Global InformationHeartland Expressway information
Heartland Expressway | |
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| High Priority Corridor 14 | |
 Heartland Expressway highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 498 mi (801 km) |
| Existed | 1988–present |
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| Major junctions | |
| South end |     I-70 BL / US 24 / US 40 / US 287 in Limon, CO |
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| North end |     I-90 / US 14 / US 16 Truck in Rapid City, SD |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
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The Heartland Expressway (also known as the National Highway System High Priority Corridor 14) is a federally-designated High Priority Corridor between Limon, Colorado, and Rapid City, South Dakota in the US. The proposed four-lane corridor is currently[when?] under construction, and when completed, will function as the central third of the Ports-to-Plains Alliance, connecting the Ports to Plains Corridor and Theodore Roosevelt Expressway via the Nebraska Panhandle. When completed, the highway will provide multi-lane, divided-highway access to cities including Alliance, Nebraska; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; and Brush, Colorado, bringing long-term economic development and reducing travel times in the region.[1]
The proposed $500 million highway is part of a larger project that would create an international trade corridor from Canada to Mexico for the region’s abundant energy and agricultural products, with local community leaders long promoting its completion. Up to $943 million in economic benefits is estimated for the region over a 38-year span as a result of the project, through increased traffic volume, travel time savings, improved connections among trade centers, better labor access, improved access to manufacturing centers, better connections between agricultural centers and markets, better access between raw materials and processors, better access for tourists to local fossil sites,[2] and bring an estimated average of $2.5 million annual savings from accident reduction, 385-950 additional annual jobs, and $9.5 million to $24.8 million in annual earnings.
- ^ "Heartland Expressway". Heartland Expressway. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- Great Plains International Trade Corridor Assessment (PDF). September 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2018.{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)
- Heartland Expressway: Corridor Development and Management Plan, Final Report. Retrieved March 10, 2018. - ^ "Opinion: Heartland Expressway". StarHerald.com. May 20, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- Palmer, Jane (December 14, 2003). "Fossil Freeway" (PDF). Sunday World-Herald. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- Koterba, Jeffrey (February 17, 2018). "Editorial: Transportation Department, Historical Society coordinate well on archaeology needs". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved March 10, 2018.