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Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by TBKS1 - Today at 09:33:20 PM

On US 36 WB in Rockville, IN.

US 36 WEST AT MARKET ST (2) by Mark Moore, on Flickr

what do these colored routes even mean?

#2

Off-Topic / Re: Sears-Kmart Death Watch

Last post by kphoger - Today at 09:28:21 PM

When there's a single store remaining, it should change its name to 'Sear'.

#3

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Illinois Tollway Notes

Last post by kphoger - Today at 09:27:16 PM

Does it still smell like rotten eggs down around there?

#4

Off-Topic / Re: Sears-Kmart Death Watch

Last post by Brandon - Today at 09:26:50 PM

The 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)

The "World's Longest Going Out of Business Sale" is finally nearing its end.  A hell of a lot longer than I originally supposed.

[Strangler]

#5

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Illinois Tollway Notes

Last post by Brandon - Today at 09:25:01 PM

I 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

Very true.  The problem with the Hillside Strangler isn't I-294, it's I-290 east of I-294.  When IDOT rebuilt the Mannheim Road interchange and between I-294 and Mannheim Road, they shrank the freeway don a lane just before 25th Street.  All this did was to move the traffic jam eastward from Wolf Road to 25th Street.

#6

Northeast / Re: Why are Cape Cod residents...

Last post by vdeane - Today at 09:19:54 PM

I 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! 

Both 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.

I 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.

What's really weird is that this might not stay with MA: NCDOT wants to do the same thing with I-74 and I-77!

#7

Traffic Control / Re: Normally covered/dark/blan...

Last post by LilianaUwU - Today at 09:08:05 PM

I still don't know why there are blank BGSes (at least two) on autoroutes in Montréal.

Blank BGS, A-40 EB by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

#8

Southeast / Re: Complete NC 540 Project

Last post by Beltway - Today at 08:43:11 PM

I 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.

I was thinking more of major turnpikes, these are more local tollroads.

So:
The 7-mile segment between I-85 and I-285 in Atlanta was tolled.
The St. Simons Island Causeway is a 4 lane arterial.

Therefore Georgia has been rather minimal on the usage of toll roads.

Virginia and Kentucky have a whole assortment of former toll facilities, including bridges and tunnels in Virginia.

Kentucky's only current toll facilities are the river crossings between Kentucky and Indiana, specifically in the Louisville metro area.  So those are shared with another state.

Virginia has added several new ones since 2000.

[Strangler]

#9

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Illinois Tollway Notes

Last post by SSOWorld - Today at 08:31:21 PM

I 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

#10

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Wisconsin notes

Last post by SSOWorld - Today at 08:28:03 PM

It'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.

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.

[citation needed]