As the construction season winds down, progress on the US 24 upgrade in eastern Allen County can be seen. The good news is that the connection from the new expressway to the existing road at the I-469 interchange is mostly done. Going east, it looks like some shoulder paving is still going on. Then, it looks like there may have been a problem. A short section right where the new roadway diverges from the old path, there is still earth moving going on. I thought that stretch was paved last year with only a bridge remaining to be built, but the bridge is still yet to be completed. Possibly bad soil?
After that short section, the paved roadway again picks up and connects to the existing freeway/expressway. Items noted:
- Webster Road in Woodlan has been rerouted between old 24 and the new interchange at the US 24 freeway (a big improvement)
- The "low level" interchange at Bruick Road is graded, but not paved. It looks like it has two short ramps
- The unopened part of east end (west of the SR 101 interchange) appears to be totally done including signage and lane markings
Despite the road apparently being built to full freeway standards from Bruick Road east to the Ohio line, INDOT seems to consider this an expressway. Thus the speed limit is 60 MPH. It looks like there will be no at grade intersections east of the I-469 interchange (which has traffic lights). The road looks to be PCCP except for the area around the Webster Road interchange (where they seem to be getting fill for the problem area).
An interesting editorial about the Fort to Port Highway recently appeared in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette entitled Highway for the heartland (http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20111104/EDIT07/311049992/1021/EDIT).
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Just east of I-469, the new road already connects with the old
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Ramp at Bruick Road interchange
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Paving the shoulder near Bruick Road
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A mile or two east, they are still moving earth
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Bull Rapids Rd overpass a mile or so west of SR 101
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Looking east to SR 101 interchange from Bull Rapids Rd overpass
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Getting fill from the northwest quadrant of the Webster Road interchange which was completed last year
Funny you posted this a day after we went through there on our way back to Florida. All we saw was the beginning of the expressway east of the I-469 interchange. Hard to believe that INDOT is going to sign that with a 60 MPH speed limit. Will they eventually upgrade the interchange with I-469 with high speed ramps for U.S. 24 to get rid of the current traffic signals on the east side?
As for the I-469 interchange, there were plans to improve it, but in the interest of getting more miles built, INDOT seems to have scaled back on some interchanges - especially expensive ones. The US 31/US 20 south interchange in South Bend was to have flyovers, but instead will remain as a cloverleaf for now. Also, the I-465/I-69 northwest interchange in Indy also seems to have been delayed. Finally, I-69 in southern Indiana is being built with at least three interchanges missing for now (they bought the land for them, however). With so many miles of new freeway and expressway under construction, I guess it is a relatively small price.
The 60 MPH limit on the existing section puzzles me. I guess we'll see for sure when it all opens.
It seems rather ridiculous to sign that for only 60mph. US-30 west of Fort Wayne is a much narrower road with less ROW, and of course cross-traffic and stop lights galore. Still posted for 60.
It's certainly going to become Indiana's newest speed trap at this rate.
I compared the photos I have taken on 7/3/2011 to the ones taken on 11/8/2011. So these pairs were taken four months apart, and you can see both backward and excellent progress.
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Before - Notice this was paved back then
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After - new pavement is gone, and does this look higher now?
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Before: Bruick Rd. bridge
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After
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Before: just east of I-469
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After: built up and paved
This highway is great! Growing up, my family utilized Route 6 and Route 24 from north central Ohio to get to I-69 to Fort Wayne and ultimately further south to visit relatives in central Indiana.
After I-469 was built, we didn't think it would get any better. But alas, US 24 is an important corridor and will create a safe driving environment. The one thing I will miss along the way is the A&W Root Beer stand in Antwerp, Ohio.....always loved to stop there :)
When I was younger, I drove that stretch of US-24 many times. My friends and I (from Fort Wayne) had annual passes to Cedar Point and our preferred route was US-24 to US-6. I would have appreciated the freeway back then. We usually took the Turnpike to I-69 on the way home to avoid deer infested 2-lane roads at night even though it added time to the trip back.
As for the 60mph speed limit, I moved not too long after the increased speed limits took effect, but I don't remember Indiana signing any stretch of non-interstate above 55 (back then - 60 now) even if it was built to interstate standards. Are there any state or US highways in Indiana signed above 60 at all?
I believe US 20 in South Bend currently has a 65 speed limit. Not sure about the part that goes north and south (US 31/US 20). Kokomo US 31 will also have 65 according to plans.
US 24 also doesn't seem to have exit numbers based on the signs in place. SR 912 is the only current non-interstate freeway in Indiana with them, but Kokomo US 31 will. I haven't been able to find detailed plans for the other US 31 sections, but I imagine they also will.
Quote from: mukade on November 21, 2011, 06:41:41 PM
SR 912 is the only current non-interstate freeway in Indiana with them
Unless you count SR 265.
