Country	USA
Route	64
Type	I
Map	Interstate 64 map.png
Length mi	953.74
Length round	2
Length ref
Established	1961
Direction a	West
Terminus a	in Wentzville, MO
Junction	in St. Louis, MO in Mt. Vernon, IL in Louisville, KY in Lexington, KY in Charleston, WV in Lexington, VA in Richmond, VA
Direction b	East
Terminus b	in Chesapeake, VA }}

Interstate 64 (I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Its western terminus is at I-70, U.S. 40, and U.S. 61 in Wentzville, Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at an interchange with I-264 and I-664 at Bowers Hill in Chesapeake, Virginia. As I-64 is concurrent with U.S. 40 and U.S. 61 at its western terminus, the road itself continues as an arterial road as part of the Avenue of the Saints connecting St. Louis, Missouri to St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Missouri Department of Transportation has completed extending I-64 to I-70 in Wentzville, Missouri. In April 2007, construction started to rebuild of I-64 in St. Louis, Missouri, from Spoede Rd. to Kingshighway. This project included repaving the entire road, rebuilding the overpasses and interchanges, adding a fourth lane between Spoede Rd. and I-170, and connecting I-64 to I-170 in all directions. Construction resulted in the complete closure of portions of the expressway in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, I-64 was closed from I-270 to I-170, re-opening December 15, 2008. Beginning December 15, 2008, I-64 from I-170 to Kingshighway Blvd. was closed. On December 7, 2009, Interstate 64 was complete in its entire length in Missouri from the Poplar Street Bridge to I-70 in Wentzville.

Route description

|- |MO || 30.72 || 49.44 |- |IL || 128.12 || 206.19 |- |IN || 123.33 || 198.48 |- |KY || 185.20 || 298.05 |- |WV || 188.75 || 303.76 |- |VA || 297.62 || 478.97 |- |Total || 953.74 || 1,534.90 |}

In I-64's overlaps with I-55, I-57, I-75, I-77, I-81, and I-95, I-64 does not maintain exit number continuity for any of those overlaps, as each of those four north-south routes maintain their exit numbering on their respective overlaps with I-64.

Missouri

In Missouri, the stretch was originally labeled as the Daniel Boone Expressway then only as US-40, and as such, is still known to some locals in the St. Louis area as Highway US-40, even though the road has been designated as both I-64 and US-40 since 1988. This road is also the southern-most portion of the Avenue of the Saints. An interchange at Highway N O'Fallon, Missouri opened on December 13, 2004. This interchange will also accommodate the future tie in of the Route 364 freeway to I-64. As of December 7, 2009, I-64 is now complete and signed all the way to Interstate 70 in Wentzville. All stoplights have been removed. The portion of Interstate 64 in St. Louis has been named the Jack Buck Memorial Highway, in honor of the late sportscaster.

Illinois

I-64 enters Illinois from St. Louis, Missouri, via the Poplar Street Bridge, where it overlaps I-55 and I-70 as it crosses the Mississippi River. After crossing the city of East St. Louis and the rest of suburban St. Clair County, the freeway heads southeast through rural Southern Illinois. Shortly after passing Mid-America Airport at Exit 23, I-64 enters Clinton County, then Washington County. After providing access to towns such as Carlyle, Breese, Nashville, and Centralia, the freeway overlaps I-57 through the Mt. Vernon area for approximately five miles. East of Mt. Vernon in Illinois, services along I-64 are few. The freeway crosses Jefferson, Wayne, and White counties as it progresses east toward Indiana and the Evansville area. East of the St Louis area, there are numerous oil wells dotting the landscape.

The section from IL 127 to I-57 opened on October 4, 1974. The section from IL 161 to IL 127 opened in December 1973. The section in the Metro-East, except for a short section near I-55/70, opened on December 23, 1975. The section from US 460 (later IL 142) to US 45 opened on August 7, 1975.

Indiana

I-64 crosses the Wabash River and enters the state of Indiana. It passes Indiana 69 and Indiana 165, and also passes under Indiana 68 (no direct interchange serves Indiana 68, though one can access said route from either Indiana 165 or 65) then passes three officially marked exits for Evansville (Indiana 65, US 41, and Interstate 164/Indiana 57/Future Interstate 69) then proceeds through part of the scenic Hoosier National Forest, with exits leading to Dale and Huntingburg (Exits 57A-B/U.S. 231), Santa Claus and Ferdinand (Exit 63/Indiana 162), French Lick and Tell City (Exit 79/Indiana 37), and Indiana's first state capital, Corydon (Exit 105/Indiana 135).

