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If you were thinking about driving through southern Louisiana ahead of Gustav….maybe that’s not such a good idea. Seen at the Times-Picayune: The contraflow plan to open all lanes of traffic away from coastal areas to speed evacuation from Hurricane Gustav could begin Saturday night and no later than Sunday morning, state officials said this afternoon. The state [...] 
We’ll stay in South America for another week, and move a bit to the south, to Buenos Aires: (View in Google Maps) When I first spotted this in Google Maps, I was struck by the similarity (at first glance anyway) to Chicago’s Circle interchange. The north-south road portrayed above is the 9 de Julio Avenue, a broad multi-carriageway [...] 
Tom Condon has an interesting op-ed piece in Sunday’s Courant discussing how I-84 came to its current alignment in Hartford, and what that did to damage the city’s neighborhoods. Also included in the op-ed is word of a consultant being brought in to look at I-84’s future, as the DOT contemplates rehabilitation of the [...] 
As a former resident of the Wiregrass region of southeastern Alabama, it’s nice to see some (admittedly slow) progress being made on connecting Dothan to the interstate system. From the Dothan Eagle: ALDOT is currently soliciting residents’ opinions of three possible routes for the freeway, and no route will be chosen until the department [...]
…and who can blame her? Seen in Sunday’s Courant: Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Saturday that she has submitted legislation directing that no new contracts for billboards on state-owned property be allowed and that existing billboard contracts not be renewed when they expire. To lessen distraction on state roadways, the bill would also allow the state to stop [...]
For this week’s highway feature, I thought we’d head to India. India’s still developing its highway system. In fact, when trying to find aerial footage of a highway in/around Delhi, I ran into problems in finding anything more significant than an arterial route. The exception to that would be NH-8, which is being upgraded to the Delhi-Gurgaon [...]
For this week’s highway feature, let us trek to Korea: (View in Google Maps) This is the northern end of the Gyongbu Expressway, where it intersects the Olympic Expressway just before crossing the Han River, sharing the Hannam Bridge with the Jungang Line of the Korean National Railways. and the Yongsan-Deokso line of the Seoul Metropolitan [...] 
For this week, a trip to the Big Apple is in order: (View in Google Maps) This is a rather infamous interchange, between I-87 (the Major Deegan Expressway) and I-95 (Alexander Hamilton Bridge / Cross Bronx Expressway), where travelers heading south from upstate (or north, after having escaped Queens) have the opportunity to wind up narrow [...]
Seen in the Birmingham Times: State officials plan to open 26 miles of Corridor X next month, giving motorists a straight shot from Forestdale to Memphis. A new 20-mile section of highway will open Nov. 14 from Industrial Parkway in Jasper to U.S. 78 in Graysville. At the same time, transportation officials will officially open a six-mile [...]
Folks familiar with highway maps of the state of Connecticut are probably aware of an odd little freeway in southeast Connecticut that looks like it would provide a useful link between New London and Hartford…but for the fact that it abruptly ends in the middle of nowhere (at least by Connecticut standards of “nowhere”). It sounds [...] |
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