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^ date reposted to this blog Feb. 21, 2022: originally posted to my old blog Prior to I-25, there was a different main highway that connected Denver to several of the Northern Front Range cities in Colorado. The number of this highway has changed a few times during the past century, but its general corridor has remained the same: it still runs through Ft. Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont, Lafayette, Broomfield, Westminster, and Denver. Not all of those cities had even been established at the time of the 1916 map shown below, but the highway corridor running along the Northern Front Range is readily apparent (going forward I will refer to this road as the NFRH, for "North Front Range Highway"): c. 1916, CDoT Towards the bottom of that map, notice the jog in the road that is circled in red; this article will focus on that area later. But for now, notice that the NFRH had been assigned a designation of State Highway 2 at the time. About ten years later, a couple major ...

^ date reposted to this blog Jun. 17, 2021: originally posted to my old blog US 87 and US 287 converge in Dumas, Texas, and share about 49 miles of pavement down to Amarillo, where the two routes separate again. Before reaching their point of divergence, however, drivers on US 87-287 are directed through downtown Amarillo via surface streets. In hundreds of cities (or perhaps even thousands), US highway traffic bifurcates into one-way couplets (i.e. two separate streets, where the first carries one direction of traffic, and the second carries the opposite direction). In the U.S. we drive on the right side of the road, and opposing traffic is to the left. Because of that, in nearly every case where traffic bifurcates, the road carrying opposing traffic is one block to the driver's left (so that when traffic reconvenes onto the same road again, opposing directions of traffic have no need to cross each other). Amarillo is not unusual in the sense that its US highway traffic als...

^ date reposted to this blog Apr. 10, 2021: originally posted to my old blog Apr. 05, 2022: last updated One of San Angelo's marketing slogans is "The Oasis of West Texas". This is not hyperbole; most approaches to the city are somewhat stark, so upon arrival in Angelo, one may well be pleasantly surprised at all of the rivers, reservoirs, trees and other vegetation: One of the city's other monikers is "The Pearl of the Conchos", which has a double meaning, referring to the freshwater Concho pearls that were historically harvested from area waterways. The three branches of the Concho River all converge in San Angelo; that was illustrated on this other slogan from days gone by: On display at ASU's Mayer Museum, Jun. 2021 When the US highway system was inaugurated in late 1926, the only US route to initially serve San Angelo was US 385 (that is, the original US 385 , not the current US 385). The new designation was added to Texas State Highway 9: c. ...