Nashville, Tennessee Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Highways==== Nashville is centrally located at the crossroads of three [[Interstate Highway System|Interstate Highways]], [[Interstate 40|I-40]] (east-west), [[Interstate 24 in Tennessee|I-24]] (northwest-southeast) and [[Interstate 65|I-65]] (north-south). I-40 connects the city between [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to the west and [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]] to the east, I-24 connects between [[Clarksville, Tennessee|Clarksville]] to the northwest and [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]] to the southeast, and I-65 connects between [[Louisville, Kentucky]] to the north and [[Huntsville, Alabama]] to the south. All three of these interstate highways, which also serve the suburbs, form brief [[concurrency (road)|concurrencies]] with each other in the city, and completely encircle downtown. [[Interstate 440 (Tennessee)|Interstate 440]] is a bypass route connecting I-40, I-65, and I-24 south of downtown Nashville. [[Tennessee State Route 155|Briley Parkway]], the majority of which is a [[controlled access highway|freeway]], forms a bypass around the north side of the city and its interstates. Ellington Parkway, a freeway made up of a section of [[U.S. Route 31E in Tennessee|U.S. Route 31E]], runs between east of downtown and Briley Parkway, serving as an alternative route to I-65. [[Interstate 840 (Tennessee)|Interstate 840]] provides an outer southern bypass for the city and its suburbs. [[United States Numbered Highway System|U.S. Routes]] [[U.S. Route 31 in Tennessee|31]], 31E, [[U.S. Route 31W in Tennessee|31W]], [[U.S. Route 31A|31 Alternate]], [[U.S. Route 41 in Tennessee|41]], [[U.S. Route 41 Alternate (Monteagle, Tennessee–Hopkinsville, Kentucky)|41 Alternate]], [[U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee|70]], [[U.S. Route 70S|70S]], and [[U.S. Route 431 in Tennessee|431]] also serve Nashville, intersecting in the city's center as arterial surface roads and radiating outward. Most of these routes are called "pikes" and many carry the names of nearby towns to which they lead. Among these are Clarksville Pike, Gallatin Pike, Lebanon Pike, Murfreesboro Pike, Nolensville Pike, and Franklin Pike.<ref>{{cite map |author = Tennessee Department of Transportation Long Range Planning Division Office of Data Visualization|title = Davidson County|year = 2018|url =https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/maps/county-maps-(us-shields)/a-g/Davidson%20County.pdf|publisher = [[Tennessee Department of Transportation]]}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page