Imagine how things would be different if I-29 and I-35 were in different places? Back in 1947, the planned highway system in the KC metro had a different look.
Here is a zoomed in view of the Line Creek Valley area. It looks like the future I-29 was to follow the old Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad line that went along North Troost by Englewood Park and zig-zagged in and out through Gladstone, wound up at the intersection of North Oak and Barry, and eventually Smithville. At some point around NW 72nd Street, the future I29 went northwest towards Old Tiffany Springs Road and I-29.
Parkville would have been a little different with a Missouri River bridge connecting right to downtown via Kansas. This would have connected to the never built "Jersey Creek Freeway" through the heart of Kansas City, Kansas. A one block portion of that freeway was built as part of the downtown KCK spaghetti bowl interchange and connects Washington to I-70 behind the existing/vacant(?) EPA chemistry lab.
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