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Cofounder of AARoads.com. Webmaster of both AARoads and Interstate-guide.com. Former cartographer for Mapsource, Inc. and Universal Map Group, LLC. Map specialist for GIS Cartography & Publishing Services.

Boston and Vermont Roadtrip (Day 2 – Boston, MA; Providence, RI and points in between)

Spent Saturday redriving many of freeways of metro Boston, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts. Started things off by heading northward into the Big Dig and then northeast across the Tobin Bridge to the U.S. 1 Northeast Expressway. A repainting job is underway along the Tobin Bridge at mid-span. U.S. 1 was once touted as part of the through-city routing of Interstate 95 through Boston. A section of the highway is [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:41-05:00August 12th, 2007|Massachusetts, Rhode Island|Comments Off on Boston and Vermont Roadtrip (Day 2 – Boston, MA; Providence, RI and points in between)
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Boston and Vermont Roadtrip (Day 1 – Delaware to Boston, MA)

The beginning of a week plus trip that took us northward from Delaware/Philadelphia to Boston for several days and from there to Lake Champlain in Vermont for a 5-day vacation... We started our journey just south of the Pennsylvania state line, beginning first with a visit to the Pennsylvania Welcome Center to obtain the latest copy of the Pennsylvania State Highway Map. Construction is present along all of Interstate 95 [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:41-05:00August 12th, 2007|Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania|3 Comments
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Clearview Font Debuts in Florida

OOCEA-installed Clearview font on SR 417 Steven Delery sends us a photo of new overheads installed on the Central Florida Greeneway northbound for Florida 408 Toll (East-West Expressway). New Clearview signs are generally located on the eastern outskirts of Orlando. This particular assembly replaced these signs.

By |2018-01-18T15:21:41-05:00August 8th, 2007|Florida|1 Comment
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Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse

As much of the country is aware, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed during the peak traffic hours of August 1, 2007 near downtown Minneapolis. Without any notice, the 1964-built bridge deck plummeted into the waters of the Mississippi 64 feet below, sending drivers and their vehicles into the river in an instant. It remains unclear as to what was the exact cause of the bridge failure, [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:41-05:00August 8th, 2007|Interstate Highways, Minnesota|2 Comments
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Delaware Toll Increases

The 2008 State Budget for Delaware passed this Summer and in it are changes that will affect many drivers through Delaware. At stake in the $3.28-billion budget are increases in tolls on both Interstate 95 at the Delaware state line and the SR 1 Turnpike between Dover and Christiana. Tolls for Interstate 95 will increase from $3.00 per passenger vehicle to $4.00. Each of the SR 1 Turnpike plaza tolls [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:41-05:00July 22nd, 2007|Delaware, Interstate Highways|Comments Off on Delaware Toll Increases
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Upper Gulf Coast Road Projects

A recent trip from Florida to Biloxi shed some light on new and ongoing construction projects throughout the upper Gulf Coast. First, a widening project is well underway now along Interstate 10 through the Tallahassee area. Dubbed "Moving I-10 Forward", the work involves widening the freeway between milepost 194 and Exit 202, reconstructing the U.S. 27 half-cloverleaf interchange with more graceful ramps, and adding new ramps between Interstate 10 and [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00July 21st, 2007|Alabama, Florida, Interstate Highways, Mississippi|4 Comments
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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
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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
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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
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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
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