5 Places The US Needs Interstates 

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You don’t need a bridge over the Chesapeake Bay since there is one already: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. What is really needed as part of a plan like this is a bridge-tunnel at Cape May. You could then travel from NYC to North Carolina while bypassing all the craziness that is I-95 between NY and Richmond, VA.

The I-11 needs to extend south to the Phoenix area. Way to much traffic on the extremely dangerous US 93 to get from Phoenix to Vegas

Honestly a lot of these places don’t really need interstates. Especially the one in the Great Plains. The roads they have now aren’t really an issue.

There needs to be an interstate that goes to Myrtle Beach, SC. It’s one of the fastest growing areas in the country, and the whole metro area has 450,000 people, with millions of people during the summer. Currently to get to the interstate, we have to travel two hours west to I-95 in Florence, two hours south to I-26 in Charleston, or two hours north to I-40 in Wilmington. If there’s a bad hurricane that comes in the summer, not everyone will be able to evacuate. I think just extending I-20 East to Myrtle Beach would be the best option.

Your 5th option I-101 basically exists as US 13 and does have a bridge/tunnel that crosses the Chesapeake. Honestly it doesn't need to be considered an interstate simply because it would most likely upset the locals. It's an enjoyable drive as it is that even has a toll road by-pass in Delaware to spice things up.

As a Kansan, the two highways through Kansas wouldn’t be highly utilized. I70 and the smaller highways between Wichita and Pueblo/Colorado Springs aren’t overcrowded or anything, and if anything adding some bypasses around the medium and large towns in the area would help with the speed and convenience issues

To both Beaver and others who have mentioned it, I-11 is definitely going to Kingman AZ, and, indeed, all the way to Phoenix. AZ is already pretty far along in the planning stages with it, and will probably start upgrading US 93 to interstate standards in the not too distant future. The extension to I-11 to northern Nevada is already planned as well, just not as far along.

I see a contradiction in this video and the why US suburbs suck video. I don’t quite understand your advocation for more interstates to connect some large and small towns that will inevitably lead to increased development of the same cookie cutter suburbs you are against. Love the channel. Keep up the great work.

I like the idea of an interstate farther east of 95. By the time 95 gets south to DC, it's leaving out all of the eastern shore, the largest city in Virginia (Virginia Beach), the Outer Banks, Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, and Charleston. I agree with the other commenter who said it would be nice to have the option to bypass several of the larger midatlantic cities by bridging across the Delaware Bay from Lewes to Cape May to alleviate traffic. But we must remember that the true solution to traffic is mass transit! High speed rail between several larger cities would do a lot of good! (I know about Acela, but it needs to be more affordable too).

I like the logic of the one up the great plains, but I'm not sure the native tribes would really be down what that. I live in Delaware, and I don't think we really need the interstate. DE-1 is limited access from Wilmington to Dover and they've done a good job of adding overpasses to eliminate lights all the way down to Milford. South of that, the roads are remote enough and the traffic light enough, there's never really an issue. You can drive pretty fast all the way to the Chesapeake Bridge/Tunnel. If you could do something about the speed traps in eastern shore, Virginia, though, that would be helpful.

The Colorado Springs/Amarillo interstate would shave at least a couple of hours for me to drive from Colorado Springs to my relatives in Austin. It would certainly save time for Texans to drive to Colorado during ski season as well.

I-11 is actually in the works to bring from the Mexican border, to western Tucson, slightly west of Phoenix, east of Kingman, connecting to current 11, then up to Reno. There are a few surveyed route locations for it currently. I do think an I-13 corridor would be great from Seattle diagonally through to between Reno and Wells Nevada with a spur that would connect to Reno

They really need one to connect Boise, Idaho with the Spokane, Washington area. The disconnect between Northern Idaho and Southern Idaho is insane, it's almost like they are separate states

As someone who lives in Reno, I absolutely agree with you that they need to better connect Las Vegas and Reno/Carson That is a looooong, boring drive that could absolutely use some much needed upgrades.

My idea - Interstate 98, from Fargo, ND to Sault Ste Marie, MI - traveling through Duluth/Superior, Ashland, WI, and Marquette, MI, along the way. This is an isolated, economically stagnant region that seems like it's been completely forgotten about. Plus, this would allow you to drive from Seattle to Detroit, without having to go down through the Twin Cities, Madison, Chicago and Gary.

Texan here. 69 will connect north or Detroit to Laredo and South Texas. Segments are built already it just isn’t finished. Y’all don’t realize how many freight trucks ride through US 59 which is ONE LANE northbound for miles. Most trucks into USA go through Laredo. This should have been done 40 years ago yall.

