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	interstate highways in alabama
	interstate highways in georgia u.s. state
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	Article Route	59
	Type	Main
	Year Established
	Length Mi	444
	Length Km	715
	Direction A	South
	Direction B	North
	Terminus A	I-10 and I-12 near Slidell, LA
	Terminus B	I-24 in Lookout Mountain, GA

Interstate 59 (abbreviated '''I-59''') is an at an intersection with Interstate 24 '''( Map )'''.


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MAJOR CITIES

Bolded cities are officially-designated Control Cities for signs.

• New Orleans, Louisiana (via Interstate 10 )


• Slidell, Louisiana


• Hattiesburg, Mississippi


• Laurel, Mississippi


• Meridian, Mississippi


• Tuscaloosa, Alabama


• Birmingham, Alabama


• Gadsden, Alabama


• Chattanooga, Tennessee

INTERSECTIONS WITH OTHER INTERSTATES

• Interstate 10 and Interstate 12 at Slidell, Louisiana ( Map )


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• Interstate 65 at Birmingham, Alabama


• ---The interchange of I-20/59 and I-65 is commonly referred to as " Malfunction Junction "


• Interstate 24 at Lookout Mountain, Georgia ( Map )

SPUR ROUTES

• Tuscaloosa, Alabama - I-359


• Birmingham, Alabama - I-459


• Gadsden, Alabama - I-759

NOTES

• The road's major purpose was to connect Birmingham, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana , parallel with U.S. 11 .

• A 145-mile stretch of I-59, between Meridian, Mississippi and Birmingham, is joined with Interstate 20

• Many wrecks and accidents occur near the interchange of I-20/59 and I-65 in Birmingham. On two occasions, 18-wheelers crashed and burned fiercely enough to melt the support beams of overpasses. Because of the frequent and severe wrecks, this interchange is nicknamed " Malfunction Junction ".

• The stretch of I-59 through Laurel, Mississippi features two very sharp curves with posted speed limits of 40 miles per hour, one of the slowest on the interstate system.

• I-59 is also Georgia State Highway 406, though this is only in GDOT records, and there are no signs to indicate this.

• At 4:00 PM on August 27, 2005, for the first time in its history, the southbound lanes of Interstate 59 were temporarily redirected north to accommodate evacuation for Hurricane Katrina . This was a previously agreed to joint plan by the state of Mississippi and Louisiana called Contraflow Lane Reversal . The program began at the Mississippi-Louisiana state border and continued 21 miles north to the town of Poplarville, Mississippi .

REFERENCES

• 2005 Rand McNally "The Road Atlas 2005" - newest feature- interstate mileage by state


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