Interstate 59

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Template:Routeboxint Interstate 59 (abbreviated I-59) is an interstate highway in the southern United States. Its southern terminus is near Slidell, Louisiana at an intersection with Interstate 10 and Interstate 12 (Map); its northern terminus is at Lookout Mountain, Georgia at an intersection with Interstate 24 (Map).

Contents 1 Length 2 Major cities 3 Intersections with other interstates 4 Spur routes 5 Notes 6 References

Length

Miles	km
11	18	Louisiana
171.716	276.350	Mississippi
241	388	Alabama
20.67	33.27	Georgia
444	715	Total

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)
• Interstate 20 at Meridian, Mississippi (Map). They stay joined until Birmingham, Alabama.
• 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

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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
• Template:Citepaper

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