Quote from: NE2 on November 22, 2011, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: mukade on November 21, 2011, 06:41:41 PM
SR 912 is the only current non-interstate freeway in Indiana with them
Unless you count SR 265.
The portion of 265 that is signed as I-265 has exit numbers, but the portion signed as IN265 does not.
Also, to answer mukade's question, the entire US20/31 bypass has a speed limit of 65 from the Michigan state line all the way to Elkhart CR 17.
Quote from: cabiness42 on November 22, 2011, 08:23:38 AM
The portion of 265 that is signed as I-265 has exit numbers, but the portion signed as IN265 does not.
Have the numbers been removed? http://highwayexplorer.com/Gallery.php?id=2410§ion=12651&terminus=Eastern+Terminus
Nope, I just checked and they are still there. Don't know why I though there weren't any there.
Update on the backward progress on the Fort to Port:
The destruction of the new asphalt pavement on the new US 24 expressway east of Fort Wayne is continuing. The pavement on the mainline and at the interchange at Webster Road looks like it will all be removed for a length of two miles or so. Even the bridge over a creek just east of Bruick Road was removed and is being rebuilt. The map in the link below shows the asphalt pavement as it existed approximately a year ago. Today, most of that is gone, but the excavated area immediately west all the way to I-469 is now built and paved in concrete.
Google Map of US 24 around Webster Rd. east of Fort Wayne (http://maps.google.com/?ll=41.114603,-84.925947&spn=0.030263,0.074501&t=h&z=14)
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Other interesting US 24 notes:
- the new cantilevered directional signs at Webster Rd are "Illinois style"
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- the "low level interchange" at Bruick Road is mostly done, and this is definitely not up to Interstate standards although everything east of there in Indiana looks like it is
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Other Fort Wayne area notes:
- the I-69 interchange at Union Chapel Road is under construction
- the new rest area on I-69 north of Union Chapel Road is well along and looks like it should open this summer
Craziness.
Failed Fort to Port stretch to be redone
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120107/LOCAL/301079979
I see the Bruick Rd exit area is a bit squeezed in, and this ramp arrangement would be desirable to cut down on property acquisition. But they also took out everything immediately south of the existing US-24. Would taking out an extra property or two have made that much of a difference?
Current US 24 will be a two-way frontage road so options westbound are limited. I guess the best you can say for the arrangement is that there will be no cross traffic or left turns off the new road.
As for the problems with the soil, that wouldn't explain why they're replacing that bridge. It seems to me like they raised the grade of the roadway, and it seemed like the original grade was too low. Anyway, I wonder if the new pavement will be PCCP like the rest of the road.
There are a couple of short stretches of WI 29 between Wittenburg and Wausau, WI that are surfaced in asphalt due to the marshy/boggy nature of the subsoil underneath, even though all of the rest of WI 29 between US 41 at Green Bay and I-94 west of Eau Claire, WI is paved with concrete.
Mike
They did something similar on US 12/18 just east of Madison.
Saw this on the following thread https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=6658.0.
INDOT is asking AASHTO to reroute US 24 from the current two-lane road to the new freeway east of Fort Wayne, but no surprise there. What was a surprise, to me anyway, is that they also want to reroute US 24 to the north side of Fort Wayne taking I-69 north from Exit 102 to Exit 115 and then taking I-469 southeast to the Exit 21.
I think the new freeway part was approved before, but the northern route along I-469 is new. That new routing will get rid of a wrong-way multiplex (US 30 WB=US 24 EB along I-469 now). Personally, I would favor handling concurrent routes it like they do in Indy.
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 09:08:15 PM
I think the new freeway part was approved before, but the northern route along I-469 is new. That new routing will get rid of a wrong-way multiplex (US 30 WB=US 24 EB along I-469 now). Personally, I would favor handling concurrent routes it like they do in Indy.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the current routing, where you save a bunch of miles by heading straight off the end of 469.
Quote from: Steve on May 08, 2012, 10:33:08 PM
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 09:08:15 PM
I think the new freeway part was approved before, but the northern route along I-469 is new. That new routing will get rid of a wrong-way multiplex (US 30 WB=US 24 EB along I-469 now). Personally, I would favor handling concurrent routes it like they do in Indy.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the current routing, where you save a bunch of miles by heading straight off the end of 469.
True. Too bad the shortcut is a really crappy road.
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 10:41:45 PM
Quote from: Steve on May 08, 2012, 10:33:08 PM
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 09:08:15 PM
I think the new freeway part was approved before, but the northern route along I-469 is new. That new routing will get rid of a wrong-way multiplex (US 30 WB=US 24 EB along I-469 now). Personally, I would favor handling concurrent routes it like they do in Indy.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the current routing, where you save a bunch of miles by heading straight off the end of 469.
