Praise for Mike Pettigano and Bergen Record/NorthJersey.com on breaking the...
The allegations that officials in Gov. Chris Christie’s administration ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to close some lanes of the George Washington Bridge (I-95, US 1 & 9) is...
View ArticleI-95: New Maryland House service area re-opened, Chesapeake House closed
The first service area on Interstate 95 north, Maryland House, reopened recently. The facility was knocked down and replaced after closing in September 2012. Private money built the new facility, and a...
View ArticleI-495, Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia opened 50 years ago today
It was on this day fifty years ago that the Capital Beltway, Interstate 495, was completed in Northern Virginia. I suppose many commuters would have found it opening a day earlier more apropos as the...
View ArticleI-95: Chesapeake House reopened
Chesapeake House the second service area, err travel plaza on Interstate 95 (John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway) north, reopened last Tuesday. Both the renovation and reopening seems to be lacking in the...
View ArticleREDUCE SPEED: Vintage neon NJ Turnpike sign for sale on ebay
Can somebody please buy, ship and store this outstanding New Jersey Turnpike neon sign for me? It’s only $2,000! You can drop it off with me when I get a house. A really big one, apparently. In 2013, I...
View ArticleNJ Turnpike completes significant widening between interchanges 6 and 9
Over the last few weeks, a major expansion of the New Jersey Turnpike was completed after 5 years of construction. Between interchanges 6 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) and 8A (Jamesburg) two new carriageways...
View ArticleBi-partisan legislators want to widen I-66 between exits 67 and 71
Another lane in each direction of Interstate 66 between exits 67 and 71 would be a like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for Northern Virginia commuters.
View ArticleThe “original” I-695 briefly returns to D.C.
Washington, D.C. transportation department briefly unveiled an I-695 sign, a road not constructed, that had been covered up for nearly half-a-century.
View ArticleTerrible mlb.com headline for terrible Nats – Baltimore game
A bad headline leads us to an interchange of sports fandom and roadgeekery. “For all the (I-495) marbles” was surely written by someone on an […] Read More The post Terrible mlb.com headline for...
View ArticleNo more DC I-695: interstate renumbering approved
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will renumber two interstate highways. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved DDOT’s request to […]...
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