Day 1 - Portland to Vancouver, Vancouver to Eugene and Corvallis My flight took me to Albuquerque, New Mexico as the stopover point, my first time there, and from there northwest to Portland International Airport. Coming in over the virtual desert of southeastern Oregon, the air thickened with smoke due to area wild fires and stagnant air from very hot weather. The peaks of Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams peaked [...]
Just wanted to mention a few updates to the site over the last week. First off Andy is continuing to add updates to the Interstate-Guide involving Northwest U.S. freeways. Of those updated, there is now a load of new coverage for I-5, I-82, I-84, I-182, and I-705. Continuing onward, I've been working on Springfield, Massachusetts area guides for northeastroads.com. The guides for I-91 and I-291 were updated, and a guide [...]
Situated in southwest Georgia is the mid-sized city of Albany. The city is the largest west of Interstate 75 and south of Columbus, and is also home to one of two freeways in far southwest Georgia that are not part of an Interstate highway. The freeway, known as the Liberty Expressway (though not signed as such), carries in part U.S. 19, U.S. 82, Georgia 3, Georgia 300, and Georgia 520 [...]
I was in Denver this weekend for the big IMTA map convention, and took a lot of photos of I-25, I-70, and I-225. I-25 and I-225 were under construction for many years as part of a rebuilding process called T-Rex. The project involved adding lanes, bridges, and two rail lines along the interstate corridors. The end result is impressive. Through Arapahoe County, I-25 is an unrelenting 10 lanes [...]
The craze now in various European capitals seems to be the Beltway - Vienna's S2, Budapest's M0, Belgrade, Skopje, Warsaw, etc. I came across this image of part of Stockholm's new Södra Länken (the Southern Link) - the southern part of the beltway there. It's a huge picture and makes for a great desktop wallpaper (click it), and it also shows something lacking on this side of the pond: any semblance of [...]
I-490 is a very short east/west freeway (just 2.43 miles long) south of downtown Cleveland, it connects I-90 with I-77. Each end features a multi-level stack and the eastern end is a stub, making this one of the more interesting tiny three-digit interstates out there. As always, click each image for a bigger one. The eastern end of I-490 at 55th St. The freeway was to have extended eastward. [...]
We took a full week to drive around and visit friends and family in the Pacific Northwest between Saturday August 26 and Saturday September 2. Among the goals of our trip was to finish clinching the Oregon and Washington Interstate systems, for me to visit Idaho and Montana for the first time, to meet fellow road enthusiasts Matt Strieby and Chris Kalina, and to explore the Columbia River Gorge and [...]
