Why doesn't New Mexico assign exit numbers to unnumbered interchanges?

Started by MattHanson939, March 20, 2023, 01:25:28 PM

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DJStephens

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Quote from: jtespi on July 30, 2023, 06:30:29 AM
Quote from: DJStephens on July 26, 2023, 12:54:30 PM
"They" did add a center concrete double faced barrier (CBR) wall three years ago.  From the eastern edge of the Exit 6 interchange extending up the hill to the Rinconada overpass.   Before, there was just "mountable" median.  They also added double cable barrier all the way to the eastern end of the section (Baylor Canyon/NASA Road) interchange at that same time.   Where only field fence existed before.   The cross section immediately E of Exit 6 has six lanes on the main lines.  There needs to be a Full Left shoulder there.  Eliminating it would feed into this culture and mindset of regressive design which is all too omnipresent here.

I know; that upgrade from Del Rey to Rinconada was done around 2016. I was saying that they could make the rest of US-70 six lanes total using the same approach without having to move the frontage roads. Of course, they'd just have to add a center span to all of the bridges since they were built as two separate structures with a gap in the median. There's enough room in the center median of US-70 and the buffer between the mainlines and the frontage road to add two more lanes - as long as a concrete barrier is used in 3 places: between the mainlines, and between each frontage road.
There is a reason another prominent poster on this site referred to US - 70 in East Las Cruces as a "third world expressway".  The horrible decision making in the "design" process as part of the Gary Johnson / Pete Rahn regime.  And no, it hasn't improved since.   Most of the interchanges built during the '99 to '04 "project" were shifted at least 6 feet off the pre-existing mainlines.   As one travels E from I-25 all but one of the interchanges were shifted.  Holman / Dunn believe was the only one that wasn't.  Observing the project back then, am of belief a six lane cross section should have been built E to Mesa Grande.  Filling in the median, to allow for a third lane in each direction, would also allow for "fixing" the earlier blunders of the "shifting" by widening to the outside on the S shoulder, to correct.  Looking back, retroactively, would have widened the cross-section, to have included the high tension line, which was strangely "preserved" along the southern edge of the ROW.  It should have been moved - either underground, or to newer galvanized towers constructed in a wider median. Ideally, the EB frontage would have been where the high tension line is now.  In short, would have spent more, then, in anticipation of future growth.   
Given possible, and factual growth patterns, that have indeed come to pass, the nineties decision making was indeed not well thought out.   More confirmation that "planning" in this part of the country is near non-existent.   


DJStephens

Quote from: JKRhodes on July 19, 2023, 12:55:32 AMThorpe, aside from the weird cluster of intersections near the freeway, seems like it's just begging to be extended east and tied into Peachtree hills Road. Has this been studied or considered? Could take some pressure off of US 70 if Sonoma Ranch had a more direct route to I-25
A 120 acre parcel or a quarter square mile parcel has been advertised for sale, just E of the I-25 Exit 9 interchange.   Grubbing has started for a possible new Circle K on the NE quadrant of that interchange.   The existing Circle K, on the NW quadrant, is packed in, and has outgrown it's footprint.   So it's coming.  Development, and more traffic, that is.   



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