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Special routes of U.S. Route 17
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A total of at least twenty-three special routes of U. S. Route 17 have existed. US 17-92 Truck is a route for US 17-92 in northern Kissimmee, Florida, following John Young Parkway. It was signed in about 2011 when the single-point urban interchange at John Young, until 1999, a truck bypass was signed around Downtown Kissimmee. The route existed from sometime during the 1980s until 1999, when US 17-92 itself was rerouted to bypass downtown Kissimmee, US 17-92 Truck is designated to divert overheight truck traffic away from a low railroad bridge that carries the SunRail rail line over US 17-92 in southern Maitland. The route follows State Road 423, Interstate 4, and State Road 414 in Winter Park, Florida and it formerly used Wymore Road and Lake Avenue instead of I-4 and SR414. U. S. Route 17 Alternate is a route of U. S. Route 17 in South Carolina that runs between Pocotaligo and Georgetown. It is 123.4 miles long and has been four-laned in various segments since 1970, U. S. Route 17 Business, also known as Kings Highway, was established by 1967 when mainline US17 was bypassed west of Murrells Inlet. In 1981, it was extended north to near Briarcliffe Acres, the 22. 8-mile business loop connects, Murrells Inlet, Garden City, Surfside Beach, and Myrtle Beach. The road is also a route during the Bi-Lo Marathon weekend, miles 2-6. U. S. Route 17 Business was established in 1991 after the completion of the Shallotte Bypass, the business loop is 3. 8-mile in length and has the street name Main Street for its entire length. The middle segment is concurrent with NC130, which splits from Business US17 in the north to travel to Whiteville. The entire route is in Shallotte, Brunswick County, U. S. Route 17 Business was established in 1992 after the completion of the Bolivia Bypass. The business route follows the old alignment of US17 through Bolivia and this 7. 5-mile route is also called the Old Ocean Highway and passes through the center of Bolivia near its northern terminus. The entire route is in Brunswick County, U. S. Route 17 Business is a 13. 0-mile business route through Wilmington. US17 Bus was established in 1971, two years after US17 was realigned onto new routing, it traversed 1.8 miles along 3rd and Market Streets, between Dawson/Wooster and 16th/17th Streets. Market Street was part of the alignment, but goes south instead of north along 3rd Street to meetup with US17. In 1979, AASHTO officially recognized US17 Bus, in 2005, AASHTO approved the US17 Bus extension upon completion of and realignment of US17 along the Wilmington bypass. US17 Bus shares brief concurrency with US76 and US421 and it is also part of the Cape Fear Historic Byway, which features scenic urban areas, colonial-era streets, the USS North Carolina battleship and the city parks
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Chesapeake, Virginia
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Chesapeake is an independent city located in the U. S. commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 222,209, in 2013, Chesapeake is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC MSA. Chesapeake is the second-largest city by area in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It has miles of waterfront industrial, commercial and residential property, in 2011, Chesapeake was named the 21st best city in America by Bloomberg Businessweek. In 1963, the new independent city of Chesapeake was created when the independent city of South Norfolk consolidated with Norfolk County. The consolidation was approved and the new name selected by the voters of each community by referendum, formed in 1691 in the Virginia Colony, Norfolk County had originally included essentially all the area which became the towns and later cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and South Norfolk. Its area was reduced after 1871 as these cities added territory through annexations, becoming an independent city was a method for the former county to stabilize borders with neighbors, as cities could not annex territory from each other. The relatively small city of South Norfolk had become a town within Norfolk County in 1919. Its residents wanted to make a change to put their jurisdiction on an equal footing in other aspects with the much larger cities of Norfolk. The consolidation that resulted in the city of Chesapeake was part of a wave of changes in the structure of government in southeastern Virginia which took place between 1952 and 1975. The Chesapeake region was among the first areas settled in the colonial era. Beginning in the late 1980s and accelerating in the 1990s, however, Chesapeake saw significant growth, attracting numerous and this explosive growth quickly led to strains on the municipal infrastructure, ranging from intrusion of saltwater into the citys water supply to congested roads and schools. Chesapeake made national headlines in 2003 when, under a change of venue. A jury convicted him of murder but spared him a death sentence, it chose a sentence of life in prison without parole for the young man. A jury in neighboring Virginia Beach convicted his older partner John Allen Muhammad, Chesapeake is located at 36°46′2″N 76°17′14″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 351 square miles. The northeastern part of the Great Dismal Swamp is located in Chesapeake, Chesapeake is one of the larger cities in Virginia and the nation in terms of land area. This poses challenges to city leaders in supporting infrastructure to serve this area, in addition, the city has many historically and geographically distinct communities