Between Evansville and New Albany, I-64 intersects a few major north-south arterial highways, such as U.S. 231, Indiana 37, Indiana 135 and offers access to Interstate 65 to Indianapolis via Interstate 265 before crossing into Kentucky on the Sherman Minton Bridge.

The 123-mile route in Indiana can be described as being somewhat winding, especially the farther east one travels within the state. The longest straightline distance along the route is the around 9 mile stretch from the Indiana 65 exit to the 26 mile marker, 1 mile east of U.S. 41. There are many points along the route where the two halves of the highway are nearly 500 feet apart, especially around the Hoosier National Forest and points to the east. In addition, there are several points, especially in the very sharp valleys along its route in Dubois, Perry, Crawford and Harrison Counties, where the highway towers more than 100 feet above the surrounding terrain.

Kentucky

Interstate 64 enters into Kentucky at Louisville, paralleling the Ohio River along the Riverfront Expressway. It junctions with several downtown interchanges before coming to the Kennedy Interchange, where it intersects Interstate 65 and Interstate 71 in a tangle of ramps often referred to as the "Spaghetti Junction." Moving eastward, I-64 passes through Shelbyville, Frankfort, Midway, Lexington, Winchester, and Morehead, before leaving the state near Ashland at Catlettsburg. It overlaps Interstate 75 as it makes an arc around the northeast of Lexington, with the exit numbers for I-75 used for the concurrent portion. The two interstates diverge and become separate a few miles northeast of Lexington. It is often called "The I-64/I-75 Southern Split."

West Virginia

Interstate 64 travels for within the state of West Virginia, passing by the major towns and cities of Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and Lewisburg. It has only two major junctions within the state: Interstate 77 in Charleston and in Beckley. It also crosses the Kanawha River a total of four times in a stretch (twice west of Charleston, immediately before entering the downtown Charleston area, then approximately east of downtown Charleston).

Between I-64's two junctions with I-77, I-64 and I-77 overlap. From the final crossing of the Kanawha River east of Charleston to their split at Exit 40 south of Beckley, the two Interstates are tolled, forming a part of the West Virginia Turnpike.

While the two expressways overlap, the exit signs are those for Interstate 77. Thus, eastbound travelers entering from Kentucky will see exit numbers increase until Exit 60, at which time Interstate 77's exit numbers are used, decreasing from Exit 100.

Virginia

Interstate 64 in Virginia runs east–west through central Virginia from West Virginia via Covington, Lexington, Staunton, and Charlottesville to Richmond. From Lexington to Staunton, it overlaps Interstate 81 (using I-81 exit numbers). From Richmond, Interstate 64 continues southeasterly through Newport News and Hampton to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, and then through Norfolk and a small portion of Virginia Beach to end in Chesapeake.

I-64 itself does not reach the Oceanfront area of Virginia Beach, as it continues through the western portion of Virginia Beach as part of the circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway. At its eastern terminus, East I-64 is actually running westbound (and West I-64 eastbound), as the route forms a fishhook around Norfolk.

Access to the Oceanfront area is accomplished from I-64 via a portion of Interstate 264, a roadway originally built as the Virginia Beach Expressway, funded by tolls to retire revenue bonds.

History

Elements of Interstate 64, such as the Sherman Minton bridge over the Ohio on the Indiana-Kentucky border, were completed by the early 1960s. The interstate was complete between St. Louis and Charleston with the completion of the 9th Street overpass in Louisville in December 1976.

I-64 had a proposed routing around the US 50 corridor in Illinois when the interstates were first planned. Local pressure pushed the routing closer to the US 460 corridor because of the cheaper cost and shorter mileage compared to the original routing.

I-64 signs started going up in August 1987 on the US 40 freeway in St. Louis. This change was made, due, in part, to truck drivers deliberately using US 40 to avoid mandatory fines for overweight trucks.

Major intersections

Interstate 70 Wentzville, Missouri (western terminus)

Interstate 270 in St. Louis County, Missouri

Interstate 170 in St. Louis County, Missouri

Interstate 55/Interstate 70 in St. Louis, Missouri (western terminus of overlap)

Interstate 55/Interstate 70 in East Saint Louis, Illinois (eastern terminus of overlap)

Interstate 57 near Mount Vernon, Illinois (4. overlap)

U.S. Route 41 near Haubstadt, Indiana.

Interstate 69/Interstate 164/Indiana 57 near Evansville, Indiana.

