Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Interstate 16
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Bryan, Effingham, and Chatham counties=== [[File:95-junction-16.JPG|200px|left|thumb|Northbound I-95 at the interchange with I-16 near Savannah]] [[File:Georgia I16eb End.jpg|thumb|End of I-16 east in downtown Savannah]] Almost immediately, the highway crosses over [[Black Creek (Savannah River tributary)|Black Creek]]. It then curves to the southeast and has an interchange with [[U.S. Route 280 in Georgia|US 280]]/[[Georgia State Route 30|SR 30]] southwest of [[Blitchton, Georgia|Blitchton]]. It crosses over some railroad tracks of Georgia Central Railway and then crosses over the [[Ogeechee River]], which marks the [[Effingham County, Georgia|Effingham County]] line. It has an interchange with Old River Road south of [[Meldrim, Georgia|Meldrim]] and then enters [[Chatham County, Georgia|Chatham County]]. The first city in the county that I-16 enters is [[Bloomingdale, Georgia|Bloomingdale]]. There, it has an interchange with the southern terminus of [[Georgia State Route 17 Connector|SR 17 Conn.]] ([[Jimmy DeLoach Parkway]]). It crosses over the [[Little Ogeechee River (Chatham County)|Little Ogeechee River]]. It very briefly travels along the Bloomingdale–[[Pooler, Georgia|Pooler]] city line before entering Pooler proper. It has an interchange with Pooler Parkway. It crosses over the [[Savannah–Ogeechee Canal]] just before an interchange with [[Interstate 95 in Georgia|I-95]]. Here, I-16 begins traveling along the southern edge of the city limits of Pooler. Right after the I-95 interchange, the highway crosses over the Hardin Canal. At an interchange with [[Georgia State Route 307|SR 307]] (Dean Forest Road), I-16 begins traveling along the [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]]–[[Garden City, Georgia|Garden City]] line. It briefly enters the city limits of Savannah before traveling along the Savannah–Garden City line again. It has an interchange with the Chatham Parkway. It then reenters Savannah and curves to the east-southeast. It crosses over some railroad tracks of CSX just before an interchange with [[Interstate 516|I-516]]/[[U.S. Route 17 in Georgia|US 17]]/[[U.S. Route 80 in Georgia|US 80]]/[[Georgia State Route 21|SR 21]]/[[Georgia State Route 25|SR 25]]/[[Georgia State Route 26|SR 26]] (W.F. Lynes Parkway). Here, US 17 begins a [[Concurrency (road)|concurrency]] with I-16. It crosses over the Springfield Canal just before a partial interchange with the former eastern terminus of [[Georgia State Route 204|SR 204]] (West 37th Street). This interchange is only accessible from the eastbound lanes. I-16/US 17 curves to the northeast. At the next interchange, US 17 splits off, where [[Georgia State Route 404 Spur|State Route 404 Spur]] (SR 404 Spur) begins. This interchange also provides access to Gwinnett Street. The highway has an interchange with [[Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (Savannah)|Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard]]. The westbound access for this highway is at the eastern terminus. I-16 curves to the north-northeast and reaches its eastern terminus, an interchange with Montgomery Street in downtown Savannah.<ref name=Google/> The construction of this interrupted sections of Berrien Street, West [[Jones Street (Savannah, Georgia)|Jones Street]], and West Charlton Street.<ref>{{cite book |url = https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/CoreMpo/Studies/I16/2015/Report.pdf |title = I-16 Interchange Modification Report |publisher = Chatham County–Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission |author = Jacobs |date = December 2015 |page = 2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author = Google |url = https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0739489,-81.0990398,3a,75y,105.55h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9JS34ozRhiPK14kQT2xaLA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 |title = West Jones Street |work = [[Google Street View]] |date = January 2019 |access-date = March 21, 2021 }}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)