U.S. Route11 Bypass (US11 Byp.) is a 3.75-mile-long (6.04km)bypass route around downtown Cleveland, Tennessee, for US11. It is a four-lane divided highway its entire length, and it is known as Keith Street.
US11 Byp. begins at an intersection with US11/US64 (State Route2 [SR2], South Lee Highway) in Cleveland near Bradley Central High School. SR2 turns north onto US11 Byp. and runs as a hidden route. US11/US64 turns northeast into downtown as 3rd Street. At its terminus, it begins following immediately along South Mouse Creek. About one-third mile (0.54km) later, the bypass intersects SR312 (Harrison Pike/Inman Street), a connector to and formerly the route of US64 about one-half mile (0.80km) west of downtown. At this intersection, the Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway also begins, following alongside Mouse Creek. The route continues north through a historic residential district. Further along, US11 Byp. comes to an intersection with SR60 (25th Street). The route then enters a primarily commercial district, passing the corporate headquarters of Life Care Centers of America, and turns northeast, crossing Mouse Creek and the greenway. The route crosses Mouse Creek ridge, passing through commercial area, coming to an intersection with Woodcrest Avenue/Ocoee Crossing, a connector to US11 (Ocoee Street). About one-half mile (0.80km) later, the bypass comes to an end at an intersection with US11 (Ocoee Street).[1][2]
History Built as a bypass to relieve downtown Cleveland from industrial and commercial traffic, Keith Street was the first bypass and four lane highway in Bradley County. The project began in 1956, with construction of a two-lane road by the city of Cleveland between US 11/64 (South Lee Highway/Third Street) and 17th Street.[3] The section between 17th Street and US 11 was constructed as a four-lane divided highway by the state, with the construction contract let on October 30, 1959.[4] The section opened to traffic on December 2, 1960.[5] The state then assumed control of the remainder of the route, which was widened to four lanes in the earlier 1960s. Initially known as the Cleveland Bypass, Keith Street was named in honor of prominent local resident Keith Hines.[3]
Originally, the route's state designation was SR2 Byp., and SR2 remained on the bypassed portion of US11. In 1983, when the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) modified their highway numbering system, SR2 was rerouted onto Keith Street. The section of US11 between the southern terminus of Keith Street and the intersection with US64 became part of SR40 (which continues on US64 into North Carolina, and the section between US64 and Keith Street's northern terminus became part of SR74.
U.S. Route11 Business (US11 Bus.) is a business route of US11 that runs from Riceville to Athens, Tennessee. It runs along SR39 in Riceville until it reaches downtown Athens where it becomes a one-way pair just before the intersection with Woodman Street. From there, US11 Bus./SR39 runs north and eastbound on Madison Avenue, while the southbound routes runs along Washington Street. At the McMinn County Courthouse, the routes turn onto a second one way pair specifically northbound along Jackson Street and southbound along White Street. The one-way pair ends as the routes merge into Jackson Street at Tennessee Wesleyan University between College Street and Coach Farmer Drive. On the verge of departing downtown, the road has one major intersection with SR30 (Decatur Pike westbound and Green Street eastbound), then runs along the hills of the suburbanized landscape of the outskirts of the city. At an abandoned factory near a railroad line, Jackson Street ends as it makes a sharp turn west onto Redfern Drive and then crosses a railroad crossing before finally terminating at US11.
Major Intersections The entire route is in McMinn County.
U.S. Route11 Truck (US11 Truck), which shares a complete concurrency with US19 Truck, provides a bypass route for truckers avoiding the residential area of Euclid Avenue.
View south at the north end of US11 Bus. at US11 in Lexington, Virginia
U.S. Route11 Business (US11 Bus.) is a business route of US11 in Lexington, Virginia, that is 2.15 miles (3.46km) long.[9] It starts at an intersection with US11 and State Route251 (SR251) outside of Lexington and heads toward the center of town. In the center of town, it intersects US60 and keeps heading through town. It then ends at an intersection with US11.
