23 years after AARoads was started, we finally added coverage of Alaska, the 50th State and the last not previously covered on the site. Our initial updates includes photos taken in May 2023 south to Soldotna, north to Fairbanks and Fox and east to Yukon at Alcan Border. Also scanned a number of [...]
Continuing through the queue of photos in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, posted page for U.S. 29/74 west from Charlotte to Belmont. Added complete coverage of U.S. 74 west along Independence Boulevard, from I-485 in Matthews to I-277/NC 16 by Uptown Charlotte. Proposed construction along the arterial portion of Independence Boulevard will add a tolled Express Lane in each direction, add general travel lanes, and convert the roadway [...]
Many updates were made over the last month to the site and are summarized below. We also traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina for a concert, and took some time to check out a few area roads including the tolled Monroe Expressway, U.S. 74 along Independence Boulevard and various state routes in York County, South Carolina. Worked some over the Thanksgiving weekend on some of the recent photos from Carolina. [...]
This week's updates include new pages for Interstate 70 in Kansas covering both directions across the Wichita area and on the Kansas Turnpike from Bonner Springs to Topeka. This includes photos going back to a 2004 cross country road trip, which covered all of I-70 west across the Sunflower State. Other pages added in Kansas: U.S 59 with a handful of photos from Lawrence U.S. 75 with photo coverage of [...]
I-70 (Kansas Turnpike) at the parclo A2 interchange with K-10 (S Lawrence Trafficway) at Lawrence. 10/31/16 Working westward from Kansas City in the Sunflower State, added new pages for several Kansas Highways. K-5 - a route northwest from Kansas City to Leavenworth, with a short freeway that was originally part of Interstate 635. K-7 - a long route stretching north from Oklahoma to Nebraska, with sections of freeway and expressway [...]
A high flyover connects I-35 north with I-70/U.S. 24-40-169 westbound along the Lewis and Clark Viaduct linking the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri with Downtown Kansas City, Kansas. 10/07/21 Finishing up with updates from our recent roadtrip to the Midwest/Great Plains. The morning of October 7, 2021, we did a loop around Kansas City covering a few things that have changed since the last photos shot [...]
U.S. 69 crosses the Missouri River over the Platte Purchase Bridge south into Kansas City, Kansas. 10/07/21 Continuing through our recent roadtrip to the Midwest/Great Plains, updated some of the coverage of Interstate 435 around Kansas City, Missouri. Rephotographed the outer loop from I-35 to the overlap with I-29 and then back east to the freeway along U.S. 169. Most of the shields posted along this stretch no [...]
Been a long time since we posted anything covering site updates. There have been a lot of them, but without a dynamic way to generate a list of changes, writing about them here has fallen by the wayside. Last week we completed a 4,738 mile long trip to the High Plains from the Southeast and back. Covered a lot of new ground, including the newly opened Arkansas/Missouri Connector along Interstate [...]
Crossing the William Preston Lane, Jr Bridge across Chesapeake Bay on U.S. 50 west / U.S. 301 south. 12/31/16 Finished adding the last of the December 2020 photos to Delaware this past weekend, and proceeded west into Maryland and added the recent photos from there as well. Reorganized the guides covering U.S. 301 south in Maryland with separate pages from the Delaware line to Sudlersville and from [...]
U.S. 301 (First Responders Memorial Highway) begins southbound from SR 1 (Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway) at Biddles Corner, Delaware. According DelDOT traffic counts, U.S. 301 is 11.92 miles long in the state. 21,244 vehicles per day were recorded at the north end in 2019. Making progress on completing the updates for the Delaware Highways page and adjacent routes in Maryland with photos from December 2020. Working [...]
