Question: Which states does the current US route 23 run through that we’re originally called the pine gap?

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Interstate 475 (Ohio): Interstate 475 (I-475) is an Interstate Highway in Ohio that is a 20.37 mi western bypass of Toledo.  The southern terminus is I-75 exit 192 near Perrysburg.  From the southern terminus to exit 14, I-475 is co-signed with US Route 23 (US 23), and is signed the north/south section of I-475.  From exit 14 to the eastern (northernmost) terminus at I-75 exit 204 in central Toledo, (north of downtown), it is signed the east/west section of I-475.

Virginia State Route 293: State Route 293 (SR 293) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.  The state highway runs 7.05 mi between intersections with U.S. Route 29 Business (US 29 Business) on the south and north sides of the independent city of Danville.  SR 293 is the original alignment of US 29 through Danville, which has been twice bypassed: first by what is now US 29 Business and later by the current US 29 freeway.

Lehew, West Virginia: Lehew is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia on the Virginia line.  Lehew is located on Timber Ridge along West Virginia Route 259 at its crossroads with H.G. Brill Road (County Route 23/4) and White Pine Ridge Road (County Route 23/12).

East Stone Gap, Virginia: East Stone Gap is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Virginia, United States.  East Stone Gap is an eastern suburb of Big Stone Gap; U.S. Route 23 separates the two settlements.  East Stone Gap has a post office with ZIP code 24246.

Pine Gap: Pine Gap is the commonly used name for an Australian Earth station approximately 18 km south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States.  Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.

Pound Gap: The Pound Gap of Pine Mountain is on the Virginia/Kentucky border between Jenkins, Kentucky and Pound, Virginia.  It served as a passage for early settlers to cross into Kentucky from Virginia.  Today, U.S. Route 23 passes through the gap.

U.S. Route 23: U.S. Route 23 (US 23) is a long north–south U.S. Highway between Jacksonville, Florida, and Mackinaw City, Michigan.  It is an original 1926 route which originally reached only as far south as Portsmouth, Ohio, and has since been extended.

Blair Gap: Blair Gap, one of the gaps of the Allegheny is a water gap along the eastern face atop the Allegheny Ridge or Allegheny Front escarpment.  Like other" 'gaps of the Allegheny' "the slopes of Blair Gap were amenable to foot travel, pack mules, and possibly wagons allowing Amerindians, and then, after about 1778-1780 settlers, to travel west into the relatively depopulated Ohio Country decades before the railroads were born and tied the country together with steel.  Historically, the gap was used for the upper sections of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, which as was authorized by the enabling acts in 1824 of Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works as part of the Pennsylvania Canal System which originally envisioned linking Pittsburgh to Philadelphia by canals.  In the early 1900s, US Route 22 followed alongside the watercourse through the gap.

Wayne Route 23 Transit Center: The Wayne Route 23 Transit Center is a mass transportation hub located in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.  Operated by NJ Transit, the complex consists of two major components.  One is a bus terminal that provides service to Port Authority Bus Terminal, Newark Penn Station, and intermediate points in the surrounding area.  The other is a train platform that is connected to the Montclair-Boonton Line and offers service to Hoboken Terminal, connecting service to New York Penn Station, and local service to points between Montclair State University and Hackettstown.  It is located off of the southbound lanes of New Jersey Route 23 on West Belt Road, near the interchange where Route 23, I-80, and US 46 meet, across from the Willowbrook Mall.  The station opened in January 2008 and has 1,000 parking spaces.  New Jersey Transit intends for this combined rail and bus station to become an "interceptor station," that will help relieve the habitual congestion at the West Belt Road Interchange, where the three major highways meet.  In addition, the construction of the station was meant to also ease the congestion at what was then Route 23 Park & Ride, a bus depot on Route 23 North that has since been renamed Mother's Park & Ride, and the Willowbrook Mall Park & Ride; the now-Mother's site had limited parking while NJT was having trouble with overfull parking areas at Willowbrook.

New Jersey Route 23: Route 23 is a state highway in the northern part of New Jersey in the United States.  The route runs 52.63 mi from County Route 506 (Bloomfield Avenue) and County Route 577 (Prospect Avenue) in Verona, Essex County northwest to the border with New York at Montague Township in Sussex County, where the road continues to Port Jervis, New York as Orange County Route 15.  Route 23 heads through Essex and Passaic Counties as a suburban arterial varying from two to four lanes and becomes a six-lane freeway north of a complex interchange with U.S. Route 46 and Interstate 80 in Wayne.  The freeway carries Route 23 north to a concurrency with U.S. Route 202.  Past the freeway portion, the route heads northwest along the border of Morris and Passaic Counties as a four- to six-lane divided highway with a wide median at places, winding through mountainous areas and crossing Interstate 287 in Riverdale.  The route continues northwest through Sussex County as a mostly two-lane, undivided road that passes through farmland and woodland as well as the communities of Franklin, Hamburg, and Sussex before reaching the New York border just south of an interchange with Interstate 84 near High Point State Park.

Supporting paragraphs: Pound Gap U.S. Route 23
Answer: Virginia/Kentucky