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Southeast / Re: Interstate 87 (NC-VA)

Last post by epzik8 - Today at 08:32:50 PM

NCDOT announcing lane closures along US 64 (Future I-87) at Old Carriage Road in Nash County as part of a bridge widening project that is replacing the 2-lane 1960 bridge with a presumably 4-lane interstate standard one:
https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2024/2024-05-01-us-64-exit-detour.aspx

Finally North Carolina is bringing their highway bridges into the modern age.

[Virginia.]

#2

Traffic Control / Re: Guess the Special Route Ch...

Last post by Hunty2022 - Today at 08:21:49 PM

The state is Virginia.

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Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Illinois: Round Mile Mark...

Last post by JoePCool14 - Today at 08:20:35 PM

And these are just the ones IDOT marks in the wild.  District 1 has a number of unmarked state routes that lack any sort of signage whatsoever to denote them as state routes, including the circular postmiles.  The spur of the IL-53 freeway between Dundee Road and Lake-Cook Road comes to mind as just one example.

"A number" is an understatement. It's wild how many roads IDOT has jurisdiction over up here. I argue that's part of the issue of why IDOT can't get ahead. They just have too many lane miles to manage, many of which are lowly roads that should be county or even local routes.

#4

Mid-South / Re: DFW Projects Thread

Last post by Stephane Dumas - Today at 08:19:55 PM

GSV added a view of the I-30 eastbound frontage road recently opened between TX-190/President George Bush Tpk and Dalrock road.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BCTcHyh5zAE8Djmy6

#5

Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by JayhawkCO - Today at 08:01:50 PM

Why not just be open 24 hours?

I worked at a 24-hour Burger King for a while, and there was about a 30 minute period each day where we had to go cash-only because the registers were doing an end-of-day reset which totally locked us out of them. It wasn't a huge deal because the location was inside a casino food court, so people usually had cash on them. But if we were in a normal situation where everyone wanted to pay with a card, it would probably make more sense to just close.

In addition to just general end of night stuff, a break would be nice for general cleaning too.

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Pacific Southwest / Re: Interstate 11 alignment, t...

Last post by US 395 - Today at 07:46:18 PM

So I saw another I-11 sign assembly on current 515. It is between Russell Road (65) and Galleria (64B) going southbound. I pointed it out to my wife and she said the shield can be changed to 11 but Vegas people will call it 95 regardless (she's from Vegas).

#7

Pacific Southwest / Re: Interstate 11 alignment, t...

Last post by US 395 - Today at 07:41:03 PM

When they do, I wonder if they'll replace the ancient-looking sign on Lake Mead Blvd. for US-95 north with a control city of Tonopah with one that says Reno instead.

District 2 has been going to more localized control cities as of late, so who knows. See the new signs on I-580 NB that show I-80 EB with a control city of Sparks (instead of Elko, which itself is pushing it). Never mind that the city limit is visible from 580 and downtown is only a couple of miles away.

(personal opinion emphasized)

On my travels up and down US 95, I have noticed that the northbound mileage signs have been replaced to show Fallon instead of Reno. There is still one that has mileage to Reno and that one is just north of Goldfield.

#8

Sports / Re: Hockey

Last post by Stephane Dumas - Today at 07:39:06 PM

I guess we can forget the Islanders being the Cinderella team, the Washington Capitals are also eleminated by the NY Rangers.

#9

Pacific Southwest / Re: Nevada

Last post by US 395 - Today at 07:32:05 PM

Yeah, I'm not really sure why some of the streets in the valley were state highways to begin with. Why is Rainbow maintained by NDOT and, say, Buffalo isn't?

(not that I'm complaining, NDOT has done a very nice job with the streets they're responsible for in my experience)

Politics. It is worth noting that NDOT has been trying to get rid of anything that isn't of regional significance for quite some time, but not gonna happen at this point without a mileage swap.

Right, I know that you can't just drop a road on a government that isn't ready or willing to maintain it. But my question is more what caused these to become state highways in the first place. Were they originally constructed as such through some sort of state program intended to spur development of the valley or something? (Which sort of seems laughable these days, but I could see it being a bright idea in the 80s or something.) Or was it more of a "the state wants Clark County to do something so we'll have NDOT take over Rainbow/Jones/Charleston/Nellis/whatever" kind of arrangement? And how was it determined which arterials the state would take over?

Re: maintenance, NDOT roads in the Reno area are not in great shape. Parts of 580/395 are in worse shape than most local surface streets because we're still dealing with original concrete, while surface streets tend to be chip/slurry sealed every few years. NDOT plowing this year was horrendous compared to local agencies. And don't get me started on the condition of US 50.

I'm sorry to hear that. One of the most difficult parts of managing a state that's laid out the way Nevada is would be the natural tendency to focus on the most heavily populated (and thus politically powerful) part of the state...but you can't just neglect the needs of the other metropolitan areas. It should be our responsibility in the south to make sure the north is getting taken care of too, since we're all really in the same boat when it comes down to it.

If only Las Vegas folk and politicians thought the same way you do....
I guess my beef with our state legislators is that most of them are from Las Vegas and therefore only really care about Vegas. Not saying that it's a bad thing but being state legislators means that they have to look after the entire state and not just Vegas.

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Weather / Re: What's your weather curren...

Last post by Ted$8roadFan - Today at 07:13:22 PM

Sunny and 52.