Entries Tagged as 'Ends'
This week brings us to Chicago:
This is the northern terminus of the Stevenson Expressway, I-55, at US 41 (Lake Shore Drive) a bit south of downtown Chicago.
Most of the ends of interstates I’ve encountered in the US tend to be rather anticlimactic. However, at least I-55’s north end benefits from the distinction of ending on the shore of Lake Michigan, at a road that is remarkable in its own right (Lake Shore Drive).
Oh, and that would be Chicago’s McCormick Center at the left-hand side of the image, in case you were wondering.
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Ends · Highway Feature · Interchanges · Chicago · Illinois
Well, it’s the end of a road, anyway:
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This is the intersection of Colorado Avenue and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California. Passing underneath the intersection is California Highway 1. Just to the northeast is the official western end of I-10, and extending to the southwest is the Santa Monica Pier.
This site is also considered the symbolic end of old Route 66, although the historic designation officially terminated some distance east of here, at the intersection of Lincoln and Olympic.
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Ends · Highway Feature · Oddities
14 January 2007 · Comments Off
For this week’s installment, we have the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
West end, at the Ohio state line:
East end, at the New Jersey state line:
The Pennsylvania Turnpike was one of the early long-distance expressways in the United States, and was known for its 7 tunnels, 3 of which have since been bypassed to improve highway capacity.
For more information, please see the Wikipedia entry for the Pennsylvania Turnpike
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7 January 2007 · Comments Off
I thought I’d re-kick-off my “highway features” by looking at the ends of some of the most notable roads in the U.S.
This week, I offer old Route 66.
The east end, in Chicago, Illinois:
and the west end, in Santa Monica, California
(The official end was at Lincoln & Olympic, although popular tradition has it ending at the Santa Monica Pier.)
US 66 was one of the great highways predating the interstate system in the U.S., and it features prominently in popular roads culture…so much so that I can’t really do it justice here. I can, however, recommend a couple of links if you’d like to read more:
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24 March 2006 · Comments Off
It’s the end of the world as we know it….
Earlier this week, Wikipedia’s featured article was on Cape Horn in Chile. Being the good little net-surfer that I am, I continued on to the article on Cape of Good Hope, and just happened to notice that a road runs pretty darn close to the escape.
Et voilá!
The Cape is within a nature preserve, part of the Table Mountain National Park. Although it is not the official dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Cape was a major landmark for ships traveling between Europe and Asia.
The first European known to have rounded the Cape was Bartolomeu Dias, a Portugese navigator, who accomplished this feat in 1488.
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