Unused highway - Wikipedia
WEBAn 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. [2] Examples.
The ghosts of L.A.’s unbuilt freeways - Los Angeles Times
WEBJun 7, 2022 · California. The ghosts of L.A.’s unbuilt freeways — a wide median here, a stubby endpoint there. An undated vintage postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection shows a freeway landscape from before...
Secret Highways Of Los Angeles: Exploring The Hidden And …
WEBAug 20, 2023 · Exploring the history and remains of LA’s abandoned freeway projects offers a window into what might have been while discovering its hidden art offers a new perspective on the oft-maligned concrete infrastructure.
Even freeways that don't get built leave a scar. How one Bay Area …
WEBFeb 21, 2022 · In Hayward, many tenants along the five-mile abandoned freeway corridor bought their homes. New neighbors and property flippers renovated battered bungalows that the state neglected to...
The ghosts of L.A.'s unbuilt freeways — a wide median here, a
WEBJun 7, 2022 · The Whitnall Freeway, the Industrial Freeway, the Temescal Freeway, the Laurel and Topanga and Malibu Canyon freeways, the Sierra Freeway, and the legendary Beverly Hills Freeway, discarded...
4 freeways that did not get built in LA (and why) - KCRW
WEBDec 22, 2017 · There are also a number of smaller freeway projects that were started but never completed, including the SR 90. Once referred to as the the Slauson Freeway in the 1950s, the 90 was supposed to run from Marina Del Rey to Orange County and end at the Riverside Freeway in eastern Anaheim.
Abandoned Freeway Stub on State Route 163 - Atlas Obscura
WEBNov 9, 2016 · In the 1960s, San Diego proposed to expand what is now known as State Route 163, the Cabrillo Freeway, through Balboa Park to an 8- to 10-lane freeway. Public protest stopped the freeway from ...
A Highway in Cape Town Has Been Left Half-Finished for 40 Years
WEBSep 19, 2018 · In the four decades that Cape Town’s “unfinished highway” has stood downtown, locals have imagined all sorts of reasons why the bridges were never finished—hold-out landowners, engineering mishaps....
Is That a Ghost Freeway on the Peninsula? And Are Our Highways ... - KQED
WEBMar 11, 2021 · To prove it, Caltrans produced a time-lapse video showing a freshly cleaned up freeway in Sacramento and how little time it took — just a few days — for the area to become strewn with cast-off wrappers, paper, boxes and other junk.
America’s Lost Highways Are Beautiful Monuments To Our …
WEBJan 5, 2024 · From crumbling ruins to roads surrounded by ghost towns, here's what happens when a highway is abandoned.
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