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The rule is you must keep moving foward, you can veer left or right but can't go backwards. What would be the longest drive you can think of where you don't drive through rural, just developed area?
I have ideas about the other answers but I don't want say them all in the OP. One drive I've done a lot is if you go from the South Shore of Long Island and drive out to through Jersey and hug the Jersey shore down to Tom's River then I think it ends for a bit. Or you can go towards Philadelphia but I think you lose it for a bit going from South Brunswick to Trenton. Either it's a few hours of driving through urban/suburban.
Smokey Point --> Seattle --> Tacoma --> Tumwater is 107 miles on I-5. It's briefly interrupted for a couple miles by the Billy Frank Jr. Wildlife Reserve; if that counts as rural, then DuPont is the southernmost extent of continuous suburban development, which is 93 miles.
Driving down the peninsula from San Francisco to San Jose and then up past Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond to Vallejo, Google Maps estimates it would take 3 hours and 14 mins-- all highway driving.
You could do 495 starting in NJ which is the few miles leading up to the Lincoln Tunnel, through NYC and take this all the way out to the end of the Long Island Expressway (495). Just don't do it at rush hour, yikes.
You could also do 95 from say Exit 10 on the NJT all the way through North Jersey, NYC, the Bronx, into CT up until about New Haven I would say. That's a huge, contiguous urban zone.
You can drive from Holyoke Mass down to New Castle Delaware without ever leaving a populated area if you go 91 to 95 to 195 to Rt 1 into Trenton then to 295 in Pennsylvania which merges back to 95 all the way to Wilmington. This route cuts out most of the rural areas along the NJ Turnpike south of New Brunswick and only has about a 5 mile stretch of sparsely populated land between Hightstown and the 195 exit towards Trenton but there are still some houses and development running parallel to that stretch of highway, and it never is fully empty. The route from Holyoke to Springfield through Connecticut on I-91 is entirely populated with only a few mountains interrupting development on the route between Hartford & New Haven, then from New Haven to Bridgeport to Stamford there is non-stop development, and obviously from Westchester County through NYC to Newark down into Central Jersey there is non-stop development. Then from Trenton through to Philly into Wilmington and then New Castle there is no undeveloped area. So the total mileage on the route is 284 miles and about 5 of those are semi-rural with the rest of the route being entirely urban or suburban
For anyone who doubts me look on a satellite map and tell me I’m wrong
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You can drive from Holyoke Mass down to New Castle Delaware without ever leaving a populated area if you go 91 to 95 to 195 to Rt 1 into Trenton then to 295 in Pennsylvania which merges back to 95 all the way to Wilmington. This route cuts out most of the rural areas along the NJ Turnpike south of New Brunswick and only has about a 5 mile stretch of sparsely populated land between Hightstown and the 195 exit towards Trenton but there are still some houses and development running parallel to that stretch of highway, and it never is fully empty. The route from Holyoke to Springfield through Connecticut on I-91 is entirely populated with only a few mountains interrupting development on the route between Hartford & New Haven, then from New Haven to Bridgeport to Stamford there is non-stop development, and obviously from Westchester County through NYC to Newark down into Central Jersey there is non-stop development. Then from Trenton through to Philly into Wilmington and then New Castle there is no undeveloped area. So the total mileage on the route is 284 miles and about 5 of those are semi-rural with the rest of the route being entirely urban or suburban
For anyone who doubts me look on a satellite map and tell me I’m wrong
Oh, you can drive a lot further than that. I-95 is pretty much almost all urban.
Driving down the peninsula from San Francisco to San Jose and then up past Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond to Vallejo, Google Maps estimates it would take 3 hours and 14 mins-- all highway driving.
This is a bit of a circuitous route, no? In a similar way I could go from Patchogue across Long Island through Queens, Brooklyn & Staten Island to I-95 in Elizabeth, up to Rt 21 linking Newark to Paterson, connecting with 21 to I-80 & crossing the GWB then back on I-95 all the way to New Haven and never see a rural area, remaining entirely within the New York metro. It’d take 4 hrs 11 minutes
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