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Norfolk, Virginia
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Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 242,803, in 2015, Norfolk is located at the core of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, named for the large natural harbor of the same name located at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is one of nine cities and seven counties that constitute the Hampton Roads metro area, officially known as the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, the city is bordered to the west by the Elizabeth River and to the north by the Chesapeake Bay. It also shares borders with the independent cities of Chesapeake to its south. Norfolk is one of the oldest cities in Hampton Roads, and is considered to be the historic, urban, financial, the city has a long history as a strategic military and transportation point. The largest Navy base in the world, Naval Station Norfolk, is located in Norfolk along with one of NATOs two Strategic Command headquarters. As the city is bordered by multiple bodies of water, Norfolk has many miles of riverfront and bayfront property, including beaches on the Chesapeake Bay. It is linked to its neighbors by a network of Interstate highways, bridges, tunnels. In 1619, the Governor of the Virginia Colony, Sir George Yeardley incorporated four jurisdictions, termed citties and these formed the basis for colonial representative government in the newly minted House of Burgesses. What would become Norfolk was put under the Elizabeth Cittie incorporation, in 1634 King Charles I reorganized the colony into a system of shires. The former Elizabeth Cittie became Elizabeth City Shire, after persuading 105 people to settle in the colony, Adam Thoroughgood was granted a large land holding, through the head rights system, along the Lynnhaven River in 1636. When the South Hampton Roads portion of the shire was separated, one year later, it was split into two counties, Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk, chiefly on Thoroughgoods recommendation. This area of Virginia became known as the place of entrepreneurs, the House of Burgesses established the Towne of Lower Norfolk County in 1680. In 1691, a final county subdivision took place when Lower Norfolk County split to form Norfolk County, in 1730, a tobacco inspection site was located here. By 1775, Norfolk developed into what contemporary observers argued was the most prosperous city in Virginia and it was an important port for exporting goods to the British Isles and beyond. In part because of its merchants numerous trading ties with other parts of the British Empire, after fleeing the colonial capital of Williamsburg, Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, tried to reestablish control of the colony from Norfolk. Dunmore secured small victories at Norfolk but was forced into exile by the American rebels and his departure brought an end to more than 168 years of British colonial rule in Virginia. On New Years Day,1776, Lord Dunmores fleet of three ships shelled the city of Norfolk for more than eight hours, the damage from the shells and fires started by the British and spread by the patriots destroyed over 800 buildings, almost two-thirds of the city
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Interstate 64 in Virginia
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In the U. S. state of Virginia, Interstate 64 runs east–west through the middle of the state from West Virginia to the Hampton Roads region, a total of 298 miles. It is notable for crossing the mouth of the harbor of Hampton Roads on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, I-64 enters Virginia as a four-lane divided highway, continuing its concurrency with U. S.60 through Covington into Lexington where the two routes split. From Lexington, I-64 then turns northward to Staunton overlapping Interstate 81 in the Shenandoah Valley. S, after Charlottesville, I-64 then turns more east-southeasterly and heads towards Richmond, passing through Fluvanna, Goochland and Louisa Counties. Hurricane gates are installed at eastbound Interstate 64 entrance and exit ramps from Exit 200 to Exit 273, to date, there has never been an activation of the