What's The Biggest US City With No Freeways?

[@17Se7enteen]

Bonus: Guam, with a population of 150,000 also has no freeways.

[@jaylewis5035]

It's an island, and somebody said it might capsize into the Pacific if you add too much weight.

[@ThatCodeBlue]

Not technically a city but it’s true.

[@thomthom6268]

Other than in Honolulu, none of the Hawaiian Islands do either. Unneeded.

[@danielcluley870]

Tons of people know where Muscle Shoals exists from the music industry. It's even included as a lyric in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Sweet Home Alabama"!

[@perkinscrane]

Aretha Franklin recorded there. Duane Allman was a session guitarist based there.

[@buzzsmith8146]

There are two famous recording studios in the Florence/Muscle Shoals area...Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME. FWIW, There's also the Rosenbaum House which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Florence.

[@gj8683]

The Rolling Stones even recorded there.

[@PolkCountyWIProgressive]

And TVA Colbert for engineers

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

I've lived here in Florence my entire life. I was going to make the same comment, but since you beat me to it. Kudos to you 😊! Alot of people would also be really surprised at the wealth of history that the Shoals has, especially when it comes to music history. But not only does this area have a rich music history. Wilson Dam was the largest construction project in the US when it started. The author of 'Roots' Alex Haley, found out that his great grandmother was born at the Forks of Cypress plantation site. I remember he came to my high school and spoke to all of the students and told us about his book Queen, that was a CBS made for tv mini series that had Halle Berry, Matin Sheen, Raven Simone, Jasmine St Claire, Tom Daly, and a multitude of others, which portrayed his families life on the plantation, and the birth of Queen. You can find that series here on KZbin. WC Handy, The father of the blues was born here. Sam Phillips, the father of Rock n Roll, and the man who got the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis, and Roy Orbison started. He was born here. So not only does this area have one of the best lists of #1 hits that were ever recorded around the world. 2 icons of 2 different genres of music were born in this area. Jason Isbell is from this area, and many many others. So actually this area should be called the birthplace of American music. Of course everyone knows about Helen Keller, she is only the most famous human being that learned how to defeat her handicap. Also, there was a well known wagon manufacturer back in the late 1890's-1910's that built a certain kind of wagon. It was more well known than the Studebaker at one time. The old ruins to that place still remains along the Florence canal, just below Wilson dam. I lived right at that neighborhood all my life. Love this place!

[@jordancollier1991]

Yay! Greetings from Florence, Alabama. It's an honor to be featured on one of your lists, Beaver Geography!

[@atomic32205489]

San Angelo, Texas was probably very close to being included. There is a short divided "loop" with limited access, and some other US Highways that are divided but have traffic signals.

[@BoratWanksta]

San Angelo and Paris are the 2 biggest places, that don't have an interstate that was constructed through there. I think San Angelo was supposed to be included on the route if I-27 was extended(beyond its Amarillo to Lubbock route), but that hasn't occurred to this day.

[@TexMarque]

@@BoratWanksta I-27 will likely never be extended. I-10 and I-20 carry the bulk of thru traffic. Most north-south traffic is the flat route to Denver or Cheyenne. There really isn't enough thru truck traffic and the major roads are of great Texas quality. Other thru roads in the panhandle are US 84 and US 287 which have freeway sections.

[@RealGJZig]

Amazing picture of Bend, Oregon, at the beginning of that segment. Your first "official blooper." 😂 Save it. With your perfectionism, you might not have enough to do a full blooper video until 2034 at the earliest! 😂

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

Bend is so far away from anything else in Oregon, it may as well be in the void

[@clayton97330]

Bend is also so much further from a freeway than any of these other places. 2+ hour drive.

[@AleksandrIlchenko-vw3py]

Far away? Ontario really far avay, also small town Rome even far​@@bw-leftturnracing7779

[@BroadwayJoe99]

@@clayton97330 With that said, Bend has been mentioned more than a few times as being along the routes of a few different proposed Interstate Highways that'd serve Central Oregon, either taking the path of US-97 from California, or being a further extension of I-11 that's planned to link Las Vegas to Reno.

[@ivanoffw]

To be honest, the audience wasn't missing much, Bend is anywhere USA with some views of snow capped mountains.

[@passatboi]

It's only 60 miles north, but Winnipeg has about 800,000 people and no freeway.