True. Too bad the shortcut is a really crappy road.
In what sense? I see a paved two-lane with a center stripe. That's a luxury on a side road.
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 10:41:45 PM
Quote from: Steve on May 08, 2012, 10:33:08 PM
Quote from: mukade on May 08, 2012, 09:08:15 PM
I think the new freeway part was approved before, but the northern route along I-469 is new. That new routing will get rid of a wrong-way multiplex (US 30 WB=US 24 EB along I-469 now). Personally, I would favor handling concurrent routes it like they do in Indy.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the current routing, where you save a bunch of miles by heading straight off the end of 469.
True. Too bad the shortcut is a really crappy road.
I drive out that way frequently and Lafayette Center Road (in Allen County) and 900 N (Huntington County) is THE way to cut 10 miles off the trip. Following posted US 24 is 10 extra miles, and using the county roads with a 45 mph limit (moves at ~50, don't go faster because sometimes there is a local cop or sheriff occasionally sitting somewhere) is no problem. The only issue is the railroad crossing; one time there was a train stopped across it and the only recourse was to either retrace and follow posted US 24 (if you didn't have a map or know the back roads) or use some other roads that get you around it. That has happened once in dozens and dozens of trips that way. Posted US 24 goes out of the way and involves extra signals and congestion.
INDOT even has a sign posted on US 24 eastbound approaching 900 N pointing that way for the Fort Wayne Airport (http://g.co/maps/6y2x6)....they actually direct you across 900N and Lafayette Center Road to 469, where you are back on 24 again but saved 10 miles.
Okay, I'll ask the question that's on everyone else's minds: Why the hell not just extend a US-24 expressway east from the southern 69/469 interchange to the existing route at Roanoke? Cost?
I think anyone who has looked at a map since the current southern routing of US 24 with I-469 was put into place has thought that it would make sense to improve Lafayette Center Road to Roanoke. Still I have never seen have never seen any plans for such a road - even in the INDOT long range plan. Possibly, there is not enough through traffic from the east toward Lafayette to justify it, or maybe it is just simply that there are higher priorities from both the regional and state point of view. For example, building I-69 and improving US 31 from Indy to South Bend is much more important for the state, IMO. From a regional perspective, money has been spent building the Fort-to-Port, widening several highways and upgrading interchanges. Therefore, considering limited funds, I would think both INDOT and the MPO don't think it is very important compared to other needs. Personally, I would favor a new US 24/I-469 interchange over improvement that road given current patterns and alternatives. Also, remember, there is a US 24 divided highway that doesn't seem near capacity now.
With the new shorter northern route of US 24, it won't look quite as obvious, at least. My guess is that if the area around I-469 develops more (beyond the GM truck plant), we'll see it show up in plans at least.
Quote from: mukade on May 10, 2012, 07:01:02 AM
I think anyone who has looked at a map since the current southern routing of US 24 with I-469 was put into place has thought that it would make sense to improve Lafayette Center Road to Roanoke. Still I have never seen have never seen any plans for such a road - even in the INDOT long range plan.
I had thought I had seen in an early 90s Rand McNally either "under construction" or "proposed" dotted lines in the area now west of the Lafayette Center interchange, but of course that would be unofficial. I would have to think a shorter route to I-69 was at least studied at the time the divided highway was built. (Although now re-reading the I-469 WP article, according to that the plans for a southern US-24 freeway go back to 1978. It's not out of the realm of possibility that it was originally intended to extend to Roanoke.)
Quote from: mukade on May 10, 2012, 07:01:02 AM
I think anyone who has looked at a map since the current southern routing of US 24 with I-469 was put into place has thought that it would make sense to improve Lafayette Center Road to Roanoke. Still I have never seen have never seen any plans for such a road - even in the INDOT long range plan.
The "Regional Chamber of Northeast Indiana" is pushing a widening: http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120113/NEWS/120119817
With 24 routed as it is now, anyone looking at a map would say "huh?" to 24 going all the way up and around via 69 instead of going across Lafayette Center and 900N. Of course, original 24 went through Fort Wayne on city streets so the part northeast of Roanoke to where it meets I-69 made sense then.
Driving out that way for some years from Ohio via US 30 to 469 to Lafayette Center Rd to 24 and onward, a couple miles on Lafayette Center road is nothing when the 35+ miles of IN 25 are included....now that is excruciating. Before the last bit of 2-lane US 30 west of Upper Sandusky was bypassed, the 2-lane section near Roanoke was even more negligible in my trips.
Even if they didn't four-lane it, some improvements would be nice if they were to have the money. It is narrow and gets a lot of trucks. Shoulders would be a good start to improvements.
I wonder what they mean by "improving" the road for $66M. Is that an upgrade to freeway? Expressway? Would it end at the traffic light in Roanoke or merge in south of Roanoke?
