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US71:
--- Quote from: bugo on October 08, 2009, 09:58:12 PM ---Maybe we can blame the chambers of commerce in the towns along the highway?
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Doubtful. AHTD probably persuaded them to go along with it. The answer lies with whoever dreamed this up and their supposed reasoning for it.
Scott5114:
Perhaps some research needs to be done into contemporary newspaper articles in the affected region. If someone went around convincing chambers of commerce this was a good idea, they inevitably left a paper trail, and likely in there somewhere is the "marketing reason" behind the 412 number.
Hellfighter:
Hmmm, this sounds like the I-41 of the 80's...
US71:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on December 29, 2009, 11:07:22 AM ---Perhaps some research needs to be done into contemporary newspaper articles in the affected region. If someone went around convincing chambers of commerce this was a good idea, they inevitably left a paper trail, and likely in there somewhere is the "marketing reason" behind the 412 number.
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I can't speak for the number, but the idea, I think, was to create a multi-state economic corridor.
May have been the same con men who got XNA built. :thumbdown:
CoreySamson:
This may be an awful bump, but I'm not sure where else to put this. I was driving the easternmost section of US 400 in far SE Kansas between Baxter Springs and Joplin today and I noticed some construction on what I must assume is a new alignment of US 400. It appears to be a continuation of the Baxter Springs bypass, crossing US 166 at the current US 166/400 diverge, running south of the current alignment. There were several new bridges over creeks and ditches being constructed there, as well as an interchange at that aforementioned diverge. The new alignment swung east to connect back up with US 400 just to the south of the K-26 intersection. East of that, it appears that the current US 166/US 400 is getting widened into 4 lanes all the way to the Missouri border.
Anybody know what is going on in this area and what the future goal is?
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