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Huntsville uses 53, 72, 231 etc. as controlled access highways. Those help, but 72 most likely should have been an interstate specifically connecting Memphis and Chattanooga. Clarksville, TN also only has one four lane interstate in I-24.
You are forgetting the fact that Huntsville has I-565 running through it.
Key West, Florida has a population of over 30,000 and no freeways. It only has the Overseas Highway which isn't a freeway at all. Given its geography, location, and historic nature building a freeway doesn't really seem practical there.
Myrtle Beach doesn't have any Interstates, not sure if it has non-interstate freeways.
Hilo, HI (population 44,000) does not have any freeways.
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A footnote on this:
When the original National System of Interstate and Defense Highways was unveiled in 1956, the plan was to have an Interstate highway serving every city/metro of 50,000 or more inhabitants.
States can run freeways wherever they want, but if that criterion still applies, and I think it does, some of the cities listed here still shouldn't get an Interstate highway or spur.
I believe that the criteria was that every city of 50,000 or more would get an interstate. I don't think they ever said that smaller towns couldn't have one if they happened to be located in the highway's path.
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Myrtle Beach doesn't have any Interstates, not sure if it has non-interstate freeways.
I believe that SC Hwy. 31, which skirts the western edge of the city, is limited-access.
I believe that the criteria was that every city of 50,000 or more would get an interstate. I don't think they ever said that smaller towns couldn't have one if they happened to be located in the highway's path.
You're right.
What I meant was that those cities with <50k inhabitants shouldn't get Interstate spurs serving them exclusively. If a spur passes one of them on the way to a city with ≥50k inhabitants, that's okay, as you say above.
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