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The last requirement to formally designate this route as I-555 is the construction of a parallel access road across a floodway between [[Payneway, Arkansas|Payneway]] and Marked Tree, so that farm equipment will no longer have to use U.S. 63 to cross the floodway. When it is signed as I-555, farm equipment will be banned from the interstate; alternate routes for farmers would lead to detours of up to 1½ hours. Though reportedly funding for the access road itself is still up in the air as of 2013, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (which owns the floodway as part of a wildlife management area) is proceeding with bids for a mitigation project apparently related to the floodway crossing. |
The last requirement to formally designate this route as I-555 is the construction of a parallel access road across a floodway between [[Payneway, Arkansas|Payneway]] and Marked Tree, so that farm equipment will no longer have to use U.S. 63 to cross the floodway. When it is signed as I-555, farm equipment will be banned from the interstate; alternate routes for farmers would lead to detours of up to 1½ hours. Though reportedly funding for the access road itself is still up in the air as of 2013, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (which owns the floodway as part of a wildlife management area) is proceeding with bids for a mitigation project apparently related to the floodway crossing. |
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===Exit list=== |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|77|dir1=south}} |
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|Contaution beyond I-55 |
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|{{jct|state=AR|I|55|US|61|US|63|dir3=south|city1=West Memphis}} [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] |
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|South end of US 63 overlap; signed as exits 1A (north) and 1B (south) |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|77|dir1=north|city1=Gilmore}} |
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|North end of Hwy. 77 overlap |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|135|city1=Lepanto}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|118|city1=Tryonza}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US-Bus|63|dir1=north|dab1=Marked Tree|AR|149|city1=Marked Tree|city2=Ralle}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US-Bus|63|dir1=south|AR|75|dir2=west|dab1=Marked Tree|city1=Marked Tree|city2=Lepanie|city3=Paroia}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|14|dir1=west|city1=Payneway|city2=Harrisburg}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|463|city1=Truman}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|69|name1=Speedway Street}} |
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|35 |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|463|city1=Bay}} |
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|Nestle Road |
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|{{jct|state=AR|Hwy-Bus|18||dir1=east|name1=Commerce Drive}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US-Bus|63|dir1=north|dab1=Jonesboro|AR|463|city1=Jonesboro}}} |
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|42A |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US|49|US-Bus|49|dir2=north|name1=Stadium Boulevard}} |
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|South end of US 49 Bus.overlap |
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|42B |
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|Ciraway Boulevard |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|1|name1=Harrisburg Road}} |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US-Bus|49|dir1=south|AR|18|dir2=east|city1=Walnut Ridge}} |
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|North end of US 49 Bus. overlap; south end of AR 18 overlap |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|226|dir1=west|name1=Hidden Hill Road}} |
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|Washington Avenue |
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|49 |
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|{{jct|state=AR|AR|18|dir1=west|AR|91|city1=Jonesboro}} |
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|North end of Hwy. 18 overlap |
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|{{jct|state=AR|US|63|dir1=north}} |
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|Contaution beyond AR 91 |
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Revision as of 21:03, 21 December 2013
Interstate 555 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by ArDOT | ||||
| Length | 44 mi[citation needed] (71 km) | |||
| NHS | Entire route | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  I-55 in Turrell, Arkansas | |||
| North end |  AR 91 in Jonesboro, Arkansas | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Arkansas | |||
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Interstate 555 (I-555) is a future Interstate Highway that is slated to connect Turrell, Arkansas at Interstate 55 to Jonesboro, Arkansas at Highway 91. I-555 will run along what is currently U.S. Route 63, and the road was upgraded in the 2000s to interstate standards. The road is currently awaiting interstate status pending a second crossing between Payneway and Marked Tree to accommodate farm equipment. I-555 will be the second Interstate with all three digits the same, and the first to be signed as an Interstate (Interstate 444 in Oklahoma is unsigned).
Route description
The road provides a limited-access highway corridor between Memphis, Tennessee, and Arkansas's fifth largest city, Jonesboro.
History
The I-555 route was approved on January 10, 2001, consisting of upgrading the section of US 63 between Turrell to Jonesburo to interstate standards.
According to the 2007 Arkansas state highway map, only a segment from Tyronza to Gilmore was not yet up to freeway standards. However, as of August 5, 2007 the Highway 135 interchange on that section, the last one remaining, is open, thus making the route a true freeway.
A few mainline bridges between Marked Tree and Turrell are from the original two-lane U.S. 63 and are narrower than current Interstate Highway standards, but I-530 was approved in 1999 despite having a similar issue.
The last requirement to formally designate this route as I-555 is the construction of a parallel access road across a floodway between Payneway and Marked Tree, so that farm equipment will no longer have to use U.S. 63 to cross the floodway. When it is signed as I-555, farm equipment will be banned from the interstate; alternate routes for farmers would lead to detours of up to 1½ hours. Though reportedly funding for the access road itself is still up in the air as of 2013, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (which owns the floodway as part of a wildlife management area) is proceeding with bids for a mitigation project apparently related to the floodway crossing.
Major junctions
Exit list
| Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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  AR 77 south
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Contaution beyond I-55 | |
| 1 |   I-55 / US 61 / US 63 south – West Memphis St. Louis
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South end of US 63 overlap; signed as exits 1A (north) and 1B (south) |
| 2 |  AR 77 north – Gilmore
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North end of Hwy. 77 overlap |
| 7 |  AR 135 – Lepanto
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| 8 |  AR 118 – Tryonza
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| 13 |   US 63B north / AR 149 – Marked Tree, Ralle
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| 14 |   US 63B south / AR 75 west – Marked Tree, Lepanie, Paroia
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| 18 |  AR 14 west – Payneway, Harrisburg
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| 24 |  AR 463 – Truman
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| 29 |  AR 69 (Speedway Street)
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| 35 | AR 463 – Bay
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| 36 | Nestle Road | |
| 39 | Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). | |
| 40 | US 63B north / AR 463 – Jonesboro}
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| 42A |   US 49 (Stadium Boulevard) / US 49B north
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South end of US 49 Bus.overlap |
| 42B | Ciraway Boulevard | |
| 44 |  AR 1 (Harrisburg Road)
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| 45 |   US 49B south / AR 18 east – Walnut Ridge
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North end of US 49 Bus. overlap; south end of AR 18 overlap |
| 46 |  AR 226 west (Hidden Hill Road)
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| 47 | Washington Avenue | |
| 49 | AR 18 west / AR 91 – Jonesboro
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North end of Hwy. 18 overlap |
| US 63 north
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Contaution beyond AR 91 |
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