Interstate 335

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Interstate 335
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System
Kansas Turnpike
Maintained by Kansas DOT and Kansas Turnpike Authority
Length: 50.13 mi[1] (80.68 km)
Formed: 1987
South end: I-35 / KTA / US-50 in Emporia
Major
junctions:
US-56 near Admire
North end: I-470 / KTA in Topeka
List of Kansas numbered highways
< US-283 US-383 >

Interstate 335 (I-335) is the name of a 50.1 mile (80.68 km) Interstate Highway spur route of Interstate 35 in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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[edit] Route description

Interstate 335 runs from a junction with Interstate 35 in Emporia to a junction with Interstate 470 in Topeka. The highway exists entirely as a part of the Kansas Turnpike.

[edit] History

The southern terminus of I-335 heading north

This stretch of the Turnpike was for 31 years (from the opening of the Kansas Turnpike in 1956 until 1987) designated solely as the Kansas Turnpike without an interstate number. It was only after a change in the speed limit laws, at which time state legislators were given the authority to raise the speed limits on rural Interstate Highways, that this segment of the Kansas Turnpike was given an interstate designation, I-335, so that it could fall under the new law.[2]

[edit] Exit list

County Location Mile # Destinations Notes
Lyon Emporia 0 127 I-35 / KTA south / US-50Emporia, Kansas City Southbound exit and northbound entrance
20 147 US-56Council Grove, Osage City
Shawnee Topeka 50 177 I-470 / KTA east / US-75Topeka Northbound exit and southbound entrance

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