State Route 13 marker

State Route 13
Buford Highway
Route information
Maintained by GDOT
Length: 49.53 mi[1] (79.71 km)
Major junctions
South end: US 19 / SR 9 in Atlanta
  I-285 at Doraville
US 23 at Buford
I-985 near Gainesville
North end: SR 369 in Gainesville
Location
Counties: Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall
Highway system

Georgia State Routes
Former

SR 12 SR 14

State Route 13 (SR 13), known as Buford Highway, Falcon Parkway, and Atlanta Highway, is a state highway in Georgia. It begins at West Peachtree Street and Spring Street (U.S. Route 19 (US 19) / SR 9) just to the north of 17th Street in north Midtown Atlanta. The section near downtown Atlanta is a full freeway, from its south end to Sidney Marcus Boulevard. This was the original alignment of Interstate 85 (Northeast Expressway) through northeast Atlanta. The route ends at Jesse Jewell Parkway (SR 369) in Gainesville. The name changes from Buford Highway to Atlanta Highway at the northeast city limits of Buford. The stretch between the DeKalb/Fulton County line and several miles northeast of I-285 is often regarded as a community (see Buford Highway).

SR 13 once continued northeast past Gainesville, roughly along present SR 365, to the South Carolina state line on U.S. Route 123.[2][3]

Contents

Route description [link]

SR 13 begins at an intersection with US 19 and SR 9, which are aligned onto two one-way streets, Spring Street southbound and West Peachtree Street northbound. The route starts heading west but curves around to the northeast along a section of freeway adjacent to I-85. A half-interchange provides a shortcut for southbound SR 13 traffic to Peachtree Street and from Peachtree to northbound SR 13. The connection provides a savings of 34 miles (1.2 km) by allowing vehicles to avoid the southernmost section of SR 13.[4][5]

Major intersections [link]

County Location Mile km Destinations Notes
Fulton
Atlanta 0.00 0.00 US 19 / SR 9 (West Peachtree Street north; Spring Street south) Freeway section begins
0.42 0.68 US 19 / SR 9 (Peachtree Street) – Buckhead Southbound exit and northbound entrance
1.38 2.22 I-85 south to I-75 Southbound exit and northbound entrance
2.01 3.23 NB: Monroe Drive to Piedmont Road south
SB: Armour Drive to Monroe Drive
2.18 3.51 SR 237 north (Piedmont Road) Northbound exit and southbound entrance
2.87 4.62 I-85 north – Greenville Northbound exit and southbound entrance
3.17 5.10 To SR 400 Toll north (Sidney Marcus Boulevard) Freeway section ends
DeKalb
Pine Hills 4.35 7.00 SR 42 (North Druid Hills Road)
Brookhaven 6.69 10.77 US 23 south / SR 155 south (Clairmont Road) South end of US 23 overlap
Doraville SR 13 Conn. (Motors Industrial Way)
10.55 16.98 I-285
Gwinnett
Norcross 14.27 22.97 SR 140 (Jimmy Carter Boulevard)
15.70 25.27 SR 378 east (Beaver Ruin Road)
Duluth 21.04 33.86 SR 120 (Duluth Highway)
Suwanee 27.18 43.74 SR 317
Buford 31.29 50.36 US 23 north / SR 20 North end US 23 overlap
Hall
35.78 57.58 SR 347
Oakwood 44.33 71.34 SR 53 (Mundy Mill Road)
44.58 71.74 SR 332 (Poplar Springs Road)
45.19 72.73 I-985 / US 23 (Lanier Parkway)
Gainesville 49.53 79.71 SR 369 (Browns Bridge Road)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
     Concurrency terminus     Closed/former     Incomplete access     Unopened

Related route [link]

State Route 13 Connector
Location: Doraville
Length: 1.03 mi[1] (1.66 km)

State Route 13 Connector is a 1-mile-long (1.6 km) route that connects US 23 and SR 13 to SR 141 in Doraville. The entire route runs along Motors Industrial Way, a four-lane expressway with a grassy median. The route is separated from the inner lanes of Interstate 285 by a Jersey barrier.