History In 1982, the section of US11 Bus. between Jefferson and White streets was changed to be one-way northbound, and southbound US11 Bus. was rerouted along Jefferson and White streets.[10]
U.S. Route11 Alternate (US11 Alt.) was an alternate route of US11 between Camp Hill and Wormleysburg in Pennsylvania, passing through Lemoyne. US11 Alt. began at US11/US15 at the intersection of 32nd and Market streets in Camp Hill, heading east along Market Street. The route continued into Lemoyne and curved to the northeast, intersecting US111 at 3rd Street. At this point, US11 Alt. became concurrent with US111, and the two routes continued northeast along Market Street, crossing a Pennsylvania Railroad line as the road curved northwest to follow the west bank of the Susquehanna River. US11 Alt./US111 became Front Street and passed the western ends of the Market Street Bridge and the Walnut Street Bridge, which both cross the river to Harrisburg. The alternate route continued along the west bank of the Susquehanna River into Wormleysburg, where it and US111 both ended at an intersection with US11/US15 at Walnut Street, where Front Street continued north as US11/US15.[11]
With the creation of the U.S. Numbered Highway System in 1926, Market Street through Camp Hill and Lemoyne was designated as part of US11/Pennsylvania Route 13 (PA13), which crossed the Susquehanna River into Harrisburg on the Market Street Bridge. US15 ran concurrent with US11 on Market Street in Lemoyne east of State Street while US111/PA4 was concurrent east of 3rd Street in Lemoyne.[12][13][14][15] In 1928, PA5 was designated onto Front Street in Lemoyne and Wormleysburg while the PA13 and PA4 designations were decommissioned along Market Street.[16] In the 1930s, PA14 replaced the PA5 designation along Front Street.[17] US11/US15 were realigned to run along Front Street in 1941, replacing PA14.[18][19] In the 1940s, US11 was shifted to bypass Lemoyne to the northwest, replacing US 11 Byp., while US11 Alt. was designated onto the former alignment of US11 between Camp Hill and Wormleysburg, running concurrent with US15 between State Street in Lemoyne and Wormleysburg.[20] US15 was realigned to the west in the 1950s, following US11 along the bypass, with US111 extended north along US11 Alt. to end at US11/US15 in Wormleysburg.[11] US11 Alt. was decommissioned in the 1960s, with the former alignment becoming unnumbered.[21]
U.S. Route11 Bypass (US11 Byp.) was a bypass of the section of US11 between Camp Hill and Wormleysburg in Pennsylvania, bypassing Lemoyne. The route began at an intersection with US11 (Market Street) and the eastern terminus of PA641 (32nd Street) in Camp Hill, heading north on multilane 32nd Street. The road curved east and became Cumberland Boulevard, heading into Wormleysburg. Here, US11 Byp. became Walnut Street and headed northeast, crossing a Pennsylvania Railroad line and coming to its terminus at an intersection with US11/US15 (Front Street) on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.[18]
US11 Byp. was first designated in the 1930s. At this time, the route began at US11/PA641 in Camp Hill and headed north and east to Wormleysburg, where it intersected PA14 at Front Street and headed southeast concurrent with that route on Front Street to end at US11/US15 at the west end of the Walnut Street Bridge over the Susquehanna River to Harrisburg.[22][17] In 1941, the eastern terminus of the bypass route was cut back to Wormleysburg after US11/US15 were realigned to replace PA14 on Front Street.[18][19] In the 1940s, US11 Byp. was replaced with mainline US11, with the former alignment of US11 between Camp Hill and Wormleysburg designated as US11 Alt.[20]
↑Pennsylvania Highway Map (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1927. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
↑Tourist Map of Pennsylvania(PDF) (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1930. Archived from the original(PDF) on March 7, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
↑Map of Pennsylvania (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1928. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
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