-271,
originally to have been the rest of I-271). See
http://www.roadfan.com/1962ohio.html
Also: Northwest (I-90 west of I-71 -- name NEVER used by the general
public)
> Military
> Vietnam Veterans of America (I-77)
Honorary name, in a different category from the reat of the above.
Nearly every major highway has one in addition to the regular name, as
with the rest of the U.S. The Ohio Revised Code identifies all of
these in Section 5533 (see
http://onlinedocs.andersonpublishing.com/revisedcode/ ). Examples:
I-90 (non-Turnpike) = Amvets highway, I-71 = Disabled American
Veterans' highway, I-76 (non-Turnpike) = The Military Order of the
Purple Heart Memorial Highway
See also http://www.roadfan.com/dispname.html
Maybe Paul Wolf can clarify some of the above, since he's actually
lived in Cleveland.
BTW, SLDs are at
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/techservsite/availpro/Road_%20Infor/SLD/
________________________________________________________________________
Marc Fannin|musx...@kent.edu or @hotmail.com| http://www.roadfan.com/
Paul S. Wolf
Other than from 1965-19698 while I was in Worcester Mass for college,
and 1969-1978 when I worked in DC, I've ALWAYS lived here.
You pretty well covered it. Here's what people actually call the
freeways in Cuyahoga County:
I-90 from the West to I-71 - no one uses any name, except I-90 West.
I-90 from I-71 to SR-2 (Deadman's curve) - The Innerbelt
I-90 multiplex with SR-2 - East Shoreway (Technically, the East Shoreway
ends at the SR-283 - Lakeshore Blvd exit, and the rest is Lakeland
Freeway. - built at different times. The Shoreway was originally built
PRE-Interstate.)
I-90 from SR-2 to I-271 - Euclid Spur
I-90 East of I-271 - no name
I-77 from I-90 to I-480 - Some still refer to it as the Willow Freeway
(Built pre-Interstate to it's original end at SR-21 (formerly US-21).)
I-71 - a few people call it the Medina Freeway, but that's not in common
usage
I-80 - The Turnpike - No one but the Turnpike Authority calls it
anything else.
SR-2 East of I-90 - Lakeland Freeway (see I-90 above)
SR-2 Clifton Blvd to I-90 - West Shoreway (Technically the EAST Shoreway
begins at the East end of the Main Ave Bridge, next to the new Browns
Stadium, and the West Shoreway begins at the West end of the Main Ave.
Bridge. But everyone calls the entire stretch West of Deadman's Curve
the West Shoreway.)
I-490 - no name is ever used.
I-480 - from I-80 (NOT-I-71) to I-271 is the OuterBelt South, but no one
calls it anything but 480.
I-480 from I-271 to I-80 in Summit/Portage Counties - no name used.
I-271 from I-480 EAST is the Outerbelt East, but few use the name.
SR-176 from I-71 to I-480 - Jennings Freeway
SR-237 from I-71 to its end at Front Street/South Rocky River Drive -
Airport Freeway (although it actually is a limited access EXPRESSWAY
with traffic signals starting at Eastland Road.)
--
Paul S. Wolf, PE mailto:Paul....@alum.wpi.edu
Traffic Engineer, Traff-Pro Consultants, Inc.
Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers
mwalcoff
...
> > Clark (I-490)
>
> According to the ODOT SLD, it has no name, as if the "Clark" name was
> discarded with the cancelled section, although "Clark" did show up on
> a Jennings Freeway brochure by Cuyahoga County (
> http://www.roadfan.com/jennings.html , bottom).
I meant that it was built as the western leg of the Clark Freeway.
The lack of an asterick indicates the name is not in use.
>
> > Person
> > James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike (I-80/I-90; named after early
> > turnpike commissioner)
>
> http://www.regents.state.oh.us/mainpages/regentsnew.html
>
> > Directional (sort of)
> > Inner Belt (I-90)
> > Outer Belt (I-271; I-480)
> > Outer-Outer belt (I-271)
>
> Not exactly -- There is no outer-outer belt, and the Outer Belt is
> split into two parts: Outer Belt East (I-271 between I-480 and I-90)
> and Outer Belt South (I-480 between I-71/Hopkins Airport and I-271,
> originally to have been the rest of I-271). See
> http://www.roadfan.com/1962ohio.html
I saw the Outer-Outer Belt name in an old document for the section of
I-271 south of I-480 -- the dotted line marked "Cleveland By-Pass" at
your http://www.roadfan.com/clefwypr.jpg. I believe the accompanying
description of that map I saw at the ODOT office in Garfield Heights
referred to the stretch as the "Outer-Outer Belt" in quotation marks.
