Editing Interstate 664

{{short description|Highway in Virginia}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2022}}
{{Use American English|date=March 2022}}
{{Infobox road
| state = VA
| type = I
| route = 664
| alternate_name = Hampton Roads Beltway
| map = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=290|frame-lat=36.909|frame-long=-76.406|zoom=10|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Interstate 664}}}}
| map_custom = yes
| map_notes = I-664 highlighted in red
| length_mi = 20.79
| length_round = 2
| length_ref = <ref name="VDOT Traffic Data">{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiadot.org/info/2009_traffic_data_by_jurisdiction.asp|title=2009 Traffic Data|publisher=Virginia Department of Transportation|year=2009|access-date=2011-09-12}}
*[http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/2009/AADT_061_Nansemond_2009.pdf City of Suffolk] (PDF)
*[http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/2009/AADT_094_Warwick_2009.pdf City of Newport News] (PDF)
*[http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/2009/AADT_027_ElizabethCity_2009.pdf City of Hampton] (PDF)
*[http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/2009/AADT_064_Norfolk_2009.pdf City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, and City of Chesapeake] (PDF)</ref>
| established = 1971
| direction_a = South
| direction_b = North
| terminus_a = {{Jct|state=VA|I|64|I|264}} in [[Chesapeake, Virginia|Chesapeake]]
| terminus_b = {{Jct|state=VA|I|64}} in [[Hampton, Virginia|Hampton]]
| spur_type = I
| spur_of = 64
| previous_type = SR
| next_type = SR
| previous_route = 598
| next_route = 895
| counties = [[Chesapeake, Virginia|City of Chesapeake]], [[Suffolk, Virginia|City of Suffolk]], [[Newport News, Virginia|City of Newport News]], [[Hampton, Virginia|City of Hampton]]
| junction = 
*{{jct|state=VA|US|13|US|58|US|460|SR|191}} in Chesapeake
*{{jct|state=VA|SR|337}} in Chesapeake
*{{jct|state=VA|SR|164|US|17}} in [[Suffolk, Virginia|Suffolk]]
*{{jct|state=VA|US|60}} in [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]]
}}

'''Interstate&nbsp;664''' ('''I-664''') is an auxiliary [[Interstate Highway]] in the US state of [[Virginia]]. The Interstate runs {{convert|20.79|mi|km}} from [[Interstate 64 in Virginia|I-64]] and [[Interstate 264 (Virginia)|I-264]] in [[Chesapeake, Virginia|Chesapeake]] north to I-64 in [[Hampton, Virginia|Hampton]]. I-664 forms the west side of the [[Hampton Roads Beltway]], a [[ring road|circumferential highway]] serving the [[Hampton Roads]] metropolitan area. The Interstate crosses Hampton Roads via the [[Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel]] (MMMBT) between [[Suffolk, Virginia|Suffolk]] and [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]]. I-664 is connected to the other major cities of the metropolitan area&mdash;[[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth]], [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], and [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]]&mdash;by I-264. The Interstate also has a connection to Portsmouth through [[Virginia State Route 164|State Route&nbsp;164]] (SR&nbsp;164) and to Suffolk via [[U.S. Route 13 in Virginia|U.S. Route&nbsp;13]] (US&nbsp;13), [[U.S. Route 58 in Virginia|US&nbsp;58]], and [[U.S. Route 460 in Virginia|US&nbsp;460]].

==Route description==
[[File:2017-07-05 16 49 57 View north along Interstate 664 (Hampton Roads Beltway) between Exit 7 (Terminal Avenue) and Exit 6 (25th Street, 26th Street) in Newport News, Virginia.jpg|thumb|right|View north along I-664 between Terminal Avenue and US&nbsp;60 in Newport News]]
I-664 begins at a full Y interchange with I-64 and I-264 that serves as the terminus of all three Interstates in the [[Bower's Hill, Virginia|Bower's Hill]] section of the city of Chesapeake. I-64 heads southeast as a continuation of the Hampton Roads Beltway through Chesapeake while I-264 heads east toward [[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth]] and [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]]. I-664 heads west as an eight-lane freeway that has a southbound-only exit ramp to US&nbsp;13 and US&nbsp;460 ([[Military Highway]]) and crosses over Military Highway and a [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] rail line. The Interstate has a [[cloverleaf interchange]] with Military Highway, which here carries US&nbsp;58 in addition to US&nbsp;13 and US&nbsp;460. The interchange also provides access to [[U.S. Route 460 Alternate (Portsmouth, Virginia)|U.S. Route&nbsp;460 Alternate]] (US&nbsp;460 Alt.), which follows US&nbsp;58 east into Portsmouth. I-664 curves north as a four-lane freeway that crosses Goose Creek and has a [[diamond interchange]] with [[Virginia State Route 663|SR&nbsp;663]] (Dock Landing Road) and a cloverleaf interchange with [[Virginia State Route 337|SR&nbsp;337]] (Portsmouth Boulevard).<ref name="VDOT Traffic Data"/><ref name="Google Maps I-664">{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=I-264+W&daddr=I-664+N&hl=en&ll=36.910372,-76.474457&spn=0.534746,1.234589&sll=37.035105,-76.373434&sspn=0.016684,0.038581&geocode=FaFgMQIdokpy-w%3BFdACNQIdXJBy-w&vpsrc=6&mra=ls&t=h&z=10|title=Interstate 664|access-date=2011-09-12}}</ref>

