Portal:U.S. Roads/U.S. Roads news/Archive

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.

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]