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An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed or part of a future expansion. An unused roadway or ramp may often be referred to as an abandoned road , ghost road , highway to nowhere , stub ramp , ghost ramp , ski jump , stub street , stub-out , or simply stub .
Pages in category "Demolished highways in the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Abandoned Turnpike is perhaps the best-known of tunnel bypasses on toll roads. Among the other bypassed tunnels: The Laurel Hill Tunnel, which preceded the Sideling Hill and Rays Hill bypass by four years. The Memorial Tunnel on the West Virginia Turnpike was bypassed in 1987 to complete upgrading that highway to Interstate standards.
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Greenwood Tunnel - 535.5 feet (163.2 m) - Chesapeake and Ohio Railway near Greenwood, abandoned; Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Interstate 64 beneath Hampton Roads between Hampton and Norfolk; Marys Rock Tunnel, 1932, 670 ft (200 m), mile marker 32.2 on Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, south of US 211
Additional roads that would have formed a more complete freeway network in the city were abandoned or redesigned, leaving some short sections (the former I-170, which was left unconnected to any other Interstate highway, so US 40 was re-routed onto it), or rights of way that were built as city streets rather than freeways (Martin Luther King ...
A decommissioned highway is a highway that has been removed from service by being shut down, or has had its authorization as a national, provincial or state highway removed, the latter also referred to as downloading. Decommissioning can include the complete or partial demolition or abandonment of an old highway structure because the old ...
State Route 21 closely followed the route of current Interstate 680. It began in San Jose heading northeast from I-280 and US 101 and closely paralleling SR 17 (now I-880) until reaching Fremont. From there, SR 21 headed northeast toward Pleasanton and intersected I-580.