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ a b Office of Information Services (December 31, 2002). "State Highway System Mileage in Each County Classified by State Route Number and Federal-Aid System" (PDF). Georgia Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070926031200/https://www.dot.state.ga.us/DOT/plan-prog/transportation_data/400reports/2002/dpp444_2002.pdf. Retrieved June 28, 2011. 
  2. ^ Georgia Department of Transportation (1986). Official State Map (Map). Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024053/https://psr.southeastroads.com/mapclips/SR197_1986south.jpg. Retrieved June 28, 2011. 
  3. ^ 1977 USGS topographic map
  4. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – SR 13 to Peachtree via SR 13 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Spring+Buford+Conn&daddr=33.7995891,-84.3908756+to:Peachtree+St+NE&hl=en&sll=33.799834,-84.386523&sspn=0.009415,0.013797&geocode=Fe7KAwIdzGP4-g%3BFaW9AwIdJUz4-invJ2z6UwT1iDEBF4TaYg92fw%3BFQa4AwId_Ez4-g&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=16&via=1&t=h&z=16. Retrieved July 12, 2011. 
  5. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – SR 13 to Peachtree via exit (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Spring+Buford+Conn&daddr=Peachtree+St+NE&hl=en&sll=33.799834,-84.386523&sspn=0.009415,0.013797&geocode=Fe7KAwIdzGP4-g%3BFQa4AwId_Ez4-g&mra=prv&t=h&z=16. Retrieved July 12, 2011. 

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U.S. Route 13 in Virginia

U.S. Route 13 (US 13) is a northsouth U.S. highway established in 1926 that runs for 517 miles (832 km) from Interstate 95 just north of Fayetteville, North Carolina to the northeastern suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Morrisville. In the U.S. state of Virginia, US 13 runs northsouth through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state, using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to get between the two. In the Hampton Roads area, it uses Military Highway to bypass the city centers. It is most usually a four-lane highway, sometimes up to freeway or expressway standards with controlled access.

Route description

U.S. Route 13 enters the state from North Carolina on a two-lane alignment without shoulders, carrying the name Whaleyville Road. It passes through the small communities of Somerton and Whaleyville, intersecting a few non-state level roads along the way. Just south of Suffolk, the route intersects Virginia State Route 32, merging with it as it passes by Suffolk Municipal Airport. Just north of this intersection, US 13 separates from the roadway at a trumpet interchange and upgrades to a freeway as it prepares to bypass the city on the Southwest Suffolk Bypass. The straight alignment carries the former US 13 as US 13 Business.

Massachusetts Route 13

Route 13 is a 14.1-mile (22.69 km) long northsouth highway in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Route description

Route 13 begins at Route 12 north of downtown Leominster, where that route turns from Main Street to North Main Street. Route 13 continues along North Main Street, crossing Route 2 near the Mall at Whitney Field, before crossing the north branch of the Nashua River and the Fitchburg Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail before turning northward towards the village of Whalom and the town of Lunenburg. In Lunenburg, the road turns eastward, running concurrently with Route 2A for approximately 0.3 miles (0.48 km) before turning northward again. It then passes into Townsend, where it crosses the Squannacook River and through the downtown area, before continuing through the Townsend State Forest and ending at the New Hampshire state line, where the road becomes New Hampshire Route 13, running northward towards Milford.

Whalom Park, a former amusement park which stood from 1893 to 2000, was located along Route 13 in Lunenburg, just north of the Leominster town line.

New York State Route 13

New York State Route 13 (NY 13) is a state highway that runs mainly northsouth for 152.30 miles (245.10 km) between NY 14 in Horseheads and NY 3 west of Pulaski in Central New York in the United States. In between, NY 13 intersects with Interstate 81 (I-81) in Cortland and Pulaski and meets the New York State Thruway (I-90) in Canastota. NY 13 is co-signed with several routes along its routing, most notably NY 34 and NY 96 between Newfield and Ithaca; NY 80 between DeRuyter and Cazenovia; and NY 5 between Chittenango and Canastota.

