Transportation in West Virginia

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Transportation in West Virginia

Contents 1 Roads 1.1 Interstate highways 1.2 U.S. Highways 1.3 West Virginia State Highways 2 Airports 3 Railroads 4 Bridges and tunnels 5 Rapid transit 6 Rivers 7 Notes

[edit] Roads

[edit] Interstate highways

Main article: Interstate Highways in West Virginia

Interstate 64 Interstate 68 Interstate 268 (proposed) Interstate 70 Interstate 470

Interstate 73 Interstate 77 West Virginia Turnpike Interstate 79 Interstate 81

[edit] U.S. Highways

Main article: List of U.S. Highways in West Virginia

U.S. Route 11 U.S. Route 19 U.S. Route 119 U.S. Route 219 U.S. Route 220

U.S. Route 21 U.S. Route 121 U.S. Route 22 U.S. Route 522 U.S. Route 30

U.S. Route 33 U.S. Route 35 U.S. Route 40 U.S. Route 340 U.S. Route 48

U.S. Route 50 U.S. Route 250 U.S. Route 52 U.S. Route 60 Midland Trail

U.S. Route 460

[edit] West Virginia State Highways

Main articles: List of primary state highways in West Virginia and List of secondary state highways in West Virginia

[edit] Airports

• Beckley Raleigh County Memorial Airport
• Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport
• Elkins-Randolph County Airport
• Greater Cumberland Regional Airport
• Greenbrier Valley Airport
• Harrison/Marion Regional Airport
• Mercer County Airport
• Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport
• Morgantown Municipal Airport
• Potomac Airpark
• Tri-State Airport
• Yeager Airport

[edit] Railroads

While West Virginia was onced criss-crossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Today, many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the states numerous woodlands.

Today, West Virginia is serviced by an Amtrak line that cuts through the southern portion of the state, including stops in Huntington and Charleston. Commercial railroads still operate in the state, mainly hauling coal to inland ports such as Huntington (the nation's busiest) and Pittsburgh.

[edit] Bridges and tunnels

As a mountainous state, bridges and tunnels play an important role in transportation in West Virginia. Notable bridges and tunnels include:

• New River Gorge Bridge -- near Fayetteville, WV
• Silver Bridge -- Point Pleasant, WV
• Silver Memorial Bridge -- Henderson, WV to Gallipolis, OH
• Wheeling Suspension Bridge -- Wheeling, WV
• East River Mountain Tunnel -- near Bluefield, WV to near Rocky Gap, VA
• Fort Henry Bridge -- Wheeling, WV
• Veterans Memorial Bridge -- Weirton, WV to Steubenville, OH

[edit] Rapid transit

• Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit

[edit] Rivers

Rivers with commercial barge traffic and docks in West Virginia include:^[1]

• Ohio
• Kanawha (a tributary of the Ohio)
• Monongahela (the Mon and the Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Little Kanawha (a tributary of the Ohio)
• Big Sandy (a tributary of the Ohio)
• Elk (a tributary of the Kanawha)
• Pocatalico (a tributary of the Kanawha)
• Mill Creek (a tributary of the Ohio)

Navigation Lock and Dams in West Virginia^{[2] [3]}

• On the Ohio
  • New Cumberland Locks and Dam
  • Pike Island Locks and Dam
  • Hannibal Locks and Dam
  • Willow Island Locks and Dam
  • Belleville Locks and Dam
  • Racine Locks and Dam
  • Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam

• On the Kanawha
  • London Lock and Dam
  • Marmet Lock and Dam
  • Winfield Lock and Dam

• On the Monogahela
  • Morgantown Lock and Dam
  • Hildebrand Lock and Dam
  • Opekiska Lock and Dam

[edit] Notes

	State of West Virginia Charleston (capital)
Topics	Cities | Towns | Villages | Census‑designated places | Governors | Colleges and universities
Regions	Allegheny Mountains | Allegheny Plateau | Baltimore‑Washington Metropolitan Area | Charleston Metropolitan Area | Cumberland Plateau | Eastern Panhandle | North‑Central West Virginia | Northern Panhandle | Potomac Highlands | Ridge‑and‑valley Appalachians | Southern West Virginia
Major cities	Charleston | Huntington | Parkersburg | Wheeling | Morgantown
Smaller cities	Beckley | Bluefield | Clarksburg | Cross Lanes | Fairmont | Martinsburg | Saint Albans | South Charleston | Teays Valley | Vienna | Weirton
Counties	Barbour | Berkeley | Boone | Braxton | Brooke | Cabell | Calhoun | Clay | Doddridge | Fayette | Gilmer | Grant | Greenbrier | Hampshire | Hancock | Hardy | Harrison | Jackson | Jefferson | Kanawha | Lewis | Lincoln | Logan | Marion | Marshall | Mason | McDowell | Mercer | Mineral | Mingo | Monongalia | Monroe | Morgan | Nicholas | Ohio | Pendleton | Pleasants | Pocahontas | Preston | Putnam | Raleigh | Randolph | Ritchie | Roane | Summers | Taylor | Tucker | Tyler | Upshur | Wayne | Webster | Wetzel | Wirt | Wood | Wyoming