[@brianwooton1992]

I lived in Fargo for a couple of decades, and love The Peg. And you're right, no freeways. Lots of at grade intersections on the belt.

[@brianwooton1992]

Add to this Kamloops, which is just shy of 100000.

[@passatboi]

Well, it’s not comparing apples to oranges. Canada never had the 90% federal/10% provincial national freeway building program. Rich states like New York and California contributed to the fund so states like North Dakota could have freeways. That never happened in Canada. If North Dakota had to pay for freeways itself, it wouldn’t have them.

[@brentboswell1294]

Vancouver, BC has no freeways. It's a nightmare to drive as a tourist...much larger than Winnipeg.

[@passatboi]

@@brentboswell1294 It has freeways around it. The 97. The coquahalla. The TCH. Winnipeg has no limited access roadways.

[@boomerbear7596]

Ahhhhh! You actually got Tyler TX in here. As soon as I saw the title I was hoping it would be here.

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

I knew it would be on his list, too. I lived there for quite a few years myself. The Loop is the closest thing to a freeway that town has, but it's not a freeway 😂

[@robby935]

I grew up near Tyler and also wondered if it would be on the list. Thanks!

[@philjanowski1368]

Dothan Alabama has no freeway

[@PromisingPod]

It's Tucson, Arizona, in my view. It has an two interstates, but most of the city and built-up areas don't have any freeway access and the people of Tucscon are known to go through lots of traffic lights in the northern and northeastern part of the city.

[@grantorino2325]

Let me tell you: Driving on US 91 and 89 from I-15 in Idaho to I-15 in Utah-at night and around Christmas-is absolutely breathtaking! All of the light and decorations are enough to make a grown man cry!

[@BossXygman]

As a native of Northwestern Alabama, there were plans to extend Interstate 565 to Florence. It currently connects Interstate 65 in Decatur to Huntsville. I doubt it'll be extended all the way to Florence, though.

[@anhvu-yp9vs]

4:27 I’m quite sure you don’t need a spur route from Panama City to I-40… 💀 and Bend has no photos at the start W content tho

[@erhswku]

How bout I 10.

[@ralphmtsu]

He meant I-10. Also, there is a plan to have an extension of the Florida Turnpike System into Panama City from I-10. Lastly, FWB-Destin-Niceville-Panama City Beach-Panama City are essentially 1 big city at this point.

[@Sir_Austin_T_Gee]

I have this philosophy that I-20 is the most "Southern" Interstate (I-10 is the Southernmost) and I-40 is the most "American". Everyone should have a spur route to I-40.

[@YourEverydayGuy2]

I mean us route 231 does intersect with I-40 by Nashville so I guess it could be made

[@kfair3331]

Its crazy that any large metro can have no freeways, especially in TX!

[@SturmZebra13]

That's actually kinda sad to say to be honest

[@jxq12]

relying on cars is bad 💀

[@decago_]

most american thing iv e ever heard

[@coke8077]

Freeways running right through a city is a really really bad idea. Cities aren’t meant to accommodate just cars.

[@x-90]

@@decago_every single city in the world has a freeway going through it or around it

[@MarcusJY]

You missed Myrtle Beach SC… a metro area close to 400,000.

[@75OldsNinetyEight]

They have that fragment of 6 lane future interstate, 4 or 5 exits total (SC 37 i think)

[@titanytofficial_]

@@75OldsNinetyEightit’s SC 31 (yes I live here) and it’s called the Carolina Bays Parkway which is part of Future I-74. There is also SC-22 which is called the Conway Bypass which is supposed to be I-73 in the future. Our metro area has 4 US highways which all are have 4 total lanes in either Horry or Georgetown County. The reason he left Myrtle off was probably SC 31 and 22 with their relation to I-73 and I-74

[@None.asked7]

Future i73

[@tomgeraci9886]

Myrtle doesn’t have any freeways connecting it to other areas (yet) but it does have a few freeways that stay within the metro

[@Foxy3121]

SC-22 has like 30 miles of freeway just like a normal interstate

[@michaelelandon]

Rochester MN. I-90 is roughly 10 miles south. Population about 120k, but also home to the Mayo Clinic.

