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Hawaii Route 197 currently is a 1.2 mile partially complete state highway located on the Big Island near Kona International Airport.  The corridor as presently constructed originates at Hawaii Route 19 and follows Kealakehe Parkway east to a dead-end at Keanalehu Drive.  The corridor of Hawaii Route 197 has a proposed extension which would terminate 1.9 miles to the east at Hawaii Route 190 and connect with the great Mamalahoa Highway.   Part 1; the history of Hawaii Route 197 The planned corridor of Hawaii Route 197 (Kealakehe Parkway) is 3.1 miles in scale and would connect Hawaii Route 19 (Queen Kaahumanu Highway) near Kona International Airport east to Hawaii Route 190 (Mamalahoa Highway).  The intent of the corridor is to replace the functionally obsolete Palani Drive (Hawaii Route 190) as the primary connector to Mamalahoa Highway.   The adoption of Hawaii Route 197 into the state highway system is not fully clear, but likely came during the 1980...

The town of Jamaica is located along Route 100 in the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont. It has just over 1,000 residents and consists of the villages of Jamaica Center, East Jamaica, and Rawsonville. Jamaica Memorial Library The community is not named after the Caribbean Island but the Natick/Algonquian for "beaver."  Both the West River and the Ball Mountain Brook run through Jamaica. One of the many historic homes in Jamaica. (Doug Kerr - May 2012) Since its charter in 1780, Jamaica has transitioned from a colonial timber industry community to an industrial wool industry in the mid-19th century, to a community driven by outdoor recreation (skiing, fishing, golf, etc.)  Nearby Jamaica State Park is a popular fishing, hiking, camping, and mountain biking destination. Jamaica Town Hall - In addition to the annual town meeting - Jamaica Town Hall hosts community activities and events. Jamaica continues the New England tradition of an annual town meeting.  Held the first...

This complex of interchanges connecting Bigelow Boulevard, Crosstown Boulevard (I-579), Ft. Duquesne Blvd., and I-279 was close enough to a reality that guide signs on Crosstown Boulevard included exits that were never built. (1) As a kid, I delivered papers - The McKeesport Daily News and The Pittsburgh Press.  Walking my route, I would read both papers.  I recall reading in the Press about a guide sign on the Boulevard of the Allies ramp onto Crosstown Boulevard/Interstate 579 mentioning an interchange for Fort Duquesne Boulevard - an exit that didn't even exist.  I was correct - in the Sunday, August 4, 1991, edition of The Pittsburgh Press , a column by Brian O'Neill went over the sign.  The error was brought to his attention by a reader, Larry Melberg.  The full length of the I-579 had been open for almost three years - yet on the ramp from the Boulevard onto 579 there was an overhead sign listing Downtown Exits.  The list included the exit for 7th Ave...

Old Yosemite Road is a short, bypassed portion of the original Yosemite Stage Road located north of Oakhurst.  The corridor was developed in the 1850s and would be incorporated into the Washburn Brothers Yosemite Stage Road in 1882.  The Yosemite Stage would be realigned towards Raymond in 1886 and the original highway towards Fresno Flats (now Oakhurst) would be repurposed as part of the Fresno-Yosemite Road.  Bissett's Station would operate along the Fresno-Yosemite Road from 1908 through 1934 when modern California State Route 41 was constructed.  Old Yosemite Road no longer is accessible as a through highway but once connected to Madera County Road 425A and Sierra National Forest Road 6S15.   What is now Old Yosemite Road can be seen north of Fresno Flats passing through Bissett's Ranch towards Sugar Pine and Wawona on the 1912 United States Geological Survey Map of Mariposa.  Part 1; the history of Old Yosemite Road What is now Old Yosemite Road w...