A major artery in Saginaw County will be getting a massive makeover soon. The Michigan Department of Transportation will invest $55 million in this project,...
... it's the most visible). Lansing's I-496 gets jammed every day, and its in dire need of an extra lane each way on the western end. Not to mention the jams...
... Kinda hard to enforce a law that doesn't exist. Nobody's going to pay attention to the HOV restriction until people start getting ticketed for it. Also, is...
Thruway scraps relocation of Williamsville toll barrier Widening of road from West Seneca to Lackawanna also put off By Tom Precious - BUFFALO NEWS ALBANY...
I'm no engineer, but this reminds me of a bridge on old US-131 (over a railroad track) in Allegan County, MI. A few years ago, serious deterioration was...
New York's Governor David Paterson is now proposing that New York become one of a number of states in leasing its assets to private contractors to trim costs...
A sticking point in the proposed upgrading of PA 28/East Ohio Street in Pittsburgh has finally been settled. The Croatian group that hoped to turn the Saint...
In keeping with tradition, the PTC will be hosting a "Community Day on the Expressway" next Saturday on the next soon-to-open portion of the Mon-Fayette...
Whether you think the yellow-green signage that has been popping up is a welcome safety feature, or you think it is overkill, you are not alone. The opinions...
It was much simplier back in the 1930s trying to carve four lanes of highway through a narrow 200-foot-wide corridor. Not only do engineers have to shoehorn...
I like FYG, I really do. It's a good color and it does its job of standing out. But you will get desensitized if you see it at every. single. pedestrian....
According to the results of a survey conducted by analysts, Cowen & Co., which were released on Monday, Google Maps has left its competitors far behind in the...
Personally, I use different map services for different reasons: - Mapquest seems to have the best options for Driving Directions. - Google Maps' street view is...
I don't like it's use on signage. The bright fluorescent yellow was already a good improvement over the "standard" yellow in use before. I'm OK with FYG on...
Where Google Maps really shines is in taking an imperfect address and figuring out what the correct one is supposed to be based on what you typed in. In this...
Lawrenceville, Pa. - Motorists now have a quicker, more efficient way to travel through the northern part of the Keystone State with the opening of a...
... There's actually a halfway-decent explanation for that. From what I can tell, one of their labeling algorithms looks for anything in the "roadname"...
... You do realize that that's one of four not commonly used or used yet, right? I'm not talking about fanciful roadgeek ideas, I'm talking about colors...
... Interesting. I found the page regarding the old bridge at the Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere site (each page on that site seems to have at ...
Fall 2008 NYSRE Meeting Buffalo, NY When: Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 12pm noon Where: Zebb's, 3349 Southwestern Boulevard, Orchard Park, NY 14127....
... habit of ... routing). ... the ... in a ... this ... Chris, how does that explain Google's US-16 error on Cascade Road between Fulton Street and I-96 in...
On a recent trip into Jackson, MI, on WB BL I-94 (East Michigan Ave), I noticed a new ALT M-50 sign (near the Ganson St fork). On the return trip there was no...
Hey all... I'm about to embark on a four-day color tour and roadgeeking trip in northern Michigan and Da U.P. I'll be heading up to Boyne City, Cross Village &...
I'm not sure how tight your time constraints are, but as long as you're going as far as Ironwood, you might as well take in the Keweenaw while you're there....
Those are all great suggestions, and I'd love to head back up to Houghton and Copper Harbor again, but the farthest west I'm going to be able to go is the Lake...
... Dennis, while you're absolutely correct that Cascade Rd was never actually named "Old US-16", at some point in some GIS data layer somewhere, an attribute...
... Houghton. Brockway Mountain was quite gorgeous when I went up Sunday afternoon, as was the drive up US-41 and down M-26. (I had planned it the other way,...
With gas prices less than $3 per gallon at many places here in Dayton I decided to take a trip to north central Indiana to see a few places I haven't seen, as...