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#11

International Highways / Re: Philippine expressway syst...

Last post by bing101 - April 25, 2024, 10:32:34 PM

Here is an Update on the CLLEX. 

#12

Traffic Control / Re: Is Georgia finally getting...

Last post by ran4sh - April 25, 2024, 10:21:00 PM

The exit to US 23 rightly deserves an exit only panel since that lane drops.

This isn't a lane drop, the exit uses a regular deceleration lane. I don't think it would make sense to drop a thru lane right before a major system interchange.

#13

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by Scott5114 - April 25, 2024, 10:14:12 PM

This is on US Route 2 at the Idaho and Montana border. I don't think I've seen a sign that actually said state line: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZbUjEXdFeByQtAuR8

Fairly common in Kansas where the state line falls on a bridge or some other location where installing a full-size graphical welcome sign is difficult: I-435 west, I-435 south. The standard graphical sign will then be installed a little ways down the road where it's more convenient. It helps that it pairs well with the standard "Xxxxx/COUNTY LINE" sign that Kansas uses.

#14

Sports / Re: NFL (2024 Season)

Last post by Ted$8roadFan - April 25, 2024, 08:36:11 PM

New England Patriots select NC QB Drake Maye at #3.

#15

Mountain West / Re: US 93 In Arizona Progress

Last post by pderocco - April 25, 2024, 08:36:09 PM

The design for an interchange was completed four years ago for Pierce Ferry Road

https://azdot.gov/planning/transportation-studies/us-93-pierce-ferry-road-feasibility-study

May have mentioned this before, but quite bizarre.  The idea to build a "half interchange", instead on building the whole thing at once.  Is that what "T1" stands for, a half assed attempt?  Seems stupid to get a contract let again, spend more later, get a contractor out to the remote site again, later, to build the rest of the interchange when they feel like it.  Almost seems as if Pete Rahn has his grimy hands into the design.   At least no skewing or shifting of mainllines appears present.   

I thought it said TI, not T1, and assumed it stood for tee interchange. But whatever. It looks like the way it is designed, none of it wouldn't have been needed had they decided to do the whole thing at once, so it seems reasonable.

#16

Sports / Re: NFL (2024 Season)

Last post by epzik8 - April 25, 2024, 08:34:39 PM

Williams, Daniels, Maye first three picks. Stunner.

#17

General Highway Talk / Re: Road-Geeky Things Of The P...

Last post by bing101 - April 25, 2024, 07:11:45 PM

I miss the Union 76 Clock Tower between former Highway 480 at I-80 Bay Bridge in San Francisco. I remember this as a kid when I lived in the city. It was a roadgeek favorite.

That location is now One Rincon Hill towers in San Francisco that took the spot of the former CA-480 ramp and former Union 76 Tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Rincon_Hill

#18

Southeast / Re: I-40 in North Carolina

Last post by ARMOURERERIC - April 25, 2024, 07:07:52 PM

I did not know about the public meetings on 40/64 hence did not attend.  My biggest agitation is that the local paper supposedly showed online all the alternatives, and a tight diamond was NOT one of them.  Even now, on local discussion forums many are like "where did that stupid option come from"?  I'm curious if the FHA approved  an option that the locals did not really have a chance to comment on.  All the other proposals had a 2 or 3 lane left turn pocket from 64w to 40e, a properly built tight diamond is going to need a 7 lane bridge for 64, 2 lanes each direction for 64, 2 lanes for left turns on 64 w, and 1 lane for lefts on 64e and the will have to be concurrent on the bridge due to the close signal spacing.  Hell the SPUI had a triple left, so obviously there was a noticeable need.

What stinks 8s with all these interchanges that were supposed to be done by 2020 now being pushed back, NCDot is having to spend millions just to keep 70 years old bridge decks usable for another 20 years.

#19

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Ohio

Last post by GCrites - April 25, 2024, 07:05:29 PM

An enormous amount of Columbus' highway mileage is elevated or trenched (especially for such a flat area). Trenching you can sometimes do something with but elevated is tough. A scant amount of it is at or near the elevation of the surrounding land. That's the easiest scenario to beautify.

#20

Mid-South / Re: US 281 Expansion in Blanco...

Last post by texaskdog - April 25, 2024, 06:43:03 PM

Like in Fred

I don't see what use a US 281 freeway would be for anyone who is currently going along I-35.

Long haul commercial traffic going to/from Mexico and points in the US well North/Northeast of the DFW metro would use such a route to bypass the highly populated Austin and DFW metros. If US-281 was built as a freeway up to Wichita Falls it would connect directly into I-44 (which connects back into I-35 in OKC).

A better quality US-281 route would also improve military traffic between bases/posts in the San Antonio area, Fort Hood in Killeen and Fort Sill next to Lawton.

Also, I'd think twice before building an Interstate Highway through Texas Hill Country.

US-281 already cuts a fairly wide and direct path through the Hill Country. It wouldn't be hard to upgrade that highway to Interstate standards, even if it is flanked by frontage roads. The main areas where new terrain paths would be needed is for limited access bypasses in towns like Blanco, Johnson City, Burnet and Lampasas. Even if the rural stretches of US-281 are never upgraded to Interstate standards it's likely bypasses will be built for those towns in the not so distant future.

Upgrading US 281 to interstate standards would mean building it to a design speed of 75 mph. That's going to require flattening a lot of hills in Hill Country. And those frontage roads will sever natural habitats.

Perhaps kernals12 has no idea how badly it is needed for U.S. 281 and other nearby Corridors to be upgraded. When ever on Interstate 35 any lanes close or all the traffic just stops for what ever reason, there are aggressive Commercial Drivers that want to go next, and shouts at other drivers that are In " Their " Way. Simply get most of these Commercial Drivers on U.S. 281 which all ready needs the additional lanes to be constructed.

I would not describe Interstate 35 as Flat.

You know that there are solutions to I-35's congestion besides paving over Hill Country, right? And this route would lure a very small percentage of the current traffic on I-35 simply because it goes through the middle of nowhere.

That is the thing, the traffic is coming whether you plan for it or not. So plan for it.

Why there is not a plan to reroute around Blanco is weird. And most towns would fight a re-route around town.

Like in Fredericksburg they stopped it. The town is a destination already.