Had planned a roadtrip for New York City and the Upstate for next week, but with the ongoing COVID19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, curfews, etc, threw that idea out last week. Nonetheless, was already working on revising the New York section of the site, starting with converting all remaining overview pages for Interstate and U.S. Highways still in old html. With those revisions, scan old maps for just about [...]
Went to Orlando over the weekend and realized that we never updated the page for Florida State Road 435 (Kirkman Road) south. The arterial joins I-4 with Universal Orlando, and the interchange joining the freeway with SR 435 was rebuilt as part of the I-4 Ultimate project. Although still not completed, the ramps have already been realigned and left exits from I-4 to SR 435 removed. Posted complete coverage [...]
Continuing site additions for roads in western Missouri, completed updates for Kansas City area Interstates. This includes photos taken last week along Interstate 29 north to St. Joseph. Added photos covering all of I-470 south and west from Independence to the Three Trails Crossing Memorial Highway interchange. Also added four photos eastbound at I-49. Replaced some westbound photos along Interstate 670 (11/03/16). Replaced southbound photos along Interstate 29 from [...]
Posted over 450 photos covering the Kansas City area Interstate system from June 18-19, 2015 and October 30-31 and November 3, 2016. New pages for Interstate 35 north and south in Kansas City, Kansas New page for Interstate 70 east from Bonner Springs to the Missouri state line. Added photos for Interstate 70 west from Kansas City to Bonner [...]
Continuing site work for the Upper Midwest/Great Plains in preparation for an upcoming roadtrip, shifted focus to South Dakota and the Sioux Falls area. Replaced all April 20, 2007 photos on the southbound guide for Interstate 229 with photos from our previous trip to the state in August 2016. Also added photos covering all of I-90 eastbound in Minnehaha County and westbound from [...]
Spent the bulk of website work this week adding content from the Upper Midwest from trips taken in September 2005, April 2007, June 2015 and March 2016. I-80/US 77 at I-180/US 34 - Lincoln, NE I-680 at 130th St - Crescent Twp, IA Updates for Missouri: New page for Interstate 229 at St. Joseph. Updated pages for Interstate 29 in Kansas City, with new coverage north to [...]
Happy New Year! Spent part of the holidays going through a few thousand photos covering Illinois Interstates to fill in some page gaps for I-57 and I-80, plus finally make a page for Interstate 180. Interstate 57 north at the Tri State Tollway (I-294) at Markham, Illinois. The first of six ramps at the exchange opened in 2014. 06/20/15 Prior to 2014, Interstate 57 and the [...]
Due to ongoing construction of the new I-74 Mississippi River Bridge, the current mainline of westbound Interstate 74 through the Quad Cities utilizes several ramps and at-grade crossings on both ends of the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge. Iowa-bound traffic utilizes a portion of the new bridge approach to the future eastbound off-ramp to River Drive in Moline. From there motorists connect with River Drive and the adjacent [...]
U.S. 34 crosses the Great River Bridge over the Mississippi River from Gulfport, Illinois to Burlington, Iowa. Continuing with Iowa updates on the site, added the rest of the U.S. 34 photos from 2016 and 2018, covering westbound through Burlington and West Burlington. From the same daytrips, also added new pages covering U.S. 61 north from Burlington to Interstate 280 in Davenport. Grading for U.S. 61 expansion at [...]
Website updates starting late last week and continuing to December 12 have focused on our long backlog of photos throughout the state of Iowa. The bulk of the site content focused on eastern Iowa, with several daytrips originating from the Quad Cities. Decided to expand westward starting with Interstate 80, which now has 2013-16 photo coverage from West Des Moines eastward and westward to the South Mixmaster Interchange where [...]
