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Every decade or so, Ohio pushes to revisit the proposed Interstate 73 that would connect Michigan to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  It's been happening since Congress legislated the route in 1991.  Within Ohio, Interstate 73 generally follows the US 23 corridor from Portsmouth through Columbus to Toledo, and into Michigan. Since High Priority Corridor Five was created , Ohio has really done nothing to move forward with Interstate 73.  Sure, there have been feasibility studies here and there.  But actual dollars and construction just haven't occurred. The US 33 Nelsonville Bypass appears to have been built to Interstate standards. However, Ohio has been slowly upgrading US 33 to a full freeway through Southeastern Ohio.  Bypasses of Lancaster and Nelsonville opened in 2004 and 2013, respectively.  Other sections of two-lane road are being twinned, some to freeway or, at a minimum, to expressway standards.  Currently, a $274 million widening project in...

Old Pony Express Road in Woodfords is a small, bypassed portion California State Route 88 which included the original Woodfords Junction.  Woodfords Junction was the crossroads at which California State Route 88 would pick up multiplexes of California State Route 4 and 89.  Woodfords was bypassed in 1963 amid wider improvements to California State Route 88 and the Carson Pass Highway.  The original highway alignment in Woodfords was renamed to commemorate an 1860 Pony Express remount station which was located at Cary's Barn.   Old Pony Express Road can be seen as part of Woodfords Junction which served California State Routes 88, 4 and 89 on the 1956 United States Geological Survey map of Freel Peak.  Part 1; the history of Pony Express Way in Woodfords Old Pony Express Road is the original alignment of California State Route 88 in the community of Woodfords.  The corridor of Old Pony Express Road also carried multiplexes of California State Routes 89 ...