Mississippi

South Mississippi’s newest highways

Coming to fruition within the last few years are two new state highway alignments in Harrison County, Mississippi. The first is Mississippi 605, a highway designated along the previously unnumbered Lorraine and Cowan Roads between U.S. 90 and Interstate 10 and northward onto a new four-lane facility to Mississippi 67 at Traditions Parkway. Second is the new four-lane alignment of Mississippi 67, a 19-mile route with expresswaylike characteristics between U.S. [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00March 30th, 2009|Mississippi|1 Comment
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What’s with Pascagoula anyway?

Speaking of carbon copying signs, perhaps it is about time that Interstate 10 guide signs in Mobile County, Alabama reflect Biloxi and/or New Orleans? Pascagoula made sense when Interstate 10 was originally built, because the freeway defaulted onto U.S. 90 at the state line for many years before Mississippi completed its portion. Nowadays, Pascagoula makes little sense, as Interstate 10 travels through Moss Point, Pascagoula's neighbor to the north, and U.S. 90, [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:48-05:00January 13th, 2009|Alabama, Interstate Highways, Louisiana, Mississippi|10 Comments
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Hurricane Katrina Recovery

This past weekend afforded me with the opportunity to check on the status of some upper Gulf Coast road projects related to the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The August 29, 2005 landfall of the historic storm not only devastated the New Orleans and Mississippi coastal area homes and businesses, but also washed out several key stretches of highway infrastructure. Included in the storm's fury was the destruction of the U.S. [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:24-05:00December 13th, 2007|Florida, Interstate Highways, Louisiana, Mississippi|1 Comment
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Upper Gulf Coast Road Projects

A recent trip from Florida to Biloxi shed some light on new and ongoing construction projects throughout the upper Gulf Coast. First, a widening project is well underway now along Interstate 10 through the Tallahassee area. Dubbed "Moving I-10 Forward", the work involves widening the freeway between milepost 194 and Exit 202, reconstructing the U.S. 27 half-cloverleaf interchange with more graceful ramps, and adding new ramps between Interstate 10 and [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:42-05:00July 21st, 2007|Alabama, Florida, Interstate Highways, Mississippi|4 Comments
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Post Katrina

Construction on the destroyed US 90 bridge over the mouth of Biloxi Bay is proceeding at a rapid rate. I guess it takes a hurricane to whip the asses of the DOTs into gear. This photo from April of this year shows just how quickly the process is going. It's not China-fast, but in terms of US road construction they are going fairly quickly. AAroads has updated road photos post-Katrina [...]

By |2018-01-17T15:35:01-05:00May 10th, 2007|Louisiana, Mississippi|Comments Off on Post Katrina
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Stretch of Interstate 69 open in Mississippi

A new stretch of freeway opened in northern Mississippi this month, and much to our surprise, it's signed as Interstate 69! Interstate 69 presently travels between Indianapolis, Indiana and Port Huron, Michigan. The highway has been that way for years, but since the late 1990s, a proposal to extend the freeway south to Laredo, Texas slowly works toward fruition. Some states are taking a lead in the process, while others [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:16-05:00October 27th, 2006|Interstate Highways, Mississippi|15 Comments
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