Interstate 335

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Interstate 335
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

50.1 mi (80.6 km)

Formed:

1987

North end:

Interstate 470 in Topeka, Kansas

South end:

Interstate 35/U.S. 50 in Emporia, Kansas

Interstate 335 (abbreviated I-335) is the name of an interstate highway spur route of Interstate 35 in the U.S. state of Kansas.

It runs 50.1 miles from a junction with Interstate 35 in Emporia to a junction with Interstate 470 in Topeka. The highway exists entirely as a part of the Kansas Turnpike, and this stretch of the Turnpike was in fact for 31 years (from the opening of the Kansas Turnpike in 1956 until 1987) designated solely as the Kansas Turnpike without an interstate number. It was only after a change in the speed limit laws, at which time state legislators were given the authority to raise the speed limits on rural interstate highways, that this segment of the Kansas Turnpike was given an interstate designation, I-335, so that it could fall under the new law.^[1]

[edit] Exit list

The southern beginning of I-335

Milepost	Name	Notes
127	I-35/U.S. 50 Emporia/Kansas City
132	Emporia Service Center
147	U.S. 56 Council Grove/Osage City
177	I-470 WEST/U.S. 75 South Topeka

[edit] In Minnesota

Main article: Interstate 335 (Minnesota)

Prior to this, I-335 had previously been used to designate a cancelled spur route in north Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was to have run from I-35W to I-94 in north Minneapolis.

[edit] References

^ "Kansans Can Drive at 65 on 680 miles." Lawrence Daily Journal-World 14 May 1987.

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	edit Auxiliary routes of Interstate 35
I-35E	Minnesota - Texas
I-35W	Minnesota - Texas
I-135	Kansas
I-235	Kansas - Oklahoma - Iowa
I-335	Kansas
I-435	Missouri-Kansas
I-535	Minnesota-Wisconsin
I-635	Kansas-Missouri - Texas
past/ future	I-335: Minnesota