Interstate 585

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Interstate 585 (abbreviated I-585) stretches from an Interstate 85 Business loop to Spartanburg, South Carolina. I-585 is co-signed the entire length with U.S. Highway 176 and uses its exit number system instead of its own. Between exits 23 (I-85 Business) and 25B (U.S. Highway 221) the road is a freeway but has substandard or no shoulders. To the south of exit 25B, U.S. 176 becomes a surface road but there exist I-585 shields in this region (Photos: [1] from [2], [3] from [4]). There also exists a red and blue "I-585 Business spur" shield at U.S. Highway 29 (Photo: [5] from [6]), making it unclear whether I-585 terminates at exit 25B and the road from there to U.S. 29 is I-585 Business, or I-585 extends upto U.S. 29.

The spur was once connected to Interstate 85 from 1957 till 1997. That year, I-85 was moved north to by-pass Spartanburg, leaving I-585 an orphan, seggregated from the rest of the Interstate Highway system. There are plans in the future to extend I-585 along U.S. 176 to I-85's new location.

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