Gribblenation

On February 8th, 1937 US Route 6 was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials to be extended to Long Beach, California from Greeley, Colorado.  The extension of US Route 6 to Long Beach is well documented due to it making the highway the longest US Route to have ever existed at 3,652 miles.  What is not well known regarding US Route 6 is that it's proposed extension to California included an alternative routing which would have seen the highway end in San Francisco upon crossing Tioga Pass of the Sierra Nevada Mountains through Yosemite National Park.  Pictured above is the proposed alignment US Route 6 to San Francisco via Tioga Pass drafted by the California Division of Highways during June 1935.  The history of the two proposals to extend US Route 6 to San Francisco via Tioga Pass Note; this blog is not intended to be a full historic brief on the corridor of the Tioga Pass Road and modern US Route 6.  A full historic synopsis of the Tio...

On September 8, 2021 MassDOT announced that it's Exit Renumbering Project had been completed . Started on October 18, 2020 the project, over 10 months, using 3 different contracts, and 2 different contractors, renumbered exits on 20 routes; 11 Interstates-I-84, I-90, I-91, I-93, I-95, I-190, I-195, I-290, I-295, I-395 and I-495, 2 US Routes-US 3 and US 6 and 7 Mass. state Routes-2, 3, 24, 25, 128, 140 and 146. The project went largely as planned and the public, for the most part, accepted and even liked the changes, noting how much easier it was navigating the state's freeways. However, not everything went perfectly, and some issues still remain. This blog summarizes my views of the glitches that happened along the way. 1. Mileposts do not always matching mile markers MassDOT emphasized during the run up to the project on what the benefit would be to the traveling public of having exit numbers matching mileposts. But in some cases, due to MassDOT's numbering policies, this ...