2008 Updates
13 December 2008
- Colorado Highways: The EB I-70 to WB SH 58 ramp opened yesterday, so updated the SH 58 listing.
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Updated I-70 western Colorado list with various service/secondary destination stuff.
- Updated I-70 Denver list with the new exit to SH 58.
7 December 2008
- Colorado Highways: Dale Sanderson sent me a note about when US 285 was moved out of Tiny Town, so updated the history section.
- Upper Midwest Freeway Exits: Adam Froehlig sent me a bunch of updates for US 52, most notable the freeway-ization that has occured through Oronoco.
6 December 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Signs for SH 16 have appeared on Mesa Ridge at Powers.
- Updated the SH 45 listing with a note that the intersection at US 50 is
odd the way it is because it's layed out for a future diamond
interchange.
- Updated I-76 history to note the closing of the loop ramp at the I-25 interchange.
- Updated SH 470 history with the Alameda Pkwy interchange opening.
16 November 2008
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- On I-25 added Northgate Blvd to the Gleneagle exit following an e-mail from Drew Willsey. Also noted that Exit 191 has been closed.
- The Alamdea Pkwy exit on C-470 is open, actually clear back in June, but I didn't notice until now.
26 October 2008
- Colorado Highways: Uploaded a boatload of new pictures, most from my Labor Day roadtrip to Rocky Mountain National Park: US 34 (RMNP), US 40 (Granby & Berthoud Pass), SH 66, SH 119 (Boulder Canyon) and Grand Lake.
25 October 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Updated info on the SH 82 page to reflect completion of the Maroon Creek bridge.
- Updated history and added a couple pictures to SH 392, as Robert Halonen informed me it's finally signed northeast to Briggsdale.
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- The I-25 InterQuest Pkwy exit now has supplemental signage for SH 21 and SH 83.
15 September 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Added several photos courtesy Dale Sanderson: SH 112, SH 150 and US 160 (Wolf Creek Pass).
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Updated the I-225 list to reflect the 65 mph speed limit south of Parker Rd.
1 September 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Got the photos uploaded (finally) from my May northwest Colorado Roadtrip. New photos
for I-70 (Dotsero and Bakerville), US 40 (Craig, Steamboat and Rabbit
Ears), SH 13, SH 82, SH 317 and SH 394, and the South Canyon Bridge in
Garfield County.
- Added two photos to the Glenwood Canyon photo gallery of the Hanging Lake control building.
17 August 2008
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Signage in Colorado Springs is finally starting to change to
reflect last year's Powers Blvd route swap, so updated various exit
listings: On I-25, SH 83, SH 29 and SH 38 are gone, and Exit 140 is now SH 115. On SH 115 the Lake Ave exit is no longer US 85, nor the Academy exit SH 83. The former SH 83/Academy Blvd exit listing is now just Academy Blvd.
8 August 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Updated I-270, I-25 and US 36 to note the EB I-270 to EB I-76 flyover opening. Also updated the TRANs page since it completed another high priority project.
- General update to the I-76 guide section (some out of date info, and didn't actually say much about it).
- Update to the CTE and Denver's 470 Saga pages due to the June suspension of CDOT's Northwest Corridor EIS.
- Discovered in May that BR 82 in Basalt has been turned back, so updated the Business Route and SH 82 pages.
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Updated to I-270 and I-25 lists due to the I-76 flyover opening.
12 July 2008
- Colorado Highways: Change on the title page to link to my all-new Colorado Highways Blog.
22 June 2008
- Colorado Highways: Updated the municipal trivia page, due to Centennial switching from statutory city to home-rule. Updated the count of each type of municipality.
8 June 2008
- Colorado Highways: Several e-mails from Dale Sanderson pointing
out things he's noticed on old maps, so I have done updates to the
historical info for: SH 61, 70, 88, 154, 279 and US 285.
26 May 2008
- Colorado Highways: Uploaded new info and marker pictures on the County Numbering page for Clear Creek, Eagle, Garfield, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco and Routt counties.
24 May 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- From my northwest Colorado trip a couple weeks ago updated the guide info for SH 13, US 40, SH 82, SH 317, SH 325 and SH 394.
- Updated US 285 to note its new designation as the Ralph Carr Memorial Highway.
- Updated SH 58 to note the ramp opening to westbound I-70.
- Update to the ramp meter page with some info from Ben Kiene.
16 May 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Took a roadtrip through northwest Colorado, so updated the Where I've Been page.
- Added Pagoda to the list of non-towns on the CDOT map.
26 April 2008
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- CDOT raised the speed limit on I-25 in southeast Denver. It used to be 55 north of Belleview, but is now 65 to Evans and 60 to Logan.
- Coors did not renew its sponsorship deal with Fiddler's Green Amplitheater (on I-25 at Orchard Rd), so Coors Amplitheater has reverted back to its original name.
13 April 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Uploaded a couple sets of new photos: I-25 (Colo Spgs), SH 71 and SH 94. Also several photos at the US 24-285 Buena Vista intersection from Dale Sanderson.
- Updated guide section of SH 94, since all I had in there before was a single line. Now that I've been on it I can say a little more, don't you think?
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Some miscellaneous updates here and there.
- Updated the SH 58 exit list, because sometime recently the new ramp from EB 58 to WB I-70 opened.
- Updated the I-70 list with
several changes in Mount Vernon Canyon, notably the inclusion of a CR
93 pentagon at the Morrison exit. Probably the first instance ever of a
county pentagon appearing on an exit sign in Colorado.
23 February 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Perusing CDOT's online route log, I've discovered that some time in the last several months, SH 35 was turned back and no longer exists. Updated the listings accordingly.
- Updated I-25 and TRANs pages due to the completion of COSMIX in December.
- Major oversight: I've never updated the Colorado Tolling Enterprise page to talk about them running the I-25 HOT lanes since 2006.
- Colorado Freeway Exits:
- Removed SH 35 from the I-70 and I-270 exit lists.
17 February 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Step 3 of website clutter-reduction process: Clean up all the
milepost guides for all routes by removing all the extra words that
need to be there, such as "jct". At the some time I added county lines
to the milepost guides. This also allowed me to find some errors,
such as not listing Jefferson County for SH 128 or Douglas County for
SH 177.
- Updated Where I've Been page with a roadtrip I took last weekend along SH 94 and SH 71.
19 January 2008
- Have a new scanner so updated the About This Site page.
- Colorado Highways:
- Step 2 of website clutter-reduction process: Fix or remove all
broken external links. Numerous links throughout the site had addresses
changed so they worked again (such as links to Andy Field's Wyoming
pages) and others were removed for sites that didn't exist anymore.
- Added cross-border links for US 287 and US 385 to Oklahoma.
- Several pages also had broken images, so fixed those. The most
egregious example was my map for the Front Range Toll Road on the Other Roads page.
7 January 2008
- Colorado Highways: As step 1 of a website clutter-reduction
process, spun off several of the routes with longer entries to their
own pages: SH 14, SH 82, SH 83, US 160 and US 285.
1 January 2008
- Colorado Highways:
- Updated Where I've Been page to correctly show the highway system in Colorado Springs given the recent swaps.
- Added note to the chain law section of the Facts page that oversize/overweight trucks can't travel in areas where the chain law is in effect.
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