Interesting plaque on the MacArthur Freeway

[TheStranger]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fragmentaryevidence/3267570815/



Wonder what other roads received this award...

[Alps]

I can tell you some that ought to - Arroyo Seco Pkwy, Bronx River Pkwy., Robert Moses Pkwy. (Niag Falls section)

[agentsteel53]

would I-280 between San Jose and San Francisco count as urban?  It's certainly very scenic.

[TheStranger]

would I-280 between San Jose and San Francisco count as urban?  It's certainly very scenic.

I know that 280/the Junipero Serra Freeway has often been labeled as the "most beautiful freeway in the world" (probably a debatable term though) so I think it'd count.

[Bickendan]

I'd say that's a very subjective and debatable title. I daresay that I-84 from Hood River to Troutdale is very much in the running, and that's not by far the most scenic freeway out there.

[US71]

Wonder what other roads received this award...

I-40 in Arkansas received an award for the Blackwell Interchange (Exit 101) in the 1960's, I think, for innovation in interchange design

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&q=blackwell,+AR&oe=utf-8&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Blackwell,+Conway,+Arkansas&gl=us&ei=P9xOTJinE4O0lQfBpsnnCA&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA&ll=35.219819,-92.830868&spn=0.042071,0.065832&z=14&layer=c&cbll=35.219459,-92.830418&panoid=z1gtg7KnXeWE9LWclljreA&cbp=12,121.62,,0,5

[Scott5114]

What's the innovation? Looks like a standard diamond interchange to me.

[US71]

What's the innovation? Looks like a standard diamond interchange to me.

I guess the bridge design \ / was innovative at one time.

[Scott5114]

Oh. That design is a bit unusual but crops up a few times in southern Oklahoma and on I-435 in Johnson County, KS (as well as I think at the I-435/70 interchange).

[Bickendan]

They're all over the place along I-5 south of Portland :?