Interstate 10

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Interstate 10 or I-10 is the southernmost coast-to-coast interstate highway in the United States. It stretches from California Highway 1, or the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California to Jacksonville, Florida, ending at Interstate 95. A sign near the western terminus of the highway, known as the Santa Monica Freeway in that part of Los Angeles, announces it as "The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Freeway." Interstate 10's other major name in Southern California is the San Bernardino Freeway. It is known to a considerably lesser degree as the "Veteran's Memorial Highway" and is listed as a Blue Star Highway. A stretch in Palm Springs is signed as the "Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway" as a tribute to the late entertainer who served both as mayor and as a United States Congressman. A second stretch a few miles east in Indio is signed as the "Doctor June McCarroll Memorial Freeway." As a nurse with the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1920s, Dr. McCarroll was alarmed at the number of head-on traffic collisions on a nearby stretch of then-new U.S. Highway 99, today known as both California State Highway 111 and California State Highway 86 as well as Interstate 10 which replaced it between Indio and Los Angeles. She is credited with painting a white stripe down the middle of 99 near Coachella in order to separate the two lanes of traffic, the first ever pavement marking of its kind.

In Arizona, as well as Jacksonville, the highway is known as the "Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway", except for the portion through downtown Phoenix, where it is known as the "Papago Freeway". The interstate's route through Phoenix was hotly contested in the 1960s and 1970s. A plan proposed by the Arizona Department of Transportation involved city block-sized 270-degree "helicoils" that would connect motorists to freeway lanes 100 feet in the air, but voters killed it in 1973 as a result of opposition from the Arizona Republic and a growing nationwide anti-freeway sentiment. Ten years later, ADOT unveiled the current below grade plans. Despite local opposition, Interstate 10 was finally completed on August 10, 1990.

I-310 and I-510 are parts of what was slated to be I-410 and act as a southern bypass of New Orleans, Louisiana. I-610 is a shortcut from the eastern to western portion of New Orleans avoiding the I-10's detour into New Orleans' central business district.

I-12 between Baton Rouge and I-59 near the Louisiana/Mississippi state line is actually a shorter route than I-10 between those same points, since I-10 dips to the south to go through New Orleans. Those traveling to or from Baton Rouge who do not wish to detour into New Orleans should leave I-10 and take I-12 for its entire route until it again meets with I-10.

Table of contents

1 Length

2 Major Cities Along the Route (from West to East)

3 Intersections with other Interstates

4 Spur Routes

5 Notes

6 External Links

Length


Miles	km	state
237	381	California
392.33	631	Arizona
160	257	New Mexico
879	1,415	Texas
279	449	Louisiana
77.192	124	Mississippi
67	108	Alabama
369	594	Florida

2,460	3,959	Total

Major Cities Along the Route (from West to East)

Intersections with other Interstates

Interstate 5 and Interstate 110 in downtown Los Angeles, California
Interstate 710 in East Los Angeles, California
Interstate 405 in West Los Angeles, California
Interstate 15 in Ontario, California
Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Arizona
Interstate 8 in Casa Grande, Arizona
Interstate 19 in Tucson, Arizona
Interstate 25 in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Interstate 20 near Kent, Texas
Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas
Interstate 37 in San Antonio, Texas
Interstate 45 in Houston, Texas
Interstate 49 in Lafayette, Louisiana
Interstate 12 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Interstate 55 in La Place, Louisiana
Interstate 12 in Alton, Louisiana near Slidell, Louisiana
Interstate 59 in Alton, Louisiana near Slidell, Louisiana
Interstate 65 in Mobile, Alabama
Interstate 75 in Lake City, Florida
Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, Florida

Spur Routes

Los Angeles, California - I-110, I-210, I-710
El Paso, Texas - I-110
San Antonio, Texas - I-410
Houston, Texas - I-610
Lake Charles, Louisiana - I-210
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - I-110
New Orleans, Louisiana - I-310, I-510, I-610, I-910
Spur to Biloxi, Mississippi - I-110
Pensacola, Florida - I-110

Notes

Hurricane Ivan damage to I-10 bridge in Pensacola

In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan's storm surge pushed up and washed out part of I-10 at the causeway over Escambia Bay near Pensacola, Florida. Westbound lanes had only a couple of sections missing, while eastbound lanes are almost completely gone for a ¼-mile (400m) section. [1] (http://www.wesh.com/news/3741143/detail.html)

I-610 in New Orleans and the aforementioned I-12 make I-10 one of only two interstates in the country to have two "bypasses" shorter than its normal travel. The other is I-64, which has two shorter "bypasses" in the Hampton Roads area.

I-210 was planned as a bypass of Mobile, Alabama, but it was never completed. The highway was eventually renamed I-165.

External Links

I-10 at arizonaroads.com (http://www.arizonaroads.com/interstate/i10.html) Papago Freeway at arizonaroads.com (http://www.arizonaroads.com/urban/papago.html)

Primary Interstate Highways

4	5	8	10	12	15	16	17
19	20	24	25	26	27	29	30
35	37	39	40	43	44	45	49
55	57	59	64	65	66	68	69
70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77
78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85
86	87	88	89	90	91	93	94
95	96	97	99	238	H-1	H-2	H-3
A-1	A-2	A-3	A-4	PRI-1	PRI-2	PRI-3

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