It was on this map that I discovered something that might shed some light on why a certain highway in Jefferson County is called Outer Loop.
The county road map shows a proposed ``cross-county road'' that clockwise starts at US 42 and ends just past Bardstown Road, connecting with the then-existing Cross-County Road (KY 1065). The portion of the route (KY 841) between US 42 and Bardstown Road remained pretty much the same, but the plans since changed and the route was diverted south of the Cross-County Road and was eventually completed a couple decades later as the Gene Snyder Freeway, but the existing Cross-County Road was renamed Outer Loop anyway. Go figure.
As of 1963 the portion of the freeway between Shelbyville Road and I-64 was already complete, and was marked on this map as Outer Loop.
I like making lame jokes every once in a while about the Outer Loop, signed as KY 1065, almost becoming I-1065, except that four-digit state highway numbers in urban areas are more a formality than anything else. :)
Information about I-180 and other 3-digit interstates is available from Scott Oglesby's web site.
Andrew Field maintains a more comprehensive site devoted to Wyoming's I-180.
A NEW SYMBOL ON OUR HIGHWAYS
This route marker represents our rapidly growing 41,000-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. This completely new road system offers a safe, high-speed network of controlled-access highways with bypasses around or expressways through all cities and towns en route. It will change our historic travel patterns radically in many cases. Driving time for many trips will be cut in half and it will save thousands of lives each year. Now about 40% complete nationally, it is expected that the system will be half finished late in 1964. Many important urban expressways are or soon will be in use, and longer connected sections in rural areas are opening each month. Completion nation-wide is expected in 1972, much earlier in several states. More than 2,000 miles of toll roads will be included in the system. These new route markers are shown [I-95 SHIELD] on this map.
Federal aid for Interstate construction amounts to about 90% of the total cost, and this comes entirely from Federal highway-user taxes. The remaining 10% is contributed by the stats. No Federal funds will be used to pay for maintenance of the system.
| The road now known as | is marked as |
|---|---|
| US 31E in Kentucky | US 37 |
| US 31W in Kentucky | US 31 |
| IN 111 from New Albany to IN 60 | IN 33 |
| IN 111 from New Albany to New Boston | IN 133 |
Itinerary summary: Cleveland to Ocala to Miami to Tampa to Ocala to Cleveland
Includes the following pages:
71-5 918 Cover, Strip Map Legend
71-6 901 Using Your Triptik
71-4 902 Trip Planning and Expenses
70-4 905 AAA To The Rescue
71-6 906 Radio Stations
71-4A 287 Cleveland, Ohio
71-4A 260 Cleveland & Akron ... Columbus, Ohio
71-4A 383 Columbus, Ohio
72-3A 361 Columbus ... Cincinnati, Ohio
72-3 382 Cincinnati, Ohio
71-4 321 Cincinnati, Ohio ... Lexington-Blue Grass Area, Ky.
72-3 391 Lexington and the Blue Grass Area, Ky.
71-4 322 Lexington-Blue Grass Area, Ky. . . . Knoxville & Morristown, Tenn.
72-3 390 Knoxville, Tenn.
71-4 323 Knoxville ... Chattanooga, Tenn.
71-4 381 Chattanooga, Tenn.
72-3A 424 Chattanooga, Tenn. ... Atlanta, Ga.
72-3 486 Atlanta, Ga.
72-3A 425 Atlanta ... Cordele, Ga.
71-3 426 Cordele, Ga. ... Lake City, Fla.
71-3 427 Lake City ... Ocala, Fla.
72-3C 428 Ocala ... Orlando, Fla.
72-3C 429 Orlando ... Ft. Pierce, Fla.
71-3 419 Ft. Pierce ... West Palm Beach, Fla.
71-3 499 West Palm Beach, Fla.
72-3A 420 West Palm Beach ... Miami-Miami Beach, Fla.
71-3 492 Miami-Miami Beach, Fla.
71-3 406 Ft. Myers ... Miami-Miami Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
71-3 405 Tampa Bay Area ... Ft. Myers, Fla.
72-3 498 Tampa Bay Area, Fla.
71-3 404 Ocala ... Tampa Bay Area, Fla.
71-3 427
72-3 426
72-3A 425
72-3 486
72-3A 424
71-4 381
71-4 323
72-3 390
71-4 322
72-3 391
71-4 321
72-3 382
72-3A 361
71-4A 383
71-4A 260