🛣 Headlines About California Highways in June 2020

[cahwyguy]

Well, another month has passed. Seems like an eternity, but it was only 30 days. On my end, I've finally started on the site rework that will move to one highway per page, and get away from using tables to format (that's so HTML 1.0). Hopefully, CSS-willing, you'll see something sometime in July. For now, these headlines will have to do, so ready, set, discuss....

But first, only for AAroads, let me elaborate on the teaser above. The biggest change upcoming is the "one highway per page", which will move from 001-008.html#005 to ROUTE005.html . Each of these pages will now have navigation that can go to each section in the highway file, and for the long ones, to the geographical subsections. This is also being done for the county files. I'll have some Javascript in place so that those with pages with the old references won't have to change anything. I'm also moving away from using tables for formatting, and the older graphic icon menus, and I'm standardizing site navigation. I'm still walking through all the pages on the site before I upload, and I'm getting some help from Steve Sobel to figure out some CSS magic I need. Look for the upload in mid to late July, and of course I'll announce it here.

Here's the link to the headline post: https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=15902 . I expect there will be one or two controversial items in there.

Now, back to "ready, set, discuss..."

[ClassicHasClass]

One highway per page, in honour of one number per route? 

[cahwyguy]

One highway per page, in honour of one number per route? 

No, it is more that some pages, such as 001-008 (which had Route 1, Route 2, I-5, and I-8) or the page that had both Route 99 and US 101, were just getting gigantic. I wanted to make the pages much easier to navigate, especially if someone was looking at a page on a mobile device. I think folks will like it when it is uploaded and released.

[Max Rockatansky]

The aesthetics of electric lines over freeway grades is not pleasing to the eye.  I-5 is one thing but it would be a damn shame to electric lines over the freeway in Grapevine Canyon or most of US 101. 

Looks like I got my CA 282 photos when I did.  Getting into North Island is already a slog, I can't imagine it will get better once Coronado puts pedestrian features in.  I sure hope CA 75 has continuation signage, the route through town can be somewhat obtuse. 

[mrsman]

There is already a discussion going on in the Urban Planning forum regarding the L.A. Times Article that Daniel linked to with respect to the call to bulldoze the LA freeways because of racism.

That was a long sentence.

EDITED TO ADD LINK: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=27141.0

[kkt]

Yay for one number per route!

[cahwyguy]

There is already a discussion going on in the Urban Planning forum regarding the L.A. Times Article that Daniel linked to with respect to the call to bulldoze the LA freeways because of racism.

I'll just note as an aside that it was some of those issues that got me started: The seminal book for me was David Brosdley's "LA Freeway" (in addition to all my map collecting), which was his PhD Thesis at UCLA. One of the many things it explored was the impact of highways on neighborhoods for good and for bad. To excuse the expression, it isn't  always black and white, a distillation of sound bites -- but as with anything there are many factors and nuances.

Hopefully, those interested in discussing that article can do so over in the urban planning discussion.