Just wanted to mention a few updates to the site over the last week. First off Andy is continuing to add updates to the Interstate-Guide involving Northwest U.S. freeways. Of those updated, there is now a load of new coverage for I-5, I-82, I-84, I-182, and I-705. Continuing onward, I've been working on Springfield, Massachusetts area guides for northeastroads.com. The guides for I-91 and I-291 were updated, and a guide [...]
Situated in southwest Georgia is the mid-sized city of Albany. The city is the largest west of Interstate 75 and south of Columbus, and is also home to one of two freeways in far southwest Georgia that are not part of an Interstate highway. The freeway, known as the Liberty Expressway (though not signed as such), carries in part U.S. 19, U.S. 82, Georgia 3, Georgia 300, and Georgia 520 [...]
I was in Denver this weekend for the big IMTA map convention, and took a lot of photos of I-25, I-70, and I-225. I-25 and I-225 were under construction for many years as part of a rebuilding process called T-Rex. The project involved adding lanes, bridges, and two rail lines along the interstate corridors. The end result is impressive. Through Arapahoe County, I-25 is an unrelenting 10 lanes [...]
The craze now in various European capitals seems to be the Beltway - Vienna's S2, Budapest's M0, Belgrade, Skopje, Warsaw, etc. I came across this image of part of Stockholm's new Södra Länken (the Southern Link) - the southern part of the beltway there. It's a huge picture and makes for a great desktop wallpaper (click it), and it also shows something lacking on this side of the pond: any semblance of [...]
I-490 is a very short east/west freeway (just 2.43 miles long) south of downtown Cleveland, it connects I-90 with I-77. Each end features a multi-level stack and the eastern end is a stub, making this one of the more interesting tiny three-digit interstates out there. As always, click each image for a bigger one. The eastern end of I-490 at 55th St. The freeway was to have extended eastward. [...]
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 [...]