I was surprised when I drove from St. Louis to Minneapolis and discovered there is no direct interstate route. In fact for a stretch you actually have to drive an unpaved gravel road.

Of all of these I-11 is probably the most needed. Four of your examples are linking much smaller cities (less than 150k population), but the link from Reno down towards Phoenix is a huge one. The first leghas been completed, but I believe the eventual plan is similar to what you outlined here. I would love to see you do some videos on the US highway system along with the interstates. The two work in tandem pretty well overall, though the US highways tend to go through cities and not around them. Keep up the good work!

Completely agree on needing an interstate between Wichita and Pueblo. I'd argue it needs to extend from Pueblo to Paducah, KY, or at least to Springfield, MO. If you're trying to get from the Southeast to Colorado, you pretty much have to go up to I-70 and over through STL/KC or take I-40, which doesn't have a good connection from Amarillo to Colorado. There's a huge void in interstates in northern AR, southern MO, northern OK, and southern KS. That area is growing and really needs to have a good east/west interstate.

I once drove on I-95 through Northern Virginia and hit stand still traffic at like 2 AM. Absolutely egregious

I have recently heard that I-27 has got a approved extension and will now extend to Raton New Mexico. I think this will cut down on travel times dramatically between amarillo and colorado springs although this is not a direct route like you suggested. Very exciting development.

" Thanks to the interstate system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything." Charles Kuralt

There's been a proposal since the late 1980s to extend i-135 north from Salina, KS, to York, NE. And since the early 2000s, constant upgrades have been made to US-81 in both states, gradually bringing the route up to Interstate Superhighway specifications. Also, construction is well underway in phases, which will eventually bring Kansas' stretch of U.S. 54/400 from Augusta to Garden City up to an Interstate spec superhighway,

I 74 needs to be completed. I starts in Rock Island, IL, and goes to Cincinnati, OH. Then it starts again at the North Carolina/Virginia border and goes Southeast in sections. It's planned to go through Western West Virginia from Huntington to Bluefield. This really needs to be finished. It's been in the planning stages for a long time.

NY-17 is in the long process of becoming an Interstate class road, I-86, running from the NY Thruway (a/k/a/ I-87) at Harrriman, NY through the southern line of the Catskill Mts. and along the southern border of NY to near Erie, PA. 85% of it in that stretch is already or close to Interstate standards, going back to the 1960's. Near Corning, there is a spur Interstate that connects to the Rochester area.

As far as new designations completely out of left field go, I think a route (I-33?) from Dallas to Amarillo roughly along the US 287 corridor is relatively likely. Large portions are already rural 4-lane divided highways, and this would essentially complete a direct corridor from Houston to Dallas to Denver along with an I-27 extension from Amarillo to Raton (more likely than Colorado Springs because US-87 is already there).

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I used to live in Midland, TX. There's talk of creating an I-14 starting in Midland, which would make the drive from there to Austin far less tedious! There's been hope for decades that they would extend I-27 south through that area as well. By the way, I totally agree that an Interstate going north of Amarillo is a must-have! I just discovered your channel--and just subbed!

As a Delawarean I agree with an “I101” we kinda already have a defecto interstate connecting Newcastle down to Virginia Beach it’s route one and 13 they share parts of each other but it would be nice there was also a massive highway constructed recently connecting to route one going all the way to dc it connects abt middle of Delaware pretty nice.

Interstate 27 is extending from Lubbock to Laredo Texas to the south, while Interstate 27 will also extend from Amarillo Texas to Raton New Mexico to the north.

I-22 was recently completed from Birmingham to Memphis

Great video! I will say I-92 should happen between Glens Falls NY and Portland ME. It was slated in the 60’s but never happened. All of Northern New England has no east-west highway access and you would hit many cities and towns for this.

We don't need more interstates, we need more public transit and rails. If anything we need to be cutting down and removing some interstates. In fact, we already are

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I’m from Long Island. We have a state route called the 135. (Seaford- Oyster Bay Expressway. Expanding from the south shore to north shore.) Long Island is extremely populated and Connecticut is too. And to get from Long Island to Connecticut or New England, you need to go through the 8.5 million population city which takes forever. State Route 135 is the perfect route to bridge (or tunnel) on the Long Island sound to Connecticut. It would be very expensive, but New York has the money. I think the issue is the housing and stuff this would need to plow through and LI residents DO NOT want that happening. I hope they re-introduce this plan soon though, it would be a life saver for so many people from Long Island, including me as me and my family drive to New England often. And trust me, going through NYC is a NIGHTMARE. This could hypothetically become an interstate and I know it would be a very short extension but considering this would save all of Long Island and Connecticut residents, this is important.

