Interstate 16

Interstate 16

I-16 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by GDOT
Length: 166.81 mi[1] (268.45 km)
Major junctions
West end: I-75 in Macon
  US 319 / US 441 near Dublin
US 1 in Oak Park
I-95 in Pooler
I-516 in Savannah
East end: Montgomery Street in Savannah
Highway system

Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Main • Auxiliary • Business

Georgia State Routes
Former SR

← SR 15 SR 16 →
← SR 403 SR 404 SR 405 →

Interstate 16 (I-16), also known as Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway or State Route 404 (SR 404), is an intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the state of Georgia, United States.[2] I-16 runs from downtown Macon, at Interstate 75 to downtown Savannah at Montgomery Street (Exit 167B).[3]

The highway carries the unsigned designation of State Route 404, though the state route has a spur that is signed.

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Route description

I-16 serves as a hurricane evacuation route for Savannah and other coastal areas. The road is designed for contraflow travel with railroad-type gates to block most entrance and exit ramps for the normally eastbound lanes. Some ramps are ungated, apparently for entrance to and exit from the contraflow lanes. Just east of Exit 42 is a crossover to return all westbound traffic to the westbound travel lanes.

Southeast of Macon, I-16 passes through Ocmulgee National Monument but without direct access. Visitors need to first exit at the Colliseum Drive (U.S. Route 80) exit.

History

The last part of the highway opened up on September 22, 1978, running it through Emanuel County, Candler County, and Bulloch County completing the connection between downtown Macon and Savannah.

Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways. The first exit on each highway would begin with the number "1" and increase numerically with each exit. In 2000, the Georgia Department of Transportation switched to a mileage-based exit system, in which the exit number corresponded to the nearest milepost.[4][5]

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution,[6][7] to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange at the junction with Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Savannah in honor of Earl Shinhoster, who was a Black civil rights activist. This interchange is located in the economic and cultural center for Black Savannah.[8]

In 2003 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution[9] to designate Interstate 16 in honor of James L. Gillis, Sr., a Democrat who served as a State Representative, State Senator and Director of the Georgia Department of Transportation, as the Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway.[10] Gillis' sons, Hugh and James, Jr., also served as Democratic State legislators. Hugh was a Representative from 1941 to 1953 and a State Senator from 1953 to 1955 and from 1963 to 2005. James, Jr. was a State Senator from 1945 to 1946.[11]

