The first section of Maryland's 6-lane toll freeway the Intercounty Connector opened yesterday. The project, which has some of the highest tolls in the United States, has its own website complete with interactive maps http://www.iccproject.com/project-area.php. It is the first new freeway in the Washington DC area in several decades.
The Amstutz Expressway (known as "the Amstutz" and "the road to nowhere") is a portion of Illinois State Route 137 north of Chicago that runs along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Originally intended to be a relief route for I-94 and run from Chicago north into Wisconsin, the road was never completed and today only small two portions exist: a short stretch in North Chicago and another through Waukegan. The North [...]
Working on another overhaul of our Mobile, Alabama area guides to coincide with an overall update for our Baldwin County ones. Getting to here quite often leads to our noticing of several small changes to signs and roads. Our latest round of updates reflects some of these... The latest Clearview sign to appear on a Mobile area Interstate, this of a westbound mileage sign posted along Interstate 10 [...]
The R9 ring road in Charleroi, Belgium runs pretty close to the city center. What makes it unique is that the entire freeway is one-way, an idea which may work well in other places. Photo by Chris Stegehuis, used with permission.
Here is a look at I-95 in Rhode Island as it appeared in 1982. I-195 was recently re-routed in the "Iway" project, and the old ROW is currently being demolished. Photo by Dave Watts, used with permission.