[@AaronOfMpls]

But US 52 though Rochester MN _is_ a full freeway. It just doesn't have a freeway-to-freeway interchange with I-90; the freeway rebuild left the existing folded diamond in place. (Though the interchange is being rebuilt _right now_ (2024-25) to replace the heaviest left turn movement with a flyover -- and make the right turn movement the other way more free-flowing.)

[@rslitman]

I've heard of Florence-Muscle Shoals because some great music came out of a couple of recording studios there in the 1960s and 1970s. One of the studios is called FAME. The name of the other one escapes me now, but the Rolling Stones came there to record. As for Tyler, TX, I've heard of it because my mother told us that before she met my father, she had a boyfriend from there. And much later, one of my cousins on my father's side had a boyfriend from Tyler, too. It's not that my family was from anywhere near there. Both women met their guys from Tyler in the east coast metropolitan area where I'm originally from.

[@mattl6948]

Honorable mention to Lexington, KY! Yes, the interstates enter the Metro area but they don’t go anywhere near the downtown!

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

But, New Circle is a limited access freeway that encircles the city. So, there are numerous freeways in the metro area of Lexington.

[@TheRetroGuy2000]

Sierra Vista, AZ, metro population 130,000, has no freeway/interstate access; I-10 is 30 miles to the north.

[@ThatCodeBlue]

That would be I-10

[@TheRetroGuy2000]

@@ThatCodeBlue Woops! Bad typo! Thanks!

[@dannypipewrench533]

I have been down there a few times. It is a nice place.

[@TS7197]

It would take a literal act of Congress to get an Interstate to Destin or Fort Walton. It lies on the other side of Eglin AFB from Interstate 10, and they won't be giving up any right of way anytime soon. Although it's sorely needed especially for hurricane evacuations.

[@NicMeach]

It would either impede on the government or the people who own beachfront property, and I don’t know who would win that battle 😅

[@themarccox]

Surprised Myrtle wasn't on the list. They did build a freeway West of town.. but it only serves as a minor bypass. The connections outside of town are miserable.

[@torw5610]

Fun fact: I-10 is so far north of Panama City due to the location of Elgin Air Force Base, not due to marshland.

[@lakerskid2013]

I know Bend, Oregon because of it being the place of the final Blockbuster video store

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

I lived in Tyler for a few years, and it's not a big city like most Texas cities people think about, and I knew it would make it onto your list. Loop 323 is only divided on the north side, and even on that part, there are no exit ramps. I always enjoy your content. Thanks for your hard work once again 😀🙌

[@Sir_Austin_T_Gee]

The crazy part about this is that Amarillo is a smaller city and has two interstates running through it and also Lubbock isn't much larger than Tyler and has I-27, US 82 (west of I-27), Loop 289, and is currently building Loop 88... all limited access Freeways.

[@ix830]

I agree. Tyler is interesting in that it's the largest East Texas city but barely registers if you're in the big metros or traveling on I-20.

[@cmdr_stretchedguy]

I live in the vicinity of Ft Walton Beach, we've needed a freeway bypass/loop in the area for some time, but being surrounded by military land means all that open land north of the area means no chance of any real expansion or freeway type loops/expansions. If you want to see something crazy, look up the information and size of the "Eglin AFB Reservation" (hint: 464,000 acres).

[@WolfyMacontosh]

The main point of interstates is to connect military installations across the United States so it's surprising there isn't a spur off of I-10 to get to Eglin AFB Same for Tyndall in Panama City 😊

[@FriedShrimpPoBoy]

Any fan of good music knows Muscle Shoals exists. They say it’s in the water.

[@grantorino2325]

And it's also _not_ where "🎵🎶 they love the governor. 🎶🎵"

[@RipCityBassWorks]

Kinda sad that their isn't anything larger with no freeways. Freeways decimated so many urban neighborhoods. They should have been built around cities, not through them.

[@BMWE90HQ]

I bet you vote democrat too. Most of those neighborhoods were messed up anyway.

[@ColesonKavouras]

Also I believe the destin/FWB metro INCLUDES crest view which does have I-10 running through it

[@pre-debutera6941]

Metro yes but the urbanized area doesn't. Crestview and Niceville are 13 miles apart

[@Rommer2258]

​@pre-debutera6941 there's an Airforce base dividing them. They are pretty much as connected as they can be

[@grategrant]

I'd stay in Crestview and Defuniak Springs all the time when I was in Destin for work since those were the only places with hotels that were within our budget. Not a terribly long drive.

