Interstate 530

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Interstate 530
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

46.65 mi^[1] (75.08 km)

Formed:

1997 (completed 1999)^[2]

South end:

US 63/US 65/BUS US 65/US 79/US 425/AR 190 in Pine Bluff, AR

Major
junctions:

US 270 in White Hall, AR

US 167 south of Little Rock, AR

North end:

I-30/I-440/US 65/US 167 in Little Rock, AR

Highways in Arkansas

Interstate 530 (abbreviated I-530) in Arkansas is a nearly 47 mile (76 km) long spur route from Little Rock at the junction of Interstate 30 and Interstate 440 in the northwest, to Pine Bluff in the southeast. The current route was formerly designated as U.S. Highway 65; that designation continues. It formally gained the I-530 designation after a full interstate-grade bypass of Pine Bluff (known locally as the Wiley Branton Highway) replaced a less-than-interstate segment of U.S. 65 through Pine Bluff (known locally as the Martha Mitchell Expressway, now U.S. 65B); U.S. 65 was moved to the bypass shortly before it became I-530.

A planned extension of the route (away from U.S. 65) continues it to U.S. Highway 278 in Wilmar, Arkansas; the first segment of it, from U.S. 278 north to Arkansas 35, opened as a two-lane freeway called Arkansas Highway 530 on June 6, 2006. [1] This extension is intended to connect to the proposed southern extension of Interstate 69; U.S. 278 at Wilmar also provides four-lane access to the future I-530 from the much larger cities of Warren and Monticello, thus allowing both cities to champion its completion.

Currently the I-530 interchange in Pine Bluff is under construction and is scheduled for completion in late 2010.^[3]

[edit] Route description

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At the US Highway 167 junction (Exit 10), US 167 can only be accessed by southbound I-530 and not northbound. Used to until a few years ago you would use a median crossover to access US 167 South from I-530 North. Due to a number of severe and fatal accidents the crossover was taken out and to access US 167 South from I-530 North you have to use the Bingham Road (Exit 9) exit and crossover the over pass and get back onto I-530 South.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] Exit list

County	Location	#	Destinations	Notes
Pulaski	Little Rock		I-30 east / U.S. 65 north / U.S. 167 north – Downtown Little Rock	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		1A	I-440 east – Little Rock National Airport, Little Rock River Port, Memphis	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		1B	I-30 west – Hot Springs, Texarkana	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		3	Hwy. 338 (Dixon Road)
		7	145th Street, Pratt Road
		9	Bingham Road
Saline		10	U.S. 167 south – Sheridan, Fordyce, El Dorado	South end of U.S. 167 overlap; no northbound exit
Saline		12	Woodson
Pulaski		15	Hensley
Jefferson		20	Hwy. 46 – Redfield
		24	Jefferson, National Center for Toxicological Research
		27	Image:Jefferson County Route 4.svg CR 4 (Gravel Pit Road)
		30	Hwy. 104
	White Hall	32	Hwy. 256 – White Hall, Pine Bluff Arsenal
		34	Image:Arkansas 365S.svg U.S. 270 / Hwy. 365S – White Hall, Sheridan
		35	Image:US 65B.svg U.S. 65B south - Downtown
		36	Princeton Pike
		37	Hwy. 190 (West 13th Street)
	Pine Bluff	39	Image:US 79B.svg U.S. 79 south / U.S. 79B north – Rison, Fordyce, Camden	North end of U.S. 79 overlap
		41	Old Warren Road
		42	Hazel Street
		43	Image:US 63B.svg U.S. 63 south / U.S. 63B north – Warren, El Dorado	North end of U.S. 63 overlap
		46	Image:US 65B.svg U.S. 63 north / U.S. 79 north / U.S. 65B north / Hwy. 190 – Stuttgart	South end of U.S. 63/U.S. 79 overlap; southbound exit and northbound entrance
			U.S. 65 south (U.S. 425 south) – Dumas, McGehee, Lake Village	Southbound exit and northbound entrance