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South Mississippi’s newest highways
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South Mississippi’s newest highways

Mississippi

South Mississippi’s newest highways

Coming to fruition within the last few years are two new state highway alignments in Harrison County, Mississippi. The first is Mississippi 605, a highway designated along the previously unnumbered Lorraine and Cowan Roads between U.S. 90 and Interstate 10 and northward onto a new four-lane facility to Mississippi 67 at Traditions Parkway. Second is the new four-lane alignment of Mississippi 67, a 19-mile route with expresswaylike characteristics between U.S. [...]

By Alex|2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00March 30th, 2009|Mississippi|1 Comment

Foley Beach Express north extension
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Foley Beach Express north extension

Alabama

Foley Beach Express north extension

Took a ride to south Baldwin yesterday and checked out the status of road work at the current north end of the Foley Beach Express. According to a WKRG report http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/another_hurricane_evacuation_route/17752/ from August of last year, work on the $26 million project to extend the four-lane roadway will take 5 to 7 years and initial construction involves two miles. Well after a field check, only 1.5 miles of new road [...]

By Alex|2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00March 9th, 2009|Alabama|Comments Off

Save your quarters in Orlando, you’re gonna need them…

The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority is making moves toward a 25 cent toll increase at all 14 toll plazas and most toll ramp facilities in the greater Orlando area. The OOCEA covers about 105 miles of toll roads in the central Florida region such as Toll Florida 408, 417, 429 and the newly partially opened Toll Florida 414. Some motorists are against this type of increase and have already suggested [...]

By Brent Ivy|2018-01-17T14:40:18-05:00February 19th, 2009|Florida|2 Comments

An old girl learns new tricks

Texas Stadium is being replaced with a new Dallas Cowboys stadium opening later this year in a suburb further west. The old stadium opened in 1971 and with it a flurry of freeways and ramps designed to allow for traffic to and from the venue. As the stadium grew up, so did Irving, the suburb surrounding it. Traffic volumes on the freeways surrounding the stadium area grew and grew and [...]

By Justin|2018-01-17T14:42:30-05:00January 23rd, 2009|Texas|2 Comments

Ready, set, gonglu!

Going further afield again, this time to China. It's no secret that China is the world's hottest economy right now. The Chinese are flexing that muscle in the same way that America did in the 1950s - they're building massive amounts of freeway (known as gonglu in Chinese). By the end of the next decade, China will have more freeway miles than the United States and drivers will be able [...]

By Justin|2018-01-17T14:43:13-05:00January 22nd, 2009|China, Interstate Highways|Comments Off

Ring around the posey

American cities may be attempting to be more European, what with pedestrianization and density being buzzwords in urban planning communities, but Europe is emulating the US in one way: ring roads. While some roads like London’s M25 or Paris’ Peripherique are famous – many former Warsaw Pact countries are racing to update their infrastructure to adapt to their new status in the European Union, and it seems that the first [...]

By Justin|2018-01-17T14:45:59-05:00January 22nd, 2009|Europe|1 Comment

Florala 55/85 spotting
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Florala 55/85 spotting

Alabama, Florida

Florala 55/85 spotting

Today I took a little jaunt up and over to US 331 to see if by chance I could find any remaining colored shields along the route. Alas, as previously told to me, none were found. Along my journey today though, I found an oddity. I stumbled across a reassurance shield assembly located in Florala, Alabama for Alabama 55 and Florida 85, just south of the intersection with US 331. [...]

By Brent Ivy|2018-01-17T14:46:35-05:00January 14th, 2009|Alabama, Florida|Comments Off

What’s with Pascagoula anyway?
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What’s with Pascagoula anyway?

Alabama, Interstate Highways, Louisiana, Mississippi

What’s with Pascagoula anyway?

Speaking of carbon copying signs, perhaps it is about time that Interstate 10 guide signs in Mobile County, Alabama reflect Biloxi and/or New Orleans? Pascagoula made sense when Interstate 10 was originally built, because the freeway defaulted onto U.S. 90 at the state line for many years before Mississippi completed its portion. Nowadays, Pascagoula makes little sense, as Interstate 10 travels through Moss Point, Pascagoula's neighbor to the north, and U.S. 90, [...]

By Alex|2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00January 13th, 2009|Alabama, Interstate Highways, Louisiana, Mississippi|10 Comments

Time to Carbon Copy more Signs!
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Time to Carbon Copy more Signs!

Delaware

Time to Carbon Copy more Signs!

Every time I see a Wilmington News Journal sign tidbit such as today's http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090112/NEWS/90112006/-1/updates?GID=C1R9A4E9Z/HpnFG4+iSdxRnJNbSThsoydRJACoK+G9I%3D, I know that DelDOT is yet again carbon copying signs that usually don't need replacing in their current form (but should be updated to reflect new information, which they will not be). All the while the state budget continues to run at a deficit and the economic recession continues to worsen: Work on overhead traffic signs [...]

By Alex|2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00January 12th, 2009|Delaware|3 Comments

Road news from Navarre

Just some road news from the Navarre neck of the woods... U.S. 98 to Change December 19, 2008 Several safety upgrades to U.S. 98 at Mustang and Coral streets in Navarre, will be made in the new year, according to the Santa Rosa County Engineering Department. Santa Rosa County spokeswoman Joy Tsubooka said Improvements include closing the median opening on U.S. 98 at Mustang Street; removing the U.S. 98 westbound [...]

By Brent Ivy|2018-01-17T14:57:55-05:00December 19th, 2008|Florida|Comments Off

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