contraflow system in any capacity. Once on the Southside, I-64 turns south through Norfolk, passing the eastern boundary of Naval Station Norfolk and Chambers Field, and the spur route supplying it, Interstate 564. It then becomes a six lane divided highway with a two lane roadway in the middle, which is used for HOV-traffic during morning and afternoon rush hours. After entering Chesapeake, I-64 actually turns west-southwesterly and it is actually at this point when the road stops being signed as either east or west and is only signed with its Beltway designation of Inner or Outer Loop. After interchanging with another of its routes, Interstate 464, I-64 then crosses the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River using the High Rise Bridge. Early studies and proposals of the Interregional Highway System, I-64 was to use the U. S. Route 250 alignment west of Richmond and this southern route was favored by Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and most members of the State Highway Commission. The decision was on hold for three years while the state continued planning for the piece of the US250 alignment from Richmond to Short Pump, which would be needed anyway to handle traffic. In 1961, U. S. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges rejected that plan and chose the present route, officially, the chosen route was considered more efficient. However, there is speculation that the decision involved back-room politics of the Kennedy administration, Interstate 64 has four auxiliary routes, all of which are in the Hampton Roads Area, Interstate 664, a bypass route serving Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News and Hampton. Interstate 564, a route serving Naval Station Norfolk. Interstate 264, a route serving the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Downtown Norfolk. Interstate 464, a route serving the western side of Chesapeake, Portsmouth. It connects I-64 in Chesapeake to I-264 in Norfolk, two segments on I-64 have been identified as candidates for widening, I-64 on the Virginia Peninsula from New Kent County to Newport News and I-64 in South Hampton Roads from the I-464/SR 168/U. S. 17 interchange in Chesapeake to the Bowers Hill Interchange in Suffolk, on the Peninsula, most of the I-64 corridor is a four lane roadway and is one of the most-traveled segments in the region, connecting the Hampton Roads Metro to the Greater Richmond region. The approved plan selected by VDOT and partners included the plan that added a general purpose lane in each direction by either expanding into the median or on the outside shoulder
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U.S. Route 460 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 460 in Virginia runs east–west through the southern part of the Commonwealth. The road has two pieces in Virginia, joined by a relatively short section in West Virginia. Most of US460 is a divided highway and is a major artery in the southern third of the state. US460 from Interstate 81 at Christiansburg west to Pikeville, Kentucky, from West Virginia east to I-81, US460 also is part of the proposed Interstate 73. US460 enters Buchanan County from Pike County, Kentucky, within the Cumberland Plateau, the U. S. Highway heads southeast as a two-lane road parallel to Norfolk Southern Railways Buchanan Branch in the narrow valley of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River. US460 passes by the communities of Conaway, Big Rock, and Artia before entering the town of Grundy, US460 meets SR83 at the confluence of Slate Creek and Levisa Fork. The two highways run south as a mix of two- and four-lane road through Tookland to Vansant. US460 continues east as a divided highway through Deel, Janey, and Oakwood, the site of the Appalachian College of Pharmacy. The U. S. Highway continues through Keen Mountain and Grimsleyville, US460 ascends to Shortt Gap, where the highway crosses Sandy Ridge. There, US460 leaves the Ohio River watershed for the Tennessee River watershed, leaves the Cumberland Plateau for the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, US460 descends Sandy Ridge south along Coal Creek and passes through the community of Red Ash. The four-lane divided highway, named for George C, peery, curves east and begins to parallel Norfolk Southerns Clinch Valley District rail line and the Clinch River at Raven, where the highway is paralleled by and is joined by SR67. US460 and SR67 enter the town of Richlands, west of the downtown area, US460 passes to the north of downtown and has a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR67. The U. S. Highway continues into the town of Cedar Bluff and has a pair of interchanges with its business route. US460 leaves the railroad and river, collects the eastern end of its business route, and heads out of Cedar Bluff to Claypool Hill. US460 and US19 head east along four-lane divided George C, peery Highway, which is also named The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, through a long east–west valley between Paint Lick Mountain and Deskin Mountain to the south and Smith Ridge to the north. Highways rejoin the Clinch River and the Clinch Valley District rail line at Pounding Mill, US19 and US460 head through Cliffield and Maxwell to Pisgah, where US19 Bus. and US460 Bus. split south along Crab Orchard Road toward Frog Level. The mainline highways have a cloverleaf interchange with SR16 Alt. at the western town limit of Tazewell. US460 and US19 continue through an interchange with SR16 and a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR61 at a crossing of the Clinch River