1 - agree completely. Not to mention they just added to I-11 a few years ago 2 - I drove from Denver to Dallas once and it sucked! I-70 to back roads until Amarillo. Horrendous experience. Great video. Subbed!

Another one that is missing is one that crosses from the Northway north of Albany NY and would go across the north of Vermont and New Hampshire and end at Portland Maine to give an alternate route besides I-95, which has horrendous traffic in the summer.

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Interstate 11 is complete south of Las Vegas around Hoover Dam. It is planned to extend from there to Phoenix through Kingman, and eventually north to Tonopah and Reno.

Georgia's biggest problem with interstates is that they all connect in Atlanta. I wouldn't be opposed to some new routes that make it easy to access neighboring states while avoiding Atlanta. It would be great for road trippers (avoid traffic) and for Atlantians (reduced traffic from lack of road trippers).

My comment was cut off. I agree with I-101. I would take away the silly I-99 designation which was done for the vanity of a member of Congress, and give that number to what you call I-101. There already is a bridge-tunnel across the Chesapeake Bay. There needs to be a parallel freeway east of I-95.

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I'm a truck driver, I spend my life on the intestate. Few things: 1. Why on EARTH does I-70 stop in Utah? 2. I think there should be an interstate that between Winnemucca Nevada and Boise Idaho. 3. I-84 does some really strange things. Is there nothing in Central Oregon?

I agree with you. These areas need to be served. I believe our truckers would benefit the most, and therefore the American people overall. Good work!

The interstate going from Nebraska through Minot and Bismarck would make sense, if it were to be real. If I designed it, I would make it go along US 83 and US 52 from North of Bismarck to the Saskatchewan border. Right now, Saskatchewan feels disconnected from the states because there's no interstate system going there. It would help support Estevan, Weyburn, and Regina feel closer to the USA. And I 25 should maybe have an extension to the Canadian border too. It should go past Billings and connect to the Saskatchewan border. And Interstate 35 needs a slight extension to the south to connect to Mexico, and it also needs to be extended north to either Thunder Bay or Fort Frances Ontario.

I’m going to pitch for I-7 from Northern California through Central Oregon. The freeway would follow US 97 from Northern California and connect Klamath Falls, Bend, Redmound and Madras before cutting West along US 26 to Portland. This is a heavily congested corridor with sections of freeway already built through Klamath Falls and Sunriver, and a limited access expressway through Bend. This would create an alternative to I-5 which is prone to closures in the Winter due to snow/ice and closures in the Summer due to wildfires.

Horget highways, the US needs decent railways.

Love your channel and Just Subscribed!!!! I agree with all of these new interstates I would add one more. Your I 101 suggestion has been something I think should have been built for long time. And you could very easily modify us 13 in certain sections because it already is a divided highway in most places. I would also add a spur off of I101 that would cross the Delaware Bay and connect Lewes Delaware to the Garden State Parkway in Cape May, NJ. Currently the entire region is dependent on a Ferry to connect these two places and these two counties have a very large population to not have a bridge between. For example Sussex County Delaware has a (year round) population of just shy of 197,000 and Cape May County, NJ has a population of approx 95,000. Not to mention the massive tourist traffic from May to September in these two costal areas. (It’s estimated that Cape May County has a population near 600,000 in the Summer) The Garden state Parkway a completely interstate like highway just magically ends in Cape May on to surface streets. And a Delaware Bay Bridge would be significantly shorter than the current Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Tunnel. Just to say I have live in South Jersey my whole live so that May bias me. But growing up outside of Atlantic City (a metro area with over 250,000 people) I live about 60 miles from any interstate Highway. The only interstate like highways are state managed roads like the Garden State Parkway.

Just subbed! Like the content, I enjoy US geography and find myself getting lost in niche topics like this.

Hello! Tennessean here. We actually added (half) a new inter/intrastate not that long ago, I-840 that was supposed to make a HUGE circle around Nashville, connecting the surrounding counties. They got the lower half done and said "meh" to the rest. Currently it starts in Dickson, TN on I-40 and travels southeast to my beloved Spring Hill (and Franklin I guess) where it intersects I-65, then back up northeast to Lebanon, TN again at I-40. It was quite an interesting and bold project. It even has a castle, yes a CASTLE you can see from it. Would love to hear your thoughts and maybe some info I don't know about it :)

"There will have to be a bridge over the Chesapeake Bay" - Virginia is already planning to expand the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel by adding parallel tunnels! The first one is already under construction, and the other one just got its funding secured by the infrastructure bill last year. Also, Delaware has plans to upgrade most of US 113, and DE 1 from Milford to Dover.