[@k8tina]

FWB and Destin only have 20,000 people each, so I'm wondering what he considers in the Destin-FWB 'metro' area 🤔😅

[@adambuesser6264]

Can you talk about the difference between Parkways and turnpikes in one video some day please. I know truck routes are not the same as car routes. Trucks have a restriction on what Highway they can use.

[@BeaverGeography]

Absolutely!

[@Rickybnsf]

As an annual traveler to Destin, I can confirm that the drive between I-10 and Destin is super slow and boring because the Air Force chose to take up all the land between those 2 places. ❤😴

[@Blackjack701AD]

Just imagine how bad it is going to Destin from Panama City! It took us about 3 hours one way going down US 98!

[@Rickybnsf]

@@Blackjack701AD oof

[@NicMeach]

@@Blackjack701AD The traffic is why all the locals don’t like the tourists coming here

[@UserHorologium]

4:28 "I 'm surprised...there isn't a spur route connecting to I-40." A spur route connecting Panama City to I-40 would be quite a spur route,going through the entire state of Alabama and connecting somewhere in Tennessee.

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@UserHorologium I'm sure he meant I-10.

[@653j521]

@@JL-sm6cg The mistake was funnier. :)

[@eeriestare48]

💀

[@Civil_Maniac]

Logan Utah, represent! It also has a great bus network for the size of its metro. It’s even fare-free

[@bobbun9630]

At around 4:25 - "or a spur route connecting to I-40". Presumably I-10 is meant. I-40 is hundreds of miles away.

[@StevenDietrich-k2w]

Bend, Oregon. The first image was taken at night during a "dark skies" event for the local observatory.

[@Markkos1992]

US 278 does have a freeway portion on Hilton Head Island called the Cross Island Pkwy that used to be tolled.

[@pjesf]

Interesting video - I would never have known this. Nice job with the research & presentation 👍🏻

[@BurleyBoar]

Another good video. My mind has often tried to sort out the very same question you answer here. I like your constraints and how you answer it. The little nub of road in Bend is not a freeway! It wants to be one and I would love to see it be part of I-7 (Weed CA to Spokane WA). I think the parkway exclusion is reasonable.

[@LilyWilkerson]

I would consider Texas State Highway 49 around Tyler a freeway, albeit the bare minimum. It has no at-grade intersections for its entire 32 mile length. But it's not a divided highway, just one or two lanes of traffic in each direction at 75 miles per hour separated by nothing but paint and a rumble strip. It also doesn't get much closer to Downtown Tyler than I-20, so I suppose it could be outside the Tyler urban area.

[@torw5610]

Also, Urbanized Areas aren’t Metros, using the two words interchangeably is not the thing to do

[@MikeV8652]

At 2:34, US 72 goes eastward, not westward. At 4:25, a spur route from Panama City to I 40 would be a whale of a spur route.

[@realDonaIdTruck]

Bends parkway also has traffic signals, crosswalks, and incredibly dangerous 90° right turns (without dedicated turn lanes) on and off throughout, including during the section that seems like it's a highway.

[@darrylnelson6264]

Wow. I lived in the #1 city back in the early 80's. Coming from the north I had to take US HWYs from Montgomery, AL to make it to the panhandle of Florida.

[@IgoZoom1]

That's still the case. I livein Atlanta and regularly visit my best friend near Dothan AL. The traffic is insane during summer and holidays.

[@bob_._.]

When you mentioned stretches of road that could be counted as freeways but are considered parkways, I couldn't help but think of how New Jersey calls it the "Garden State Parkway"

[@small_world_tv]

I'm wondering if Tyler, TX is considered to not have any "freeways" due to the fact that TX-49 is only 2 lanes. However it's almost entirely a limited access roadway. It looks like in the future, once it becomes 4-lanes that it will no longer be considered on this list

[@jimgorycki4013]

I've flown in to Valparaiso airport, which shares is next to Eglin AFB. Driving from VPS to FWB is a chore. And that was 20 years ago.

[@FunkyDPL]

I did that regularly for years. It's not difficult at all.