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Virginia State Route 337
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State Route 337 is a primary state highway in the South Hampton Roads area of the U. S. state of Virginia. It runs east from Suffolk to Portsmouth, where it crosses Jordan Bridge and it continues on the east side of the Southern Branch Elizabeth River in the South Norfolk neighborhood of Chesapeake. There it turns north, through Norfolk, crossing the Berkley Bridge into downtown, SR337 is the only numbered highway to cross all three Branches of the Elizabeth River. It crosses the Western Branch as Portsmouth Boulevard at the Hodges Ferry Bridge, the Southern Branch on the Jordan Bridge, the Berkley Bridge is a drawbridge. SR337 also crosses the Lafayette River in the city of Norfolk, SR337 begins at U. S. Route 58 Business west of downtown Suffolk and ends at the north end of Interstate 564 at Naval Station Norfolk. It uses a number of different streets to get there, through downtown Suffolk, SR337 is Washington Street. This becomes Nansemond Parkway after crossing US58 Bus. at Magnolia, the name remains after it enters Portsmouth via the Hodges Ferry Bridge, including a short concurrency with US460 Alt. between US58 and I-264, until the Elm Avenue intersection. There SR337 turns south on Elm Avenue, which turns east to reach the Jordan Bridge, at the Jordan Bridge, SR337 again enters Chesapeake, heading east on Poindexter Street across I-464 and north on Bainbridge Boulevard. SR337 leaves I-264 in downtown Norfolk to head north on Tidewater Drive, SR337 turns west at Brambleton Avenue, joining US460 for a short while before it turns onto St. Pauls Boulevard. Between Boush Street and the Midtown Tunnel interchange, SR337 is concurrent with US58, inside the Naval Station Norfolk, SR337 turns east on Admiral Taussig Boulevard to end at the beginning of I-564, where Taussig Boulevard becomes a freeway. There are three known as State Route 337 Alternate, one in Portsmouth, one in downtown Norfolk. The Portsmouth route does not return to SR337 at its east end, the 1.09 miles downtown Norfolk route uses Waterside Drive and Boush Street between the Berkley Bridge and Brambleton Avenue. The route runs by major attractions such as Waterside Marketplace, Town Point Park, Waterside Drive was built in order to revive the Downtown area. According to the counts, southbound traffic uses Duke Street from Brambleton Avenue south to Tazewell Street. By 1939, SR337 existed along 21st Street and Hampton Boulevard from Granby Street near downtown Norfolk north to the Newport News Ferry at Sewells Point. It was initially part of US17, but in the early 1930s US17 was rerouted west of Norfolk via the James River Bridge, the part south of 21st Street and Granby Street was still SR27, but the rest became SR337. In 1942 or 1943, US460 was moved onto its current alignment between downtown Suffolk and South Norfolk, using US58, the Norfolk Bypass, and former SR170. The part of former US460 from Main Street and Washington Street in downtown Suffolk to Park Avenue, in South Norfolk, SR337 then followed US460 and former SR170 north on Bainbridge Boulevard and northeast on Poindexter Street
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Virginia
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Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of 2014 is over 8.3 million, the areas history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008 and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia has an area of 42,774.2 square miles, including 3,180.13 square miles of water. Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the mark of the south shore of the Potomac River. The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, the border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era. The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin
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Hampton Roads
