Why This Interstate Used To Turn Into Gravel #geography

[ItIsRan]

Looks like shit i would do in cities skyline 😭

[ariannaciviero]

Imagine missing your turn in the middle of the night only to experience the Eldrich horrors of South Dakota on a random rural gravel road💀

[alphax]

I 90 used to have a number of turn offs onto gravel roads in South Dakota. They've improved most of them in the last decade or so.

[Bob.W.]

I can assure you that such an interchange does not alarm anybody in South Dakota. 😂

[MononFan]

I-680 in the Omaha area has the same thing, it goes from a Interstate to a 2-lane undivided rural road, plus another oddity is that I-680 has an interchange with a gravel road.

[eugenebrown]

For all inents and purposes, this is just a T-intersection between I-90 and a bypass/spur Interstate, just like countless others in the country. This on just happened to tie into and existing rural road that was there. Actually makes sense.

[AndrewTheRadarMan]

Germany bridges rural dirt roads over autobahns everywhere. You'd be flying at 100+ MPH then you notice lots of narrow bridges.

[LordGingerXIV]

They are building a fancy golf course up just past there currently. I'm sure some kind of housing development will pop up at some point. I've seen a few alternatives for a reconstruction that make it into a 4-way interchange.

[nordsterntheelder]

Hey Sioux Falls resident here, it’s because literally nobody uses that road 99% of I-229 traffic exits before or at the I-90 interchange. North of this interchange the city practically ends.

[brandonemlaw]

I like how there’s also no options to get on I90 from the small road, so if you miss your turn you have to go to the next I229 exit to turn around. I wonder how many people would just drive the wrong way.

[cisium]

This doesn't seem too strange to people in South Dakota because the state is full of interchanges that immediately devolve into narrow and/or dirt roads.

[MikeV]

That rural road came into town on the alignment where I 229 was built. The speed limit drops to 55 on I 229 a half mile before the interchange, and an overhead gantry just before the I 90 underpass says for the left lane "Begin Minnehaha County 125, Freeway Ends. The 55 speed continues on the rural road.

[nathanielmoore]

That half cloverleaf is annoying. I wish they'd upgrade it. The state just built a vetetans' cemetery 1 mile north of this interchange and there's a golf course going up close to the cemetery. Right now the only way to get there from I90 is to exit at Cliff Ave and take E 72nd St N which is gravel. Edit: I'd like to add that 60th St N is a fairly important road for Sioux Falls and becoming more so all the time. It blows my mind that I229 still doesn't have an exit for it. Travelers have to exit at Benson Rd.

[dr.zippymcscoots]

I live in Sioux Falls. some of these roads had to be paved because of the explosive expansion of the city. Some of these rural roads connect to larger paved main roads.

[rightwingsafetysquad]

In Wilmington, NC Interstate 40 ends into a school zone.

[MrWilderNapalm]

We had a similar configuration in my city. I-265 ran North South and connected I-65 and I-71. When you reached I-71 the interstate ended but the road continued ad KY-841 as a two lane road. We have since added the the new bridge at the Ohio and linked with I-265 in Southern Indiana creating a nearly 100 mile loop around the city.

[joelfrombethlehem]

I-229 is part of an incomplete belt expressway/bypass around the I-29 & I-90. Probably, the I-229 bypass plans are somewhere.

[musicalhistory]

I Know of a few Interstates that go straight to a 2 lane road like as shown, but none that go straight to gravel. I bet there were a few wrecks caused by that transition.

[KaIIenie]

I actually made this intersection for my alternate Baltimore recreation in Cities: Skylines. The point is to have I-95 going westbound to enter into a small neighbourhood and into a large bridge that goes across the bay and into mainland Maryland. The bridge replaces the 3-way intersection between I-95 and I-395 that is mostly above the water, and the intersection is located around the MD-2 and I-95 intersection.

I do have to admit though, the partial cloverleaf is really flawed.

[lws]

Goodness Me ! ! How much highway overengineering you can have in a 200k pop city !? South Dakota has almost half the size of Germany, but only a population of 900k ! ( Sometimes the cliche/myth that US is ' big ' and ' empty ' is valid ) . So this city is in the middle of nowhere. Why and how on earth do you build so many freeways and cloverleaf intersections in such a small pop city !? .
The question is not : ' Why is there a gravel road aside a cloverleaf ?', but ..' why did thy build a cloverleaf there at all ? !