Gribblenation

After leaving Biscayne National Park I headed northward via Florida State Road 874/Don Shula Expressway and FL 878/Snapper Creek Expressway to US 1/Biscayne Boulevard towards my hotel in Miami.  After hitting the city limit of Miami I encountered the Southern Terminus of Interstate 95 and took it into downtown. I continued north on I-95 and took I-195 over the Julia Tuttle Causeway towards Miami Beach and FL A1A. Not a bad view looking back westwards towards downtown Miami. After stopping at a couple locales in Miami Beach I headed back over I-195 to US 1 on Biscayne Boulevard. I believe that I actually stayed the downtown Hilton which had a hell of a view of Biscayne Boulevard/US 1 south. Not a bad view of I-395 on the MacArthur Causeway towards the Port of Miami. If memory serves correct I-195 was completed back in 1961 along with the grid-anomaly of FL 112.  FL 112 should be in the 8XX grid but appears to have retained the pla...

I took a few hours this past Saturday (2/27) to check out the progress on several projects that will help shape the future of driving in Massachusetts and beyond. Most notably, wider roads, electronic tolling, and milepost-based exit numbers. 1. Wider Roads The longest construction project going on in the Metro Boston area is the '128-Add-A-Lane' Project, to create a fourth travel lane on I-93 and I-95 from MA 24 in Randolph to MA 9 in Wellesley. The work is now concentrated on the last section north of Great Plain Avenue in Needham. The work includes adding a fourth lane to the median: Replacing bridges over the highway, such as this one for Kendrick Street, now completed: Building a new off-ramp from Kendrick Street, in progress: And, revising the interchange with MA 9: The whole project is due to be completed by 2019. 2. Electronic Tolling MassDOT having instituted electronic tolls on the Tobin Bridge in 2014, is now in the process of doing the same for...

Got a chance this past Saturday to drive along Connecticut's I-395 from where the route joins the original Connecticut Turnpike, that is secretly designated (not signed) as CT 695 to where CT 2A leaves the interstate south of Norwich. I-395 is the first freeway to be given milepost-based exit numbers by the State of Connecticut (along with CT 2A and CT 695). The original numbers run from 77 to 100 and are those of the Connecticut Turnpike (up to 90) which start at the New York border The new numbers will run from 2 to 53. The state's plan is to convert the rest of its freeways over the next 10-20 years as part of exit sign replacement contracts. The I-395 project was split in two with the first section to be started that between I-95 and old Exit 88. Many photos have already been taken of signs along this section, check out Jay Hogan's I-395 Flickr Page . Here are some of the photos taken of new exit signs and numbers north of Exit 88. OLD EXIT 90 / NEW EXIT 35 I only ...