US40 (I-170) original signage

[talllguy]

Still catching up on this thread. There are some ghost I-170 shields on a BGS on MLK. By ghost, I mean the shield has been removed, but the paint around is faded on the BGS so you can see it still.

Here is Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.293699,-76.627719,3a,33.9y,314.25h,90.06t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS9L6gKM_y_rU8RmhG0at8A!2e0

[Alps]

Still catching up on this thread. There are some ghost I-170 shields on a BGS on MLK. By ghost, I mean the shield has been removed, but the paint around is faded on the BGS so you can see it still.

Here is Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.293699,-76.627719,3a,33.9y,314.25h,90.06t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS9L6gKM_y_rU8RmhG0at8A!2e0

www.alpsroads.net/roads/md/mlk/ (:

[talllguy]

Still catching up on this thread. There are some ghost I-170 shields on a BGS on MLK. By ghost, I mean the shield has been removed, but the paint around is faded on the BGS so you can see it still.

Here is Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.293699,-76.627719,3a,33.9y,314.25h,90.06t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS9L6gKM_y_rU8RmhG0at8A!2e0

www.alpsroads.net/roads/md/mlk/ (:

Steve, that's awesome! I want to go out and shoot some of these in case they've made any updates. I just need a driver and a convertible haha. Mike (mdroads) might be interested too. I want to look around the city interstates, and then the main routes for those "TO" type signs.

[Alex]

Yes, no GSV needed for dead I-170 between Steve and AARoads: https://www.aaroads.com/guide.php?page=i0170md

I have video of the thing from 1993. The same drive is where we found two sets of these:

[TheOneKEA]

That being said, anyone who has read The Big Roads by Earl Swift will understand just how inflammatory any extension of I-70 would be, because people have LONG memories and will remember just how much of a mess the SRC and the city planners made when planning I-70 throug West Baltimore.

Though if there is one place in Maryland that would likely benefit from a modern freeway connection to the outside world, it's West Baltimore.

Agreed, and Swift's book makes it clear that despite the ham-fisted mess the original plans made of that connection, the pre-1950 transport corridor in the area deserved a modern link with the western suburbs and the rest of the city.

Unfortunately the only way to fix it now would be either a deep bore tunnel or the complete replacement of Cooks Lane and Edmondson Avenue with a surface route. I think that in today's climate, the vocal minority would make short work of any proposals to build either. Even a short four-lane parkway from the I-70 terminus down to Hilton Parkway would be hard slogging against the protests that would result.

[froggie]

I think that in today's climate, the vocal minority would make short work of any proposals to build either.

The fiscal environment will shoot it down before it even gets to the "vocal minority".