{"id":11056,"date":"2019-06-19T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:13:31","slug":"arkansas-does-something-quasi-competent-for-us-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/arkansas-does-something-quasi-competent-for-us-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas does something quasi-competent for US 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/usends\/us63\/55exit23_63_sbprelim.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 19, 2016:<\/strong> BGS for the newly christened I-555 in Arkansas, as seen from US 61 where it parallels I-55.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This website has complained rather vociferously about the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/usends\/us63.html\">tragedy of US 63<\/a> in Arkansas \u2014 ever since putting up a page in 2002 shortly after passing what had been the previous endpoint at I-55 northwest of Memphis. <em>(Extremism in the defense of roadgeeking is no vice! \u2014 Ed.) <\/em>Arkansas&#8217; treatment of US highways moved onto interstates is universally awful, so the complete absence of 63 markers on I-55 and I-40 after the route was extended in 1999 was par for the course.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/arkansas-i-555-has-blueprint-for-des-moines-beltway\/\">Arkansas got an exemption<\/a> in the 2015 federal transportation bill that cleared the way for I-555 to exist between I-55 and Jonesboro, 63 became redundant (and unsigned) for an even longer segment. Only at some major exits, as seen at top, did the route get recognition.<\/p>\n<p>With I-555 complete, Arkansas is going to restore some dignity to US 63. In an application to the spring 2019 meeting of the route numbering committee (<a href=\"https:\/\/route.transportation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/003_USRN-Applications-Spring-Meeting-2019_AR-GA_Part-1.pdf\">large PDF, Page 5<\/a>), Arkansas will reroute US 63 along US 49 between Jonesboro and I-40. This will take 63 away completely from its ancestral end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usends.com\/west-memphis.html\">&#8220;approximately somewhere in the West Memphis area&#8221;<\/a>. It will cut the overlap with I-40 to 23 miles, although who knows if that will result in its being signed there. It also will created a signed US 63\/US 64 junction at the map dot of Fair Oaks in far western Cross County.<\/p>\n<p>Tackling US 63 south of Jefferson City remains high on my to-do list. After my 2016 trip to the Deep South, I wanted to put some space in before going that way again. Now we see procrastination has paid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 19, 2016: BGS for the newly christened I-555 in Arkansas, as seen from US 61 where it parallels I-55. This website has complained rather vociferously about the tragedy of US 63 in Arkansas \u2014 ever since putting up a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/arkansas-does-something-quasi-competent-for-us-63\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}