12 Forgotten Interstate Gaps the Highway System Never Closed

There is a traffic light on a federal interstate, and it has been there for sixty-two years. Twelve places where the Interstate Highway System stops doing the one thing it promised. A traffic light on a federal interstate. A yield sign at the end of one. A road that lifts out of the way for a ship. And two that do not exist at all. Every entry has a document behind it. A statute, a court case, a state highway record. No rumours, and no "abandoned" mysteries. Why does a federal interstate stop at a set of traffic lights in a Pennsylvania village? Why was it cheaper to keep it that way for six decades than to fix it? And why do two of these gaps have no pavement on the other side at all? The countdown: Interstate 516, Savannah, Georgia Interstate 587, Kingston, New York Interstate 180, Cheyenne, Wyoming Interstate 19, Nogales, Arizona Interstate 78, Jersey City, New Jersey Interstate 70, Breezewood, Pennsylvania The Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Interstate 95 and 495 Interstate 70, the Wheeling Tunnel, West Virginia Interstate 75, the Mackinac Bridge, Michigan Interstate 93, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire Interstate 49, Fort Smith to Texarkana, Arkansas The Interstate 69 corridor Number six is the one that surprises people most, because almost nobody sitting in that traffic knows the bridge is opening. Every date and figure in this film traces to a record you can check. SOURCES Breezewood, Pennsylvania — the interchange that was never built, and why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezew... Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania — the Turnpike connection and the traffic signals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst... The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge — the drawbridge on the Capital Beltway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow... Interstate 69 — the corridor still missing its middle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst... Interstate 93 — Franconia Notch and the parkway that replaced the freeway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst... MEDIA Footage used under a Creative Commons Attribution licence: "A Drive Through Franconia Notch, New Hampshire - Southbound" by Dashcam Riprock "driver view I-49 complete south from I-470 to MO 150" by John Edwards "Holland Tunnel - New York City to Jersey City" by The Lewistown Trainspotter "Woodrow Wilson Bridge Sunrise Walking Tour" by Where To Live in Northern Virginia "Corrigan to Livingston on Interstate 69 South" by Travel And Stuff "Burke to Corrigan on Interstate 69 South" by Travel And Stuff "Shepherd to Cleveland on Interstate 69 South" by Travel And Stuff "Cleveland to New Caney on Interstate 69 South" by Travel And Stuff Archive photography is public domain unless credited on screen.