Just south of its [[partial cloverleaf]] interchange with [[Virginia State Route 659|SR&nbsp;659]] (Pughsville Road), I-664 crosses a rail line; a spur from that rail line heads north in the median of the freeway as the highway enters the city of Suffolk. The rail spur leaves the median and heads northeast toward Portsmouth just south of its interchange with SR&nbsp;164 (Western Freeway) and [[U.S. Route 17 in Virginia|US&nbsp;17]] (Bridge Road). SR&nbsp;164 heads east toward downtown Portsmouth while US&nbsp;17 heads northwest to the [[James River Bridge]]. There is no access from southbound I-664 to southbound US&nbsp;17; that movement is made via the next interchange, a cloverleaf interchange with [[Virginia State Route 135|SR&nbsp;135]] (College Drive) that serves the satellite campus of [[Old Dominion University]] and the community of [[Churchland, Virginia|Churchland]].<ref name="VDOT Traffic Data"/><ref name="Google Maps I-664"/>

North of SR&nbsp;135, northbound I-664 has a vehicle inspection station and crossovers before the highway enters the MMMBT. The bridge–tunnel passes to the west of [[Craney Island (Virginia)|Craney Island]], an artificial island in the city of Portsmouth that lies to the west of the mouth of the [[Elizabeth River (Virginia)|Elizabeth River]]. West of the highway is the confluence of the [[James River]] and [[Nansemond River]] to form Hampton Roads, as well as the James River Bridge a short distance to the north on the namesake river. I-664 heads north-northeast along a causeway for {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} to a point west of the [[Newport News Middle Ground Light]], where the pair of bridges curve to the north-northwest onto an artificial island where the highway descends into a pair of tunnels under the estuary's main shipping channel. The Interstate resurfaces on another artificial island at Newport News Point east of the coal piers in the city of Newport News.<ref name="VDOT Traffic Data"/><ref name="Google Maps I-664"/>
[[File:Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel.jpg|thumb|The [[MMMBT]]]]
I-664 has a southbound vehicle inspection station adjacent to its first interchange in Newport News with Terminal Avenue. The Interstate parallels the southern end of [[CSX Transportation|CSX]]'s [[Peninsula Subdivision]] as it passes through interchanges with several streets to the east of downtown Newport News. The southern interchange has ramps to and from 25th, 26th, and 27th streets; the first two streets carry eastbound and westbound [[U.S. Route 60 in Virginia|US&nbsp;60]], which is unmarked from I-664. The northern interchange has ramps to and from 35th Street and Jefferson Avenue; Jefferson Avenue is [[Virginia State Route 143|SR&nbsp;143]], which is also unmarked from the Interstate. I-664 curves east as a six-lane freeway away from the railroad and has an oblique crossing of [[Virginia State Route 351|SR&nbsp;351]] (39th Street) prior to half diamond interchanges with Roanoke Avenue and Chestnut Avenue. The Interstate enters the city of Hampton and has diamond interchanges with Aberdeen Road and Powhatan Parkway before reaching its northern terminus at I-64. I-664 meets its parent highway at a directional Y interchange above Newmarket Creek just south of [[Hampton Coliseum]]. The Hampton Roads Beltway continues east along I-64 through Hampton before crossing Hampton Roads on the [[Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel]] (HRBT) into the city of Norfolk.<ref name="VDOT Traffic Data"/><ref name="Google Maps I-664"/>

==History==
{{Unsourced section|date=June 2023}}
I-664 was completed in sections, beginning in 1971 with the construction of the "Tunnel Road" section, which led from Aberdeen Road to [[Interstate 64|I-64]]. The road was built to lead northbound traffic from I-64 and the [[Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel|HRBT]] to downtown Newport News.

The interchange at I-64 was rebuilt as a partial stack interchange in 1980.

I-664 was completed in sections by 1989, between Aberdeen Road and the 26th/27th street exit ramps in downtown Newport News.

I-664 was completed in Suffolk and Chesapeake in 1990 between US&nbsp;17 and Pughsville Road.

With the opening of the [[Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel|MMMBT]] on April 30, 1992, I-664 was almost complete. 

I-664 between Pughsville Road and the [[Bower's Hill, Virginia|Bower's Hill]] interchange was completed in 1993, thus completing I-664 as a whole.

