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Where should I host a "city meet" in 2024?
A.J. Bertin:
--- Quote from: hbelkins on June 02, 2023, 04:22:06 PM ---Not sure about Mobile, but I know for a fact that both Charlotte and Wichita have been sites for meets in the past.
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That's okay!
J N Winkler:
The last meet in Wichita was in 2013, when the I-235/13th Street flyover was under construction. Since then the following have also opened:
* Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400) freeway extension from Cypress (near Webb) to 127th Street East, including I-35 Exit 50 and the eastern terminus of K-96
* Kellogg/I-235 cloverleaf-to-cloverstack conversion
The biggest project going on right now is the North Junction (I-135/I-235/K-96/K-254 system interchange) renovation--a brand-new two-lane flyover ramp opened just three days ago to replace the much-hated loop ramp connecting northbound I-135 to westbound I-235. In due course the focus of construction activity will shift to the K-96 connection, the contract for which was awarded late last year.
KDOT has a design-build contract to extend the Kellogg freeway east to the Butler County line, and a widening of K-96 to six lanes is also in the pipeline. I would expect at least one, and possibly both, to be actively under construction during the three-year timeframe under consideration for city meets.
As I live locally, I'm more than happy to help with scouting venues.
I've been to Mobile and found it rich in roadgeeking opportunities, with the Wallace and Bankhead Tunnels, the Africatown Bridge, the Bayway, and the louver signs all worth seeing. I also enjoyed my visit to the USS Alabama. NAS Pensacola is nearby and its aviation museum is highly regarded. (My attempt to visit it back in 2017 ended in failure when a major rainstorm led to the base being closed temporarily to visitors.) It's been quite a while since I last visited Charlotte, and at the time very little of I-485 had been built.
A.J. Bertin:
--- Quote from: J N Winkler on June 03, 2023, 12:15:36 AM ---The last meet in Wichita was in 2013, when the I-235/13th Street flyover was under construction. Since then the following have also opened:
* Kellogg Avenue (US 54-400) freeway extension from Cypress (near Webb) to 127th Street East, including I-35 Exit 50 and the eastern terminus of K-96
* Kellogg/I-235 cloverleaf-to-cloverstack conversion
The biggest project going on right now is the North Junction (I-135/I-235/K-96/K-254 system interchange) renovation--a brand-new two-lane flyover ramp opened just three days ago to replace the much-hated loop ramp connecting northbound I-135 to westbound I-235. In due course the focus of construction activity will shift to the K-96 connection, the contract for which was awarded late last year.
KDOT has a design-build contract to extend the Kellogg freeway east to the Butler County line, and a widening of K-96 to six lanes is also in the pipeline. I would expect at least one, and possibly both, to be actively under construction during the three-year timeframe under consideration for city meets.
As I live locally, I'm more than happy to help with scouting venues.
I've been to Mobile and found it rich in roadgeeking opportunities, with the Wallace and Bankhead Tunnels, the Africatown Bridge, the Bayway, and the louver signs all worth seeing. I also enjoyed my visit to the USS Alabama. NAS Pensacola is nearby and its aviation museum is highly regarded. (My attempt to visit it back in 2017 ended in failure when a major rainstorm led to the base being closed temporarily to visitors.) It's been quite a while since I last visited Charlotte, and at the time very little of I-485 had been built.
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Thank you for sharing these insights! I look forward to seeing which of these cities wins the poll for 2024, and I look forward to exploring all of them over the course of the next 3 years with anyone else in our community who wants to join.
TheHighwayMan394:
Charlotte is one of the few major cities I have yet to visit, but Wichita is closest to home, so I voted those two first.
A.J. Bertin:
Thanks to everyone who has voted in my poll so far!
We have one city, Charlotte, that is holding a fairly significant lead over the other two cities as the top candidate for my meet in 2024. I'm thinking that a 3-month voting period may have been too long. I tried to edit the poll so that it would close sooner than September 1, but it doesn't appear that I have the ability to do that. Rather than letting the voting drag out until September 1, I might call it for Charlotte a lot sooner than that. Twenty people have voted so far, and I sort of doubt that I'll have too many more votes come in.
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