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The newly designated Coach K Highway / NC 751 in Durham. (John Gaither) Just recently, NCDOT has named a portion of NC 751 in Durham after retired Duke University Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski. NC 751 from Kerley Road to Duke University Road has been designated as the "Coach K Highway." Signs are now up - and John Gaither was kind enough to allow us to share the photo he took of the new signage. Of course, the new signage is just another chapter in the Tobacco Road Rivalry between Duke and the University of North Carolina. Carolina fans are quick to point out that their two beloved coaches, Dean Smith and Roy Williams, have parts of Interstate 40 named after them. On the other hand - for North Carolina State fans - it's still 1983 and I-40 hasn't even been built through most of the area yet. If you had a highway named after you, where and what would it be? Sources: John Gaither Former Duke Coach Now Has a Highway Named for Him ---NCDOT Press Release

Recently, I did an explore trip in Central North Carolina.  There were a few items for my Carolina Crossroads project that I wanted to get photos of - but like many road trips, there were a few surprises! This trip took me from our home northeast of Charlotte and out to Chatham County and back.  It was a mix of churches and freeways, antiques and old bridges, backroads, and old country stores.  You can find the entire photo set on flickr, here . I didn't gain any new state highways as I've done them all before - and in some cases, I had passed a few times and finally took some photos or even returned to take some more. Lower Grace Stone Church Have you ever driven past an old building that you know has been there a long time - it sticks out compared to the rest of the landscape - and wanted to stop?  The Grace Lower Stone Church would be one.  I've often driven past this historic church on our way to the North Carolina Zoo.  (Sometimes, we take the backway...

The Central Freeway is a 1.2-mile elevated limited access corridor in the city of San Francisco.  As presently configured the Central Freeway connects from the end of the Bayshore Freeway to Market Street.  The Central Freeway carries the mainline of northbound US Route 101 from the Bayshore Freeway to Mission Street. The Central Freeway has origins with the establishment of Legislative Route Number 223 and is heavily tied to the history of the once proposed Panhandle Freeway.  The Central Freeway between the Bayshore Freeway and Mission Street was completed during 1955.  The corridor was extended to a one-way couplet located at Turk Street and Golden Gate Avenue in 1959 which served to connect US Route 101 to Van Ness Avenue.  The Central Freeway was damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and has since been truncated to Market Street.   The Central Freeway as pictured on the blog cover was featured in the May/June 1959 California Highways & Pu...