The Turner Diagonal
map is a short freeway in
Kansas City, Kansas
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. It runs from Kansas Avenue northwest to State Avenue. It does not have a single numbered designation, though the entire route was formerly signed as
US 40
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west of
I-70
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,
K-132 east of
I-70
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and is currently signed as
K-32 from Kansas Avenue to its first interchange.
It is named "Turner Diagonal" because it runs diagonally and because it runs into and out of the
Turner neighborhood in Kansas City. It provides a convenient shortcut to
I-635 Interstate 635 may refer to:
* Interstate 635 (Kansas–Missouri), a connector highway between Interstate 35 in Overland Park, Kansas and Interstate 29 in Kansas City, Missouri, signed as the Harry Darby Memorial Highway
* Interstate 635 (Texas), ...
, bypassing the stoplights on State Avenue and Parallel Parkway. The speed limit is for the entire length of the freeway. The freeway was formerly known as K-132.
K-132
K-132 was a highway commissioned in the 1960s to connect
Kansas City, KS to its
Turner
Turner may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Turner (surname), a common surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Turner (given name), a list of people with the given name
*One who uses a lathe for turnin ...
and
Argentine
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neighborhoods. Its western terminus was originally at
K-32, but was extended to terminate at
I-70
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in the late 1970s when the
U.S. Route 40
U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America, is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes wh ...
alignment shifted to overlap I-70 after leaving the Turner Diagonal. Its eastern terminus at
U.S. Route 69
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(
18th Street Expressway
The 18th Street Expressway (often shortened to 18th Street in everyday speech) is a freeway in Kansas City, Kansas that runs from Interstate 35 north to Interstate 70/U.S. Route 24/ U.S. Route 40. It carries the U.S. Route 69 designation its enti ...
) in industrial
Kansas City, KS.
It was turned back to the city of
Kansas City
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in 1993, since all of the highway lay within the city limits. It was resigned as a realignment of
K-32 east of Kaw Drive to US-69, while the controlled access portion west of Kaw Drive to
I-70
Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a park and ride lot just east of I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth-longest Interstate in the co ...
remains unsigned. The state still maintains the roadway by repainting/replacing old exit signs; it has not maintained nor resurfaced this old segment of K-132 since 1993.
It is now simply known as "Turner Diagonal". The portion of this expressway from
I-70
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west to
US-24
U.S. Route 24 (US 24) is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It originally ran from Pontiac, Michigan, in the east to Kansas City, Missouri, in the west. Today, the highway's eastern terminus is in Independence Township, Mi ...
was signed as
US-40
U.S. Route 4 (US 4) is a long United States highway that runs from East Greenbush, New York, in the west to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the east, traversing Vermont.
In New York, US 4 is signed North-South to reflect its alignment in the s ...
until 2009. US-40 used to leave its concurrency with US-24, head east on the Turner Diagonal before overlapping I-70.
Exit list
References
External links
{{Attached KML
Kansas Department of Transportation State MapKDOT: Historic State Maps
Transportation in Kansas City, Kansas
Transportation in Wyandotte County, Kansas
Roads in Kansas
Transportation in the Kansas City metropolitan area