Memphis, Tennessee

==== Highways ====
[[Interstate 40 (Tennessee)|Interstate 40]], [[Interstate 55 (Tennessee)|Interstate 55]], [[Interstate 22]], [[Interstate 240 (Tennessee)|Interstate 240]], [[Interstate 269]], and [[Tennessee State Route 385|State Route 385]] are the main expressways in the Memphis area. Interstates 40 and 55 cross the Mississippi River at Memphis from the state of [[Arkansas]].<ref name=tdotmap>{{cite map |author = Tennessee Department of Transportation Long Range Planning Division Office of Data Visualization|title = Shelby County|year = 2018|url =https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/maps/county-maps-(us-shields)/o-w/Shelby%20County.pdf|publisher = [[Tennessee Department of Transportation]]}}</ref> [[Interstate 69 in Tennessee|Interstate 69]] is a proposed interstate that, upon completion, would connect Memphis to Canada and Mexico.<ref name=tdottimeline>{{cite web|url=https://www.tn.gov/tdot/projects/region-4/interstate-69-corridor/interstate-69-corridor-timeline.html|title=Interstate 69 Corridor Timeline|author=<!--Not stated-->|website=tn.gov/tdot|publisher=[[Tennessee Department of Transportation]]|access-date=May 8, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604140725/https://www.tn.gov/tdot/projects/region-4/interstate-69-corridor/interstate-69-corridor-timeline.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

I-40 is a coast-to-coast freeway that connects Memphis to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] and on to [[North Carolina]] to the east, and [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], [[Oklahoma City]], and the [[Greater Los Angeles Area]] to the west. I-55 connects Memphis to [[St. Louis]] and [[Chicago]] to the north, and [[Jackson, Mississippi]] and [[New Orleans]] to the south. I-240 is the inner beltway which serves areas including Downtown, Midtown, South Memphis, [[Memphis International Airport]], East Memphis, and North Memphis.<ref name=tdotmap /> I-269 is the larger, outer interstate loop immediately serving the suburbs of [[Millington, Tennessee|Millington]], Eads, [[Arlington, Tennessee|Arlington]], [[Collierville, Tennessee|Collierville]], and [[Hernando, Mississippi]]. It was completed in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last=Garland|first=Max|date=October 26, 2018|title=I-269's completion marked with ribbon cutting in DeSoto County, opening its final stretch|url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2018/10/26/269-desoto-county-mississippi-connecting-55-and-40/1772633002/|work=The Commercial Appeal|access-date=May 5, 2020}}</ref>

Interstate 22 connects Memphis with [[Birmingham, Alabama]], via northern Mississippi (including [[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]]) and northwestern Alabama. While technically not entering the city of Memphis proper, I-22 ends at I-269 in [[Byhalia, Mississippi]], connecting it to the rest of the Memphis interstate system.

Interstate 69 is proposed to follow I-55 and I-240 through the city of Memphis. Once completed, I-69 will link Memphis with [[Port Huron, Michigan]] via [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], and [[Brownsville, Texas]] via [[Shreveport, Louisiana]] and [[Houston, Texas]].<ref name=tdottimeline />

A new spur, [[Interstate 555]], also serves the Memphis metro area connecting it to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]].

Other important federal highways though Memphis include the east–west [[U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee|U.S. Route 70]], [[U.S. Route 64 (Tennessee)|U.S. Route 64]], and [[U.S. Route 72 (Tennessee)|U.S. Route 72]]; and the north–south [[U.S. Route 51 (Tennessee)|U.S. Route 51]] and [[U.S. Route 61 (Tennessee)|U.S. Route 61]].<ref name=tdotmap /> The former is the historic highway north to Chicago via [[Cairo, Illinois]], while the latter roughly parallels the Mississippi River for most of its course and crosses the [[Mississippi Delta]] region to the south, with the Delta also legendary for Blues music.

'''Roadways'''

Memphis maintains 6,800 lane-miles of city roadways. The city collaborated with [[Google Cloud Platform]] and SpringML in February 2019 to test [[machine learning]] (ML) to improve public services. A key focus is pothole identification using [[TensorFlow]] technology.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Baolin Liu|first=SpringML|date=February 2019|title=Partnership with City of Memphis to Improve City Services|url=https://www.springml.com/blog/partnership-with-city-of-memphis-to-improve-city-services/|website=SpringML.com}}</ref> Public Works personnel completed 63,000 repairs, with around 7,500 of those reported by citizens to 311.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rodriguez|first=Michael|date=April 25, 2019|title=Machine Learning for Improved Services: Potholes|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machine-learning-improved-services-potholes-michael-rodriguez/|website=LinkedIn.com}}</ref>