The most heavily traveled section of the route is the 50-mile (80 km) northeast–southwest section between Horseheads and Cortland. Situated midway between the two locations is the city of Ithaca; here, a small section of NY 13 follows an expressway alignment around much of the city. Much of the route, however, is a two-lane highway that passes through rural areas. When NY 13 was originally assigned in the 1920s, it extended only from Elmira to Cazenovia. It was significantly extended in 1930, stretching from Lindley in the south to Richland in the north. The southern terminus was moved back to Elmira in the 1940s and has been located at various points in the city since then.

Missouri Route 13

Route 13 is a highway in Missouri which runs almost the entire northsouth length of the state. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 69/136 in Bethany. Its southern terminus is at the Arkansas state line in downtown Blue Eye, MissouriArkansas where it continues as Highway 21. It is one of the original state highways of Missouri.

The road serves as an important corridor between Springfield and Kansas City, two of the three largest cities in the state. Heading north from Springfield, Route 13 intersects Route 7 at Clinton which in turn carries traffic to Interstate 49/U.S. Route 71 at Harrisonville. I-49/US 71 then continues on into downtown Kansas City. Route 13, Route 7, and I-49/US 71 now provide a four-lane highway (much of it freeway) between Springfield and Kansas City since the completion of the final widening project between Collins and Clinton.

Several sections from north of Reeds Spring through Branson West have been widened, rebuilt, moved, and renamed to help ease traffic congestion through the towns. Drivers regularly use these routes to get to many of the lakes in southern Missouri and this has caused a major headache in recent years. One section of road has been renamed Route 413 and travels north to Springfield. In June 2009, the nation's first diverging diamond interchange, a style of interchange where traffic crosses to the left-side of the road, opened to traffic. The interchange is located at the I-44/MO-13 junction in Springfield.

U.S. Route 93 in Nevada

In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides further connections to Ely and Wells. US 93 also provides the majority of the most direct connection between the major metropolitan areas of Las Vegas and Phoenix (via Boulder City, Kingman and Wickenburg with a final link to Phoenix via US 60).

Route description

U.S. Route 93 in Nevada is known as the Great Basin Highway throughout the state. It begins at the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge in Boulder City. The highway overlaps U.S. Route 95 for 3.2 miles from an interchange between downtown Boulder City and the Railroad Pass Hotel and Casino to Interstate 215. It runs to the Las Vegas Valley passing through the cities of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. U.S. 93 merges with Interstate 15 at the Spaghetti Bowl interchange and overlaps I-15 for approximately 21 miles. After overlapping I-15, U.S. 93 heads northwest towards Alamo.

New Jersey Route 13

Route 13 is a short state highway in the communities of Point Pleasant and Bay Head, New Jersey, both of which are in Ocean County. The route consists of the Lovelandtown Bridge, and a distinct part of Bridge Avenue, which is mostly maintained by the county as County Route 632. The route is unsigned, designated in the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering as a re-designation of Route 13E from Hollywood Boulevard to Bay Avenue.

The route was first assigned in 1938, when the state took over maintenance of the fifth segment of Ocean County Route 13 built in 1929, intending it for reaching New Jersey Route 37 in Bay Head from Beaver Dam Road, a distance of 1.76 miles (2.83 km). The takeover did not reach that point, and the bridge and its approaches count for 0.56 miles (0.90 km) of the intended length. Route 13 received several reconstructions since 1929, including a replacement in 1971 and rehabilitation in 2005.

Route description

Route 13 begins at an intersection where Ocean County Route 632 meets Hollywood Place in Point Pleasant. There, the state-maintenance begins. The route heads eastward along Bridge Avenue, passing to the south of local businesses and to the north of local residences. There, Route 13 begins a curve to the northeast onto the Lovelandtown Bridge approach, crossing some dead-end local roads and a marina before reaching the Point Pleasant Canal and onto the lift bridge. The bridge soon re-enters land, where it parallels Elm Avenue for a short distance before turning away to the southeast. The route heads into downtown Bay Head, where it reaches an intersection with Bay Avenue, which denonates its eastern terminus. County Route 632 continues eastward to New Jersey Route 35.

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