Quote from: triplemultiplex on Today at 10:36:46 AMYes, yes, it snows "everywhere" at some point. You know what I meant.
Quote from: ElishaGOtis on April 23, 2024, 01:59:57 PMThat wouldn't be such a bad idea either, although I'm not sure how far south the upgrade should go. I'd be willing to consider as far south as SR 60. South of that, while there's certainly some suburban sprawl, I'm not sure the traffic gets bad enough to require turning the road into a limited-access highway.Quote from: D-Dey65 on April 22, 2024, 03:19:56 PMQuote from: NE2 on April 04, 2024, 01:35:00 PMThis is why US 27 should be upgraded into a limited-access highway at least between US 192 and 50, instead of building all the other crap they're building around there. I'd almost consider extending the upgrade to I-4.Quote from: formulanone on April 04, 2024, 08:47:03 AMThis is the first reference to SR 516 that I've seen...is it part of a proposed beltway for Clermont or just a connector between US 27 and SR 429? Seems to be a puzzling location for now.Just a connector. US 27 has gone to shit and there are no good connections to 429 between 192 and 50.
IMHO, if anything is in need of an upgrade, it's US-27 south of I-4 and north of the new Toll 516 connector. It appears that your proposal would do a similar job to what 516, 429, and I-4 express will do, provided that they work properly in tandem. What do you think?
Quote from: TheStranger on Today at 01:43:59 AMQuote from: jdunlop on April 24, 2024, 08:42:15 PMFHWA requires full movement at all Interstate interchanges (with very few exceptions) hence the redundant ramps.
Is this something introduced in the last 15-20 years, in which the interstate-to-interstate connection must include direct ramps between all directions?
I ask this because I can think of many interstate-to-interstate junctions that don't have this, usually a bypass route and its parent (i.e. for a California example, I-405 and I-5 at both ends in Sylmar and Irvine respectively, in which Route 118 and Route 133 serve the missing movements nearby).
There are some examples of Interstate-to-interstate in North Carolina that do not have this:
I-40/former I-85 (US 29) in Greensboro, in which the missing 85 north to 40 west move was covered by US 220. Junction was built when both routes were Interstates, before the Greensboro urban loop/I-840 happened
I-285/I-85 in Lexington, grandfathered in as I-285 was not originally interstate. Standard Y junction
I-40/I-840/I-85 in eastern Greensboro, I-40 east from the Death Valley section does not have any ramp to 85 south
I-795 and I-587, though the Interstate designations came after both freeways were originally constructed.
Quote from: Molandfreak on April 23, 2024, 08:42:45 PMRaymond Road is such a random-ass place to have the first traffic light since Dubuque. I can forgive not replacing the SPUI at the beltline. At least that makes some sense to permanently end the expressway there even if it's not what I'd rather see, but really at a road that isn't even on the NHS?It is the new crash hot spot in the city. I don't go that way daily or anything, but even I've seen at least two crashes there in the last year. Both looked like rear-enders.