Talk:Interstate 580 (Nevada)

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[edit] I-580 Termini

In case your not sure I-580 does start from SR-431 and end at Exit 72, not from SR-667 to I-80.

I live here in Reno and the information on this page is incomplete and I'm trying to fix that.

I am sure on the termini for I-580. Nevada DOT recognizes I-580 as currently existing from I-80 to SR-667/Neil Road (formerly Del Monte Ln) in Reno, a distance of 4.989. This information is from the most recent version of NDOT's State Maintained Highways: Descriptions, Index and Maps published January 2006 and available here (on page 88 of this PDF document): <http://www.nevadadot.com/reports_pubs/state_maintained/pdf/sm_book.pdf>. In my edit, I was attempting to provide information based on what is current and what has been verified to be occurring in the future.

I also live here in Reno...and I'm also a roadgeek and civil/transportation engineer. Every single source I've come across indicates that the I-580 designation will not continue north of I-80. This is consistent with the general notion that Interstate Spurs (which I-580 is) serve a general population center not located on the main Interstate route; there is no major population center that would be served by I-580 extending north four miles to Virginia Street. If you can provide a source that says I-580 will/does go north of I-80, I'd be glad to see it.

By the way, Exit 70 on US 395 is for North McCarran Blvd, not East and West. Ljthefro 07:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

-yes the sources I get my information are those little white signs on the side of the road on all active highways; and it states that I.R. 580 is longer then it really is. However if your right and I'm not then NDOT needs to update there roadsigns Coolrocketdude3444 21:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

You cannot rely solely on the white postmile markers, at least around here. Many of these have not been updated or removed after routes/mileages have been officially changed. The next time you're on South Virginia Street, take a look at the bottom half of the traffic light poles at major intersections. There are stickers on many of them that resemble postmile signs. Until recently (within the 12-18 months), most of these still said "US 395" on them--now the US 395 part has been covered with a plain white sticker (however, there might still be a few of these that haven't been covered yet). I would make the assumption that the US 395/I-580 postmiles have probably been there since original construction of the freeway. There may have been plans to extend 580 further north, but all indications seem to have abandoned any such plans. Ljthefro 05:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I live in Reno, as well. Amazingly, along Virginia Street in downtown, (where the road was completely torn up and all lightposts replaced, etc...), if I remember correctly, I believe I saw one of those white mile-markers that still says US 395, Makes me wonder what's going on since it was on a fixture that was replaced.N Yo FACE 13:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eastlake Exit

Signs used to say both "East Lake Blvd" and "Eastlake Blvd" for this exit. After construction wrapped on phase 1 of the Carson City freeway, the exit number was changed and the signs that said "East Lake" were corrected to read "Eastlake". The name also reads this way on several online maps.

Also, I removed the SR 429 reference from this part of the exit since Eastlake Blvd is not on SR 429. To leave it in would be analogous to putting "(SR 430)" after Damonte Ranch Pkwy, South Meadows Pkwy and Neil Road, just because Virginia Street can be easily accessed from these interchanges. As a compromise on the Eastlake exit, I put "To SR 429" in the notes column.

OK - that makes sense. I changed it to read "FR WA45 to SR 429", since the part of Eastlake Boulevard under US 395, connecting to SR 429, is state maintained. (It would probably be SR 429 itself had SR 428 never existed.) --NE2 18:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

While technically correct, nobody would understand the "FR WA45" reference. NDOT doesn't sign state-maintained frontage roads at all. The only possible way one could tell they were on an NDOT frontage road would be by the milepost, and even then NDOT doesn't post these consistently on the FR's. How about we just put "To SR 429"? BTW: Eastlake probably wouldn't have been SR 429, since SR 429 is old US 395 and Eastlake Blvd is not. NDOT assigned the entire old highway to SR 429 in this area to keep it in the state system (primarily as a truck/camper detour during high winds). Ljthefro (talk) 21:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Fine, then Eastlake Boulevard (to SR 429) it is. I'm still not convinced that's necessary; NDOT seems to be overly strict about only allowing one alignment to have a certain number, since Eastlake west of US 395 is functionally SR 429 northbound. --NE2 23:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)