Interesting freeway scenes from your city

Camelback · #1 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 9:49 PM**

Post some pictures and/or interesting freeway scenes and segments from your city.

Phoenix was one of the last cities to finish their core freeway system with the completion of the last segment of the I-10 freeway in downtown Phoenix. Since then it has added a thousand miles of freeway lanes in the metro area. The latest large extension was the completion of the South Mountain Freeway (Loop 202).

Here's the last segment of Interstate 10 to be completed in 1990 connecting Santa Monica CA to Jacksonville FL, notice the traffic in this March 2021 street view image:
https://goo.gl/maps/26sh2Viv2DVbwZQj6

Here's the Loop 202 (78 miles in length with HOV lanes along the entire length of the freeway), view of Tempe. Construction in this segment was completed in the mid 1990s.
https://goo.gl/maps/mby5DD1FnHN7ygiJ6

Here's the Loop 202 through East Phoenix/Tempe border, near the airport. On the left side of the freeway you can see Light Rail tracks leading to the maintenance facility.

gettyimages

Centropolis · #2 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 10:46 PM**

i guess the view from midtown st. louis looking west (away from downtown) into a large viewshed of the first half of the twentieth century to the horizon. the lower deck is dominated by a large 1920s armory.

Camelback · #3 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 10:54 PM**

1990s SMOG along the Squaw Peak Parkway (changed names to Squaw Peak Freeway, then changed names again to Piestewa Freeway, named after a woman that was KIA in the war). One thing is for sure, smog makes for great lighting! The median area in the picture added HOV lanes a long time ago.

gannett/azcentral

Northern Light · #4 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 11:46 PM**

Gardiner Expressway - Downtown Toronto

Credit to Poster WDGD-FINN at Urban Toronto

Taken from Urban Toronto - Credit to Nick Wons

This view of Gardiner Expressway, looking westward, in inner suburban Toronto, with the local skyline at the foot of Humber River in the foreground.

One more night shot below, credit to Andrew Young at Urban Toronto:

sopas ej · #5 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 11:50 PM**

Los Angeles, Arroyo Seco Parkway.

Photo by me, taken October 2020

The tunnel is one of the original Figueroa Street tunnels (there are a series of them built in the early 1930s), and originally had 2-way traffic. It became part of the Arroyo Seco Parkway in 1940, the oldest freeway on the west coast of the US.

dimondpark · #6 Posted **Jun 19, 2021, 1:47 AM**

our 2 most well known 'highways'...

Credit: John Louie@Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/7g8wRZ

Credit: Raja Ramakrishnan@Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/2kC7asM

SpawnOfVulcan · #7 Posted **Jun 19, 2021, 7:12 PM**

I don't personally have a photo, but I think one of these best freeway scenes is the Downtown Connector through Downtown Atlanta.

Camelback · #8 Posted **Jun 19, 2021, 7:25 PM**

This interchange is pretty cool. Notice the dark rocks and rock art along the embankment. This stretch of freeway opened in December 2019. 3 multipurpose lanes + 1 HOV in each direction (rush hours) with lighting in the median. The area to the left is Indian reservation, won't be developed, the area to the right is Laveen (Phoenix city limits).

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ph...4d-112.0740373

bilbao58 · #9 Posted **Jun 19, 2021, 10:46 PM**

Loop 610 in Uptown Houston. The top photo was taken in 2005. The bottom was in 2008. I believe this stretch of freeway is currently undergoing its 2nd redo since then.

2005 Summer of Constant Construction by bill barfield, on Flickr

West Loop North Heading South by bill barfield, on Flickr

Be Someone Even When You’re Stuck In Traffic by bill barfield, on Flickr

Over and Under by bill barfield, on Flickr

Sam Hill · #10 Posted **Jun 19, 2021, 11:44 PM**

I-25 has a big ol’ curve that wraps around downtown Denver. I’ve always been somewhat fascinated and impressed by it despite the fact that there’s basically a perpetual traffic jam in each direction through that stretch.

https://denverite.com/2017/07/12/mov...-likely-to-go/

Labtec · #11 Posted **Jun 20, 2021, 8:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpawnOfVulcan

I don't personally have a photo, but I think one of these best freeway scenes is the Downtown Connector through Downtown Atlanta.

This photo is from 2015 and many of the new buildings in midtown are missing:

Atlanta Midtown by dav8, on Flickr

Atlanta, Georgia, USA Downtown Skyline Aerial by Rose Donck, on Flickr

The Walking Dead shot:

The Walking Dead by Raja Ramakrishnan, on Flickr

I personally like driving on GA-400 north going under Buckhead:

Highway to Buckhead Financial District by James Duckworth, on Flickr

davee930 · #12 Posted **Jun 20, 2021, 9:51 PM**

Love these shots!

davee930 · #13 Posted **Jun 20, 2021, 10:16 PM**

Calgary. None of these are mine.

Memorial Drive Vertical by Brian G. Kennedy, on Flickr

Big City Lights: Calgary Series 'B' (Image 7) by Martin Thielmann, on Flickr

2015_04_16_Memorial_Drive_East by Cameron Eng, on Flickr

Swerve into Calgary by TIA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY, on Flickr

Calgary Skyline Memorial Drive SR600094 by ferreth, on Flickr

Downtown Sunrise IMG_2139 by ferreth, on Flickr

Calgary Skyline by Rick, on Flickr

bilbao58 · #14 Posted **Jun 20, 2021, 10:30 PM**

Here's the photo that is always used to bash Houston and its car culture. It should be noted that the image is highly compressed
by the use of a long lens. By the same token, the freeway really is that wide...purportedly the widest on the planet. It's also a lot
less scary to drive on than it looks.

1-10 West "Katy Freeway" on Houston's far west side. Photo by Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle.

daniel · #15 Posted **Jun 20, 2021, 10:58 PM**

Tel Aviv:

bilbao58 · #16 Posted **Jun 21, 2021, 12:33 AM**

Tel Aviv looks pretty cool, to me.

MidTenn1 · #17 Posted **Jun 21, 2021, 8:26 AM**

Nashville from the South on I-65.

Razor · #18 Posted **Jun 21, 2021, 5:04 PM**

All of these freeway pics have been epic! Cool thread idea..Wow@ Houston!

I'm just going to link this for Toronto..I read at one time, that the 401 had the most volume in North America, but that could of changed. since. here's a link to some images.

https://images.app.goo.gl/aX9pRECSL8ofKr738

And Ottawa's 417

https://images.app.goo.gl/DXcg8zyYoqXB1CU56

Buckeye Native 001 · #19 Posted **Jun 21, 2021, 5:21 PM**

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet for Cincinnati (I-71/75 at Cut-in-the-Hill):

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0689...=en&authuser=0

urban_encounter · #20 Posted **Jun 21, 2021, 11:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bilbao58

Here's the photo that is always used to bash Houston and its car culture. It should be noted that the image is highly compressed by the use of a long lens. By the same token, the freeway really is that wide...purportedly the widest on the planet. It's also a lot
less scary to drive on than it looks.

1-10 West "Katy Freeway" on Houston's far west side. Photo by Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle.

Wow….