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Lexington's Nicholasville Road is one of the worst roads I've ever driven on. This includes the freeways of Los Angeles. The state has improved Richmond Road and "improved" Harrodsburg Road in recent years, but Lexington's road system is still stuck in 1979 mode. You can thank Kentucky's billions of dollars of rural pet projects for taking transportation money away from the state's major cities.
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Originally Posted by jtur88
Lexington's entire ring road is unattached to the interstate highway system, except by feeder connectors. Those connectors all entail cross-traffic and stop lights.
...which is one reason why traffic in Lexington is no picnic. The main reason, however, is that the stop light synchronization in the city is terrible.
OTOH, had they built freeways through downtown in 1960, it would have been a nail in Lexington's coffin and might have entirely destroyed its already small downtown. After all, Lexington's general mantra on historic preservation is, "Tear the damn thing down."
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Depends on if the OP meant "biggest city without a freeway going through the CBD" or "biggest city not served by a numbered US interstate"
If it's the first, then there are actually a lot of cities, especially in the South. I guess Yankees like destroying their downtowns to help yuppies get to their jobs.
They include.. (nearest distance from edge of CBD to nearest freeway
Springfield MO - 3.6 miles
Tallahassee FL - 3.2 miles
Lexington KY - 2.9 miles
Greensboro NC - 1.6 miles
Raleigh NC - 1 mile
Spartanburg SC - 1 mile
Pretty sure I-10, one of the biggest interstate in the country, goes straight through downtown New Orleans.
I watched "21 Jump Street" a few weeks back, and remember a scene with an I-10 sign in an obviously large city. I saw some state highway signs with the state outline on it. It took me a while to figure it out, but based on the shape of the state outline and the size of the city, I reasoned that it was New Orleans; a check with Wikipedia confirmed my guess.
Other big competitor: Bakersfield (although I-5 is on its extreme westermost outskirts).
Smaller cities not served by interstates: Dothan, Owensboro, Jefferson City, Stillwater, and Kokomo...and a buttload of other small cities in America.
The Redneck Riveria in the Florida panhandle (Panama City to Destin to Fort Walton Beach) is a large developed area and major tourist destination not served by an interstate. I-10 runs east/west a good 50 miles to the north.
Bakersfield, Brownsville TX, and Harlingen TX (down the Rio Grande Valley) are all pretty close as well. Athens GA is another - smaller at just over 100,000 - but it was only accessible via 2-lane highways until within the last decade or so, and seems rather OK with that.
Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway CSA has a population of 329,500 and has no interstate anywhere near it. Not as big as Fresno but its got to be up there on the list.
Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway CSA has a population of 329,500 and has no interstate anywhere near it. Not as big as Fresno but its got to be up there on the list.
Very, very similar to the Panama City - Destin - Fort Walton stretch of beach in the Florida panhandle. There is no CSA for these two areas, but if they were, would be a similar population. The nearest interstate is way inland for both. At least Myrtle Beach is the intended destination for the fulture I-73/74.
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