Interstate 865 (I-865) is an east-west auxiliary Interstate
Highway northwest of Indianapolis.
I-865 was originally part of I-465. The north-south
section of the current I-465 between I-65 and the current I-865 was
originally not part of I-465. That section of the highway was to be signed as
Indiana State Road 100. However, seven months before the completion of SR-100,
the federal government approved the request to make it part of I-465. This
resulted in an unusual T intersection of all three branches of I-465 at the
current junction of I-865 and I-465.
This unusual configuration caused confusion among
motorists, being described as “the 465 connector”, “the 465 extension”, “the
465 dogleg”, “465 second section” and “the 465 ramp to 65 north”. The renaming
of this branch of I-465 to I-865 fixed that problem.
At the time of the
renaming, officials chose “I-865” rather than the also available “I-665” because
they concluded that 9-1-1 operators would more easily understand the combination
of “8” and “65”.
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