New Mexico

[Plutonic Panda]

The I-25 Nogal Canyon Bridge is scheduled for a replacement:

https://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/nogal-canyon-bridge-to-be-replaced-with-71m-investment/65531

[DJStephens]

    A fraction of what it will likely cost.  There will need to be additional sources of revenue.   Ideally, a pair of "signature" steel arch bridges should be built, and much higher than the existing structures.  Eliminating the current "drops" into the canyon.  Both to the Outside of the existing late fifties structures.  Full shoulders on both sides, a walkway outside the R barrier wall, with parapets on one of them, for tourist purposes, in tandem with new rest areas near the bridges. 
    Of course they will come up with the cheapest possible alternative, a single span, skewed and shifted off the mainline alignment.   Lot of potential here, that will likely be squandered.   

[machias]

Is NMDOT moving to unipanel interchange signs, with the exit tab built into the main panel, as the same width with just a line underneath? I recently saw a bunch of these along I-25 in the Albuquerque area. I know NMDOT tends to be a little "loose" with their guide sign design, but this was the first I had seen signs similar to IDOT's (Illinois) design in New Mexico.

[abqtraveler]

Is NMDOT moving to unipanel interchange signs, with the exit tab built into the main panel, as the same width with just a line underneath? I recently saw a bunch of these along I-25 in the Albuquerque area. I know NMDOT tends to be a little "loose" with their guide sign design, but this was the first I had seen signs similar to IDOT's (Illinois) design in New Mexico.

Those unipanel signs were originally installed during the reconstruction of the Big-I about 20 years ago. Some of them have since been replaced, but in other parts of New Mexico new signage is of the more typical design with exit tabs aligned to the right (or left for left-hand exits).

[thenetwork]

^^^ NMDOT sign designs and installs will FOREVER be a result of a roll of a pair of dice.

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[abqtraveler]

NMDOT is reconstructing I-40 between Sedillo Hill and Edgewood. From the traffic cam screenshots, you can see that traffic has been shifted to the eastbound roadway, while the westbound roadway is completely rebuilt. Not sure if this stretch is being widened from 4 lanes to 6, as I'm unable to find a whole lot of detail about this project. Nevertheless, the pavement on this stretch is in really bad shape and is long overdue for a complete overhaul.

[DJStephens]

Any news as to if they are going to "fix" that horrendous, done on the cheap early 00's Edgewood interchange?  Meaning I-40 Exit 187.  Has to be one of the worst interchange replacements have ever seen.   

[abqtraveler]

Any news as to if they are going to "fix" that horrendous, done on the cheap early 00's Edgewood interchange?  Meaning I-40 Exit 187.  Has to be one of the worst interchange replacements have ever seen.   

No, the project they have in that vicinity is to the west of the Edgewood interchange, and I don't see anything in the foreseeable future about any work being done there. They've been talking about adding a new interchange between Edgewood and Sedillo Hill (around Barton Road/County Line Road), but I haven't seen anything in the STIP or letting schedule for this either.

[Bobby5280]

That interchange in Edgewood is indeed very crappy. It doesn't even look like the thru lanes for I-40 were built to Interstate standards. Outboard shoulders look too narrow and the inner shoulders almost non-existent. If not for the SPUI configured intersection underneath the bridge I would have thought that section of highway was at least 40-50 years old rather than 20.

[pderocco]

Looks like they skimped on it. To keep the old freeway width, they'd have had to make the overpass quite a bit longer, which would have been expensive.