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I-555 - Official End

Started by edwaleni, September 23, 2018, 06:00:48 PM

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bwana39

It appears that part of the reasoning to convert it to IH is to get tractors off the roadway.
Let's build what we need as economically as possible.


edwaleni

Quote from: bwana39 on November 22, 2020, 07:29:24 PM
It appears that part of the reasoning to convert it to IH is to get tractors off the roadway.

I would believe you except to get the I-555 name they had to get a waiver to allow tractors between Marked Tree and Payneway.

No one wanted to pay for a frontage/service road across the sunken lands.

bwana39

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Quote from: edwaleni on November 24, 2020, 09:58:51 AM
Quote from: bwana39 on November 22, 2020, 07:29:24 PM
It appears that part of the reasoning to convert it to IH is to get tractors off the roadway.

I would believe you except to get the I-555 name they had to get a waiver to allow tractors between Marked Tree and Payneway.

No one wanted to pay for a frontage/service road across the sunken lands.
https://vpiph01-i555-extension-hwy-49-hwy-91-jonesboro-ardot.hub.arcgis.com/ Select the presentation.
There may be a waiver, but ARDOT's presentation says point blank at the 4:11 mark "NO TRACTORS"
This is about the portion North of US-49. The Marked Tree to Paneway section is further south on a portion that had already been certified as I-555 years previously.
Let's build what we need as economically as possible.

edwaleni

Quote from: bwana39 on November 24, 2020, 05:57:32 PM
Quote from: edwaleni on November 24, 2020, 09:58:51 AM
Quote from: bwana39 on November 22, 2020, 07:29:24 PM
It appears that part of the reasoning to convert it to IH is to get tractors off the roadway.

I would believe you except to get the I-555 name they had to get a waiver to allow tractors between Marked Tree and Payneway.

No one wanted to pay for a frontage/service road across the sunken lands.
https://vpiph01-i555-extension-hwy-49-hwy-91-jonesboro-ardot.hub.arcgis.com/ Select the presentation.
There may be a waiver, but ARDOT's presentation says point blank at the 4:11 mark "NO TRACTORS"
This is about the portion North of US-49. The Marked Tree to Paneway section is further south on a portion that had already been certified as I-555 years previously.

Thanks, I thought you were referring to the entire route.

Mapmikey

Arkansas Highway Commission approves I-555 extension to AR 91 pending FHWA approval.

See page 8 of the Dec 2020 minutes - https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Admin-Cir.-2021-02-Minutes-of-the-Dec.-9-AHC-Meeting.pdf

yakra

Mapmikey, where do you get your links to minute orders?
I've been going to https://www.ardot.gov/foi-freedom-of-information/minute-orders/ but it doesn't have anything as recent as what you just posted.
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Mapmikey

Quote from: yakra on May 29, 2021, 09:28:19 PM
Mapmikey, where do you get your links to minute orders?
I've been going to https://www.ardot.gov/foi-freedom-of-information/minute-orders/ but it doesn't have anything as recent as what you just posted.

https://www.ardot.gov/administration/arkansas-state-highway-minute-orders/

Is behind a couple months (Feb 2021 most recent) but otherwise has stuff back to 1953...

Roadgeekteen

I saw this pop up and I thought I-55 was getting decommissioned.
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MikieTimT


wdcrft63

Quote from: MikieTimT on November 29, 2021, 02:58:14 PM
It's now officially designated to AR-91/Dan Ave.

Interstate 555 Designation in Jonesboro
What are the chances I-555 will be extended to the projected I-57?

Bobby5280

Quote from: MikieTimTIt's now officially designated to AR-91/Dan Ave.

Funny thing: Google Earth has already applied the update. Visually it makes more sense for I-555 to extend NW that last bit to the edge of Jonesboro where the freeway ends.

Quote from: wdcrft63What are the chances I-555 will be extended to the projected I-57?

I think chances are slim, but not totally impossible. The problem is the obstacles North of the I-555/AR-91 exit. The road narrows to an undivided 4-lane facility closely flanked by properties. That would likely force an I-555 extension onto a new terrain path. The US-63 bypass around Bono is also problematic, mainly at its split with Bus-63 on the South side of Bono. North of that problem spot, a freeway upgrade of US-63 would be pretty easy.

The other bigger problem is Arkansas already has too many irons in the fire with regard to other Interstate corridors. Finishing I-57 and I-49 are bigger priorities. Perhaps if Missouri was more aggressive at upgrading US-60 to Interstate standards from Springfield to Sikeston that might give Arkansas more of a reason to upgrade the US-63 corridor from Jonesboro to Walnut Ridge and up to Mammoth Spring at the border. US-63 in Missouri from Thayer up to West Plains has upgrade potential. But I think that hinges on US-60 being Interstate quality across Southern Missouri first. If such a larger scale upgrade of US-63 from Jonesboro up to West Plains were to happen the I-555 designation might be dropped in favor of a 2 digit designation.



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