[@k8tina]

Are you sure you're not referring to Destin via Hwy 98 back 20+ years ago? Also, at the time, did you fly into the old VPS airport that had the Dash-8 twin prop planes and a small single-story run-down looking terminal? Been here 25 -ish years and watched the area grow sooo much. Including Destin traffic.

[@1973Kenny]

Another captivating video ty

[@jefferyduplessis1577]

Did you look at Jefferson City, Missouri. It is 34 miles south of I-70 that goes through Columbia.

[@ptorq]

Jeff City doesn't have INTERSTATES, but it does have US 50 and 54 (also 63, though that part of 63 is the same roadway as either 54 or 50 depending on where you are) which are (mostly) limited access divided highways through the city so probably count as freeways. It's also pretty small at around 40-45,000 people. It's kind of a statistical outlier that it's a state capital that's not on the Interstate system, but there's also not much need to hook it up in a hurry; 63 connects it to I-70 at Columbia and is four lanes divided (though not limited access; there are some at-grade intersections). Still, by Missouri standards, that section of 63 is a very good road (much better than it is north of I-70 for sure). Getting from Jeff City to I-44 to the south (about 50-60 miles) is a bit of a pain because you're going through the northernmost part of the Ozarks, and the best options are mostly windy, two-lane, "ridge runner" roads, but building better roads would be a significant project for the same reasons.

[@FunkyDPL]

Totally did not expect my town (for the last 11 years) to top the list, although I shouldn't have been surprised. I-10 is approximatlely 28 miles from FWB. However, it is all 4-lane or more Fl-85 that reaches I-10 just before Crestview. The only exception is Fl-285 which runs to Mossy Head, but it is lightly traveled and not a problem. Fl-85 into Crestview in the afternoon is quite painful. US-98 is also 4 lanes or more all the way through the area, but in the summer tourist season traffic between FWB and Destin is brutal! Our biggest issue with the lack of freeways is with hurricane evacuation! Should another storm the scale of Ivan comes, it is going to be difficult to evacuate the area unless done with a LOT of lead time. Because of the Eglin Test Range, there are very few alternatives to the main routes inland.

[@k8tina]

That's why we didn't evacuate with hurricane Ivan. Knew people who rode out the hurricane in their cars stuck in traffic on Hwy 85 trying to get to I-10. And back then, SR-123 was a two lane road, not the 4-lane 'freeway' looking hwy it is today. Crestview traffic has ALWAYS been bad. Back in the day, people bought houses up there because it was cheaper. Hence all the worsening traffic issues. Waiting to see what happens with the supposed bypass to the west side of Crestview (from PJ Adams/Antioch Rd to Hwy 90 with an exit for I-10). Took only 20+ years to finally start building it!!

[@bluegrasspalms]

You need to look at Evansville Indiana

[@smokeyyvevo]

As someone who grew up on the Gulf Coast of Florida pretty much no cities directly on the west coast have freeways. The i-275 in st pete is decently close to the beaches of Pinellas but still a few miles away. The i-75 south of Tampa is located in the rural parts of those areas and quite a few miles away from the coast. Also pinellas (where i grew up) barely has any freeway miles. US-19 is a freeway for about 10-15 miles but turns back into a 4 lane Stroad past SR-580 in Clearwater going into Palm Harbor at it’s north end and past 49th St in Pinellas Park at it’s south end. It does end up converging into the i-275 to go down the Skyway Bridge before US-19 fully ends in Memphis.

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

Crazy you used the Jackie Robinson parkway as an example. Exactly where i grew up at.

[@BillSchlichting]

US 97 through Bend is slowly becoming a full freeway. There are interchanges south of the city and at the south end of it. However, there is still one traffic light south. And then the "parkway" does have signals and mid-block crosswalks, which makes me wonder. Why that parkway wasn't built as a freeway has me stumped. Oregon just doesn't like to build freeways on highways that aren't interstates.

[@charcasc7462]

People who know classic rock and classic soul music know of Muscle Shoals as that was a location of some famed recording studios and musicians.

[@omarrolle3842]

I first found out about Muscle Shoals because of the Black Keys and it was a rabbit hole from there

[@brianr4054]

Ft Collins. I-25 passes nearby, but it carries no intracity traffic

[@swaffdog6521]

I kind of expected to see Marquette Michigan on the list, but apparently it isn't all that big. The closest thing to a freeway there is a 1/2 mile long stretch of US 41 near downtown, although it has traffic circles at each end of that portion. The nearest Interstate is I-75, which is 150 miles away in Sault Ste. Marie.

