Portal:U.S. Roads/U.S. Roads news/Archive
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An archive of news previously mentioned on the U.S. Roads Portal.
[edit] 2006
- February – The Oklahoma Department of Transportation issues a new sign design for Oklahoma state highways. All signs are supposed to be changed over by the end of 2006.
[edit] 2007
- August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- June 19 – The South Carolina Department of Transportation adopts a new design for their state highway shields. A plain rectangle with "S.C." will be replaced by a blue design with a small logo above the number. Unlike the 2006 change in Oklahoma, signs will only be replaced when they would otherwise need replacement.[1]
- September 28 – The extension of the Dallas North Tollway to U.S. Highway 380 near Frisco, Texas opens.[2]
- September 28 - Interstate 795 in North Carolina is officially approved by AASHTO.
- October 12 - A stretch of Interstate 5 in California at the Newhall Pass interchange is shut down due to a fire in a truck tunnel.[3]
- November 4 - The first phase of the Iway project in Providence, Rhode Island is completed, opening the new Providence River Bridge to eastbound I-195 traffic from northbound I-95.[4]
- November 14 - Future I-22 is extended to the Birmingham suburb of Forestdale, leaving only the two ends at Birmingham and Memphis to be completed.[5]
- November 19 - The South Bay Expressway (SR 125), San Diego's opens.[6]
- December 3 - Highway 312, which will become a new alignment of U.S. Highway 212 once completed, opens to Highway 41 in Chaska, Minnesota.[7]
- December 4 - Interstate 99 is completed south of I-80.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ South Carolina Department of Transportation, SCDOT Introduces New Signs for SC Highways, June 22, 2007
- ^ North Texas Tollway Authority, Newest Section of Dallas North Tollway to Open on Sept. 28
- ^ Investigators advance into tunnel after deadly inferno - CNN.com
- ^ Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Using the Iway, accessed November 2007
- ^ Ginny MacDonald, The Birmingham News, 26 miles of Corridor X to open Nov. 14, October 31, 2007
- ^ Union-Tribune, First tollway in region set to open on Nov. 19, October 19, 2007
- ^ Chaska Herald, New Highway 212 opens to Chaska on Dec. 3, November 14, 2007
- ^ Engineering News-Record, Despite Rocky History, Pennsylvania Road Will Open, November 21, 2007

