The end of an expressway either ends in an off ramp or a highway. The end of a highway ends in a county road.
Basically, when state highways were created they took the most popular route from one point to another via county road to make a state highway. When they created expressways, they attempted to follow those major state highways as much as possible. However, when an expressway ends it ends typically at a state highway, merging directly into it or having an off ramp. When a state highway ends, it ends in a county road. Often unremarkably.
As someone interested in history and studying historical maps to see the evolution of the roads in an area, it is interesting to see how old they can be and how developed paths of travel became. So, for me, a highway that seemed reasonably new as a road, was in fact just a bunch of old county roads codified into a highway. Likewise, a road that was once a major highway between two cities, is a small section of county road now.
You see this more out east and in the Midwest than you do out west, but you can find examples of this everywhere.
when I was a little kid going to the beach in the back of the family truckster I would pretend that both sides of the highway were in a race and try to figure out which of the faster cars was winning. suck on that kids born after gameboys were invented.
I used to have to get on at the end of the highway in Northern Ohio. The US 30 I think? Anyways, it just ended….right after an overpass and the end was a cornfield / soybean field depending upon the year.
I knew a girl whom, while driving on the interstate, saw a sign that said “construction ends” indicating the end of a construction zone. She pulled off on the next exit thinking the road was ending.
Don’t give flat earthers anymore ideas!
Ah, the evening Golden Hour. My favorite time of the day. Wait, or is it morning?
Oh dam
The end of an expressway either ends in an off ramp or a highway. The end of a highway ends in a county road.
Basically, when state highways were created they took the most popular route from one point to another via county road to make a state highway. When they created expressways, they attempted to follow those major state highways as much as possible. However, when an expressway ends it ends typically at a state highway, merging directly into it or having an off ramp. When a state highway ends, it ends in a county road. Often unremarkably.
As someone interested in history and studying historical maps to see the evolution of the roads in an area, it is interesting to see how old they can be and how developed paths of travel became. So, for me, a highway that seemed reasonably new as a road, was in fact just a bunch of old county roads codified into a highway. Likewise, a road that was once a major highway between two cities, is a small section of county road now.
You see this more out east and in the Midwest than you do out west, but you can find examples of this everywhere.
Can we credit the artist? This is a really cool piece and I’d love to see what else this creator makes!
If you had watched Animal House, the parade scene would have answered this for you.
I always thought it would be a 10ft tall wall of ice…
That was a typical ’70s highway end. Now, with all the ‘wall’ materials going to the south border, it’s just a 200 foot drop.
At the bottom, in really big letters is “We TOLD you the highway ends”
Worst Shel Silverstein book ever
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s a real tourist trap.
Being raised in Florida I never thought of a highway bit ending in a main road lol anyway highway there runs all the way up
Just like GTA
Definitely AI
As a kid, I always wondered who the first in line on the HW
“Eyes up, Guardian.”
This is AI art
when I was a little kid going to the beach in the back of the family truckster I would pretend that both sides of the highway were in a race and try to figure out which of the faster cars was winning. suck on that kids born after gameboys were invented.
I used to have to get on at the end of the highway in Northern Ohio. The US 30 I think? Anyways, it just ended….right after an overpass and the end was a cornfield / soybean field depending upon the year.
Here is mine – [https://i.imgur.com/nfBThWm.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nfBThWm.jpg)
Looks like something the Roadrunner coyote painted …
There’s a map in BeamNG.Drive called “Endless Highway” and rather ironically at its end it has a huge flat wall like the pic above
That‘s how they are going to end the super highway that goes through the Line that they wanna built in Dubai
That’s more comforting than a wall of black & white static…
I knew a girl whom, while driving on the interstate, saw a sign that said “construction ends” indicating the end of a construction zone. She pulled off on the next exit thinking the road was ending.
Highways usually end in roundabouts and cloves, less frequently gradually reducing speed limit until you hit an intersection with a traffic light.
But I think the best way is if you reach the end of the highway, you get teleported to the far back to the beginning of the highway
In chile there is a place called Zero Milestone, and it claims to be the end of the panamerican highway [hito cero](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1833165-d8761075-Reviews-Hito_Cero-Quellon_Isla_Chiloe_Los_Lagos_Region.html)
Just turns into a regular road
This is it looked in my head when I was a kid
They just loop back into themselves, or exit to some road
I-10 ends in Jacksonville. But you can keep going if you want
That semi that’s only 1.25 times the size of the passenger cars is messing with my brain.
The end of flat earth is way more interesting.
Why wouldn’t they just make it a big u-turn and then send you back the other way?
There is a video of a highway in china that just ends abruptly and people regularly smash into the end of it.
Closer to reality than ud think.
Surprising there isn’t black char or flames considering there’s an 18-wheeler there
Come to the eastern end of US hwy 80 on the east (in Ga.) then find the western end (in Calif.)
*My way starts where the highway ends*
Could be a tagline for an off-road vehicle.
The really funny part is, the highway doesn’t end. Wile E. Coyote painted a picture of a wall.
I love ironic humor. Things labeled “funny” that aren’t is truly funny. Good one OP. I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe.
This is how every road trip in Idocracy ends
You can look at Gaza. Live demonstration ongoing
Had to end it before you rolled over the edge of the flat earth.
Well, literally it looks like this: [I-70 EB Terminus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_70_in_Maryland#/media/File:I-70_EB_terminus_at_park_and_ride_in_Baltimore.jpeg). I much prefer your rendering though.
Attack on titan
I have a weird nightmare involving this.
It’s actually kinda like that in Egypt
Think there’d be a u turn.