Spent the final day, or what I thought was to be the final day, mainly around the Elkhorn vicinity of west Omaha. We also took a short drive northwest to Fremont to document the freewayization of U.S. 275 to U.S. 30.
As I wrote about in a previous post, NDOR (Nebraska Department of Roads) is indeed upgrading all of U.S. 275 into a freeway from Fremont southeast to West Dodge Road (Nebraska Link 28B) at west Omaha. Progress is much further along than I anticipated as interchanges are already open at Blondo Street and Military Avenue, and work is partially complete at the east junction with U.S. 30 and U.S. 30 Business. Additional work is underway involving what I believe to be constructing a bridge over Luther Road and the parallel BNSF Railroad, and building a diamond interchange with Morningside Road within the Fremont vicinity. Work is expected to be completed on the Morningside Road and U.S. 30 interchanges by Fall 2007. I am unsure about the Luther Road grade separation.

U.S. 275 leaves U.S. 30 westbound at the partial-cloverleaf interchange with U.S. 77 north of Fremont. U.S. 77 & 275 travel north nine miles to Winslow; U.S. 30 continues along the Fremont bypass as an expressway with at-grade intersections to its merge with U.S. 30 Business at 23rd Street.
Furthermore, NDOR may build a southeast bypass of Fremont for U.S. 77, joining the federal highway with the U.S. 275 freeway at the Morningside Road diamond interchange. Called the Fremont Southeast Beltway, the at-grade facility will include five intersections. Work may begin in 2014 and preliminary costs range up to $20 million. http://www.dor.state.ne.us/projects/fremont-se-beltway/
As for the end of my trip, severe thunderstorms in the Dallas-Fort Worth area curtailed all flights to and from DFW International Airport that night. Therefore myself and several others ended up spending another night in the Omaha area until flights resumed in the morning…
It also looks like you hit areas of Omaha I haven’t seen before. I’ll have to check it out when I head down to California this June!