November 2016 SCOURN Thread

[Rover_0]

I don't know if someone else has already posted it, but I figured that I'd create a thread for AASHTO's SCOURN meetings and decisions. What have we heard so far?

[Jmiles32]

North Carolina(Greenville) finally got their Future I-587 approved

[english si]

Any link? I can't find anything.

Odds on NC getting Future I-587 signed by the end of the year?

[LM117]

Odds on NC getting Future I-587 signed by the end of the year?

Depends on how quickly FHWA approves it. NC is currently trying to get a Memorandum of Understanding approved by US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx (who happens to be from NC) before President Obama leaves office in January.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article114682003.html

If it goes through (which I think it will), you can bet NCDOT will be putting up "Future I-587" signs on US-264 ASAP.

[Mapmikey]

AASHTO updated their site...

I-22 approved to I-65
US 431 approved to bypass Russelville KY around the west (construction appears to not have started)
US 79 approved to extend around the south and east of Russellville to US 68 (only a small piece off US 68 has been built) which will eventually give a new US 79 endpoint
I-587 approved in NC

The other 3 applications were US Bike Routes...

http://route.transportation.org/Pages/Past-Meetings.aspx

[CNGL-Leudimin]

And still no removing of the now redundant I-894.

Yet another interstate proposed by NC. At least this I-587 will make more sense than the NY one.

[Alex]

And still no removing of the now redundant I-894.

Yet another interstate proposed by NC. At least this I-587 will make more sense than the NY one.

I-894 will remain as the signed bypass route for I-94 through traffic. There are no plans to drop the designation.

Updating the I-587 NY page on iguide last week, did find out that the east end will be converted to a roundabout. So I-587 in NY will be the only interstate with both no interchanges and end points at roundabouts.   

[hbelkins]

The US 431 routing is already signed along the western portion of the US 68 bypass, and by itself to the Clarksville Road intersection. The southern loop from the existing US 79/US 431 junction around to the US 68/KY 100 intersection isn't even under construction yet, to my knowledge.

[vdeane]

And still no removing of the now redundant I-894.

Yet another interstate proposed by NC. At least this I-587 will make more sense than the NY one.

I-894 will remain as the signed bypass route for I-94 through traffic. There are no plans to drop the designation.

It looks like they could easily put "Thru Traffic Use I-41" signs if they wanted.  Might be preferable to having an interstate entirely overlapped by another.

[usends]

The southern loop from the existing US 79/US 431 junction around to the US 68/KY 100 intersection isn't even under construction yet, to my knowledge.

KYDoT's application did specify that the south bypass would be open to traffic in 2017.  Interesting that they asked only for a change to US 431.  Their map also depicts an extension of US 79, but they did not seek AASHTO's approval on that.

[Mapmikey]

The southern loop from the existing US 79/US 431 junction around to the US 68/KY 100 intersection isn't even under construction yet, to my knowledge.

KYDoT's application did specify that the south bypass would be open to traffic in 2017.  Interesting that they asked only for a change to US 431.  Their map also depicts an extension of US 79, but they did not seek AASHTO's approval on that.

The US 79 request is in the cover letter but not mentioned anywhere else outside the map.  Satellite (date ?) and GMSV (mid-2015) show no sign of construction at all, so that seems ambitious...

[froggie]

It looks like they could easily put "Thru Traffic Use I-41" signs if they wanted.  Might be preferable to having an interstate entirely overlapped by another.

There's precedent one state over, where MnDOT posts signs along I-94 for "Twin Cities Bypass Use I-694".  No reason why WisDOT couldn't do the same for I-41.