Day 2 of the trip involved generally spending time in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the associated metropolitan area. Some photos and thoughts from the day: Ramp meters on the ramp from Minnesota 100 south to I-494 west. Minneapolis-St. Paul is one of several metropolitan areas that institute the use of ramp meters. The premise of such meters is to limit the amount of merging traffic during peak [...]
Started the day in west Omaha on U.S. 275 and U.S. 6 (West Dodge Road) and quickly departed for Minneapolis by way of Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Worthington, Albert Lea, and Faribault to the Twin Cities. As written about in a previous post, the West Dodge Road freeway is now wholly complete between U.S. 275 and Interstate 680. The final portion of this project are the twin viaducts carrying U.S. [...]
Just got back from a five-day trip to Omaha, Minneapolis, and the Upper Midwest. I will post photos and observations from my travels over the next few blog posts. Here's a taste of what I saw. 'The worst state highway ever,' South Dakota 10 between Interstate 29 and Minnesota 28. Not only does the road become a gravel stripeless road, but at one point South Dakota 10 transitions [...]
As requested, here is a map showing the proposed Foley Beach Express extension set to begin construction as soon as late this spring. The Wolf Bay Bridge and associated road location are approximate based upon news article descriptions. The Foley Beach Express extension follows existing segments of Baldwin County 28 South and Baldwin County 83 northward to Baldwin County 64. Where Baldwin County 64 turns east toward Interstate [...]
Charlotte's Beltway grew by several miles in mid-December 2006 with the opening of Interstate 485 between Interstate 85 and North Carolina 27 (Mt. Holly Road). The segment is the first to open north of Interstate 85. Steve Delery sends us the following photos covering the newest section of Interstate 485 from early April 2007: Interstate 485 northbound continues through the interchange with Interstate 85. Until December 15, 2006, [...]
Four major highways serve the greater Spokane area. They are Interstate 90, U.S. 2, U.S. 195, and U.S. 395. U.S. Of those, only Interstate 90 is a full freeway, although U.S. 2 does constitute a freeway towards Spokane International Airport. Growth currently focuses on the U.S. 2 & 395 (Division Street) corridor leading north from central Spokane to their split near Country Homes. At present Division Street provides the main [...]
Unfortunately the servers at the hosting company for AARoads.com and the AARoads Blog went down on Thursday for a period of almost 48 hours. During this shut down, email, blog posts and comments made throughout this week (April 2-6) were lost. Things were restored last evening and hopefully will not undergo such a long down period again. Thanks for bearing with us.
I've put the finishing touches on all of our current Interstate 95 main line coverage from the state of Maine online this evening, completing the southbound guide from the Falmouth Spur (unsigned Interstate 495) to the New Hampshire state line. The Interstate 95 guides are the first covering the state of Maine on AARoads. Others including the rest of the Interstates, U.S. 1, etc. will follow. Since the new year, [...]
Work involving the West Dodge Road project in Omaha enters the final stages... At stake is the upgrading of U.S. 6 (West Dodge Road) to a full freeway from Interstate 680 west to 132nd Street in west Omaha by replacing the surface expressway alignment with a pair of three-lane viaducts above and parallel to the original roadway. Before construction, West Dodge Road existed as a six-lane expressway complete with east [...]
Construction began January 19, 2007 on the newest toll facility in the greater Orlando metropolitan area, that of the John Land Apopka Expressway (Maitland Boulevard Extension). Planned since the late 1990s initially as a free arterial route, the highway became under the jurisdiction of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority when funding was unavailable for the original Maitland Boulevard extension. Design work is now complete on the 5.5-mile long Stage 1 [...]
