Talk:Interstate 57

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[edit] Corrections

I made a couple of corrections: I-57 does not go to Jackson, Mississippi (I-55 does); I-57 ends at Miner, MO at I-55(as stated in the article). The road west of here to Poplar Bluff (a divided highway) is US 60, but not I-57. Rt66lt 21:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


I think it may not be accurate to talk of the intersection with I-24 happenning in Pulleys Mill, IL, as I do not beleive Pulleys Mill is legally a seperate village/town, any more. (USPS says it is NOT ACCEPTABLE, use Goreville ZIP 62939.)
I grew up in southern Illinois (Union County) and have family in Goreville and some of the smaller towns in Johnson and Williamson counties. I will be contacting my family who still live in the area for confirmation.
At the present time, I beleive Pulleys Mill is basically just a wide spot in the road on IL Route 37, north of Goreville. I beleive the only building of note is a livestock auction house.
Depending on how you want it phrased, I think it would be better to say the juntion happens south of Marion, IL (which I-57 runs through) or north of Goreville, IL (which lies between I-24 and I-57. You can get to it from either one, but you have to take local roads.) (I am also putting this in the Talk:Interstate_24 page.) VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 18:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

  • I wouldn't particularly mind that. That said, if Pulley's Mill is (was) a historically important location, it would be more sensical to write up an article about Pulley's Mill. While doing Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois State Routes, I've found that about 20% of the time I have to refer to termini that aren't incorporated, and therefore not in Wikipedia, but still technically exist. —Rob (talk) 18:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not really sure how historically important it was... I'm going to contact my family, but the main one I want to write doesn't have a computer. Snail Mail time. VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 19:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] widening

the primary reason why IDOT wants to widen 57 from Mt. Vernon to 24 is due to the insane amount of traffic that highway gets (ADT approximately 35,000 vehicles per day at last count, which rivals a lot of the suburan st louis interstates on the illinois side of the river). 57 is the main route for st louisians to get to those large lakes every weekend during the warm weather months (usually to rend lake or kentucky late). Don't forget the fact the majority of the chicagoland students that can't afford UofI-Chambana end up attending SIU-Carbondale (which is just a few miles from 57). Back in 2004 in Mt. Vernon when IDOT did bridge construction on 57 they had to maintain 2 lanes of traffic in each direction, which is very unusal for a similar construction project on a rural interstate in Illinois (it also gave the agency a dry run of how the 64 widening project near Fairview Heights could run like).

for a time in the 1980s to early 1990s there was talks of a St. Louis to Carbondale toll road, apparently following the IL 13 corridor. that idea was scrapped in the late 1990s.

Wow, didn't realize that 35k on a four lane freeway was insane, try 20,000 and rising on a two-lane surface street, or over 125,000 on a four-lane freeway. That's when you start going insane. --Holderca1 talk 20:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Out of curiosity, couldn't an exit list be built and the merge tag then be removed? (edit: this comment refers to Interstate 57 in Illinois) —Rob (talk) 22:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)