Quote from: 74/171FAN on Today at 07:16:54 PMOn US 36 WB in Rockville, IN.US 36 WEST AT MARKET ST (2) by Mark Moore, on Flickr
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on Today at 06:33:24 PMThe Sears store at the Plaza Las Américas mall in San Juan, PR will be closing for good on August 31st.
Only 6 Sears stores left within the US!
Number of Sears stores left in each state
CA- 2 (Burbank and Concord)
FL- 2 (Miami and Orlando)
MA- 1 (Braintree)
TX- 1 (El Paso)
Quote from: SSOWorld on Today at 08:31:21 PMQuote from: ChiMilNet on June 29, 2025, 12:02:48 PMI was traveling along portions of I-294 earlier this month for the first time in a couple of years and saw how the portion North of Lake Street is esentially done. Definitely, this makes for a nice improvement. Other than what's on the tollway website, which is a bit inconsistent with its updating (though way better than IDOTs website), any idea of when acvtually the ramp from NB I-294 to WB I-290 will be done? I maintain that alone will make a huge difference in that Hillside Interchange area.Will still be the Hillside Strangler
Quote from: kalvado on Today at 01:43:28 PMI don't think this situation is FHWA's fault. From US 6, 1A should be 54B and 1B should be 54A. From MA 3, 1A should be 1 and 1B-55 should not be numbered. MassDOT is just being dumb because they couldn't decide whether it should be numbered based off MA 3 or US 6 so they just said "both", resulting on MA 3 numbers being used on US 6.Quote from: kramie13 on Today at 01:13:12 PMBoth sequential and mileage-based exits in theory work great. Real road layouts - with concurrences, TOTSOs, later changes to roads layout... Well, looks like someone at FHWA got a great solution in search of at least a small problem.Quote from: jmacswimmer on Today at 12:04:58 PMI also find it interesting that exits 1A-B westbound just after the Sagamore Bridge survived the conversion - are they considered to be based off MA 3's mileage as it begins? It leaves a 55-to-1 jump similar to the Capital Beltway jump mentioned upthread.
Yes, the exits just north of the Sagamore Bridge are now based off MA 3's mile markers. But leaving the Cape, you're still on US 6 when you pass Exit 1A. Exit 1B is MA 3 exiting itself! The "loop ramp" to stay on US 6 west is unnumbered!
Even more weird, if you "continue straight" in both directions, you are "taking" exit 1B, which makes no sense whatsoever!
Quote from: sprjus4 on Today at 06:26:30 PMI was thinking more of major turnpikes, these are more local tollroads.Quote from: Beltway on Today at 04:57:32 PMI think you meant Kentucky, not Georgia as they don't have any turnpikes.GA 400 in the Atlanta area, between I-285 and I-85 (inside the beltway) was built in 1993 as a toll road. At the time it was scheduled to be paid off in 2011.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_Route_400
In 2013, the state fulfilled their promise and tolls were removed.
https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4182.asp
The causeway to St. Simons Island outside of Brunswick, in the eastern part of the state, was also tolled until it was paid off in 2003 and removed.
Quote from: ChiMilNet on June 29, 2025, 12:02:48 PMI was traveling along portions of I-294 earlier this month for the first time in a couple of years and saw how the portion North of Lake Street is esentially done. Definitely, this makes for a nice improvement. Other than what's on the tollway website, which is a bit inconsistent with its updating (though way better than IDOTs website), any idea of when acvtually the ramp from NB I-294 to WB I-290 will be done? I maintain that alone will make a huge difference in that Hillside Interchange area.Will still be the Hillside Strangler
Quote from: peterj920 on July 08, 2025, 09:22:09 PMIt's pretty safe to say that I-794 is going to be rebuilt. The FHWA is now taking the position that removing lanes and road diets are bad projects. I doubt they'd approve removing I-794.[citation needed]
The 6th Street project was just scrapped by the feds which I don't mind because the project would have made that road worse by squeezing traffic into a single lane.