==Exit list==<!--this should probably be reversed-->
The exit numbering sequence on I-664 breaks two conventions for Interstate highways. First, I-664 uses a sequential numbering pattern while most Interstates utilize a mileage-based pattern. Second, exit&nbsp;1 is at I-664's northern end, in contrast with the convention of beginning exits for north–south highways at the highway's southern end.
{{jcttop|exit|length_ref=<ref name="VDOT Traffic Data"/>}}
{{VAint|exit
|indep_city=Chesapeake
|lspan=6
|mile=0.00
|exit=15
|road={{jct|state=VA|I|64|dir1=west|name1=[[Hampton Roads Beltway]]|city1=Chesapeake|city2=Virginia Beach}}<br>{{jct|state=VA|I|264|dir1=east|city1=Portsmouth|city2=Norfolk}}
|notes=Southern terminus; eastern terminus of I-64; western terminus of I-264; signed as exits 15B (west) and 15A (east)
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=
|type=incomplete
|exit=14
|road={{jct|state=VA|US|13|dir1=north|US|460|dir2=east|name2=[[Military Highway]]}}
|notes=Southbound exit only
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=1.21
|exit=13
|road={{jct|state=VA|US|13|US|460|US|58|name3=[[Military Highway]]|SR|191|dir4=north|to5=to|US-Alt|460|dab5=Portsmouth|city1=Bowers Hill|city2=Suffolk}}
|notes=Signed as exits 13B (north/east) and 13A (south/west)
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=2.69
|exit=12
|road={{jct|state=VA|Sec|663|county1=Norfolk|name1=Dock Landing Road}}
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=3.72
|exit=11
|road={{jct|state=VA|SR|337|name1=Portsmouth Boulevard|city1=Portsmouth}}
|notes=Signed as exits 11B (east) and 11A (west)
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=5.82
|exit=10
|road={{jct|state=VA|Sec|659|county1=Norfolk|name1=Pughsville Road}}
}}
{{VAint|exit
|indep_city=Suffolk
|lspan=2
|mile=7.41
|exit=9
|type=incomplete
|road={{jct|state=VA|US|17|SR|164|dir2=east|city1=Portsmouth|location2=[[James River Bridge]]}}
|notes=Signed as exits 9B (south) and 9A (north) northbound; no southbound access to US 17 south
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=8.45
|exit=8
|road={{jct|state=VA|SR|135|name1=College Drive|to2=to|US|17|dir2=south|city1=Churchland}}
|notes=Signed as exits 8B (south) and 8A (north)
}}
{{jctbridge|exit
|river=[[Hampton Roads]]
|bridge=[[Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel]]
}}
{{VAint|exit
|indep_city=Newport News
|lspan=5
|mile=14.84
|exit=7
|road=Terminal Avenue
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=
|exit=6
|road={{jct|state=VA|US|60|name1=25th Street / 26th Street|road|27th Street}}<!--US 60 trailblazer on the side of the road at the northbound exit; only signed west but provides access to east too-->
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=16.25
|exit=5
|road={{jct|state=VA|US|60|road|35th Street}}<!--US 60 trailblazer on the side of the road at the exit; only signed west but provides easier access to east-->
}}
{{VAint|exit
|type=incomplete
|mile=
|exit=5
|road=Jefferson Avenue ([[SR 143 (VA)|SR 143]])
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=17.03
|mile2=17.41
|exit=4
|road=Chestnut Avenue / Roanoke Avenue
}}
{{VAint|exit
|indep_city=Hampton
|lspan=4
|mile=17.86
|exit=3
|road=Aberdeen Road
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=19.13
|exit=2
|road=Power Plant Parkway / Powhatan Parkway
}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=20.79
|mspan=2
|exit=1A
|road={{jct|state=VA|I|64|dir1=west|city1=Williamsburg|city2=Richmond|extra=airport|location3=[[NN/Williamsburg Airport]]}}
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance; I-64 exit 264
|type=incomplete}}
{{VAint|exit
|mile=none
|exit=1B
|road={{jct|state=VA|I|64|name1=[[Hampton Roads Beltway]] inner loop<!--is this signed here?-->|dir1=east|city1=Norfolk|city2=Virginia Beach}}
|notes=Northern terminus}}
{{jctbtm|exit|keys=incomplete}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commonscat|Interstate 664}}
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*[http://www.roadstothefuture.com/I664_VA_Desc.html Roads to the Future: Interstate 664 in Virginia]

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{{Water Crossings in the Hampton Roads Region}}

[[Category:Interstate Highways in Virginia|64-6]]
[[Category:Auxiliary Interstate Highways|64-6 Virginia]]
[[Category:Transportation in Chesapeake, Virginia|Interstate 664]]
[[Category:Transportation in Suffolk, Virginia|Interstate 664]]
[[Category:Transportation in Newport News, Virginia|Interstate 664]]
[[Category:Transportation in Hampton, Virginia|Interstate 664]]
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