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Beauty in interchange ramps - Japan
Posted Thu, 2008-05-22 08:58Afficionados of interchange design and other highway aesthetes mustn't miss this set of magnificent photographs of swirling, interlocking ramps.
"Beauty is in the eye of the interchange!"
Magic.
Pictures from Ken Ohyama.
What Ansel Adams is to Yosemite, Ken Ohyama is to Tokyo's toll expressways.
Tokyo has the world's most extensive network of urban toll expressways, elevated and underground.
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County staff propose toll to help finance new interchange and connector to Penn Pike
Posted Tue, 2008-05-13 20:17
Staff in Montgomery County north of Philadelphia have proposed a special toll surcharge to raise capital to help pay for a new interchange and connector road from the Pennsylvania Turnpike into central Norristown. The project is an all-electronic tolled interchange on the east bank of the Schuylkill River and a spur road. The spur - termed locally the Lafayette Street Extension or Corridor project - is 3.1km (1.9 miles) of signalized arterial into Norristown.
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E470 makes further move to banish signals - new $18m 'skiers ramp' opens
Posted Tue, 2007-11-06 13:37
E470 Public Highway Authority (E470PHA) in Denver have opened a grand new 2.33km (7645ft) long direct connector being nicknamed the skiers' ramp because it takes northbound E470 tollroad motorists way up and over the complex roadway spaghetti to head westbound on I-70 up into the Rocky Mountains. Ramp H as it is named in the highway planners' jargon is 2 lanes plus shoulders with 493m (1616ft) of steel plate girder bridging in about ten spans, the rest embankment.
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Atlantic City Expressway to complete IC at NJ50 - UPDATED
Posted Mon, 2007-07-02 17:04
The Atlantic City Expressway ACE) is rebuilding Interchange 17 in Hamilton Township to improve the connection to NJ50. At present there are only west facing ramps - reflecting the expressway's early orientation to Philadelphia. With development along the shore there's now serious demand in these parts to go the other way - toward Atlantic City and to the Garden State Parkway. 363 words read more »
AOL/MCI interchange opens on Gway
Posted Thu, 1999-10-28 00:16AOL/MCI interchange opens on Gway
Originally published in issue 43 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1999.
Page:20
Subjects:new IC interchange
Facilities:Dulles Greenway Gway
Agencies:TRIP II Dulles Greenway
Locations:Loudoun Co VA NoVA
LOUISVILLE KY/IN:Spaghetti Junction - Tolling an Interchange?
Posted Wed, 1998-09-30 19:00LOUISVILLE KY/IN:Spaghetti Junction - Tolling an Interchange?
Originally published in issue 32 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1998.
Page:1
Subjects:bridges interchange MIS diversion
Facilities:Kennedy ast End Spaghetti Junction I-64 I-65 I-71
Agencies:KIPDA
Locations:KY Louisville