We don't need any more damn roads. The roads are not being taken care of that are already here. This kid needs to learn more about the history of the country. We once had a great railroad grid connecting nearly all town's, cities and villages . You could get from just about anywhere to anywhere else. The railroad hauled the mail and in some places, there were as many as three deliveries a day. So what we need are more passenger trains . These trains were used to haul the mail and that's what kept the routes solvent. Roads take up tremendous amount of real estate they cannot be making more of them.

I was a trucker and drove from Denver to Amarillo and I agree, an interstate there would be very helpful. I would also extend I-70, having it share a route with I-15 then split off in Las Vegas, continuing along current CA 58 after some upgrades to get it to interstate standards then continuing on to terminate near Atascadero, CA.

3:48 there was a plan called I-99 that would have done just that, except that it was way too expensive. Their alternative was to make improvements along US-13, US-113, and DE-1 to get traffic to flow more freely and quickly. My personal opinion is that they should instead bring I-87 down from New York and take the path of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and make a bridge to connect Cape May NJ to Cape Lewes DE and then let it take the southern half of your proposed I-101.

Just a little correction: the capitol of South Dakota is pronounced as "Pier" (one syllable), like the thing where you tie up your boat or go fishing. I'm sure the French pronounce it the way you do, "Pee-yaire", but South Dakotans dont.

I've got one: Sandpoint ID to Boise ID. Not only is Hiway 95 (which currently connects these points) narrow, winding, and at places outright DANGEROUS (The hill down into Clarkston for example). It's also SO slow and circuitous that it's actually faster to leave Idaho ENTIRELY, drive into WA, head south on SR-395 until you hit I-82 in OR, junction into I-84 and follow THAT to Boise. If you want to go to Pocatello, it's easier to follow I-90 to Butte MT, and head on I-15 :-/. Needless to say Idaho's roads leave something to be desired, and currently hamstring the state's development

Yes a country where everyone is forced to use car and slight increase of gas price cause chaos you def need more roads. What USA needs is sustainable public transportation and more passanger rail links

They are currently expanding the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-tunnel to be four lanes all the way. Thus an interstate from VA Beach to Dover is very likely in the future.

My oldest daughter was almost stationed at Dover AFB a couple years ago. Trying to figure out how to drive there from SW Ohio was a challenge. Use interstates and the PA turnpike or stick to US highway 50 as it followed the terrain of West Virginia. She ended up not extending her enlistment and now lives in Arizona. While it's a little easier to get there driving, it's a heck of a lot farther!

Yeah, the route 13 bridge (Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel) is already built but definitely not up to interstate standards, but the coolest part of the bridge is that If you zoom in there are actually two tunnels that go under the water! There are also a few like this in the Hampton roads and Norfolk area and in other parts of the world. Definitely a cool design, and fun to drive through, but very difficult to upgrade to interstate standards

East of the Mississippi is where it is getting dangerous and slow. St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, Chattanooga all need relief for through traffic. I 70 between Kansas City and St. Louis is a route I don’t even want to take. The same with I 40 between Memphis and Nashville. I wish there was a way to have parallel separate roads for trucks and cars and I wish we had a high speed rail system. For all the money we have spent on wars, we could have had all of that.

There is nowhere in the US that *needs* a new highway. What we need are substantial improvements in intercity passenger rail and intracity public transportation. We can't even keep our existing highways maintained, anything new in that department should be an afterthought.

I-11 is already planned to be routed "in the vicinity" of Reno. I-11 will eventually be finished, but not in my lifetime. There will never be an interstate from Amarillo to Colorado Springs, nor one from KS to ND or Dodge City to Pueblo. None of the last two routes ("I-31" and "I-52") have cities big enough or have enough industry. Amarillo to Colorado Springs make sense in terms of size but the I-25 routing is close enough for government work. Now what else needs to be finished but will take years: I-44 from Wichita Falls, TX needs completed to Abilene, TX (there's a good 4-lane highway there now). I have my doubts about when that will ever happen. I-69 from Canada to Mexico is the most likely interstate to be finished in the years ahead.

