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Interstate 310 (I-310), also designated as Mississippi Highway 601 (MS 601), is a proposed auxiliary route of
I-10 Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost cross-country highway in the American Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at , following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally pl ...
in Gulfport, Mississippi. It is planned to travel from US Highway 90 (US 90) near the
Port of Gulfport Gulfport is the second-largest city in Mississippi after the state capital, Jackson. Along with Biloxi, Gulfport is the co-county seat of Harrison County and the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan ...
to I-10. The route is part of the High Priority Corridor 100(B), Central Mississippi Corridor, as part of the I-14 extension project.


Route description

The road is planned to travel from I-10 in the northern part of the city south to US 90 near the Port of Gulfport and downtown Gulfport. Officials want the highway to be as close as possible to the port so it can be accessed easily.


History

The highway's designation was at first considered to be I-210, but, because the Interstate is going to the port and not going to connect back to I-10 forming a loop, the road was numbered I-310; I-110 was already taken in nearby Biloxi. The original state highway designation for the freeway was proposed as Mississippi Highway 977 (MS 977) but has since been changed to MS 601. The design of the highway began in 2005 and the right-of-way acquisitions started in 2006. This put the estimated completion date to 2012. Construction was supposedly started in 2008, but, , construction had not started. The Mississippi Department of Transportation wanted the road to be an elevated freeway like its sister road, I-110. When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act designated an extended future I-14 corridor that would encompass the original "14th Amendment Highway" and "Gulf Coast Strategic Highway" concepts, future I-310/MS 601 became part of the High Priority Corridor 100, the Central Mississippi Corridor, part B. The corridor would extend from the northern terminus of future I-310 northward following US 49 to US 98 near Hattiesburg, before heading northward on
I-59 Interstate 59 (I-59) is an Interstate Highway located in the southeastern United States. It is a north–south route that spans from a junction with I-10 and I-12 at Slidell, Louisiana, to a junction with I-24 near Wildwood, Georgia. ...
to Laurel.


See also

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References


External links


Interstate 310 on Interstate-guide.com
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