Monthly Archives: March 2012

Mar 31

A dose of thoroughly useless data

Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at 12:41 PM by Jeff

The east-west part of Chicago’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, aka “the Ike” or I-290, which turns into Congress Parkway in downtown, is about one mile north of the Monona/Harrison-to-Linn/Johnson county line. (About 41°51’N.) In fact, if you add five to … Continue reading →

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Mar 31

Photos by the numbers: 150

Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

April 18, 2006: Guidance on I-280 approaching I-74. At a cloverleaf interchange on the south side of the Quad Cities, US 6 leaves I-74, then turns east at the airport, and then intersects US 150. US 150 used to go … Continue reading →

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Mar 30

Photos by the numbers: 149

Posted on Friday, March 30, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

October 13, 2006: South English. Keokuk County has seven state numbers — 1, 21, 22, 23, 78, 92, and 149 — but no US routes. (It also had IA 77 until 2003.)

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Mar 29

Photos by the numbers: 148

Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

August 21, 2006: Sign at the Missouri state line, 13 miles north of its south end near Maryville. Even-numbered highways in Missouri conventionally run east-west, but this is an exception because it was created to continue from an Iowa number. … Continue reading →

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Mar 28

March’s US 63 news

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at 9:09 PM by Jeff

This was in one of the links of the map post, but I thought I’d break it out: The House approved a bill that would add the segment of US 63 between Ottumwa and Waterloo to the Commercial and Industrial … Continue reading →

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Mar 28

Photos by the numbers: 147

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

September 1, 2009: Rochester makes an appearance on this sign heading north out of Luxemburg. I am not sure it is the first. For the rest of its route in Iowa, US 52 will run through, out of, and around … Continue reading →

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Mar 27

Map Day!

Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 5:47 PM by Jeff

The 2012 map went live online today. Assorted sources report that the number of maps printed was cut nearly in half this year. This is not necessarily a bad thing as long as there are still enough. GPSs and smart … Continue reading →

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Mar 27

License plate countdown — ZGH

Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 12:22 PM by Jeff

In addition, a Tama County YPK was printed in blue, meaning that YQA was the likely beginning of the black printing. UPDATE 4/22: I was wrong. All it meant was that it was somewhere between YPK and YQA. Now I’ve … Continue reading →

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Mar 27

Photos by the numbers: 146

Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

May 13, 2002: North end of IA 146 in Le Grand, pre-bypass. The straight-through alignment of US 30 through Le Grand existed throughout the second half of the 20th century. Between the intersection here and Montour, though, there is some … Continue reading →

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Mar 26

Photos by the numbers: 145

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

June 24, 2003: West end of IA 145, one of three state highways in Fremont County killed off in the Second Great Decommissioning. Originally a spur to Thurman, after 1980 it connected US 275 and I-29.

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