Interstate 40
Interstate 40 (abbreviated I-40 ) is the major east-west Interstate Highway in the United States. It begins at U.S. Highway 117 in Wilmington, Federal State of North Carolina and ends at Interstate 15 near Barstow, California.
The western part of Oklahoma City to Barstow runs parallel to the former Route 66
Major cities
- Barstow (California )
- Needles (California )
- Flagstaff ( Arizona)
- Gallup ( New Mexico)
- Albuquerque ( New Mexico)
- Santa Rosa ( New Mexico)
- Tucumcari (New Mexico)
- Amarillo (Texas)
- Oklahoma City ( Oklahoma)
- Fort Smith ( Arkansas)
- Little Rock (Arkansas )
- Memphis ( Tennessee)
- Knoxville (Tennessee )
- Asheville ( North Carolina)
- Hickory ( North Carolina)
- Statesville (North Carolina)
- Winston- Salem ( North Carolina)
- Greensboro (North Carolina)
- Durham ( North Carolina)
- Raleigh ( North Carolina)
- Benson (North Carolina)
- Wilmington (North Carolina)
General information on the I-40
- On May 12, 2002, there came on Interstate 40 to a disaster when a barge with a bridge pillar near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma collided and a 580- foot (177 meters) sank a long bridge section in the Arkansas River, where 14 people died.
- At each end of Interstate 40 is a sign indicating the distance to the other end.
- In Memphis, was originally planned that the Interstate 40 should guide you through the Overton Park of the city to downtown, thus to relieve the Nordschleife. Several miles were built within the Interstate 240 loop. However, this never went as I-40 in operation. Following a court order, and 20 years after construction starts, the route was abandoned and again declared the northern part of the Interstate 240 loop to Interstate 40.
- The California Government presented in 1956 and 1968, a program to extend the I- 40 by the California State Route 58 should be expanded between Barstow and Bakersfield. However, this was rejected both times. Later this part of the SR 58 was promoted to U.S. Highway 466.
- In North Carolina is between Greensboro and Hillsborough, just west of Durham, just a common route of I-40 and I-85 rebuilt. Because of a new rerouting of I- 85 around Greensboro softens the I-40 which 8 miles ( 13 km) east of the original separation from. However, the Interstate 40 gets a new route south of Greensboro, which is currently still carries the new I -85 detour. You must also still carry Interstate 73. The existing I-40 through Greensboro will become a second Interstate 40 Business Loop, once all the work was completed in 2007. After the work is the route where I-40 and I-85 share a route to more extended 12 miles (19 km).
Shuttle and Workarounds
- Interstate 140 at Farragut
- Interstate 140 in Wilmington
- Interstate 240 in Asheville
- Interstate 240 in Memphis
- Interstate 240 in Oklahoma City
- Interstate 440 in Little Rock
- Interstate 440 in Nashville
- Interstate 440 in Raleigh
- Interstate 540 between Fort Smith and Bentonville; planned as part of Interstate 49
- Interstate 540, maybe later as Interstate 640, when the northern loop is done in Garner Raleigh
- Interstate 640 at Knoxville
- Interstate 840 in Greensboro