I-70 (Kansas Turnpike) at the parclo A2 interchange with K-10 (S Lawrence Trafficway) at Lawrence. 10/31/16 Working westward from Kansas City in the Sunflower State, added new pages for several Kansas Highways. K-5 - a route northwest from Kansas City to Leavenworth, with a short freeway that was originally part of Interstate 635. K-7 - a long route stretching north from Oklahoma to Nebraska, with sections of freeway and expressway [...]
A high flyover connects I-35 north with I-70/U.S. 24-40-169 westbound along the Lewis and Clark Viaduct linking the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri with Downtown Kansas City, Kansas. 10/07/21 Finishing up with updates from our recent roadtrip to the Midwest/Great Plains. The morning of October 7, 2021, we did a loop around Kansas City covering a few things that have changed since the last photos shot [...]
There are no plans from MODOT to extend I-57 south to the U.S. 67 freeway in Arkansas currently. The Breathitt Parkway north from Nortonville to Henderson was designated as a northern extension of I-69 in 2015. The 34 mile stretch of the parkway south from the Western Kentucky Parkway was previously unnumbered. Signed by the President on May 5, 2017, H.B. 244 designates U.S. 67 north from Interstate [...]
Day 2 of the whirlwind trip took us around the Shreveport freeway system, northward along new Interstate 49 to Arkansas, around Texarkana on the new I-369 and AR 549 freeways, and northeast to a revisit of the Little Rock Interstates. Meandering southeastward, we crossed the doomed Clarendon Bridge over the White River toward U.S. 49 through Helena-West Helena into Mississippi. Zigzagging southward, we ended up in Vicksburg. Interstate 220 provides [...]
Some notes and photos from a holiday drive northward from the Gulf Coast area to Iowa. Day 1 focused on the Interstate 55 corridor northward to Sikeston, Missouri. The day started out foggy, with lots of standing water from recent floodwaters over southern Mississippi. The the sun shined northward to Grenada, where murky skies set in and remained in place throughout the week U.S. 84 shifted from its [...]
Interstate 540 is a two-parter. The southern section runs from the Oklahoma state line and bypasses Fort Smith and runs over the wide Arkansas River to end at I-40 northeast of the city. The newer, northern section, runs north from I-40 to the state's northwest metro area. Continuing on our future-Interstate-49 trend, lets take a look at I-540 in Arkansas. This view looks eastward at the Arkansas State [...]
Ahh, Texarkana. They say it is "twice as nice" but it is not "twice as many interstates nice" because I-49 is not here yet. Regardless of your maps, the freeway stretching south of Texarkana is signed only as AR 549. No "Future I-49" signs here, no sir. Here it is, plus some AR 245 goodness. AR 549 is an all concrete facility, with lanes 2×2 but a small [...]