Exit list

County Location Mile Old exit New exit Destinations Notes
Bibb
 Macon 1 0A-B I-75 (SR 401) – Atlanta, Valdosta Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
1 2 1A US 23 / US 129 / SR 49 (Spring Street, SR 11/SR 19) – Milledgeville No westbound exit
1.7 3 1B SR 22 (Second Street) to US 129 / SR 49 – Macon Westbound exit only
2 4 2 US 80 / SR 87 (Coliseum Drive, ML King Jr. Boulevard)
  6 5 6
US 23 / US 129 Alt. (Ocmulgee East Boulevard, Golden Isles Highway, SR 87)
Twiggs
   11 6 12 Sgoda Road – Huber
  19.2 7 18 Bullard Road – Jeffersonville
  8 24 SR 96 – Jeffersonville, Tarversville
  9 27 SR 358 – Allentown, Danville
Bleckley
   10 32 SR 112 – Allentown, Montrose
Laurens
   11 39 SR 26 – Cochran, Montrose
Dudley 12 42 SR 338 – Dexter, Dudley
  13 49 SR 257 – Dublin, Dexter
  14 51 US 319 / US 441 (SR 31) – Dublin, McRae, Tallulah Falls
  15 54 SR 19 – East Dublin, Dublin
  16 58 SR 199 (Old River Road) – Lothair, East Dublin
Treutlen
   17 67 SR 29 – Vidalia, Soperton
  18 71 SR 15 / SR 78 – Soperton, Adrian
  19 78 US 221 / SR 56 – Swainsboro, Soperton
Treutlen–Emanuel
 county line 20 84 SR 297 – Vidalia, Swainsboro
Emanuel
 Oak Park 21 90 US 1 (SR 4/SR 46) – Swainsboro, Lyons
Candler
   22 98 SR 57 – Reidsville, Swainsboro, Stillmore
Metter 23 104 SR 23 / SR 121 – Metter, Reidsville
  24 111 Pulaski–Excelsior Road
Bulloch
   25 116 US 25 / US 301 (SR 73) – Statesboro, Claxton
  26 127 SR 67 – Pembroke, Fort Stewart, Statesboro
  27 132 Ash Branch Church Road
  28 137 SR 119 – Springfield, Pembroke, Fort Stewart
Bryan
   29 143 US 280 (SR 30) to US 80 (SR 26) – Pembroke
Effingham
   30 148 To US 80 (SR 26) / Old River Road
Chatham
 Bloomingdale 31 152 SR 17 (Bloomingdale Road)
Pooler   155 Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, Pooler
32 157 I-95 (SR 405) – Brunswick, Jacksonville, Florence, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport Signed as exits 157A (south) and 157B (north)
Garden City 33 160 SR 307 (Dean Forest Road)
Savannah 33A 162 Chatham Parkway
34A 164A I-516 east / US 17 south / US 80 east / SR 21 south (Lynes Parkway, SR 25 south/SR 26 east/SR 421 east) West end of US 17 overlap
34B 164B I-516 west / US 80 / SR 21 west / SR 25 north (Lynes Parkway, SR 26 west/SR 421 west) – Garden City
35 165 SR 204 (37th Street, Abercorn Street) Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
36 166 US 17 north / SR 404 Spur / Gwinnett Street, Louisville Road - Charleston East end of US 17 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
37A 167A M. L. King Jr. Boulevard Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange
170 37B 167B Montgomery Street – Savannah Civic Center, Downtown Savannah Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
     Concurrency terminus •      Closed/Former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

Auxiliary routes

State Route 404 Spur
Location: Savannah – South Carolina state line
Length: 3.07 mi (4.94 km)

State Route 404 Spur is a short route that runs from I-16 Exit 166 northward along U.S. 17 to the South Carolina state line. As its number suggests, it is a spur from State Route 404, an unsigned route that runs the full length of I-16.


See also

U.S. Roads portal
State of Georgia portal


References

  1. ^ Staff (October 31, 2002). "Tabele 1: Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways". Route Log and Finder List. Federal Highway Administration. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table1.htm. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 
  2. ^ Staff (2003) (PDF). Interstate Mileage Report (438 Report) (Report). Georgia Department of Transportation. http://www.dot.state.ga.us/DOT/plan-prog/transportation_data/400reports/2003/dpp438_2003.pdf. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  3. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – Overview map of I-16 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=894757657656619927,32.854040,-83.635220&saddr=I-16+E+%4032.854040,+-83.635220&daddr=32.071829,-81.102684&mra=mi&mrsp=1,0&sz=16&sll=32.07312,-81.100559&sspn=0.008219,0.014462&ie=UTF8&ll=32.565333,-82.43042&spn=2.092474,3.702393&z=8. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  4. ^ Georgia's Interstate Exit Numbers Georgia Department of Transportation - online. Accessed April 30, 2007.
  5. ^ Interstate 20 Exit Renumbering Page Georgia Department of Transportation - online. Accessed April 30, 2007.
  6. ^ House of Representatives (April 19, 2001). "House Resolution 182". Atlanta, GA: Georgia General Assembly. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2001_02/fulltext/hr182.htm. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  7. ^ State Senate (April 19, 2001). "Senate Resolution 6". Atlanta, GA: Georgia General Assembly. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr6.htm. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  8. ^ Elmore, Charles J. (April 26, 2004). "The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum". The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2734. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  9. ^ House of Representatives (March 27, 2003). "House Resolution 88". Atlanta, GA: Georgia General Assembly. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hr88.htm. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  10. ^ "Interstate 16". Interstate Guide. December 6, 2006. http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-016.html. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 
  11. ^ Staff (February 2003). "Senator Hugh M. Gillis (D-SS 20)". Georgia General Assembly. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080919124918/http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/peo_detail.pl?Leg=gass20. Retrieved February 15, 2008. 

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