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Oct 30, 2017, 3:26 pm
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Interstate 11 is new; and I just drove on all of it earlier today.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
Oct 30, 2017, 6:45 pm
#347
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The entire stretch of 93 between Boulder and Kingman is now four lanes with a wide grassy median, as I drove on it only yesterday.
Oct 31, 2017, 2:38 pm
#348
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Interstate 11 is new; and I just drove on all of it earlier today.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
Oct 31, 2017, 4:19 pm
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Interstate 11 is new; and I just drove on all of it earlier today.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
The highway will eventually link Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are currently the two largest cities in the United States without an Interstate highway directly linking them.
That sounds hard to believe. What Interstate highway directly links New York and Los Angeles, both of which are quite a bit larger than either of those? (Obviously, you can get from NYC to LA on interstates, but you can get from Las Vegas to Phoenix on them, specifically I-15 to I-10, too.)
And looking at a national map, there aren't too many cases of large cities in the same region that don't have a more-or-less direct freeway connection.
Oct 31, 2017, 4:27 pm
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Nov 2, 2017, 2:17 pm
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The stretch between AZ 89 near Wickenburg and AZ 71 near Congress was just completed within the last year. Now work is starting north of Wikieup.
With the increase in traffic and notoriously bad Arizona drivers I-11 can't come soon enough in my opinion. And I'm saying that as someone who routinely takes the scenic route over the interstate.
Nov 13, 2017, 4:21 pm
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In that atlas I also saw for the first time the Interstate 69W, 69C, and 69E weirdness in south Texas. I mean, I understand the whole I-69 "NAFTA Highway" idea, and I suppose the fact that they are building it in bits and pieces is inevitable, but sticking an interstate label on three disparate bits of highway and pretending that they are part of some unified route doesn't strike me as being terribly helpful. But whatever.
Jan 20, 2018, 12:02 pm
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The numbering of Philadelphia-area interstate highways will see some significant changes over the next decade. It's set in motion by construction that will (after nearly a half-century) link I-95 to the PA Turnpike northeast of Philly. Then, I-95 will be "re-routed" onto the PA Turnpike east to the NJ Turnpike and on northward.
This will technically mean that at long last I-95 will be "complete" from Maine to Florida. Of course, that's only a technicality since the un-numbered NJ Turnpike (and a small portion of I-295 near Wilmington) provides an unbroken expressway link between the "northern" and "southern" sections of I-95.
Here's a link:
Work to begin on connecting Pa. Turnpike and I-95
And here's what the current non-interchange looks like from the air. One can only assume that the days are numbered for many of the buildings close to that crossing.
This will technically mean that at long last I-95 will be "complete" from Maine to Florida. Of course, that's only a technicality since the un-numbered NJ Turnpike (and a small portion of I-295 near Wilmington) provides an unbroken expressway link between the "northern" and "southern" sections of I-95.
Here's a link:
Work to begin on connecting Pa. Turnpike and I-95
And here's what the current non-interchange looks like from the air. One can only assume that the days are numbered for many of the buildings close to that crossing.
An infamous gap in Interstate 95 will finally be closed this summer.
Oct 15, 2019, 2:44 pm
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There's a "new" interstate highway in western Iowa. In fact, "I-880" is the third numerical designation for this highway, which started life as "I-80N" but has spent decades as the northern/eastern leg of I-680.
Now, to end confusion that exists in the Omaha area, the section is being renumbered as I-880.
https://www.news.iowadot.gov/newsand...med-i-880.html
Now, to end confusion that exists in the Omaha area, the section is being renumbered as I-880.
https://www.news.iowadot.gov/newsand...med-i-880.html