Interstate 110 (I-110) is a freeway spur route in

Biloxi, Mississippi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

, running south from I-10 to U.S. Route 90 (US 90). It is one of very few places on the

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utilizing a drawbridge. The southbound control city is Biloxi, with a series of bridges out over the

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at the southern terminus. There is no northbound control city; the road is marked with trailblazers reading "TO I-10" instead. It ran entirely concurrently with Mississippi Highway 15 (MS 15), until MS 15 was truncated to I-10. The route of I-110 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

Route description

I-110 begins at an interchange with US 90 on the

Biloxi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

. The ramps to and from US 90 eastbound pass over the gulf and the beach. From US 90, the ramps from eastbound US 90 and from westbound US 90 merge, and the route heads north as a four-lane

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through residential and commercial areas, passing over

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's NO&M Subdivision railroad line. The highway comes to a southbound exit and northbound entrance serving Division Street. Farther north, I-110 comes to a southbound exit and northbound entrance with Bayview Avenue. After this, the freeway crosses the Biloxi Bay on a drawbridge into D'Iberville. Here, the road comes to a

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with Rodriguez Street and continues north through areas of homes and businesses. I-110 reaches its northern terminus at a cloverleaf interchange with I-10, at which point the road continues north as MS 15/ MS 67.

History

Completed in the late 1980s, it is the latest interstate to be numbered I-110. In 2012,

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(MDOT) officials started a project to extend I-110 past the Sangani Boulevard intersection across the

Tchoutacabouffa River The Tchoutacabouffa River () is a river located in Harrison County, Mississippi. The river's mouth is located just north of the city of Biloxi at Biloxi Bay and south of present-day Interstate 10. Located at a latitude of 30.435 and longitude of ...

back into

city proper to end at an intersection with Brandon James Drive. The extension would include a new overpass for Sangani Boulevard/Promanade Parkway and a new interstate-grade intersection between I-110 and Sangani/Promanade. The project was slated to be completed in the middle of 2013.

Exit list

References

External links

Interstate 110 Mississippi
@ Interstate-Guide.com

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