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As part of the 1968 Federal Highway Act, Tennessee requested some interstate corridors. None of those requests were approved but 3 of them eventually became interstate corridors later: I-22, I-181, and I-69. Below are the ones that never got off the ground and never had a definitive number in mind:
Mystery Interstate Corridor #1: I-75 Cleveland east to the North Carolina line. Tennessee sent a revised request list shortly after their submission and this corridor was removed. But for a fleeting moment, Tennessee wanted to connect I-75 to Asheville NC. There was no corresponding request from North Carolina. This corridor, along US 64-74 did get designated as part of Appalachian Corridor K.
By 1970, two more interstate requests had been submitted, neither of which ever came to pass either... Mystery Interstate Corridor #4: I-55 at Crump Blvd. through downtown Memphis, then east back to I-240. This was the Riverfront and Northwest Expressways. A small bit of the Northwest Expressway was later built as TN 300 (future I-69). Between I-55 and I-40 would've been feasible for the Riverfront Expressway but north of I-40 would've taken out a lot of buildings.
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