My humble thoughts… IH-27 also should be extended south from Lubbock to Midland - Odessa to connect with either IH-20 or the future extension of the proposed IH-14. Extend IH-44 out of Wichita Falls south to Abilene, Texas to bypass D-FW traffic or extend further south to Austin or San Antonio. BTW: IH-37 could also be done going north toward Abilene.

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I-97 in the Baltimore area should be renumbered to a three digit route since it is only about 15 miles long.

I-11 is proposed to be a part of the Intermountain West corridor that is going to extend I-11 further north to the Reno area and possibly even further to the Canada border via Boise or the Tri-Cities in Washington. It is also planned to go further south to the Mexico border bypassing Phoenix and Tuscon and utilizing I-19.

The Upstate of New York and Northern New England States do desperate need of 2 of east west interstate highway that is north of Massachusetts. They are: I-92 and I-98 are two future interstates. This will save driving time of couple of 100 miles that are out of the way, save on gas (now the price of the gas is very high about $5 a gallon). I don’t want to see I-92 and I-98 to be cancelled. 😢 I-92 was supposed to connect from I-87 in Glens Falls New York to I-95 in Portsmouth New Hampshire, via US-4 through Vermont, I-89, and NH-101. I-98 was supposed to connect from I-81 in Watertown New York to Swanton Vermont, via US-11 and US-2. Why so much trouble going through Massachusetts by taking the Mass Pike (I-90) into Boston, so New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire do need one or two future interstates which should been done about 50 years ago. 😢.

I live in northern Colorado and I recently visited a friend in Lubbock, can confirm that its a commonly travelled route (Denver/Springs to TX Panhandle) and its not an easy one

how about instead of interstates, we use ✨ trains ✨

The reason these haven't been built is that even the existing system is overbuilt compared to demand in many areas. Building these interstates, and then having to maintain them, is just not worth it. The Interstate system was never worth it in many areas. It was a pork-barrel cold war project intended to enable dual use of interstates as runways in the case of nuclear war, while encouraging urban sprawl that would make it harder for the Soviets to destroy all our cities by spreading them out. The cost of all this infrastructure is way more than we can afford.

A sneaky one would be an I-92 or I-96 extension from Green Bay, WI to I-94 near Menomonie, WI. It'd connect the Fox Cities metro to the Twin Cities, Wausau metro, and Chippewa Valley metro (Eau Claire). Plus, it would allow I-39 to end at an actual interstate.

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In Ohio there were plans for I-73 to connect Toledo to Columbus. Currently US-23 is the main route connecting the two, but with 40+ traffic lights between Waldo and I-270, that part is always over-capacity. Oftentimes people detour via US-36 and I-71.

As someone from the area I'm about to describe: there ought to be at least a freeway between Victorville and Palmdale/Lancaster in California. Both areas have over 1/3 million people and the current route between the two cities is unsafe. (Both areas, in my opinion, could generally use some road upgrades, especially on preexisting freeways.) Additionally, State Route 58 further north between Barstow and Bakersfield (and a bit further west to I-5) should be upgraded to interstate standards and is in the process of doing so. That would be a great candidate for a designation of an extended I-40 and has been supported for years.

There’s one spot where an interstate highway system should be at and that would be along what is currently US 82 where you can at least bypass DFW from the north along the Red River Valley connecting I-30 around Texarkana and connecting the I-22 route to the east somewhere around Tupelo, Mississippi. While the other part of the interstate west of Texarkana follows along US 82 across north Texas into Paris, Sherman, Wichita Falls, then all the way into Lubbock and further west into NM where it ends in around either Roswell or all the way to Las Cruces. The problem with that stretch is that there’s the mountains around Ruidoso so it’ll probably be like the stretch of I-70 between Grand Junction and Denver. Might as well make that I-28 or reroute that part as a portion of I-22

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so for that I-101 through Delaware, there is already an "interstate" in rt. 13 which does cross down into Virginia with the Bay Tunnel Bridge. I think instead it could be upgraded into an interstate as opposed to what it is now. 13 runs through the center of Delaware and goes through Dover and then down to Salisbury with a 113 extension going out towards Ocean City before connecting back with 13 to get across the bay tunnel bridge.

I recently drove through and stayed in Delaware, they dont need an interstate, just beefed up state highways in some locales, but they have those already.

South Dakotan here. I personally like our disconnectedness. I imagine there will be a time where I-31 (It should really be I-27) is necessary, but not now. Also I've been to Pierre, it does NOT deserve an interstate. It is like, the most universally hated town in SD.

