Recently, I took US 202 through Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 2017, you can continue driving on US 202 southbound along the US 202 Parkway. However, the first time I visited the area in October 2004, that was not the case. Someone choosing to continue south on US 202 would need to exit and drive on PA 611 briefly. There was a stub end at end of this interchange, as US 202 was planned to continue as an expressway beyond that point.
The Old River Control Structure (ORCS) and its connecting satellite facilities combine to form one of the most impressive flood control complexes in North America. Located along the west bank of the Mississippi River near the confluence with the Red River and Atchafalaya River nearby, this structure system was fundamentally made possible by the Flood Control Act of 1928 that was passed by the United States Congress in the aftermath of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 however a second, less obvious motivation influenced the construction here. The Mississippi River’s channel has gradually elongated and meandered in the area over the centuries, creating new oxbows and sandbars that made navigation of the river challenging and time-consuming through the steamboat era of the 1800s. This treacherous area of the river known as “Turnbull’s Bend” was where the mouth of the Red River was located that the upriver end of the bend and the Atchafalaya River, then effectively an outflow
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