We took a full week to drive around and visit friends and family in the Pacific Northwest between Saturday August 26 and Saturday September 2. Among the goals of our trip was to finish clinching the Oregon and Washington Interstate systems, for me to visit Idaho and Montana for the first time, to meet fellow road enthusiasts Matt Strieby and Chris Kalina, and to explore the Columbia River Gorge and [...]
I had an IM with my friend Jack earlier this evening and he asked when the next New York update would come to the site. I mentioned the I-490 and I-590 updates from last month, but that I had nothing on the imediate agenda with my continued work on the Florida Keys and a brief focus on Washington/Oregon with updates from Matt Strieby. Anyway, I still have a lot of [...]
The Cleveland Memorial Shoreway is a fantastic road that runs almost right along Lake Erie through downtown and northeastern Cleveland. It is signed, portionally, as Ohio 2 and I-90. The city of Cleveland has drafted and approved a plan to tear down a long elevated section of the freeway to turn into an at-grade urban boulevard - all in the name of urban renewal. Luckily, AARoads has it well photographed now. [...]
We decided to head to Picnic Island in south Tampa today, but first I wanted to document the historic west end of U.S. 92 in Tampa today for Dale Sanderson. For a period of time, U.S. 92 traveled west to Tampa from Plant City and ended at U.S. 41 (Nebraska Avenue) via Hillsborough Avenue. The highway was then extended west to its present terminus in St. Petersburg (junction of Florida [...]
Cleveland's Public Square is the heart of the city, and is the home of the termini for US 42, 322, and 422 along with a host of Ohio state routes. In addition, US 6 and US 20 pass through the square. The US 42 end sign in Cleveland's Public Square Public Square features specialized brown signs on each side, the one that interested me the [...]
My mind wanders a lot, especially about roads, and tonight ever so randomly I was thinking of bridges, and bridges in New York City and its metro in particular. So with that stated I thought I would share some images of bridges not covered on AARoads or new coverage not yet added. These images will eventually be added to North East Roads @ AARoads, but for now here's a few [...]
I spent the better part of the last 8 days traveling around the upper Gulf Coast in southern Alabama and northwest Florida. I drove much of U.S. 98 along the coast in northwest Florida and U.S. 90 parallel to Interstate 10 east of Crestview and again through Tallahassee. Also covered was just about every road in the lower third of Baldwin County, Alabama. The coloured U.S. highway shields in Panama [...]
I headed out to El Paso on Monday to attempt to get some updated photos and add to our coverage around the city. Key word was attempted - due to an extreme monsoonal flow, most of the photo opportunities were rained out. Greenout has come to Texas - all of the older exit numbers on US 54 were covered with Clearview greenout on both the Exit tab and the number [...]
I decided to take a break from my updates to U.S. 1 and the creation of Florida Keys guide to do a spot update on Upstate New York. So I created new guides for Interstate 590, the eastern half of the Outer Loop freeway at Rochester, New York, on North East Roads @ AARoads. Last year I had the opportunity to visit western New York on two occasions to visit [...]
As I slowly attack my backlog of photos, I've added some more pics from US 59 in Houston, as well as a roadmap from 1972. LoneStarRoads has not made it out to West Texas to see the 80 MPH Speed Limit (trust me, I want to). On IH-10, the 80 MPH speed limit applies from El Paso County (approximately mile 61) to Kerr County (approximately mile 520). On IH-20, the [...]