[@ColesonKavouras]

As someone growing up in Panama City it has always been wild to me that we have no freeways. Our traffic is AWFUL and I feel like if we had some sort of freeway infrastructure it would be very beneficial

[@trainsandmore2319]

I know Panama City already has a metro system so it would be better for them to expand the metro system instead…

[@catairlines-peciarda]

More highways != less traffic

[@ColesonKavouras]

@@catairlines-peciarda public transit is not sustainable in our city because a lot of our traffic comes from tourists who drive their cars down here

[@merrittfriend]

As a tourist that regularly visits Panama City from time to time, I do agree that the traffic there is horrendous, and we can’t do everything we want because the traffic is so bad. I wish there could be a solution to this like a spur route of I-10 (like either 310, 510, 710, or 910) or something like a limited access bypass just a wee north of 98 like how Columbus, GA (where I’m from) has. I honestly don’t like sitting on 98 on one of its intersections for like an hour or so. There’s got to be a solution to ease the traffic, especially on 98.

[@ColesonKavouras]

@@merrittfriend the main issue I believe is the neighborhood the stretches from 98 to the bay the basically doesn’t allow any new East-west roads to be built. This causes all the traffic coming into town to all funnel to basically 3 left turn signals which causes major backups. And 98 is just so busy because it’s the only east west highway through town

[@kc9scott]

I was a bit surprised to not see Ithaca, NY here, but it’s probably off the list due to its metro population being only 109,000.

[@uprebel5150]

Thanks for the Hilton Head Island picture of the golf green near the beach. It’s on Palmetto Dunes Plantation and that’s exactly where I proposed to my wife in 1986.

[@djbeezy]

I live in Tyler Texas. Not having a freeway here is insane and so frustrating trying to get around town. Loop 323 should have been an above ground highway style road.

[@SISKCERTWaJaVlogs]

the island of kawhi, one of my fav place to go to doesnt have any but that makes alot of sense

[@Hillers62]

I live in Navarre which is just west of Fort Walton Beach...and I work at Hurlburt Field which is in FWB...Highway 98 is notorious for accidents...In have stood in traffic for up to two hours just trying to get to work or go home...there is no way to build a highway because the bombing range just north..no passage..so Highway 98 is the only way to travel

[@johndoe7741]

I’d like a similar video of largest cities without a freeway going through or being adjacent to what’s considered their downtown. I bet Madison, WI would be #1

[@WestchesterAvgeek]

Bonus: White Plains, NY. Nearest freeway I-287 in Rye

[@SuperSirianRigel]

I wasn't expecting Florence to be the first one to pop up. Ha ha. That's where I went to college. At the University of North Alabama,

[@njv1234]

Dothan Alabama

[@later_skateboards]

Has a population of 70000 and misses the countdown.

[@jamesburton1050]

Agreed. Small, but significant for it's area

[@IgoZoom1]

I thought about Dothan also. My best friend lives in Enterprise, one county over. It really seems like an interstate route from Montgomery to/thru Dothan and continuning to the Florida panhandle would make sense.

[@jamesburton1050]

@@IgoZoom1 plus, didn't PCB actually make the list? We could get a two-fer there!

[@IgoZoom1]

@@jamesburton1050PCB and Destin-FWB both made the list. But to be honest, I’ve always considered them one big city.

[@jimpern]

The term "Parkway" does not automatically disqualify a road from being a freeway; in the northeast it often means a freeway which has trucks banned from using it. Most of the Parkways on Long Island are defeinitely freeways, some of which I used to take to work! The Garden State Parkway on the Jersey shore is also a bona fide freeway aside from a level crossing very near its southern terminus in Cape May.

[@AndyMartin92]

I live how you out Daytona in the thumbnail but it’s not in the video

[@legendarygodzilla3577]

5:48 never thought I'd hear the word "stroad" on this channel.

