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Started by yakra, October 17, 2012, 02:25:26 AM

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yakra

The Route 1 Gateway project will open October 25, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2012.10.0907.html
http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/news/newscanada-route1-gateway-project
This will make all 240km of NB 1 a four-lane freeway, from the US Border in Saint Stephen to TCH 2 near River Glade. :clap:

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I'm wondering, for purposes of the Clinched Highway Mapping project...
* Google shows Route 760 extended east along old Route 1 until the Manor Road Connector, taking that to end at Exit 52. Does Google have this right?
* How about old Route 1 from Pennfield to Lepreau? Know if this will be taken over by either Route 176 or 785?
Wikipedia's Exit list suggests 785, but I haven't seen corroborating info anywhere else.
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker


ghYHZ

Quote from: yakra on October 17, 2012, 02:25:26 AM
The Route 1 Gateway project will open October 25, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

Great!

With Route 1 complete and the new bridge crossing at St. Stephen/Calais......this is a faster route for me to Bangor compared to NB95/I95 via Woodstock/Houlton.

Route 9 in Maine, the Airline might only be 2 lanes but I can usually "fly"  through there at a pretty good speed. Not many towns between the Border and Bangor.     

Dougtone

Quote from: yakra on October 17, 2012, 02:25:26 AM
The Route 1 Gateway project will open October 25, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2012.10.0907.html
http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/news/newscanada-route1-gateway-project
This will make all 240km of NB 1 a four-lane freeway, from the US Border in Saint Stephen to TCH 2 near River Glade. :clap:

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I'm wondering, for purposes of the Clinched Highway Mapping project...
* Google shows Route 760 extended east along old Route 1 until the Manor Road Connector, taking that to end at Exit 52. Does Google have this right?
* How about old Route 1 from Pennfield to Lepreau? Know if this will be taken over by either Route 176 or 785?
Wikipedia's Exit list suggests 785, but I haven't seen corroborating info anywhere else.

From what I saw a couple of weeks ago, old NB 1 between Lepreau and Pennfield will be replaced by NB 175.  There were already some signs installed (and tarps were revealing enough) that stated this.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/8075811968/

yakra

HOLY SOAP!@
It's a whole new designation!
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

yakra

Ch Manor Rd Connector (Av?) & Rte 760?
Looks like the eastward extension of NB 760 is confirmed!
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Transportfan

Quote from: ghYHZ on October 17, 2012, 04:24:42 AM
Quote from: yakra on October 17, 2012, 02:25:26 AM
The Route 1 Gateway project will open October 25, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

Great!

With Route 1 complete and the new bridge crossing at St. Stephen/Calais......this is a faster route for me to Bangor compared to NB95/I95 via Woodstock/Houlton.

Route 9 in Maine, the Airline might only be 2 lanes but I can usually "fly"  through there at a pretty good speed. Not many towns between the Border and Bangor.     

I wonder why I-95 was built up to Houlton rather than to Calais to connect to NB 1. That would would have created a more logical connection to cities in the Maritimes than running to the border farther north in a remoter location.

AsphaltPlanet

New Brunswick Route 1 looks like a nice drive!
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ghYHZ

Quote from: Transportfan on October 23, 2012, 02:43:40 PM
I wonder why I-95 was built up to Houlton rather than to Calais to connect to NB 1. That would would have created a more logical connection to cities in the Maritimes than running to the border farther north in a remoter location.

Probably to give Aroostook County the benefit of a modern controlled access highway even though it would be 2-lane for a number of years. And at Houlton......it's only 10 miles to a link with the Trans Canada at Woodstock, NB.

But if I-95 was to have been a link to the greater population centres of the Maritimes......Saint John, Moncton and Halifax......agreed......a link to NB1 would have been the more logical choice.

vdeane

An Aroostook County STILL wants I-95 up the rest of the US 1 corridor to this day.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

agentsteel53

Quote from: deanej on October 25, 2012, 11:13:07 AM
An Aroostook County STILL wants I-95 up the rest of the US 1 corridor to this day.

and then down Maine 11?

the last of US-1 has some very low traffic rates. 
live from sunny San Diego.

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Stephane Dumas

Quote from: ghYHZ on October 25, 2012, 06:39:26 AM


Probably to give Aroostook County the benefit of a modern controlled access highway even though it would be 2-lane for a number of years. And at Houlton......it's only 10 miles to a link with the Trans Canada at Woodstock, NB.


And I spotted this archived copy of Mike Natale's toll roads on Archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20020614122005/http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~mn2n/tollme.html  who mentionned then the Maine Turnpike once studied the possibility to extent the Maine Turnpike up to Fort Kent.

yakra

I'm not sure that they ever *studied* extending it that far north per se - he looks to be referring to the original legislation that created the Maine Turnpike Authority, and authorized them to build a turnpike, if I remember the wording, "from a point at or near Kittery to a point at or near Fort Kent"

Edit: Back to the original topic, The NB1 Gateway opened today!
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2012.10.0991.html
:sombrero:
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Pilgrimway

I'll miss the drive along NB1 from St Stephen to Saint John. It was one of my favorite drives.  I love the huge Esso sign near Pennfield.

Alps

Quote from: Pilgrimway on October 30, 2012, 06:42:08 PM
I'll miss the drive along NB1 from St Stephen to Saint John. It was one of my favorite drives.  I love the huge Esso sign near Pennfield.
Well, then still go that way, nothing's stopping you.

yakra

Can't go directly from 45.166329°, -66.934515° to 45.160239°, -66.919861° anymore...
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Alps

Quote from: yakra on November 02, 2012, 01:04:18 AM
Can't go directly from 45.166329°, -66.934515° to 45.160239°, -66.919861° anymore...
According to the map, you can't clinch NB 1 unless you can get on that segment though.



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