While I'm sure I saw that (in some old document), I have absolutely no
proof, so make of it what you will.
Matt
Marc Fannin
> musx...@kent.edu (Marc Fannin) wrote...
>
> > > Clark (I-490)
> >
> > According to the ODOT SLD, it has no name, as if the "Clark" name was
> > discarded with the cancelled section, although "Clark" did show up on
> > a Jennings Freeway brochure by Cuyahoga County (
> > http://www.roadfan.com/jennings.html , bottom).
>
> I meant that it was built as the western leg of the Clark Freeway.
> The lack of an asterick indicates the name is not in use.
Sorry, I was thinking that you meant the Clark Freeway name had fallen
out of use but still existed. It doesn't appear to exist at all
anymore, unlike Northwest Freeway, which does. I-490 would've been
called that had the rest of it been built it appears.
> I saw the Outer-Outer Belt name in an old document for the section of
> I-271 south of I-480 -- the dotted line marked "Cleveland By-Pass" at
> your http://www.roadfan.com/clefwypr.jpg. I believe the accompanying
> description of that map I saw at the ODOT office in Garfield Heights
> referred to the stretch as the "Outer-Outer Belt" in quotation marks.
> While I'm sure I saw that (in some old document), I have absolutely no
> proof, so make of it what you will.
I thought that might have been it, but didn't think so since it wasn't
labelled on the map on our site that you referenced. Sorry 'bout
that.
David J. Greenberger
> I always thought Grand Central Parkway was named after the big
> Railroad station with that name.
I doubt that. The GCP doesn't lead anywhere near GCT, and trains from
GCT don't pass anywhere near the GCP.
LJ Johnson
> In Las Vegas NV, US 95 north of I-15 is called the Oran K Gragson
> Highway; the locals call it (and I-515) "The 95," because I-515 used
> to be just US 95. I-15 is called "the 15." Summerlin Parkway (city
> built and maintained) is called just that. The bypass around town is
> "the 215" whether it's I-215 or Clark County 215.
Some further explanations/clarifications, since I have nothing better
to do today:
Las Vegas' US 95 is designated as the "Oran K. Gragson Highway" for
the former City of Las Vegas mayor. He was instrumental in getting
the US 95 Freeway started. I believe the technical boundaries of the
Gragson Highway are Las Vegas Blvd to Lone Mtn Road (At least these
are the last places I can recall seeing signs; to my knowledge, there
haven't been any signs up for years), which is basically northwest of
I-15. Anybody who isn't a roadgeek, doesn't work for NDOT, or hasn't
lived here more than 10 years wouldn't know the freeway had the name
unless they looked at a map.
US 95 between approximately Rancho (near Spag. Bowl) and Rainbow used
to be called the "Las Vegas Expressway," as signs along Jones,
Decatur, and Valley View used to indicate. These signs, directing to
"Expressway East/West" were removed in the mid 90s (and replaced with
US 95 North/South signage), around the same time the I-515 designation
went up along southern 95, IIRC.
For the most part, US 95 is called just "US 95". This is regarless of
which side of town you're on, or what other numbers are multiplexed
(I-515/US 93). This is because US-95 is the only route carried
through across the entire valley. (US 93 turns along I-15 and I-515
ends.)
I-15 is called "I-15". No naming exists.
"Summerlin Parkway" is a freeway spur off of US 95. It was built by
the Howard Hughes Corporation (the people behind the Summerlin master
planned community) and is maintained by the City of Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Beltway (its unofficial name) is wierd. It is currently
I-215 (east of I-15) and CC-215 (Clark County route) anywhere else.
Since the numbering changes, people simply call it "the 215." For
those that can't deal with numbering, it is simply called "the
beltway."
-LJ
Daniel Salomon
> How about military names?
> Examples: MA128, the Yankee Division Highway; MA I-495, the Blue Star Memorial
> Highway
I recently saw a map that labeled one direction of 128 as the Yankee
Division Highway, and the other direction as the Northern
Circumferential Highway in one place and just the Circumferential
Highway further south. This fits with the history of the road being
doubled at some point (which explains the wide median with the prison
in the middle).
-Dan