| Interstate Highway System in Virginia |
Interstate Highway System in Virginia
The Interstate Highway System in Virginia is 1,118.68 miles long, and there are 6 mainline routes and 10 loops and spurs from the mainline routes. Click the route number for a web page with detailed description of towns and cities served, route topography, transportation barriers crossed, segment opening dates, segment traffic volumes, segment lane widths, and widening projects.
| Interstate Highways - Limits and Length - Mainline Routes | ||
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| 64 | W.Va. border in Alleghany Co. to City of Chesapeake | 266.95 |
| 66 | I-81 in Warren County to D.C. border (Potomac River) in Arlington Co. | 74.84 |
| 77 | N.C. border in Carroll Co. to W.Va. border in Bland Co. | 60.54 |
| 81 | Tenn. border in City of Bristol to W.Va. border in Frederick Co. | 324.92 |
| 85 | N.C. border in Mecklenburg Co. to I-95 in City of Petersburg | 68.64 |
| 95 | N.C. border in Greensville Co. to D.C. border (Potomac River) in City of Alexandria | 178.93 |
Notes: On overlap sections on I-81 (with I-77 and I-64), the mileage is assigned to I-81. On overlap sections on I-95 (with I-64 and I-495), the mileage is assigned to I-95.
| Interstate Highways - Limits and Length - Loops and Spurs from Mainline Routes | ||
| Route | From/to, cities served, name | Length |
| 195 | Beltline Expressway -- I-64/I-95/I-195 Bryan Park Interchange to McCloy Street and Idlewood Avenue and the Downtown Expressway Interchange | 3.50 |
| 264 | I-64/I-664/I-264 interchange at Bowers Hill, through Portsmouth and Norfolk, to near Virginia Beach Oceanfront | 26.06 |
| 295 | I-95 south of city of Petersburg in Prince George Co. to I-64 in Henrico Co. near Short Pump | 52.73 |
| 381 | I-81 to VA-381 connector to downtown Bristol | 1.45 |
| 395 | Shirley Highway -- from I-95/I-495 interchange at Springfield, through Alexandria to D.C. border (Potomac River) in Arlington Co. | 9.67 |
| 464 | I-64 in Chesapeake to I-264 in Norfolk | 5.69 |
| 495 | Capital Beltway -- from I-95/I-495 interchange at Springfield, to Maryland border (Potomac River) near Cabin John, Md. | 14.50 |
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495/ 95 |
Capital Beltway -- from I-95/I-495 interchange at Springfield, to D.C. border (Potomac River) in City of Alexandria | 7.56 (incl. w/95) |
| 564 | I-64 in Norfolk to U.S. Naval Base | 2.77 |
| 581 | I-81 in Roanoke County to downtown Roanoke | 6.75 |
| 664 | I-64/I-264/I-664 interchange at Bowers Hill, through cities of Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, and Hampton, to I-64 near Hampton Coliseum | 20.74 |
Roads to the Future formerly had Interstate I-895 on this list for the Route 895 Pocahontas Parkway, because that was the designation that had been planned for it, but since the Commonwealth Transportation Board decided to designate it as Virginia State Route 895 when it opened in 2002, it was deleted from this list. The highway is built to full Interstate standards, and it may receive an Interstate designation sometime in the future, but the highway cannot be considered an Interstate highway at the present. In the above Route 895 Roads to the Future article, there is a section Route Number Designation for Route 895 that discusses in detail why that it should be designated as Interstate I-895.
Sources: Lengths and opening dates from Interstate System Opened to Traffic as of July 1, 1992, by Virginia Department of Transportation. Traffic volumes from Average Daily Traffic Volumes with Vehicle Classification Data on Interstate, Arterial and Primary Routes, by Virginia Department of Transportation, 2005. Limits and areas served from any good map of the state. Number of lanes from personal driving knowledge. Dates and limits of widening projects from personal notebooks, recorded when the projects were completed. Population statistics from U.S. Census Bureau.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has its traffic data publication on-line, Average Daily Traffic Volumes with Vehicle Classification Data on Interstate, Arterial and Primary Routes, 2005, linked from Traffic Data on the VDOT website.
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By Scott M. Kozel,
Roads to the Future(Created 5-31-2000, updated 12-1-2006)