[@JonathonV]

You’re going to college! 😀 And to think, I was following you on KZbin when you were but a callow youth! Congratulations! Vancouver, British Columbia (not in the USA, obviously) is an interesting case for being so large and not having a freeway. The city proper has around 660,000 residents (the metro area 2.6 million). There were projects to build freeways into all the major cities in Canada in the 1950s-1970s, inspired by our neighbours to the south. Such a project got started in Vancouver when they destroyed Vancouver’s main Black community, Hogan’s Alley, 😢 to build what are now the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts. Those viaducts have at-grade intersections on either end, so they don’t count as freeway (and they’re so expensive to maintain and make so little difference in traffic that many municipal governments have promised to dismantle them). Mass protests around that time prevented any further highway projects from happening. There are freeways in the suburb cities of Vancouver (such as the 7, the 91, and the 99), but they all turn at-grade once they hit the border of Vancouver. Technically, Highway 1, which bypasses the whole city, does become the border of Vancouver and Burnaby for a very short distance, but if you exit at that point, you have a long way to go on stroads before you reach the dense downtown. This has led to terrible traffic, but it has also led to Vancouver punching above its weight when it comes to transit. Around 1 in 3 people commute by transit, which puts it second only to New York in terms of transit ridership per capita.

[@thinkeightsix]

Blame Alabama for Florida's Gulf Coast not getting closer access to I-10.

[@k8tina]

How so? I'm curious, as a resident of the FL Gulf Coast/FL Panhandle 🤔

[@corym8358]

Are you the voice of Jimmy Junior on Bob's Burgers?

[@ericmoore571]

I used to live in Hilton Head! Its a great place! One of my favorite places!

[@Irishfan]

There was a time when the South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana Metropolitan area might have been on this list as the largest. However, over a long stretch of time, over the last 30 years of the 20th century, they built a bypass that carries US 20 and US 31. It is built to freeway standards. Interstates 80 and 90 runs through the northern part of the area, but it is not a freeway. It is the Indiana Toll Road. Therefore, had the bypass not been present, it would have been interesting to see if it would have made this video.

[@herbchilds1512]

Corvallis, Oregon, population 61,000, a major university town on US-20 and U-99w, but the nearest freeway is I-5, about 10 miles east.

[@lilwill6985]

History lesson on Panama City and Destin/Ft Walton: Interstate 10 was supposed to continue on a SSW trajectory out of Pensacola, but this pesky thing called Eglin AFB was in the way and the gubmint didn't want and interstate going through its training ground... so it was routed north around it. Also... in the 90s a spur from I 10 was planned... but it was shut down by the local good ole boy network.

[@jumpanama]

When I worked for the Air Force I regularly had to travel between Macon-Warner Robins (large metro with no real airport) and Destin (large metro with no real interstate). It was maddening because you either a) spent 5 hours on 2-lane backroads through towns with 100 people and one stop sign/streetlight (on the road you were traveling) or b) you had to fly an hour to Atlanta and commute another 2+ hours to WR on I-75, which is technically faster if you're willing to bet on Atlanta traffic not absolutely sucking... Tl;dr do a video on largest metro areas without an airport serviced by at least one of the big 4 airlines (Delta, United, AA, Southwest)

[@doubletaco]

that heart wipe transition got me cackling that was beautiful

[@wayloren4647]

Florence is pretty nice city, I go up there for work pretty often. We love when Alabama is mentioned

[@jamesbrown9721]

I still like Huntsville better since it's bigger, and has the mountain backdrop

[@SuperSirianRigel]

You said "I-40" when talking about Panama City. lol.

[@JL-sm6cg]

Florence doesn’t surprise me. That city was on the low end of transportation for a long time. No freeways, no train service, no bus lines, and while there is an airport, it doesn't have any airlines, forcing you to go to Huntsville to fly anywhere. This all may have changed over time, as i know a freeway is coming at least close to the metro area. Anyone from there please confirm. 😀 UPDATE: I found that one airline serves Muscle Shoals Airport.

[@jamesburton1050]

Curious what freeways might come to the Florence area....!

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@jamesburton1050 I heard I-22 is headed that way.

[@jamesburton1050]

@@JL-sm6cg ah! Hope so then!

[@BoratWanksta]

​@@JL-sm6cgI-22 was built south of Florence, AL. I wouldn't be surprised if one day a la the expressway spur that was built to Huntsville from 65, that one day such a spur(from either I-22 or 65) is constructed towards Florence.

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@BoratWanksta I hadn't looked at a map in a while, so thank you for that.

