Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Jun 23

US 66 tourism article

Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2012, at 5:18 PM by Jeff

By Reuters.

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May 31

Last lettered county road sign gone

Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 1:34 AM by Jeff

May 20, 2003 Iowa switched from single letters on its county roads to the alphanumeric grid system around 1969. For a short period, the new designations were printed on the same green squares, probably until counties exhausted their supplies. One … Continue reading →

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May 29

The end of US 269

Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at 9:51 AM by Jeff

October 21, 2007. Photo’s color composition has been altered slightly. US Highway 269 never existed except for many years, perhaps a decade, on one sign in Kansas City — southbound I-35 at Exit 11. An initial glance might make one … Continue reading →

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Apr 23

Red light, green light

Posted on Monday, April 23, 2012, at 4:07 PM by Jeff

Des Moines has 420 signalized intersections. West Des Moines has 110. (Note: Sidebar on link may not work in Safari.) Tama County has six.

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Apr 20

A dozen pages updated

Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012, at 1:55 PM by Jeff

The most time-consuming part of updating pages, it seems, is re-counting the order for the photo dates at the bottom of each page. That said, these were from pictures taken in mid-2011. Pages updated: 62, 111, 113, 142, 202, 221, … Continue reading →

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Apr 15

Maquoketa Caves reopen

Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2012, at 12:59 AM by Jeff

KWWL and the Quad-City Times have stories. Until 2003, the state park was the destination of IA 428, the highest signed non-900 designation in the Iowa highway system.

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Apr 02

Walcott visitors center open

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 12:51 PM by Jeff

The welcome center at the World’s Largest Truck Stop replaces the one that closed in LeClaire. The move is actually  beneficial for travelers because now no matter how you come in to the Quad Cities, there is an eastern Iowa … Continue reading →

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Feb 11

Numerical coincidence

Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012, at 1:05 AM by Jeff

According to Clinched Highway Mapping, I have traveled approximately 1036 miles on I-40 and 1035 miles on US 40. That’s not going to be the case for long, though. Once the Crosstown Expressway’s westbound lanes open in Oklahoma City, I … Continue reading →

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Jan 18

Dallas County rest area’s time limited?

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, at 8:27 PM by Jeff

The Des Moines Register reports that the Federal Highway Administration has approved plans for the Alice’s Road interchange on I-80. It is scheduled to open within two years. This is the recently built Alice’s Road bridge as seen from the … Continue reading →

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Jan 13

Shield oddity in Kirksville MO

Posted on Friday, January 13, 2012, at 12:01 PM by Jeff

I am working on updating listings for the Clinched Highway Mapping website and found a news story from October from KTVO on the bypass of Kirksville, Missouri. What made me do a double-take was one shot, below left, of the … Continue reading →

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