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Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in Virginia and the surrounding metropolitan region in Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, United States. The body of known as Hampton Roads is one of the worlds largest natural harbors. It incorporates the mouths of the Elizabeth River, Nansemond River, the land area includes a collection of cities, counties and towns on the Virginia Peninsula and in South Hampton Roads. Some of the areas further from the harbor may or may not be included as part of Hampton Roads. The Combined Statistical Area includes four counties in North Carolina, pushing the regional population to over 1.8 million residents. The area is steeped in 400 years of American history, with hundreds of historical sites, the harbor was the key to Hampton Roads growth, both on land and in water-related activities and events. While the harbor and its tributaries were important transportation conduits, at the time they presented obstacles to land-based commerce. Creating and maintaining adequate infrastructure has long been a major challenge, the term Hampton Roads is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago. The origin of the two words is noteworthy, the word Hampton honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. The early administrative center of the new colony was known as Elizabeth Cittie, named for Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of King James I, the town at the center of Elizabeth Cittie became known as Hampton, and a nearby waterway was designated Hampton Creek. Other references to the Earl include the area to the north across the bay became known as Northampton. As with Hampton, both of these remain in use today. The term Roads indicates the safety of a port, as applied to a body of water, examples of other roadsteads are Castle Roads, in another of the Virginia Companys settlements, Bermuda, and Lahaina Roads, in Hawaii. In 1755, the Virginia General Assembly recorded the name Hampton Roads as the channel linking the James, Elizabeth, and Nansemond rivers with the Chesapeake Bay. Hampton Roads has become known as the worlds largest natural harbor, the U. S. Postal Service changed the areas postmark from Tidewater Virginia to Hampton Roads, Virginia beginning in 1983. While the borders of what locals call Hampton Roads may not perfectly align with the definition of the MSA, Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC MSA is a U. S. According to the 2010 Census, its population is 1,676,822, since a state constitutional change in 1871, all cities in Virginia are independent cities and they are not legally located in a county. The OMB considers these independent cities to be county-equivalents for the purpose of defining MSAs in Virginia, each MSA is listed by its counties, then cities, in alphabetical order and not by size
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Norfolk International Airport
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Norfolk International Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Norfolk, an independent city in the U. S. state of Virginia. It is owned by the city of Norfolk and operated by the Norfolk Airport Authority, the airport serves the entire Hampton Roads metropolitan area of southeast Virginia as well as northeast North Carolina. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,606,695 enplanements in calendar year 2011, a decrease of 3.4 percent from 1,663,294 in 2010. In 2012, Norfolk Airport served 3,132,728 total passengers, a 1.33 percent increase compared to the previous year, which saw a total passenger count of 2,989,388. Earlier annual passenger numbers included 3,332,4663,409,456,3,549,204, Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and American Airlines are the predominant users of the airport. The Airport has lost airlines and destinations over the last 15 years due to consolidation of airlines, and an under-performing airport. Commercial aviation began in the Norfolk area about 1926, when Norfolk citizens flew commercially for the first time on the Mitten Line, operated by Philadelphia Rapid Transit Air Service, Inc. Norfolk International Airport was established in 1938 when the city-owned Truxton Manor Golf Course was converted to Norfolk Municipal Airport, complete with a 3, the first permanent terminal was complete by 1940. With World War II, Norfolk Municipal Airport became a resource to the war effort. The Norfolk Fighter Wing was established by the AAF in August 1942, the 52d Fighter Group was stationed at the airport however immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941. Various squadrons were assigned to Norfolk Airport during the years of the war for the air defense mission. The air defense mission ended at the end of July 1944, as the troops returned from the war, the Army Air Corps returned the airport to the citys domain at the end of 1945, and commercial travel took off with two new airlines providing regular flights. In 1948, Piedmont Airlines initiated flights and that same year, ground was broken for a larger, more modern terminal building. In 1951, the new terminal was officially dedicated, in the 1960s, the transition from propeller driven aircraft to jets gathered full steam. Norfolk Municipal Airport took on the new demands for longer and stronger runway and taxiway facilities easily, as a result, in 1968, the airport was officially recognized as the air transportation center for the entire Hampton Roads region, and became known as Norfolk Regional Airport. To prepare for exponential growth over the three decades, NPIA developed a comprehensive master plan that would move the airport into the 21st century in full stride. In 1974, the airport dedicated its new, state-of-the-art terminal and additional land was secured for further expansion, in 1976, the airports name was changed to Norfolk International Airport with the addition of federal customs facilities. New outbuildings housing the station, maintenance depot, ATC tower and more were also planned