With Interstate service now serving Carson City, NV, there are still two continental state capitals unserved by Interstates; Pierre, SD and Jefferson City, MO. Hawaii has H1; Alaska barely has highways, and none go to Juneau. Don't know about SD, but MoDot really hasn't seen fit to upgrade either US 54 or 63 at this point. All north-south routes from 69-99 are currently allocated. Wisconsin got around it by designating much of US 41 as I-41 between Green Bay and the state line.

Wow if both I-27 was ever to be extended all the way to Colorado Springs and I-52 was ever to be built from Wichita to Pueblo, there could be a the site of a new city near Las Animas (CO) where both I-27 and I-52 meet at the intersection. *GOOD CALLS!*

Nice list! I live out west so I’m biased, but my list would be: 1. I-11: Phoenix, AZ - Las Vegas, NV - Reno/Carson City, NV - Bend, OR - Yakima, WA 2. I-17: continue it from Flagstaff, AZ to Nephi, UT 3: I-13: Las Vegas, NV - Elko, NV - Boise, ID - Lewiston, ID - Pullman, WA - Spokane, WA 4: I-115/170: Spur from I-70 in Green River, UT, to I-15 in Spanish Fork (Provo), UT

I-31 could potentially start at Salina, Kansas, and then go north to the cities mentioned. After Minot, it could go northwest (on a route currently served by US Route 52) to cross the Canadian Border into Saskatchewan via Portal. From there, it could connect to the Trans-Canada Highway in Regina. There are currently no interstates that continue into Saskatchewan. Plus, interstate connections at the border of the Western Provinces are nothing new: I-15 continues as Alberta Highway 4, connecting it to Lethbridge and the Crowsnest Highway. And most famously, I-5 continues as BC Higwhay 99, connecting it to Vancouver,

Delaware has an interstate-like toll road, state route 1, that goes south from I-95 to somewhere south of Dover. (I have never gone beyond Dover on it, so I don'tknow where it ends.) Is this up to interstate standards? Certainly being a toll road is no barrier (pun intended) to being an interstate highway, as is the case with I-95 in Delaware, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and other roads. When you mentioned Pierre, SD, as one of the few state capital cities without an interstate highway, I immediately thought of Dover.

I-37 from St Paul to St Louis is a definite gap in the system.

Interesting... but you need to consider the volume of traffic between locations, in addition to the paucity of interstates. Economic concerns need to come into play here.

Since Colorado is not interested to have a future interstate (I-52), it could be future interstate 58 (I-58) instead which connect from Wichita Kansas to Poplar Bluff Missouri. Second option is: I-58 could also connect from I-40 in Tucumcari New Mexico to I-57 in Poplar Bluff Missouri.

I-11 is planned for Las Vegas to Phoenix, which are the two largest cities not connected by a freeway. A lot of US 93 through Arizona is already four lanes so moderate changes can be done to convert to interstate standards. In particular, US 93 has been widened between Wikieup and Wickenburg over the years to increase safety as it was a very dangerous 2 lane highway in the 80s and early 90s. There's talk about extending 11 to Reno or south of Phoenix to the Mexican border, but they should first complete the LV to PHX portion.

What interchanges would there be on these expressways? Your suggestions for Interstates 11, 27, and 52 all seem like they go through really lightly populated areas (especially I-11). Would these interstates be worth the upkeep if there's hardly anything between the cities you suggested?

IN the 1980's, a new "super beltway" was proposed from about the Virginia/N. Carolina line, across the Chesapeake Bay on a bridge tunnel, across the Delmarva Peninsula, across the Delaware bay, up the New Jersey Coast to NYC.

I-18 has been mentioned for the Dallas Texas-Lafayette Louisiana Route. I like to see more of “8”s of the last digit of the interstate numbering system.

I'd also add an extension of I-97 down US 50, and a spur route that goes to Dover as well. Extending I-85 up to Delaware via the US 301 corridor would help alleviate truck traffic around the Baltimore-Washington area would be good too

As someone who drives from NY to the OBX every summer, this would help out so much

Less interstates more public transportation

They need to renumber a few interstates if you want "I-31" to be a reality. They should make all of I-29 and I-49 into I-47, existing I-39 into I-49, I-41 and 43 into 51 and 53, and I-99 should be renumbered to I-73 because it overlays parts of US-220 in NC. And while we're at it, make I-97 in Maryland I-995 to save a 2 digit route number.

For the Wilmington to Norfolk route, you could make it a northern extension of I-87 that is already in the planning from Raleigh to Norfolk