With the new expressway/freeway east of Fort Wayne, it seems sillier not to have Lafayette Center Rd. upgraded, but still, it is not as important as US 31 or I-69 improvements. I would hope it doesn't get fast-tracked as they hope, but it would be a great long-term improvement as long as it is brought up at least to expressway standards.
I drive Lafayette Center Rd every day. There is no other good alternative for me. When the train blocks the RR crossing the way around is very long or dangerous. In the Winter the road is not well taken care of for the amount of traffic, frozen ruts, ice, snow, narrow. Then there is the traffic. Semis trying to shave some time and miles off there rout. It is very treturous especially during the Winter mouths. Some day after Im dead this will get fixed...
The pavement that failed on US 24 around Webster Road has all been removed, and it looks like all but the final two layers of the new pavement has been put down. It looks like it may be a couple of months away from completion.
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The new section of U.S. 24 connecting Fort Wayne and Toledo is on track to open sooner than expected...
Looks like several new roads may open in November.
New Stretch of US 24 May Open Sooner Than Expected (http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/New-Stretch-of-US-24-May-Open-Sooner-Than-Expected--165782416.html) (Indiana's News Center)
Bumped into this by accident tonight, but relavent to discussions about Lafayette Center Road in Huntington and Allen Counties, it looks like they might take a serious look into improving that road. It's only a study, but it's a start.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20121103/LOCAL/311039975/1002/LOCAL
According to INDOT's Fort to Port web site (http://www.in.gov/indot/projects/2405.htm), "the Indiana portion of this project officially opened to traffic on November 14, 2012". I assume that means it is scheduled to open this Wednesday.
I have been travelling up to eastern Michigan for a work project so I have taken US 24 three times in the last week and a half. Looking at the remaining unopened Indiana part, little is left to be done. Unlike I-69 where they are scrambling to complete the highway, this road has largely been done for weeks. The only obvious thing left is the center line stripe in the part that had failed and putting up a sign or two - most all signs are up.
One thing of interest is that the new speed limit in Indiana is 65 MPH (it was 60) so that is really good. Also, it says "Freeway Ends" at I-469 while signs on the original section ending at SR 101 said "Expressway Ends". I suppose this distinction is why they allow higher speed limits now.
The part from Toledo to Napoleon is really nice. There are no at grade crossings and there are enhanced reference markers on that entire section. The pavement is mostly concrete. The road from Toledo to Defiance was very busy and truck traffic was especially bad. West of Defiance, traffic was fairly light.
One really dangerous thing I saw was farm tractors going 20 MPH or so on the freeway both in Napoleon and in Indiana right at the state line. I would have thought that would be illegal.
Here is an article from the Fort Wayne paper confirming the Wednesday opening.
Fort-to-Port celebration is Wednesday (http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20121109/NEWS07/121109491) (The Journal Gazette)
Below is a zoom shot showing progress on the very last section (taken Friday, November 9).
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I drove the new Indiana section of the Fort to Port.
Highlights:
- it is still one lane each way by I-469 as they complete the cul de sac at old US 24 and remove the temporary access road across the median
- the middle portion has asphalt pavement - this is the pavement that failed last year
- the section west of SR 101 that has concrete pavement also had a lot of new concrete. I wonder of this section had some settling issues
- no exit number tabs are on the directional signs
- speed limit is 65 the entire Indiana secton (consistent with Ohio) except at the I-469 interchange where it goes down to 50
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Bruick Rd. low level interchange (has short, two-way ramps, but long merge lanes on US 24)
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Westbound US 24 at Bruick Rd. exit (to the right)
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The freeway ends just before the I-469 interchange
Quote from: mukade on November 17, 2012, 10:02:42 PM
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Bruick Rd. low level interchange (has short, two-way ramps, but long merge lanes on US 24)
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Westbound US 24 at Bruick Rd. exit (to the right)
I'd call that a RIRO. It's still a 90 degree turn.
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The freeway ends just before the I-469 interchange
More terrible INDOT signage- how can at-grade signalized intersections be called "exits"? The "EXIT 1/4 MILE" sign implies that traffic should get to the right, while to enter I-469 southbound after the overpass you have to turn left at the signalized intersection. "Freeway Ends" should be in all-caps.
Some cardinal directions for entrances are mixed case also which is wrong.
Quote from: SignGeniusPTOE on November 20, 2012, 10:38:38 PM
More terrible INDOT signage- how can at-grade signalized intersections be called "exits"? The "EXIT 1/4 MILE" sign implies that traffic should get to the right, while to enter I-469 southbound after the overpass you have to turn left at the signalized intersection. "Freeway Ends" should be in all-caps.
I think this signage is in anticipation of the interchange rebuild, which unfortunately will be part of a separate project (not the one which got the US-24 freeway built here in the first place).