How Many Exits Does Your City Have - Page 2

SFBruin · #21 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:43 AM**

I would imagine that Dallas and Houston would be pretty high up on this list.

Both are extremely large cities with developed highway infrastructure.

mrnyc · #22 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 4:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by badrunner

He was bring sarcastic about Vancouver. It has the worst road infrastructure of any city in the western US/Canada. Not a single proper freeway in the city.

ah yeah thats true come to think of it. we’ve driven up a couple times from seattle. the highways peter out into roads in the suburban area. good for them keeping highways out of there thats amazing.

mhays · #23 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by badrunner

He was bring sarcastic about Vancouver. It has the worst road infrastructure of any city in the western US/Canada. Not a single proper freeway in the city.

No, I'm saying it's the best for that reason.

Doady · #24 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 11:15 PM**

US urban areas have way too much freeways, but maybe some Canadian ones have too few. I think there can be a balance.

Like Vancouver has freeway north of the city, and freeway south of the city, and they are not connected anywhere.

See also Windsor has two freeways that were not connected together until a few years ago, and they are still not connected to the US interstate system.

Metro-One · #25 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 1:17 AM**

Are we talking about the city proper or the Metro area?

For city proper Vancouver only has 6 interchanges within its boundaries (only one of them a larger one).

As for the metro area there are roughly 73.

Very few of these are actually big interchanges though.

I would argue that Vancouver only has around 7 larger interchanges and only 1 notably large interchange. The rest are mostly basic diamonds or older cloverleafs.

Razor · #26 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 3:24 AM**

Metro end to end, and okay it doesn't have to be a full cloverleaf..Just an off ramp or exit.

hipster duck · #27 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 2:48 PM**

If we’re talking about city proper, I wonder if New York would be in the top 3.

There are a lot of Robert Moses-era parkways and expressways criss-crossing the outer boroughs and, due to their outdated designs and NYC’s density, they have a lot of closely-spaces entrances and exits.

Buckeye Native 001 · #28 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 4:36 PM**

In Flagstaff, Interstate 40 has about five or six exits east to west. While I-17 (north to south) ends at I-40, has about three exits. The 40 replaced Route 66 as the primary east-west route through town, but fortunately, the city realized the kitsch factor of 66 and ended up with a relatively active and rejuvenated downtown as a result.

sopas ej · #29 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 7:56 PM**

With the help of Wikipedia, I counted all of the official exit numbers of Los Angeles County, and there are 635 of them. *WHEW* Of course if you were to include Greater Los Angeles (LA, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties), there'd be a lot more.

I went through each freeway and freeway portion within Los Angeles County. Included are exits to other freeways (transition roads), not just exits to a surface street.

The breakdown:

CA-2 - 18 exits

I-5- 84 exits

I-10 - 66 exits

CA-14 - 30 exits

CA-22 - 1 exit

CA-47- 5 exits

CA-57- 14 exits

CA-60 - 35 exits

CA-71 - 6 exits

CA-90 - 2 exits

CA-91 - 23 exits

US-101 - 63 exits

CA-103 - 2 exits

I-105 - 17 exits

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I-110/CA-110 - 50 exits

CA-118 - 15 exits

CA-126 - 1 exit

CA-134 - 20 exits

CA-170 - 10 exits

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I-210/CA-210 - 53 exits

I-405 - 61 exits

I-605 - 29 exits

I-710 - 30 exits

SteveD · #30 Posted **Jun 30, 2020, 9:33 PM**

Here's a quick and dirty calculation for Metro Atlanta, counting limited access highways...it looks to be about 300 exits for the metro. There's probably a couple limited access roads with exits that I forgot to include...

I-85: 58
I-75: 70
I-575: 13
I-675: 5
I-20: 50
I-285: 48
GA 400: 18
GA 154: 6
US-78: 12
GA 316: 9

Razor · #31 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 1:21 PM**

^ Atlanta - Pretty impressive!

For Ottawa, I was only counting the main East West, so if I counted in the 416 feeding into the city from the South, there would be another 7(+/-), and the 174 which branches off from the main 417 to head to the East end ..Orleans etc. there would be another 7 or so as well.

So Ottawa would have roughly 44+/- but no more then 50..The Gatineau side of the metro, I'm not sure. I'm only counting the Ontario side of the metro.

Pretty decent hwy infrastructure for a smallish city I feel. The Ottawa side of the twin cities has a population of roughly 1.1m for exit to population ratio comparison.

MolsonExport · #32 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 4:01 PM**

London Ontario maybe has 6. We don't have a freeway through the city (despite having more than 500K people in the metro), except on the far southern fringes.

Dariusb · #33 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 4:45 PM**

My town is technically a suburb so don't know whether to put the exits just for it or the main city. Anyway, I-35 has 3 and I-14 has 3.

llamaorama · #34 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 5:50 PM**

I-14 will always just be 190 to me. Or the central Texas expressway. I don’t see it being extended beyond maybe a upgrade to the cove bypass enabling a change in signage. But that’s just a few miles.

Dariusb · #35 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 6:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by llamaorama

I-14 will always just be 190 to me. Or the central Texas expressway. I don’t see it being extended beyond maybe a upgrade to the cove bypass enabling a change in signage. But that’s just a few miles.

I agree. I'll probably be old and gray before they do try extending any further.

Razor · #36 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

London Ontario maybe has 6. We don't have a freeway through the city (despite having more than 500K people in the metro), except on the far southern fringes.

So that would be 6 off of the 401 right?

Doady · #37 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

London Ontario maybe has 6. We don't have a freeway through the city (despite having more than 500K people in the metro), except on the far southern fringes.

They need to build a bypass for Highway 4 around the city. I'm not sure if it needs to be a freeway, but there needs to be something. The current route is ridiculous.

tdawg · #38 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 7:03 PM**

One of the more annoying things about living in Queens/Brooklyn/Long Island is trying to get to the mainland. If you want to avoid driving through Manhattan (other than ferries) you only have the TriBoro, Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Verrazano Bridges, and traffic sucks on all of them. If we ever had to evacuate the island most of us would be screwed.

L41A · #39 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 7:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by SteveD

Here's a quick and dirty calculation for Metro Atlanta, counting limited access highways...it looks to be about 300 exits for the metro. There's probably a couple limited access roads with exits that I forgot to include...

I-85: 58
I-75: 70
I-575: 13
I-675: 5
I-20: 50
I-285: 48
GA 400: 18
GA 154: 6
US-78: 12
GA 316: 9

It's approximately 35 within the city of Atlanta.

SteveD · #40 Posted **Jul 1, 2020, 7:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by L41A

It's approximately 35 within the city of Atlanta.

yeah I don't doubt that...original poster said edge of metro to edge of metro...everyone knows what a small percentage of the metro is within the city limits (less than 10% for those who don't know).