U.S. Route 231 near Dale, Indiana

Interstate 265 near New Albany, Indiana

Interstate 65 and Interstate 71 in Louisville, Kentucky

Interstate 264 in Louisville, Kentucky

Interstate 265 in Louisville, Kentucky

Interstate 75 near Lexington, Kentucky (6 mile overlap)

Interstate 77 in Charleston, West Virginia (northern terminus of overlap)

Interstate 77 in Beckley, West Virginia (southern terminus of overlap)

Interstate 81 near Lexington, Virginia (southern terminus of overlap)

Interstate 81 near Staunton, Virginia (northern terminus of overlap)

Interstate 195 in Richmond, Virginia

Interstate 95 in Richmond, Virginia (4 mile overlap)

Interstate 664 in Hampton, Virginia

Interstate 264 in Norfolk, Virginia

Interstate 264/Interstate 664 in Chesapeake, Virginia

Exit list

Illinois

{| class=wikitable |- !County !Location !Mile !# !Destinations !Notes |- |rowspan=18|St. Clair |rowspan=11|East St. Louis |0.0 !colspan=3|Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River (state line) |- |0.3 |1 | |West end of IL 3 / GRR overlap |- |0.3 | |13th Street, Tudor Avenue | |- |0.3 | |Fourth Street – East St. Louis Business District |Eastbound exit and westbound entrance |- |2.0 |2A |Third Street – Eads Bridge |Westbound exit and eastbound entrance |- |2.2 |2BC |Martin Luther King Bridge – Downtown St. Louis |Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; left exit is signed as exit 2B and right exit as 2C |- |2.5 |2 | – Chicago, Indianapolis |East end of I-55 / I-70 / US 40 overlap |- |2.7 |3 |9th Street |Eastbound exit only |- |3.0 |4 |15th Street | |- |4.3 |5 |25th Street | |- |5.4 |6 |Kings Highway | |- |Washington Park |6.4 |7 | |West end of US 50 overlap |- |Caseyville |8.0 |9 | | |- |Fairview Heights |11.6 |12 | | |- |rowspan=3|O'Fallon |13.7 |14 |O'Fallon | |- |15.4 |16 |O'Fallon, Shiloh | |- |18.2 |19 |, Scott AFB |East end of US 50 overlap; signed as exits 19A (south) and 19B (north) |- |Mascoutah |22.3 |23 | | |- |rowspan=2|Clinton |New Baden |26.8 |27 | | |- |Damiansville |33.9 |34 |Albers | |- |rowspan=3|Washington |Okawville |40.0 |41 | | |- | |49.6 |50 | | |- |Richview |60.5 |61 | | |- |rowspan=6|Jefferson |Woodlawn |68.4 |69 |Woodlawn | |- |rowspan=4|Mt. Vernon |73.0 |73 | – Chicago |West end of I-57 overlap |- |74.6 |95 | | |- |77.6 |78 | – Memphis |East end of I-57 overlap |- |79.4 |80 | | |- | |88.4 |89 |Belle Rive, Bluford | |- |rowspan=2|Wayne | |99.1 |100 | | |- |Mill Shoals |110.0 |110 | | |- |rowspan=2|White |Burnt Prairie |116.6 |117 |Burnt Prairie | |- |Grayville |129.0 |130 | |}

Indiana

{| class=wikitable |- !County !Location !Mile !# !Destinations !Notes |- |rowspan=2|Posey | | |4 | | |- | | |12 | | |- |rowspan=2|Vanderburgh | | |18 | | |- |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2|25A-B |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2| |- |rowspan=2|Gibson |- | | |29A-B |, Henderson, Kentucky | |- |rowspan=2|Warrick | | |39 | | |- | | |54 | | |- |Spencer | | |57A-B | | |- |Dubois | | |63 | | |- |rowspan=2|Perry | | |72 | | |- | | |79 | | |- |rowspan=2|Crawford | | |86 | | |- | | |92 | | |- |rowspan=2|Harrison | | |105 | | |- | | |113 |Crandall Lanesville Road – Lanesville | |- |rowspan=5|Floyd | | |118 | | |- | | |119 | |West end of US 150 overlap |- |rowspan=3|New Albany | |121 | | |- | |123 | | |- | !colspan=3|Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River (state line) |}

Auxiliary routes

Spur to Evansville, Indiana—I-164; known as the Robert D. Orr Highway, most of this spur will become Interstate 69 upon completion of the route to Indianapolis.

Louisville, Kentucky—I-264; also called the Watterson Expressway (this is the inner beltway at Louisville; the outer beltway is I-265, also called the Gene Snyder Freeway)

Hampton Roads region around Norfolk, Virginia—I-264, I-464, I-564, I-664

References

External links

Indiana Highway Ends: I-64

Illinois Highway Ends: I-64

Interview with MODOT's Linda Wilson and Dan Galvin public information manager for The design/build contractor Gateway Constructors

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