Monthly Archives: June 2007

Interstate 49 construction progresses

19 miles of the 37-mile stretch of future Interstate 49 between Interstate 220 and the Arkansas state line are currently under construction. Despite a $280 million shortfall, the $560 project is still expected to be completed by 2012. As mentioned in a previous blogpost, Arkansas has completed most of future Interstate 49 from Texarkana southward toward the Louisiana state line. Dubbed Arkansas 549, the new freeway ends three miles north [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00June 30th, 2007|Interstate Highways, Louisiana|5 Comments

Interstate 4 Guides Complete

Like the Polk County Widening, our highway guides for Interstate 4 throughout Florida are complete. Added were photos showing the new Exit 60 interchange with Florida 429 Toll (Daniel Webster Western Beltway), widening underway in Volusia County, completed widening in Polk, the new viaducts and carriageways in Tampa, and every east and westbound exit. Work still continues on Interstate 4 at the U.S. 192 interchange in northern Osceola and with [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00June 26th, 2007|Florida|2 Comments

New Interstate 475?

My co-worker Mark mentioned that in a recent Pinellas County Planning Organization meeting, the concept of upgrading the planned freeway of Bryan Dairy Road (Pinellas County 296), between Interstate 275 and U.S. 19 in St. Petersburg and Pinellas Park, Florida as Interstate 475. He says it was mentioned two or three times in the meeting. I've not found anything on their website to confirm this, nor can I find any [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00June 19th, 2007|Florida, Interstate Highways|3 Comments

Button Copy lives on the Sumter bypass

Low and behold there is some classic button copy left in South Carolina, and it is found on the U.S. 76 & 378 freeway bypass of Sumter. While button copy was erased from the Interstate system, the last signs coming down on Interstate 585 in Spartanburg in 2006, the freeway at Sumter provides a look at much older signing practices within the Palmetto State. The following photos from May 29, [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00June 14th, 2007|South Carolina|3 Comments

And speaking of U.S. 80…

We rendezvoused in Savannah last week and drove out to Tybee Island to see the east end of U.S. 80. Low and behold, and appropriate given the previous post, a new end sign is posted! The eastern terminus of US 80 Supposedly Tybee Island officials view San Diego as more of an exotic destination than say Dallas or Mesquite, even though U.S. 80 hasn't traveled to S.D. in [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:43-05:00June 4th, 2007|Georgia|2 Comments

Mommy help, there is a dead US highway ghost under my bed

US 75 originally connected Canada with the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. That all changed in 1987 when it was truncated to end in Dallas. South of Dallas, the remaining segments that were not on IH 45 became SH 75. Currently, Texas is updating all of its big green signs in the new (and stupid) Clearview font. On the new signs along IH 45, every mention of SH 75 along [...]

By |2018-01-17T15:31:51-05:00June 3rd, 2007|Texas, U. S. Highways|6 Comments
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