The High Five Interchange, a fixture on the Dallas road scene for years now, is pretty much completed. Let's take a look at it. Dallas High Five Interchange flyovers. The High Five is located at US 75 and IH 635 in North Dallas. This freeway interchange was for years one of the worst bottlenecks in Dallas. Now, several hundred million dollars and many gallons of beige paint [...]
Jeff Royston sent us this great shot of a state name shield in Hawaii. Or is it Hawai'i? No word on if the DOT there has any plans to add the apostrophe, but its still a fantastic find. As always, click for larger. Interstate H1 confirming marker in Honolulu.
Yes, another Texas regional town post from yours truly - this time it's Paris. I've sent up two pages on it at our Texas portal Lonestarroads.com. Go check out Paris, and Paris Regional. Diagrammatic sign in Paris, Texas.
Tyler is a regional center in east Texas, with an area population of about 100,000. The city reminds me a lot of other cities - Tallahassee with its horrible loop, Wheeling with its little unexpected skyline, Kansas City with its unexpected hills. Here is a quick look at the goings-on in Tyler, Texas. Future SH 49 Toll corridor sign An incarnation of this sign has been sitting [...]
The Nihonbashi (which translates to "Japan Bridge") is decrepit bridge huddled under an elevated expressway, and spanning a little polluted river. Why is it important? Not only is it the site of Japan's oldest stone bridge it's also the nation's zero milestone and the starting point for a whole slew of national routes - including 1, 15, and 4 (signed) and 2,3,6 and 7 (on paper). The bridge sits [...]
Yokohama is about 30 miles south of Tokyo and is Japans' second largest city. The two cities, the nations' largest, were connected by one freeway until the late 1980s. The government could not figure out where to put a reliever route, so in true Japanese fashion, they built one in the coolest way possible - my making a bunch of islands connected by cable stayed bridges, tunnels, and 10-story high [...]
US 1 through the Florida Keys, from Key West to Homestead, FL is one of America's great drives - and now its covered extensively on AAroads. Alex and I went down there in March and May of this year and took a ton of photos. Check them out, on the Florida Keys pages.
Presenting: The Aqua Line! Little known outside of Japan and civil engineering circles, it is one of the coolest things in Japan to see. Not just because of the road, but because of the amazing view. The Aqua-Line is a bridge-tunnel complex that spans Tokyo Bay. It's a very important part of the regional road network because it connects the country's major international airport at Narita in Chiba Prefecture (east) [...]
While most of Japan is served by "National Routes" with the upside-teardrop shape (see the previous Japan post) Tokyo's Expressways are called "Shuto Expressways" and are managed by a different company, and have different route markers and different construction styles, different signs, all that. The routes even have their own numbering system. You can get a good map here (click) - it's in Japanese but as maps go, it's fairly [...]
I got to spend the last week and some in Japan, mostly Tokyo but with some time in rural Chiba and Kanagawa Prefectures. The freeway system in Tokyo is subpar for being the largest city in the world (or one of them) - but what's there is astounding. Lots of double decker elevated jobs winding through skyscrapers. There will be 6 Japan posts, this one is just a primer on [...]