[@lukedevine5069]

WE WANT MORE PENNSLYVANIA CONTENT

[@kfair3331]

YES

[@dragon81heart]

Yes please

[@ShaqElliot]

PA is underrated.

[@TheCaspianSea442]

Ehh, why not. Close enough to New York (where I live, and NOT the city).

[@IgoZoom1]

Interesting fact- traveling from Atlanta to Pittsburgh (685 miles), the largest city you pass through is Knoxville TN (pop. 190k).

[@cparkes92]

Traverse City, MI has a metro area population of over 150,000 and has no freeways within it, let alone a four-lane connection to a nearby freeway. US-131 is freeway well into Wexford County, but peters out and drops to two-lane at the Manistee River, just south of the Grand Traverse County line (also US-131 doesn't even go to Traverse City itself). Also, the Manistee River is likely one of the longest rivers east of the Mississippi with no divided highways crossing it

[@PolkCountyWIProgressive]

Bend’s US-97 is definitely a freeway by any reasonable definition.

[@benpholmes]

Yes, I'd say it definitely looks like an expressway to me.

[@stephentthomas]

Does I95 disqualify Daytona Beach? There's over 600k from Oak Hill/Edgewater/New Smyrna Beach through Port Orange/South Daytona/DB Shores/DB to Holly Hill/Ormond Beach/Ormond-by-the-Sea. I95 is west of probably 99%+ of all of that, with no spur route anywhere to the east.

[@JBR7655]

Yes, Tyler Tx is a nice place to live but its traffic is bad in most of South Tyler.

[@Kev4Kev]

What is considered a freeway ? Are we talking about Interstates, Parkways, State Highways which can literally be a regular road in the middle of nowhere, a avenue thats in or near a big city, US Route 1 on the East Coast which can be a highway or in some areas or a regular street in cities ?

[@richards31415]

Does Cape Coral, FL not count because I-75 passes within the same metro area? Cape Coral itself doesn't have any freeways

[@grandpapac1622]

Madison,WI has I90-94 but it's like runs thru the eastern side of the metro area. Hwy 12 and 18 run around it even consider thru it but Madison has very bad road design. That is the problem building a city on a isthmus and older city as well that didn't keep up with the times. Must cities have plenty of by passes or rail or bus routes not in WI lol. Milwaukee is very heavy with traffic, with one by pass that is out dated.

[@patrickboldea599]

HHI does have a large and completely protected bike path that follows the William Hilton Pwky.

[@floycewhite6991]

And there you go! People who complain about freeways can move there.

[@classictoby5309]

Panama City mention! That’s my hometown lol

[@ChristopherORourke-s7g]

Sierra Vista,AZ which has about up to 100,000 people has no freeways & Interstate highways. It is the home of Ft. Huachua which is about 40 miles give or take is South of I-10.

[@AleksandrIlchenko-vw3py]

Now Muschle Shoals has got the swampers...

[@citrustaco]

Before watching the video, I tried to guess what it could be and I thought it was either Bend, OR or Scottsbluff, NE. Then I looked up Scottsbluff and it has far fewer people than I thought.

[@glennso47]

I don’t know if Rockford Illinois is included in this. US 20 and Interstate 90 both pass by but are they considered freeway? 😮

[@eeriestare48]

Hilton Head SC has a freeway. US 278 is a freeway for like 3 miles on the north side

[@TheCriminalViolin]

I see you accidentally left out the picture of Bend when getting to it. That's a shame for how gorgeous it is, especially who you look west.

[@kevinbrower233]

Traverse City, MI?

[@brianwooton1992]

Disagree on Bend. I've gone there numerous times over the last 9 years since we moved to Oregon. Those three miles really function as a freeway in town, certainly not interstate grade but definitely a freeway. Also, the stretch of US 97 becomes fully interstate grade to the south starting within the city limits. Between these two are a few of what I consider to be pretty dangerous intersections where 97 goes over an overpass but the connection is an at grade intersection where you need to floor it to get into traffic.

[@IgoZoom1]

What about Anchorage?

[@BossXygman]

From its intersection with Mountain View Drive, all the way to the city limits of Anchorage, Alaska Route 1 is a freeway in Anchorage

[@themessageman2463]

Meanwhile Kinshasa, DRC with a population of 17'230'000

[@MrWas-g6o]

4:20 ummmm…. So it goes up to Nashville and splits off or something like that?