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Concurrency (road)
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A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers. When two freeways share the same right-of-way, it is called a common section or commons. Other terminology for a concurrency includes overlap, coincidence, duplex, triplex, multiplex, concurrent numbering can become very common in countries that allow it. In some countries, however, concurrent numbering is avoided by posting only one number on road signs. Criticism of concurrencies include environmental intrusion, as well as being considered a factor in road accidents, most concurrencies are simply a combination of two route numbers on the same physical road. This is often advantageous as well as economically advantageous, it may be better for two route numbers to be combined into one along riverways or through mountain valleys. Some nations allow for concurrencies to occur, however, some nations specifically do not allow it to happen, in those nations which do permit concurrencies, it can become very common. In these countries, there are a variety of concurrences which can occur, an example of this is the concurrency of I-70 and I-76 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania. A triple Interstate concurrency is found north of Madison, Wisconsin, with I-39, I-90, Wisconsin has another triple Interstate concurrency along the five-mile section of I-41, I-43, and I-894 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The concurrency of I-41 and I-43 on this roadway is an example of a wrong-way concurrency, the longest Interstate highway concurrency is I-80 and I-90 for 265 miles across Indiana and Ohio. There are examples of eight-way concurrencies, I-465 around Indianapolis and Georgia State Route 10 Loop around downtown Athens, Georgia. Portions of the 53-mile I-465 overlap with I-74, US31, US36, US40, US52, US421, SR37, seven of the eight other designations overlap between exits 46 and 47 to create an eight-way concurrency. In the United States, concurrencies are simply marked by placing signs for both routes on the same or adjacent posts, the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices prescribes that when mounting these adjacent signs together that the numbers will be arranged vertically or horizontally in order of precedence. The order to be used is Interstate Highways, U. S. Highways, state highways, and finally county roads, several states do not officially have any concurrencies, instead officially ending routes on each side of one. There are several circumstances where unusual concurrencies exist along state borders, one example occurs along the Oklahoma–Arkansas state line. At the northern end of this border Oklahoma State Highway 20 runs concurrently with Arkansas Highway 43, concurrencies are also found in Canada. In Manitoba, the Trans-Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie is concurrently signed with Yellowhead Highway, in Ontario, the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 run concurrently between Burlington and Oakville, forming the provinces only concurrency between two 400-series highways. In the United Kingdom, routes do not run concurrently with others, where this would normally occur, the roadway takes the number of only one of the routes, while the other routes are considered to have a gap and are signed in brackets
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Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 437,994, in 2015, the population was estimated to be 452,745. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, despite being larger, Virginia Beach is generally considered to be a suburb of Norfolk. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, the city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. It is located at the end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The Chesepian were the indigenous people of the area now known as Tidewater in Virginia at the time of European encounter. Little is known about them but archeological evidence suggests they may have related to the Carolina Algonquian. They would have one of the Algonquian languages. These were common among the tribes of the coastal area. The Chesepian occupied an area which is now defined as the independent cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and they named it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England. They created their first permanent settlement on the side of the James River at Jamestown. Adam Thoroughgood of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England is one of the earliest Englishmen to settle in this area, at the age of 18, he had contracted as an indentured servant to pay for passage to the Virginia Colony in the hopes of bettering his life. He earned his freedom after several years and became a citizen of the area. In 1629, he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie, in 1634, the Colony was divided into the original eight shires of Virginia, soon renamed as counties. Thoroughgood is credited using the name of his home in England when helping name New Norfolk County in 1637. The following year, New Norfolk County was split into Upper Norfolk County, Thoroughgood resided after 1634 was along the Lynnhaven River, named for his home in England
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U.S. Route 13 in Virginia
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In the U. S. state of Virginia, US13 runs north–south through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state, using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to get between the two. In the Hampton Roads area, it uses Military Highway to bypass the city centers and it is most usually a four-lane highway, sometimes up to freeway or expressway standards with controlled access. U. S. Route 13 enters the state from North Carolina on a two-lane alignment without shoulders and it passes through the small communities of Somerton and Whaleyville, intersecting a few non-state level roads along the way. Just south of Suffolk, the route intersects Virginia State Route 32, just north of this intersection, US13 separates from the roadway at a trumpet interchange and upgrades to a freeway as it prepares to bypass the city on the Southwest Suffolk Bypass. The straight alignment carries the former US13 as US13 Business, around the west side of the city, US13 lands on the main Suffolk Bypass, which carries U. S. Route 58, and the two routes begin to travel to the north. As it turns east, the interchanges with U. S. Route 460 as well. Around the north side of the city, the interchanges with SR32 once again before the freeway ends at the former alignment of US13. This interchange features several unfinished ghost ramps which aim toward US13 Business, US460 leaves the overlap at South Military Highway before the interchange, while US13 and US58 continue across, US13 leaving shortly after to rejoin US460. The two route bear eastward on Military Highway, interchanging with Interstate 64, a railroad alignment begins to parallel Military Highway, and they then cross a drawbridge, shortly after encountering Virginia State Route 166. Within this interchange, US460 bears north on SR166, while US13 continues on the Military Highway and it turns northeast as it passes through the city, with Interstate 64 beginning to parallel the route to the south. US13 then interchanges I-264 once again, and then US58, US13 then leaves Military Highway at a large at-grade intersection, turning east on Northampton Boulevard along with SR166. US13 once again meets Interstate 64 shortly after entering Northampton Boulevard, SR166 leaves at Diamond Springs Road, leaving US13 to bear north alone toward the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The route bridges the Little Creek Reservoir on a causeway and turns to the north, interchanging with Virginia State Route 225 at a cloverleaf interchange, along the bridge, the mile markers change to reflect the length of the bridge, not the miles along US13. The Bridge-Tunnel drops the route on the Delmarva Peninsulas Eastern Shore of Virginia, on the Eastern Shore, US13 is the main north–south highway in the region, and carries the name Charles M. Lankford, Jr. Highway. The Eastern Shore routing is a highway, passing through mostly farmland and small communities, though US13 does have bypasses of most of the communities, such as Exmore. Near Oak Hall, Virginia State Route 175 leaves the route to the east, from there, the route curves slightly to the west and passes into Maryland between New Church and Pocomoke City, Maryland. As part of the Suffolk 2026 Comprehensive Plan, the city plans to bypass the community of Whaleyville in southwestern Suffolk City. US13 is a highway corridor in North Carolina towards Greenville
US 17 Bus. in Chesapeake
US 460 in Norfolk
SR 337 in Norfolk
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SR 168 Bus. north (South Battlefield Boulevard)
SR 149 east (Princess Anne Road)
SR 190 (Kempsville Road / South Witchduck Road)
To I-264 / I-64 / North Newtown Road (SR 403 north)
US 58 (Virginia Beach Boulevard)
SR 170 east (East Little Creek Road) to US 60 – Little Creek
To I-64 / I-564 / Taussig Boulevard