South and Southwest Florida Road Report – March 5, 2014
The first of several construction projects encountered yesterday involves widening of Interstate 75 through Lee County, Florida, including the 1.6-mile project to expand the Caloosahatchee River. The...
View ArticleInterstate 269 in Mississippi Progress
AARoads contributor Chris Kalina traveled through the Memphis area on Saturday March 8th and took a look at progress for construction of Interstate 269, the Memphis outer beltway. Work is underway...
View ArticleMid-South Road Trip – May 19 – Pensacola, FL to Shreveport, LA
Took Interstate 10 westbound from Northwest Florida to Lake Charles, Louisiana, then U.S. 171 north to Shreveport. Redocumented all of I-10 west to Lafayette, all of I-12 west, Interstates 110 and 210....
View ArticleMid-South Road Trip – May 20 – Shreveport, Texarkana, Little Rock,...
Day 2 of the whirlwind trip took us around the Shreveport freeway system, northward along new Interstate 49 to Arkansas, around Texarkana on the new I-369 and AR 549 freeways, and northeast to a...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Chicago to Minneapolis via I-94
The first of a 4,700 mile eight-day tour of the Upper Midwest and Great Plains kicked off from Chicago, taking us north to Milwaukee and west to Madison, Wisconsin Dells, Eau Claire and St. Paul,...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Minneapolis-St. Paul
Day two of our week long travels across the Upper Midwest took us around the Minneapolis and St. Paul area to revisit roads we drove previously in 2007. Several changes were made to area freeways and...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Duluth, Superior
Concluding our run around Minneapolis St-Paul, we met up with long time contributor and administrator of the Facebook Page Minnesconsin Highways, Patrick Lilja. Pat accompanied us northward from Mounds...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Minnesota-Wisconsin Loop
Continuing our week-long travels through the Upper Midwest, day three consisted of a loop from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area south on Interstate 35 to Albert Lea, across I-90 to La Crosse and Portage,...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Minneapolis to the Canadian Border and Fargo
Day four saw the end of our sojourn to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as it was time to move onward to our next destinations. On this day we traveled along I-94 to Fargo, North Dakota where we hooked up...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Fargo to Omaha
Day five of our Midwest/Great Plains trip took us from a start in West Fargo southward along the I-29 corridor to the Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska area. A cloudy and drizzly morning...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Omaha to St. Joseph
Day 6 of our Midwest/Great Plains trip started out redriving many of the Omaha area freeways, dodging thunderstorms southward to Kansas City, and figuring out how far south to travel in Kansas. This...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Kansas City to Topeka
Continuing with Day 6 of our Midwest/Great Plains trip, we drove throughout Kansas City as peak hour traffic set in, with a path taking us back and forth from the Alphabet loop Downtown to suburbs such...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Topeka to the Quad Cities
Day 7 of our Midwest/Great Plains trip takes us east from Topeka back through Kansas City and then north to Des Moines before ending the day in the Quad Cities. We started out deciding to explore the...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Quad Cities to Chicago
The last day of our eight day trek through the Upper Midwest took us from the Quad Cities area back to Chicago before heading southward to home. Leaving around lunchtime, we traveled I-74 through...
View ArticleMississippi Gulf Coast / Southeast Louisiana Road Notes
Finally getting around to reviewing a day trip we took on May 9 from Pensacola, Florida west to Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans and LaPlace, Louisiana. While we have extensively covered much of this...
View ArticleGeorgia continues to switch to new sign standards
Disappearing from Georgia roads are the signs with the narrow width Highway Gothic series D font and the exit numbers posted above a horizontal rule. These age old standards are going by the wayside as...
View ArticleWashington, D.C. 1942 Map
We recently picked up a Washington, DC area map with a General Drafting base dated from 1942. This map may be the oldest we have of the capital city in our collection, and it definitely shows signs of...
View ArticleUpdates and Road News for the week of January 18
While a blizzard dumps one to two feet snow on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, here’s a look at some of the updates at AARoads this week. Contributor Peter Johnson sent in some photos he took this week...
View ArticleSouth Florida Road Updates – January 23
Spent a few hours driving around South Florida, revisiting a few areas previously covered to see construction progress on a number of projects. The main changes throughout Broward and the Miami area...
View Article1946 Baltimore and 1956 Hawaii Maps
In addition to the recent 1942 Washington, D.C. map we acquired, we got our hands on some other goodies, including a city map of Baltimore, Maryland and a map of the Hawaiian Islands including a...
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